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| Subject: | Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? |  |
| Date: | Sep 14, 2006 |
| From: | Tim Streeter | |
There will always be a market for resin figures and accessories, since they produce a much greater volume and variety than the styrene big boys. There will be AFV kits too, because there will always be a part of this community that wants to do the more unique kits and vehicles.
There is a great symbiotic relationship between the resin and plastic worlds. The styrene companies are motivated by profits, so they take fewer risks (and those they do take, like a Dragon Wagon or LVT, are shrewdly calculated risks). They will still cut corners at the point it's financially advantageous to do so. That creates the aftermarket. Just look at the M3 Lee from Academy: it's out just a few months and there are a half dozen upgrade kits from Formations, Legend, and Trakz, not to mention the second coming of Armoured Brigade Models.
Fortunately AND unfortunately, the preponderance of resin companies are owned and operated by AFV modelers, who have the vision and passion for doing off the chart stuff like Resicast's US Field Kitchen and CGM's jeep cable splicer. The more esoteric stuff is the financially riskiest, however, and aftermarket companies are prone to disappear, often because the owners run them with their hearts instead of their heads. Or they have a personal situation that absorbs their time and energy, and if you have a staff of only one or two, business suffers.
So I don't think the plastic companies will get good enough or adventurous enough to put the aftermarket out of business. But I've learned not to put off buying AM stuff with the expectation that it will be there when I need it. I'm doing all I can to help. ;-)
Tim |
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 | Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Glenn Bartolotti - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - John F. Steinman - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Philippe Blumenthal - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Roy Chow - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Roger Cockburn - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Alex Hill - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Matt Riesmeyer - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . Removal of posting - Alex Hill - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Removal of posting - Paul A. Owen - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Removal of posting - Alex Hill - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . they will if.... - Mike Bedard - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Kip Rudge - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Damon Agretto - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Michael Powers - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Tim Streeter - Sep 14, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Alex Hill - Sep 15, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Tim Streeter - Sep 15, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Joe Bakanovic - Sep 15, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Frank Blanton - Sep 15, 2006 |
| . . . Interiors and Figures - Paul A. Owen - Sep 15, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Interiors and Figures - Frank Blanton - Sep 16, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Resin kit manufacturers... can they last? - Michael Wawrow - Sep 16, 2006 |
| . . . No, they are all doomed - David Byrden - Sep 17, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: No, they are all doomed - Joe Bakanovic - Sep 18, 2006 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: No, they are all doomed - Damon Agretto - Sep 18, 2006 |
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