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| Subject: | Re: Deep breaths now Paul... |  |
| Date: | Sep 7, 2007 |
| From: | Paul Roberts | |
Perhaps, but the original post was for a new kit of the Chaffee that was "decent, accurate & detailed". I think the Italeri kit fits that bill much better than an awful lot of more recently released kits that have fallen significantly short on a number of points.
Jose,
This isn't meant to crap on you at all, and I'd be very interested in why you think the Italeri kit isn't "decent, detailed or accurate". I just feel that if we are going to raise our voices towards the model manufacturers, we should pause for a second and consider where those raised voices could to the most good.
Me, I prefer to ask for models of vehicles that have never been made in styrene before. Next to that are the really old kits with serious accuracy flaws. Asking for the replacement of reasonably good kits just doesn't seem to be an effective use of whatever attention we may get on these forums.
For those of us who build primarily Allied subjects, this is even more important. Notwithstanding the surge of new releases over the last couple of years, there are still way more versions of German vehicles kitted than anything available to the Allied modeller (with the exception of Shermans). If a manufacturer has a half million to spend on a new kit I'd much rather that he spend it on a brand new Daimler Armoured Car rather than a brand new M3 Stuart, even knowing how horrible the exisiting M3 Stuarts are. I'd much rather see a brand new French FCM as opposed to a new Somua S35. We have few enough subjects to pick from as it is without encouraging companies to spend scarce resources on re-doing exisitng subjects.
I grant you that the market doesn't always lean that way, but if we continually pushed for and then bought new subjects, we'd be a lot more likely to get them. Just my tuppence.
Paul |
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 | M-24 Chaffee in 1/35 scale - jose cesar - Sep 2, 2007 |
| . . . Why not Tamiya? - Saul Garcia - Sep 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Why not Tamiya? - jose cesar - Sep 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . DML would better. - Robert Garelli - Sep 2, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Why not Tamiya? - David Golinsky - Sep 3, 2007 |
| . . . Re: M-24 Chaffee in 1/35 scale - Paul Roberts - Sep 6, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Deep breaths now Paul... - Andrew Herbert - Sep 7, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Deep breaths now Paul... - Paul Roberts - Sep 7, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: M-24 Chaffee in 1/35 scale - Steve Gauss - Nov 18, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . How bout an M19 then - Karl Van Sweden - Nov 19, 2007 |
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