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Offline Dave Brewer

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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2020, 06:53:03 PM »
Greetings John,nice to see you made it here,looking forward to your products.
Cheers,
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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2020, 04:25:35 AM »
Thank you!
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We see how it all goes.

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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #17 on: September 29, 2020, 10:59:31 PM »
I was thinking that another "Fix It" kit in 1/28th worth considering is Late Style wing tips/wings for the SPAD XIII. The kit has the longer span rounded tips of the early model  8)
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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2020, 01:26:11 AM »
Yes that was also in the thinking RAGIII, but a new SPAD 7 would be nice also  8)

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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #19 on: September 30, 2020, 01:49:37 AM »
Yes that was also in the thinking RAGIII, but a new SPAD 7 would be nice also  8)

John

You may tempt me to switch scales John  8)
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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2020, 04:14:48 AM »
I will be doing some 1/32 scale but they will be 20s & 30s aircraft, anything I do in WW1 will be 28th scale.

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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #21 on: September 30, 2020, 04:19:28 AM »
Hello John

Glad to hear about the new 1/28s !  Alb D-III  Great choice ! 

Rather than a N. 11, my suggestions for the next 3 of your 4 plane proposal are in order: a N. 28,  Se 5/5a and Alb D V/Va. These would be a better compliment to the existing 1/28 Revell Kits ; ( Aviattic already has 4 & 5 color lozenge decals waiting) and these 3 have more choices of markings, aces' planes etc. necessary for sales for your new line.

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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #22 on: September 30, 2020, 04:50:43 AM »
Hi Ed,
When I stopped making kits in 2006 I had a 1/32 Alb DIII underway and that is why I really want to do it in 28th this time around... kind of to say to myself ... I am finally getting round to doing it, all of these  "N. 28,  Se 5/5a and Alb D V/Va" if sales go good with the WW1 kits I would do them for sure along with a SPAD 7 and a Nieuport 11 and others, the door will be wide open to do just about any all of you and I want, That is one nice thing about getting away from the mainstream scales.
When I started to think about getting back into making kits about a year ago before buying all the tools, machinery and inventory to start up again I was even thinking of 1/20th scale for WW1 it would be a nice scale for fighters, but could you imagine how BIG the 2 seats and Gotha Gs would be... :o

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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2020, 06:00:11 AM »
Hello John

Glad to hear about the new 1/28s !  Alb D-III  Great choice ! 

Rather than a N. 11, my suggestions for the next 3 of your 4 plane proposal are in order: a N. 28,  Se 5/5a and Alb D V/Va. These would be a better compliment to the existing 1/28 Revell Kits ; ( Aviattic already has 4 & 5 color lozenge decals waiting) and these 3 have more choices of markings, aces' planes etc. necessary for sales for your new line.

All the best

Ed

I could be tempted by ANY of those Amigo!
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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2020, 09:18:50 AM »
Now a 28 scale Pfalz D.III/a or a Late SSW D.III would grab my attention and wallet !


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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #25 on: September 30, 2020, 11:52:03 AM »
Hi John, welcome!
Look forward to these. When I was looking at the CSM Nieuport and Mengnuts Triplane I noticed they are relatively small compared to other types 1/32 types so 1/28 isn’t a huge jump for me for single-seaters. I’d like to see a Pup, Albatros or anything else suggest ed above.
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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #26 on: September 30, 2020, 04:33:11 PM »
Now a 28 scale Pfalz D.III/a or a Late SSW D.III would grab my attention and wallet !


Terri

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Fingers crossed you get around to offering one in 28th!

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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #27 on: October 01, 2020, 02:59:24 AM »
Hi All,
Well all this is very encouraging to me so I will go ahead with the Alb DIII to start with.
I will have some questions to the community as I go along making the kit and my questions will determine the end price like here is the first.
How would you feel about a kit with no decals?
Why I ask this is, I am looking at a big cost my price here in Germany to put decals into the kit, it could make the difference of a 40 to 60 Euro kit to a 70 to 100 Euro kit.
Feed back welcome!

John   

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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #28 on: October 01, 2020, 04:49:06 AM »
John
Perhaps you could come to an understanding with one of the AM decal makers. Ideally less for the final purchaser and the AM company gets some business too. I wouldn't mind buying a kit from you and decals elsewhere as long as I knew they were specific to your kits. Trying to get a multi media kit together has to be like balancing spinning plates on stick riding a unicycle on a tightrope. Maybe one less stick to spin wouldn't be a bad thing.
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Re: Please welcome Model Art by Marco to the WW1 modelling community
« Reply #29 on: October 01, 2020, 05:22:17 AM »
SP, would be nice to get with a decal maker and work hand in hand I would welcome it, I even looked into laser printed and doing them myself but none of them printers will print " White " and that is a big problem.
Please keep it coming, I am even looking to farm out the PE if someone here is doing things like this and I make the artwork, get in contact please.

John
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