MAHAN kit? Needed models. Tom Clancy.
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>Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 15:38:06 -0500 (CDT)
>From: “Louis R. Coatney”
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>Subject: Re: MAHAN kit? Needed models. Tom Clancy.
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>On Fri, 23 May 1997, JOHN WELIVER wrote:
> > Lou,
> > You wouldn’t happen to know if there is a kit in production that covers the
> > MAHAN class of DD’s.
>
>I’m certain there is not, unless there is an (expensive) resin kit, John.
> Ships are the least popular plastic models, and an obscure destroyer
> class isn’t going to make it into design and production, what with the
> prohibitive mastermold-making costs … even with CAD.
>
>For DECADES, I’ve petitioned (literally) the U.S. model manufacturers
> to put out cheap, simple 1:1200 Japanese and American WWII task force
> SETS. These would be ideal for kids to play with on the floor, for
> wargamers, and for WWII naval and marine history buffs — young and
> old. They would also undercut the Japanese monopoly of the (1:700)
> waterline WWII model warship market.
>
>TO NO AVAIL. American plastic model kit manufacturers are short-term-
> oriented business managers/majors with little or no sense of potential
> markets. (That is why the Japanese Pearl-Harbored them, in the first
> place, in this market sector.)
>
>TOM CLANCY is going to be at GenCon, the big wargaming convention in
> Milwaukee, this summer. (He is starting to invest in computer
> wargaming and graphics production.) I’ve already tried e-mailing
> him about my idea, but have gotten no response. (Could SOMEone
> forward this to him?)
>
>He and Larry Bond — the designer of the HARPOON and COMMAND AT SEA
> naval miniatures rules … my “Naval Action” rules are simpler,
> faster, better … 🙂 — are friends and collaborators. You would
> think that Larry would want cheap naval miniature sets available
> (via Toys R Us, etc.), so that kids would want to “regulate” their
> floorplay. (Back on Brittany Lane, the kid with the loudest voice
> and/or neatest models usually had his way. 🙂 )
>
>And World War II task forces are more desirable than “modern” TFs,
> simply because the WWII ships were in *battles* and are of
> historical importance. (In 100 years, which ENTERPRISE will be
> remembered most? … barring World War III, of course.)
>
>I trust you can sense what we are up against.
>
>Actually, 1:900 is the best floor scale, and I can build my cardstock
> models in any scale I want anyway.
>
>Lou Coatney, mslrc@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>