George Redell takes a look at the 1/4th scale bust of Erwin Rommel from the now defunct Verlinden Productions.

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Just wondering, how can you have a bust of Rommel without the goggles on his cap?

My thoughts as well, plus the way it was painted on the box art makes me less than impressed; meanwhile the unpainted kit looks great as it really captured the man. Too bad its no longer available. Hope someone else picks up the molds and reissues it!

well, he had his days where he didn't even come close to his goggles... but I know what you mean.

The molds were literally dumped in the trash bin, a blog was written about it on this site a while back, showing photos of the cargo container sized bins being hauled off by a truck. There were lots of comments, mostly negative, about the reasons he had for dumping them. Verlinden was a resin pioneer, but frankly, his products are a bit dated by today's standards. I've found a few of them to be innacurate in details, size and even in shape as well. I'm currently working on his 1/16 scale B-17 waist gunner, which really works out to be 1/15 scale, and many of the details are nice, but inaccurate, beginning with the B-17 fuselage piece. But as noted, some of his stuff is nice.
VR, Russ

To have thrown it all away, what a waste of resources! You'd think that if the was a problem that they could have been reworked. Discarding it was a poor choice.

I believe The molds were binned in a case of angst-- because the owner didn't get the price he wanted and didn't want anyone else using the molds.
VR, Russ

If that's true it was pretty childish & selfish of the party involved. Must be a real run on them on eBay. Still a real shame.

The story of destroying the molds is not true AFAIK. Seeing the dumpster and all the finished dioramas and casts in there probably spurred a lot of heat, but someone close to the company finally claimed those are not the original molds, which were safely stored.

Mario

Really? That's great news! But you said AFAIK-- can you be more specific? The photos sure looked real showing hundreds of molds dumped into the bin. Perhaps they were the mold boxes and the masters have been saved? Do you know the intent behind that?
VR, Russ