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| Subject: | Evolution |  |
| Date: | Aug 16, 2005 |
| From: | Sam Alderlieste | |
How did things become the way they are ?
In the '60 people were fascinated due to all the stories from the war vets, many accounts from vets tell of ' scoures' of Tigers they had to fight off. And offcourse al these super weapons now stood in museums, as Shermans and stuff still were driving around, how boring.
So the 'fascination theory' starts things off....
In the '70s the 'fascination theory' becomes a 'self for filling propecy' there are german kits on the shelfs, so people buy these, as everyone was building model kits in the '70s (pre PC/VCR/playstation etc.. for those to young to remember) they sold, and what sells gets more produced. Until this day this system works....
So you see I've absolutly no idea...LOL..
Serious I don't know why armour modelling is so 'ones ided', the same can be said for ship modelling, the entire IJN can be built, from the smallest rowingboat to the biggest battle ship.
In aircraft modelling it's seems to be more in balance, most (if not all) allied or axis aircraft can be found in the most popular scales (1/72 and 1/48), you can buy as many version of the spitfire as of the BF109.
Anyway I really don't care that much about the pletora of axis, or better German, subjects available and planned. As long as they are willing to produce 1 or 2 good allied subjects a year I'm happy (it's also better for my bank account), one thing I've to adress (and then I'll stop if you made to here) If allied is so unpopular, then why are kits of allied sunjects so sought after ? Take, for example, a look at Ebay to see what I mean, put a ADV Morris C9B on offer and see were the dollar/Euro sign stops....
It doesn't make any sence to me.
Grz,
Sam. |
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 | German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Paul A. Owen - Aug 15, 2005 |
| . . . But same fascination took root in Japan - Roy Chow - Aug 15, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Agree with Roy - Taesung Harmms - Sep 1, 2005 |
| . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Steve Campbell - Aug 15, 2005 |
| . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Steven Anderson - Aug 15, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Other reasons... - Paul A. Owen - Aug 15, 2005 |
| . . . . . . How about another side of the same coin? - Roy Chow - Aug 15, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: How about another side of the same coin? - Jerry Plettenberg - Aug 16, 2005 |
| . . . Your theory - Michael Withington - Aug 15, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Your theory - Ross - Aug 16, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Your theory - Bjorn Tingstadengen - Aug 16, 2005 |
| . . . Evolution - Sam Alderlieste - Aug 16, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Evolution - Roy Chow - Aug 16, 2005 |
| . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Scott Lyle - Aug 16, 2005 |
| . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Bill Goodrich - Aug 16, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Hank - Aug 16, 2005 |
| . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Philippe - Aug 16, 2005 |
| . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Vassili Goncharov - Aug 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - joe middleton - Aug 17, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Philippe - Aug 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - M Wawrow - Aug 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Frank Tauss - Aug 29, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Alex Hill - Aug 29, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: German WW2 kit popularity - new theory - Frank Tauss - Aug 29, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . It's not "why German" but "why not allied" - Steve Campbell - Aug 30, 2005 |
| . . . I Believe it's more to do with Japanese attitudes to WW2 - Nemanja Pavlovic - Aug 31, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: I Believe it's more to do with Japanese attitudes to WW2 - Taesung Harmms - Sep 1, 2005 |
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