Bob,
As a "scratch builder" living in Lancashire, I have listened too, and made comments on your posts many times about what differences we have, but have never made comment on your personal view before.
I have to say though, that with such a subjective view as you hold towards modelling in general, and what other modellers get up to, I wonder why you comment at all, because the answers are the same, and so are your arguments,and nothing you say will make one iota of differenceto other modellers, iether on this or any other site, I am sad [for you] to say..
You will not change the views of other modellers no matter how many times you comment, or hope for better times to come.
The last time I commented that you were perhaps in the wrong club because others didn't give your models but a fleeting glance, you nearly bit my head off, but as already has been stated on this thread, perhaps people aren't interested in minatures and there is no way in which you can force that on others.
I don't accuse you of being insular,but I find it hard to understand that you make such comments when you do not you take yourself off to other clubs where you would see there is plenty of scratch building going on, and close to your home in Preston.
Southport, Fleetwood, Blackpool and district, Chorley, Blackburn, Haigh Hall, Wigan and Warrington, to name but a few, all have plenty of scratch builders, so how you can possibly say that scratch building is dying off is a mystery and a myth.
Just because they don't delve into your own realms it doesn't mean that the art is dying out.
OH! and by the way, no harm in the uneducated and uninitiated, calling a ship a boat...........not really the crime of the century is it...........I think there are much more important things in this world to worry about.....like the crap performance of the England squad for one thing??!!!(Jester)(Jester)