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| Subject: | Pre Production Reviews |  |
| Date: | Jul 5, 2005 |
| From: | mike foncannon | |
Advertising is a necessary part of the business, but lets face it, the only ones hanging around the DML site lapping up every new preview are geeks like us. (No offence intended.) No great return on advertising dollars there.
On the other hand, DML's new website is generating immediate feedback from it's most exacting and knowledgeable customers on various parts of it's kit prior to it being released.
If it can run the T-L/M-L Gauntlet, prior to production, it should get outstanding reviews in the general modelling media.
Look at their 88mm, folks are down to complaining about the size of the
scale metal chain provided.
I'd say that is a much more efficient system than the "release, fix, re-release, fix, re-re-release" system they used for the last couple of years.
In other words, had they done this with the Panzer I series, they wouldn't have had to redesign the idler wheels four times and piss a bunch of people off....although it was good for the aftermarket companies.
How many Tiger models have been produced in the last thirty years on a take it or leave it basis?
Now, here we are discussing the INTERIOR edge of an escape hatch prior to production...
....and it is forcing an upgrade in quality throughout the armor modelling community at least in 1/35th.
Once you bought a metal barrel from an AM producer to ensure it would be straight and round. Now DML puts them in the box, along with the major PE parts.
The AM company now has to provide a barrel with rifling or some other improvement in accuracy or detail to justify its purchase. The same with the PE company.
Love 'em or hate 'em, Dragon has figured out the ropes of competition and capitalism. I think Sam Walton would be impressed.
Just my 2 cents,
mike |
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 | Dragon Late Tiger - does the hatch matter to you? - David Byrden - Jun 26, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Dragon Late Tiger - does the hatch matter to you? - Frank Forster - Jun 26, 2005 |
| . . . . . . OK, it's just a sketch.... - David Byrden - Jun 27, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: OK, it's just a sketch.... - Kazutaka YOKOTA - Jun 27, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: OK, it's just a sketch.... - Mike - Jun 27, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: OK, it's just a sketch.... - David Byrden - Jun 27, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre Production Reviews - mike foncannon - Jul 5, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Pre Production Reviews - David Byrden - Jul 5, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Dragon Late Tiger - does the hatch matter to you? - Kazutaka YOKOTA - Jun 26, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Dragon Late Tiger - does the hatch matter to you? - RC Hilll - Jun 26, 2005 |
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