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| Date: | Jul 13, 2002 |
| From: | Kurt Laughlin | |
"Mark Norman" wrote in message
> Wow, this is some love in. I know Archer has a great reputation and they
do
> a great service to the hobby with the diversity of offerings...but I have
> heard some people say they had problems applying them...and, from my
> perspective, they are very very pricey.
The problems I have heard about applying them were along the lines of "I
can't move them around like decals - I have to get them in the right place
the first time." As Woody points out, you can always apply them to carrier
film and make decals out of them.
> When you buy an aircraft kit you can get aftermarket decal sets that in
most
> cases let you appoint an entire aircraft. But with Archer you need to buy
> one set of transfers for German crosses, another set for DAK symbols (one
> sheet for black and another sheet for white), then you have to buy
separate
> sheets for air recognition flags, numerals with blue centers, another
sheet
> for numerals with red centers, oh and there are the sheets with license
> plates before 1943 and then a set for after....get my drift?
With the _good_ aftermarket aircraft sets you can make 3 to 5 aircraft. The
run-of-the-mill ones include individual markings for several planes, but
insignia for only one. And are you forgetting the separate stenciling
sheets? Cutting Edge is asking $9 for a sheet that does two A-4s, Archer is
selling sets that will build two Panthers for $7. You have to also remember
that his larger number and insignia sets (which are exactly like the large
number and insignia sets available for aircraft) have enough markings to do
5 - 10 vehicles. When I was working with him on the US bumper code sets,
one of the goals was to provide enough multiples and variations to allow the
modeler to build a MINIMUM of 10 vehices from each sheet. (If your tastes
are eclectic, I'd say the actual number is closer to 40. . .)
The main thing though is that dry transfers in general and Woody's products
in particular provide a distinct qualitative advantage over decals. It is
that extra quality that we are willing to pay extra to get.
When Woody started out he produced sheets that applied that same advantage
to aircraft markings. They just wouldn't sell. Airplane modelers are so
accustomed to slathering on clear coats and the alchemy of setting solutions
that the media advantages were lost on them. Even the obvious image quality
improvements were valueless as the average airplane modeler - in addition to
being a cheap SOB - just doesn't care. So, he stopped producing aircraft
sets in short order and developed his armor line instead.
> But like obscenely expensive aftermarket track sets the transfers only
> competition is from those modelers who choose not to use them and no one
is
> pointing a gun at our heads forcing us.
Yup.
KL |
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 | - Mark Norman - Jul 13, 2002 |
| . . . Re: - Kurt Laughlin - Jul 13, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: - - Jul 15, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: - Kurt Laughlin - Jul 15, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: - C Bolick - Jul 16, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: - Kurt Laughlin - Jul 16, 2002 |
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