Re: WW I Kit Prices

Mick Fauchon (ulmjf@dewey.newcastle.edu.au)
Thu, 4 Jan 1996 21:27:08 +1100 (EST)

Tom,

>
> It really doesn't bother me THAT much to hand over $50 for a Blue Max Pfalz
> D.XII. A couple of years ago, what would you have guessed were the chances of
> EVER seeing that aircraft as an injection-molded kit (with PE and white metal
> details, yet!)?

Despite the fact that I'm just a *little* bit nuts-o over the
DXII myself 80), by the time it got here, we'd be paying up to about
$A70-80 for it, which to my mind, and pocket, is just a tad extreme.
Makes the $A30 I paid out for the Tom's vac-form seem like a bargain.
>
> If we keep buying them, they'll keep making them and the quality is getting
> better all the time.
>
That certainly seems to be the way it's going at last, thank
Goodness.


> Happy New Year everyone!
>
Thank 'e, thank'e.......and many more of 'em!

Cheers,

Mick.

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