[WWI] Americal-Gryphon

[Magnus Berggren]

I´m not up to date on the story behind this, but to me it really feels strange to punish all customers, because he had bad experienses from some of them.
Why not just give the stock to somebody that he still likes, instead of burning the lot?
And as a bonus, lots of people will always remember this more than the quality of his work. Feels like the wrong way to end your business....

/Magnus
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael McMurtrey 
  To: wwi at wwi-models.org 
  Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:13 PM
  Subject: [WWI] Americal-Gryphon


  This was recently posted on Hyperscale: 


        Remaining decal stock was destroyed January 13 2008, 6:13 PM  


        John Burns of KCC/CVG fame was sent a copy of each decal sheet issued by Americal/Gryphon.
        He sold me the remains of this collection after it had been cherry picked (but it still contained over 
        2/3 of the sheets issued). Along with the decals, he also included the letters from Glen Merrill.
        Mention was made of "The Burn", and when I asked John whether or not this referred to the
        destruction of the remaining decal stock, he replied that it was in fact Glen's intention
        to do so, and that he believed it had already been done. Without going into detail
        I can say that Glen and his wife were both in deteriorating health (he nearly died in 2005)
        and he had more pressing demands than supplying the modeling community with decals.
        It's also apparent from his letters that he was exasperated with many of his "customers" and their 
        critical, demanding, and often arrogant attitude. There are some real ingrates out there, and he
        just decided he was through dealing with them. Hence, the bonfire. 




  Michael McMurtrey
  IPMS-USA #1746
  Carrollton, Texas






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