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Pretty sure, although not totally, he is mentioned here if you click on his name it gives a brief obituary.
Very sad he was always very helpful and a wonderful modeller. I have 1 of his Beluga hulls somewhere.
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Actually, i do believes the hobby evolves as new tech is available. AND i am confident there are many people like me who made their subs work even before knowing your work / wtc tech etc. but develop their own solutions.
In the case of the 1/96 ALBACORE. Yes. Those kits were a very limited run by a friend. But in the case of the much ignored fittings kits and refurbished line of GRP hull kits recently discontinued:
Yup. Got to get 'em while they're hot, or you don't get 'em.
Ellie and I worked our butt's off producing fittings kits. Few bought them while they were still in production. Our outlet(s) lost interest in pushing low-sellers, Ellie and I saw we were wasting our time. And almost to the day we stopped producing them people starting complaining that they were no longer available. WTF!!!!
Same happened when we were asked to recondition the SWM submarine kit tools and one of the Thor kits. Soon as they were in the catalog few bought them, they were dropped from the catalog, and all that master and tooling gone to hell-knows-where.
And... of course... people were *****ing that the kits were no longer available. Where the **** were you people when they were on the market?!....
**** it! I'm retired.
So! You guy's -- so enamored with CAD and 3D printers -- you've prevailed; you surrendered the hobby to the robots; now those machines are having all the fun.
Rotsa Ruck! (And when Ron stops making WTC's... whatcha gonna do then?).
Embrace you precious Replicators, you Craftsmen, you -- you're on your own.
To my surprise, i recently learned many kids in my 6-year old school class are interested on technology and handcrafting and disassemble old computers etc, build simple circuits with light bulbs and motors or do woodwork.
Head's up!
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In the case of the 1/96 ALBACORE. Yes. Those kits were a very limited run by a friend. But in the case of the much ignored fittings kits and refurbished line of GRP hull kits recently discontinued:
Yup. Got to get 'em while they're hot, or you don't get 'em.
Ellie and I worked our butt's off producing fittings kits. Few bought them while they were still in production. Our outlet(s) lost interest in pushing low-sellers, Ellie and I saw we were wasting our time. And almost to the day we stopped producing them people starting complaining that they were no longer available. WTF!!!!
Same happened when we were asked to recondition the SWM submarine kit tools and one of the Thor kits. Soon as they were in the catalog few bought them, they were dropped from the catalog, and all that master and tooling gone to hell-knows-where.
And... of course... people were *****ing that the kits were no longer available. Where the **** were you people when they were on the market?!....
**** it! I'm retired.
So! You guy's -- so enamored with CAD and 3D printers -- you've prevailed; you surrendered the hobby to the robots; now those machines are having all the fun.
Rotsa Ruck! (And when Ron stops making WTC's... whatcha gonna do then?).
Embrace you precious Replicators, you Craftsmen, you -- you're on your own.Leave a comment:
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