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| Subject: | Re: Why it is so....... |  |
| Date: | Aug 20, 2005 |
| From: | Al Bowie | |
I build Western Alliance Kits and the occassional German subject which takes my fancy (pz 2, 3G, early Stugs and evenb the occasional Early Tiger). I find it hard to come up with your synopis based on the TMMI review. The Author rightly is pointing out an imbalance. We have multiple kits of almopst every make and mark of German subjects but Mainstream allied stuff is almost non existent.
Your tired and cliched comment that we all know German outsells does not always hold true. The Tamiya Cromwell and the re-issued Churchill were Tamiyas best selling kits in the years they were released (even ourtselling a Tamiya Panther in their home market.
In general there is a huge popularity for German subjects - no one would deny it. What most Western Alliance modellers get angry over is that this is at their expense and not always for Commercial reality. A hell of a lot of the superbly tooled german subjects flop and a hell of a lot of good to mediocre allied subjects are huge successes (DML M4A1 comes to mind as does the Tamiya Cromwell).
As for USSR subjects they recieved glowing commentary on the sites I frequent.
Allied modellers don't begrudge German modellers but they get sick of the sanctimonious crap such as Shermans are only in OD and all look the same (They came in more schemes than Axis stuff and had vastly different shapes between models - In fact the first Ambush type scheme were on 6 (Brit) Div Shermans in Tunisia).
Ask yourself this - how would you feel if a staple such as a 251 Halftrack was available only as a passable 40 yr old kit and all the manufacturers were competing hand over fist to produce every known (and some not known) variant of the Allied Halftrack. Or better yet - You were waiting for a Pz 3 and the manufacturers did one very late version 30 yrs ago but did every allied Experimental including stuff never ever built?
Try a walk in our shoes
Cheers
Al
BTW - I don't begrudge the Axis modeller any of those wonderful new releases - I'm just jealous as hell |
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 | Ying/Yang-Allied/Axis - Steve Campbell - Aug 17, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Ying/Yang-Allied/Axis - RC Hill - Aug 17, 2005 |
| . . . Hmmm...... - Kevin Johnson - Aug 17, 2005 |
| . . . Not true. - Yc. Wang - Aug 18, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Not true. - Frank Blanton - Aug 19, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Not true. - Rodger Cole - Aug 30, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Totaly not true. - Steve Campbell - Aug 31, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Totaly not true. - Paul A. Owen - Aug 31, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Ying/Yang-Allied/Axis - Alex Hill - Aug 18, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Ying/Yang-Allied/Axis - Bob Wells - Aug 18, 2005 |
| . . . Why it is so....... - Steve Campbell - Aug 18, 2005 |
| . . . . . . TMMI - Alex Hill - Aug 19, 2005 |
| . . . . . . Re: Why it is so....... - Al Bowie - Aug 20, 2005 |
| . . . Re: "eKampfGruppe' forum - Paul A. Owen - Aug 18, 2005 |
| . . . . . . "You should try and join" - Steve Campbell - Aug 18, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: "You should try and join" - Paul A. Owen - Aug 18, 2005 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . opps, sorry mate :-). - Steve Campbell - Aug 18, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Ying/Yang-Allied/Axis - Ed Schauer - Aug 18, 2005 |
| . . . more diversity - Mike Bedard - Aug 19, 2005 |
| . . . Re: Ying/Yang-Allied/Axis - Eric Scurlock - Aug 20, 2005 |
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