Hello Trumpeter,

I decided to make it official and point on some facts about the way how accurate and how selective you are producing your model kits.

I can´t ignore anymore the fact that every model kit you are producing has a lot of shape issues or missing details, which have to be solved with additional expensive etched parts from China and Co.

Let´s take an example. Your late D-30 howitzer is a joke and a diret insult to every serious paying modeller. How can you dare to sell it as a "late" version when the muzzle brake stills the same. At your catalogue you have posted a picture for the "late" type #02329 (page 39), using Yugoslav military archives:


It shows an Yugoslav late D-30 howitzer during excercise in 1997.

here´s a picture from the Yugoslav army in 2002, using the same late D-30 howitzer:


here´s my D-30 howitzer, built from SKIF:


and this is your "late" D-30 howitzer


Probably you management can remember, some 4-5 years ago, I wrote to you an E-Mail with a complete list of Soviet / Russian Cold War era vehicles. All the tanks and vehicles you are producing and selling meanwhile are from the list I sent to you. Meanwhile I´m wondering why you still producing 2-3 different Iraqi T-62 tanks, a lot of T-64 tanks and so on. You have never thought about trying to make some serious stuff from the Yugoslav civil war in the 90´s, like the M-84 and M-84A tanks, Yugoslav M-80 and M-80A APC´s or OT M-60.

You never tried to solve the issues with your SA-6 KUB air defence system (chassis or the ridiculous rockets).

What about some different sets for Soviet/ Russian tankers during Cold War era or different sets of Yugoslav army forces in 1/35. But no, you still producing German-Nazi vehicles, airplanes and soldiers from WWII in this version, and that version, at any scale and so on. Who cares for WWII anymore?

If you want to be a serious company, with your meanwhile expensive retail prices, you should take more care for accuracy and about the stuff the people want to build.

Please do not forget, quality is important, not quantity !

Who cares for WWII anymore?

Imagine, if you will, if not one single member commented on this post.. and it was just left there dangling alone.. wouldn't that have been much better to keep him, and others, from making such posts in the future?

Ignoring this kind of thing makes it gradually go away.. but as long as this type of posters see a lot of attention and pages of controversial comments.. they will keep doing it in the future.

Just my opinion

Hisham

He has a point though, although there are better ways to go about making it. There really is no excuse for manufacturers these days to release kits with such glaring errors with the amount of 1:1 originals in existence, and the technology at their disposal. With the amount of money we spend on a given kit we have the right to expect accuracy. Yes, we are modelers but there's a limit to what we should have to take from model companies.