LOL…now THAT’S what I call an expensive model…or the beginnings of one…
Actually, I’m more interested in the 3D CAD file than the actual masters.
But I’m sure that this little monster will make someone’s day…more power to them. You just gotta get yourself a new room tacked onto your house to display the finished model…not sure the wife would approve, somehow.
I’ll stick to Eduard 1/48th and Accurate Miniatures 1/48th…and don’t forget Fujimi Scooters in quarter scale…the bee’s knees, man.
I’d buy them but they won’t fit on my mattel vacuform machine. [:D]
Maybe Lucien Harpress wants them, he could used them to make a Spruce Goose Zwilling!
Hm… This is… interesting.
As an owner of one of those 25 kits produced from these patterns, I sort of see why this is happening. Due to the logistics and time I’m assuming it took to make one model, the finished article is just not worth the price. The patterns appear the correct size for a good Spruce Goose model. Unfortunately, when you vacuform plastic over them (and that plastic has to be rather thick to get the structural integrity needed), nothing matches up anymore. Then again, I don’t know if making the patterns slightly undersized would solve this problem at all. For all I know, they ARE undersized.
I just hope whoever picks these up fully intents to use them. It would be a shame if whoever got them just saw them as a collecter’s item and did nothing with them. Perhaps the price is there to reflect that.
With these, you have the potential for a really great kit, and if you could bump the price of that kit down a bit, you could have a pretty good seller on your hands.
That’s why I would never put a bid down on them, even if I had the money for it. I just don’t have the capability to DO anything with them. Ah well. It is pretty cool seeing the molds from where my kit came from. Neat.