[WWI] June IM

[Diego Fernetti]

> Just IMHO the first thing they'll need to do is throw out their obviously
stupid and unsustainable
> traditional business models and get their own multi-millionaire
benefactor. I'm sure there are
> absolutely *dozens* of them wandering about with an unfullfilled desire to
pour their pin money
> into scale models.

That would be great, I just emailed Richard Branson to stop spending money
in those large scale airplanes and start putting money into large scale
model airplanes. Knowing how silly he is about it all, he'll probably
release a series of airliners or worst, some blobs designed by Rutan.
To be fair, after being shown a couple of Wingnuts kits here at the local
model contest (courtesy of M. Afflitto, the kit hoarder extraordinaire) it
has made a few modelers to go curious and buy other OT kits, without being
Wingnuts kits, which are quite expensive for our economy standards. And yet,
after talking with one of our most prolific modelers, he thinks that even at
the current prices in USD and our own weak currency, the kits aren't too
expensive when compared to a newer Tamiya or Dragon release, which amounts
more or less the same in these sauvage lands.
Of course, these spendings are made just by the older, more experienced
modelers who have the financial room to spend those amounts in their hobby.
Younger modelers would rarely get a WW1 kit, just because the good ones are
too expensive and the well moulded kits at lower prices are all WW2 or
modern, and without the hassle of strut alignment or rigging.
One of the young modelers -mind, I'm talking here about a man of 30 with
several models already built- has caved in and bought himself a Revell
Fokker E.III
I'm lending him some references, because he's just starting, and trying to
convince him to dare a bit more and correct the model from what comes in the
box: lenghtening the fuselage a bit, replacing some thick struts and all
those things. Even more, I have told him that it would be easy to convert
that run-of-the-mill Fokker for a more intriguing Pfalz...
All of this because he saw the Wingnuts kits...
D.