Greed Kills! My long winded response.

That is a shame on a grand level!

I don't really build cars but I do have at least a dozen Nascars. Also Muscle cars a plenty, in the stash.

They stopped making new/ original airplane kits a few years ago right? Just rebox Revell Germany or other manufacturers stuff now.



Read on if you dare.............



With this, maybe Monogram will go back into the 1/48 airplane market and regain their rightful place at the top! If they would have only saw fit to retool their 1/48 aircraft catalogue! When the Hasegawa 109E made its appearance the guys at Monogram should have looked at what a great product line they sat on (and have given all of us since our childhoods) and brought that product up to date. State of the Art 190's, Mosquito's, Hellcats, Avengers, Corsairs Wildcats, Skyraiders, Hurricanes, Tempests/Typhoons, Spits, Mustangs, Thunderbolts. etc..... All done by competitors who now sit at the #1 and 2 positions on modelers lists.

Oh and those big bombers. Only Monogram attempted such kits (the Tamiya Lanc an exception but look at it's msrp on repop). So can't the company retool one a year? Forget price. Just look at Trumpeter for a lesson.
Don't they have the technical info somewhere with all the research done from when the kits hit the streets in the 70's? Sure an attempt was made. The Helldiver, F-86D, Thunderjet, were great but the ship already sailed.

The Promodeller line. What Happened? Start a new upscale line with an old P-40E with a new cockpit and wheel wells? An old P-39, A rescribed P-51B/C (I have all in the basement btw!)

Again missed opportunity. AMT comes out with new P-40's, Amtech delivers the E and then there was Mauve(now Eduard kit) How many P-40E's did Hasegawa move when they came out, in a market flush with P-40's? How many M's or N's? Monogram would of had the market cornered at that time of the Promodeler kit! The Hasegawa P-39. How many sold? These would have sold back in the day (the 90's)! Just needed them redone properly by Monogram.

Oh and if we can't retool some of the big kits how bout adding a sprue to make a variant? All of us would buy them regardless of how many are in our collections.

Any way rant off.

Sorry about the Nascar line. I have always and forever, will be a supporter of Revellogram kits but it saddens me as to how it could have been or should be with the aircraft line!



Cheers,

Max Bryant