But. After every string of new announcements comes thread after thread bemoaning the fact that this vehicle or that vehicle, this figure or that figure, is getting ignored by the 'Majors'. Important little lists are started which are apparently going to have the manufacturers rushing to their CAD programs and reference material

However, not wishing to be responsible for starting either another migraine-inducing Allied vs. Axis thread or taking up valuable bandwidth with more lists, let me call to the less 'youthful' of the Armorama Community to remeber how things were back in the 60s and 70s as a useful aide-memoire to just how difficult modelling was then - or, alternatively, just how much more interesting or challenging it was.
Those days were the days of Renwal, Monogram, Airfix or Revell. Lacking in the accuracy which we take for granted now - but not lacking in imaginative subjects: the M50 Ontos, the Honest John Missile launcher etc.
Now, things were a damn sight more limited in these days and i'm sure i'm sounding to the more youthful like a boring old fart. However, to be honest, when the complaining starts (as it does after every Trade Show) it does make me scratch my head in disbelief as to how bloody lucky we actually are nowadays with just WHAT is actually available to us....Rant Over...Jim
