Anyhow, I am curious as to what some of you think the market is for 1:35 scale propaganda posters? From different countries for different wars? From WWI up to and including modern day?

Many shops use distributors that simply don't carry such thigns because they are big enough companies for them to worry about. I have alot of time finding certain items for that reason.

Unless you have some really unique, odd propaganda posters, or you are offering a deal that can't be turned down (read: lots of posters-real cheap) I would look into some things that aren't readily available such as:
Office type wall calenders
Magazines such as 'LIFE' 'Photoplay' 'and any 'Hollywood' type or gossip magazine of the era.
Cards, money
Diploma type documents for office walls
Book bindings in multiple sizes (all books on the shelve aren't the same size)
Family photos in multiple sizes (some for the wall and some that would be framed and sitting on furniture)
Clock faces (again, multiple sizes)

There is a lot of stuff that could be done that is not available or is next to impossible to find.
Good luck, and whatever you decide to produce, please tell us so we can support your efforts.

Cheers,
Charles

Charles: Check out Jim's Printable Minis for most of what you seek, Just scale to size, http://www.printmini.com/printables/pp.shtml

Nice pin-ups and YANK magazine covers here: http://www.skylighters.org/photos/pinups.html

Enjoy!

how about some european road signs for some of the smaller cities and towns. italy for example. just stay away from normandy area signs theres a ton of them out there, some advertising signs [ posters]from all countries would be nice not many of them around. good luck in your endevours

how about some european road signs for some of the smaller cities and towns. italy for example. just stay away from normandy area signs theres a ton of them out there, some advertising signs [ posters]from all countries would be nice not many of them around. good luck in your endevours

Well Bob, I do not see the need to take business classes, I am already familiar with with most of it. I'm not really trying to start some big AM company. It's more of a contribution to the hobby. Mainly by making things easily accessable. If I was in it to make money I sure wouldn't go into the modelers aftermarket. I also do venture into other genre's as was mentioned by another person. I have several items ready to go for Auto modelers. I know thigns such as calenders and magazines and such have sold in the past, and did quite well. My only real concern with doing the magazines is the copyright thing. Publishers are really anal about such things and the royalties they are going to want in my experience, would make each scale mag cost more then the price of the real deal.

I was also told the license plates I created would not sell as you can print them off yourself. Nevertheless I did a small run of them, and all but one package sold, and there were requests for more. The LHS had them priced at 3.50 for a package of 3 different plates, 4 of each plate. They sold very quickly.

I don't plan to throw a bunch of time and money into this. It's kind of a spare time deal, and I get things so cheaply, the investment is pretty much minimal. I'll be honest though, I've never really considered soem of the items mentioned for armor or any other military genre. Although I have some of those items in the works for 1:24/1:25 scale for auto modelers, as that has been my foray for many years. I've only completed 2 armor builds to date, and well over a hundred cars over the years. for cars, I also have road signs and such, ready to go. I've listened to alot of people complain the only road signs and such they can find they have to get from the train store and they are out of scale and all for east coast. It is rather apprent that over here, pretty much nobody is supportive of anyone's idea's. Also msot of you seem to take pleasure from bashing on someone and trying to make them feel foolish. Telling me to go take business classes to learn how to run a business? If one had paid attention one would have seen it was not my intention to go into mass production aftermarket to make some big money. My only real concern is to contribute. Tell you what though, for those who have such the harsh words, just give me your names, and when I release products, no matter whether you are interested or not, I will just not sell to you.

As for the rest who have replied. I appreciate the comments. Whether those comments were for or against, or just other suggestions, thanks for being respectful, and understanding what I had in mind. It's so sad that other modelers have to make things unpleasant for others, by throttling them. I think I may just stick to forums where there are more people like us, and less people like them.