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10-23-2007, 05:09 PM
All those "the Grand Sport roadster is being tooled" and "we have licensing on all 289 Cobra variants and are starting with the FIA 289" comments by Accurate Miniatures were at a minimum white lies. They've finally admitted defeat at iHobby, and said that they were not going to do the cars "because the second run of Grand Sports have sold poorly...". They have an excuse for everything they've ever done. Same brilliant folks that did the XS Tuning rollerskate size 17" wheels when the market was going BIG from 19" on up. Some have said that AM won't even be tooling new planes. Sad, but I can't say I'm surprised. They never seemed to have it all together...good ideas, but poor funding and sometimes inept management.
Accurate Miniatures, Galaxie LTD, and Trumpeter have all failed to set the adult model car market on fire. Revell couldn't even sell Pro Modeler kits. Probably because when you do a premium item, to be sold at a premium price, you don't need to be making excuses for poor execution and design (though Revell did the best job for the least amount of premium, but buyers always seemed to realize they'd get the same basic kit for less at a later date). The AM cars were fiddly, the Corvette chassis was awful, the Galaxie cars had some design flaws and absolutely zero paint/color callouts in the instructions, the Trumpeter cars were riddled with design flaws, especially on the who asked for it Monte Carlo...a terrible model of a car nobody asked for. Let's face it, we're only going to get mainstream kits from Revell or the plastic co's, and anything remotely esoteric will be by the resin mfgs. as we've been let down every time with the newcomers in one way or another. Tough business.
Accurate Miniatures, Galaxie LTD, and Trumpeter have all failed to set the adult model car market on fire. Revell couldn't even sell Pro Modeler kits. Probably because when you do a premium item, to be sold at a premium price, you don't need to be making excuses for poor execution and design (though Revell did the best job for the least amount of premium, but buyers always seemed to realize they'd get the same basic kit for less at a later date). The AM cars were fiddly, the Corvette chassis was awful, the Galaxie cars had some design flaws and absolutely zero paint/color callouts in the instructions, the Trumpeter cars were riddled with design flaws, especially on the who asked for it Monte Carlo...a terrible model of a car nobody asked for. Let's face it, we're only going to get mainstream kits from Revell or the plastic co's, and anything remotely esoteric will be by the resin mfgs. as we've been let down every time with the newcomers in one way or another. Tough business.