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| Subject: | Re: Not true. |  |
| Date: | Aug 30, 2005 |
| From: | Rodger Cole | |
YC I think you've hit the nail exactly on the head. "I think the problem is that for every "Tiger I Late" Dragon releases, where they try to get every bolt head right, Allied modellers get shafted with a "DML Expo'05 M4A3'HVSS 76mm Sherman" where DML basically re-packaged old stuff under a new box."
Speaking as an Allied modeler I do feel somewhat "shafted" when I look at a $32, or so, DML early Tiger, with all the extras it has, and then I look at my DML Firefly, with no PE, and few extras except for two pretty decent figures, that was $36. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have a reasonably good Sherman that I don't have to cover the open sponsons on, like the Tamiya kits I have. I just would so MUCH like to have all those things, and for less, like German model makers are coming to expect.
I also get very upset whenever the major companines come out with kits that represent some vehicle that the Germans made maybe two of in real life. When I think of all the allied subjects, or even Japanese, French, Polish, and Italian, that were mass produced, and had a real effect on the war, and yet nobody has made them at all in plastic, or if they have they were made decades ago.
I do NOT begrudge the German kit makers the wealth of kits they have. I probably won't buy one, but the DML Tigers, 88,Pz IV, etc, are really exciting kits for those who want them. The allied modeler sees all these, figures that the companies don't have an unlimited R&D budget, and knows that if they're spending all this on the German stuff they won't have much left over for Allied things, and feels cheated. I think it's human nature.
Honestly I feel too many Allied modelers whine too much, but on the other hand too many German modelers have the attitude of "tough, get over it" which really doesn't help. |
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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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