Well there's no fooling you guys, is there?
As Jamo correctly deduced, I am going to be responsible for the Decals for the forthcoming Aviattic Macchi M5, which Ron has been steadily working on for what, two years or more?
The trouble with after market decals for resin kits is simply a matter of volume. I have no idea how many kits HpH are going to produce or sell but I am guessing that the low hundreds would be ballpark and possibly even fewer. I have tried to generate enthusiasm for after market decals for expensive resin kits with the excellent Silver WIngs productions but there seems to be a reluctance to spend more money on decals to apply to an already expensive resin kit. I find that rather counter intuitive, because if I'd spent over £100 on a Silver Wings kit with (in all honesty) pretty average decals, then another few £s to give it a fitting finishing touch would seem to be an easily afforded choice. Weird, I think, but that seems to be what the market is telling me so, sadly, I don't see enough sales there to even cover my decal print costs for the ten colour production needed for a full set of M5 markings.
The good thing about working with such a pain in the arse stickler for quality as Richard, is that I know that he will want the best decals to go with his kits, with plenty of choices (I think he's looking at two or three different boxings for his Macchi with four or five options for each), so my anxiety about after market volumes goes away and the buyer really will be getting everything in the box - just wait and see!
I hope you understand my reasoning and I also hope that the HpH decals - which I haven't seen - are worthy of their model (which looks very nice, by the way).
