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Full Resin Models
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I started buying Collect-Aire kits back in 1996. It
was the only way for me to get an F-84G and a T-2C at that time. You see, my dad flew the
Thunderjet and at that time I wanted to build in 1:48th all the planes he flew
while serving for the Hellenic Airforce. The Buckeye was to be built for my brother in law
who flew it while in Jet training. As my first full resin kits ever I found them a tad bit
intimidating and did not attempt them until some years later. By 1998 I had started
getting into conversions pretty heavily and had done almost all the different versions of
the C-130 and C-135. My first full resin kit was a Magna Gannet. That and the conversions
I had already done made me realize that resin kits were just a bit different and resin can
be an interesting medium to work with. Not long after that I got into copying my own resin
sets. There is a company here in Tucson, AZ called ACE resin and I have used their
products with good success. It gave me respect for the medium and taught me its strengths
and weaknesses. In the past few years I have bought a great number of Collect-Aire's kits
and have developed a great love for the work this company does. I am grateful that they
bother producing the stuff I like in the scale I like. Yes they are expensive but I cannot
imagine anybody running Collect-Aire for such a long time just for fun. It is a business
and it has to be profitable enough to be attractive to the owner and it has to have the
ability to finance future projects. I have seen many companies come and go and it was not
because of lack of talent. Running a successful business is no small matter. So the fact
is that the kits will continue costing as much as they do and whoever cares to buy them
can do so and those that cannot will be bad mouthing them until the end of time! All kits
have strengths and weaknesses but the next time you seat down to scratch-build you next
kit and detail it and produce its decals and metal parts and package it and sell it you
will see how much you have to charge for it to make it worthwhile! So, enough with the
preliminary stuff. On with the show.
Next I will list all the Collect-Aire kits I have. I
will be updating this list as I am either buying more of them or building them. I will
include all the information time permits me to add so this page might eventually become a
repository of knowledge for use to the interested builders. |
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