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Forty-four hundred Ferret scout cars built in various models, used by more than forty nations, . . . If they asked me I'd suggest they make kits for vehicles which actually served, especially in large numbers.
Pfft! By that logic we'd have twenty different kits of 1-ton and 1/4-ton trailers and bicycles and no Tigers at all.
KL
If I'd said that kit makers should start with the vehicle produced in the greatest quantity, and then the second greatest, and then the third etc., then a reductio ad absurdum response would have been justified. But actually I contrasted the lack of kits for a vehicle produced in moderate numbers used by many nations over decades vs. an exercise in engineering lunacy which never saw a day of action with anyone and yet which is available from various model makers. "By that logic" seems rather wide of the mark.
As always, everyone is free to prefer whatever model subjects they please--some folks like chocolate, some like vanilla.
OK . . . "If they worried about service and numbers . . ." And maybe there wouldn't be "zero" Tiger kits, but about the same number as there are Ferret kits today. Is that better?
The point is that service, production, distribution, historical significance, etc. are,
in and of themselves, irrelevant to model kit subject selection. It matters so little it doesn't make sense to even bring it up any more.
On top of that, does every new release post have to turn into a thread about what people would like to see instead? Every one?
KL
