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Been rather frustrated ever since they came out with this version of the HST. What is the point on the kit while having nothing to pare with it?
I thought perhaps this was the manucacture's way of saying they were coming out with a 90mm gun in plastic in the near future but no. ??????
Disappointing!
The point of issuing kits is to make money for the company issuing them.
Hobby Boss apparently believed that there was a market for the M4 HST. The vehicle was produced in two versions and one (155mm) could be reasonably be expected to sell more than the other (90mm). When making molds it is easier (read: cheaper - remember the sentence above) to cut all he molds for similar variants at the same time. As is typical they released the less popular version first to wring out the gold from the "earlier adopters" and "gotta have it" types. After that market starts to wane, they bring out the bigger sellers.
"But they could make more money if they made a kit of the 90mm for it to haul!!!!!!!" No they wouldn't. That would involve
spending more money to make a kit of something that is likely to be a poor seller in its own right and unlikely to boost sales of the M4 to the degree necessary to warrant the expenditure. (Regardless of what I
think their reasoning was, they
know what it was. The result is the same.)
Modelers tend to ascribe their own hobby motivations, joys, disappointments, satisfactions, and frustrations to model companies. They couldn't be more wrong in doing so.
KL
