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**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 10-08-2012, 04:03 PM

Thank you, sir. I had a lot of help from some fine people.

David

**greenman407** · 10-09-2012, 08:34 AM

You would think that Moebius would give Caswell some consideration, like a BIG price break on the price of the kits so that you could compete big time with Tower. I dont care whether your price is higher or not, I would still rather buy from you than Tower or Omni.

**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 10-09-2012, 10:11 AM

No, Mark, that would not be fair to Moebius.

I've come to appreciate how small the margins are between Moebius, the distributors, and retailer's. Just not that big of a pie to split into un-equal gores. Moebius owes Caswell no special consideration -- the work I did was on my own time.

Sure, I steered the design of the kit (as best I could, without increasing production costs) to be 'r/c friendly'. But, other than that, I insured they produced a reasonably accurate representation of a SKIPJACK class submarine. There is no other linkage between Moebius and Caswell, professional or personal.

David

**Tugfan** · 10-10-2012, 08:34 PM

Fantastic kit. I was kind of out of the rc sub stuff for a few years but this kit has me going again. Merriman may be a ******* but he's my kind.

**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 10-10-2012, 09:54 PM

I can live with that.

David

**Tom Spettel** · 10-13-2012, 03:37 AM

I had a look at one of the kits.. and.. very nice Dave

**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 10-13-2012, 06:50 AM

We all have Dave Metzner, the Moebius Product Development guy, to thank for that. He kept after the Chinese till the tooling was as good as we could get it. I believe we went through three test-shot cycles before the go-ahead was given for production. Now, that's a commitment to quality!

The cherry on top is the work of Bob Plant. He did the box-art (photo-shopped image of a Dave Metzner assembled kit) and kit instructions.

As good as the box art is (lid and side-panels) it is only an interm measure -- future releases of the kit will feature a specially commissioned painting of a SKIPJACK in dry-dock my a noted Japanese illustrator. I've seen it, and this guys work is outstanding. You'll see his recent work on the box of the recently released Moebius movie version of the SEAVIEW.

David

**Moe DeLaun** · 10-14-2012, 09:20 AM

Originally posted by He Who Shall Not Be Named

We all have Dave Metzner, the Moebius Product Development guy, to thank for that. [snip]
The cherry on top is the work of Bob Plant. [snip]
-- future releases of the kit will feature a specially commissioned painting of a SKIPJACK in dry-dock my a noted Japanese illustrator. I've seen it, and this guys work is outstanding.
[snip]

David

Very well done all around -- thank you all for Doing It Right.