Re: How to put a Tegethoff dreadnought together?

Gee, given the reputed "anal-retentive" reputation of historical war
gamers I would have thought they would be the pickiest!

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:50:19 +0000 Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
writes:
>>Doug Evans wrote:
>>>  Short answer: both. There were a wide variety in quality with the 
>Geohex
>>>  sets; many were dreadful. Jon's, by my small sample and many 
>reports, are
>>>  much more consistant, and on the good side at that. Also, I think 
>KR worked
>>>  with several casting companies over the course of his license. 
>I've heard
>>>  AoG had a similar story with it's first B5 stuff.
>>
>>Okidoki, that's it then. I also have some Japanese and UNSC ships I
>>bought directly from Jon, and there is almost no flash at all on 
>these
>>ships. The NSL ships are older of course, but at least this gives me
>>hope of buying some nice versions of NSL ships at Salute.
>
>
>We fairly recently replaced the moulds on most of the NSL line, 
>especially the big ships, because the old ones were getting tired; 
>continued runs of large chunks of metal can knock hell out of the 
>moulds!
>
>I know there were problems with some of the stuff GeoHex produced 
>under licence - sadly I didn't have much knowledge or control over 
>this while it was happening! Unfortunately this isn't good for our 
>reputation, which (coupled with the fact that I never made a great 
>deal of money out of the licensing deal...) has a lot to do with why 
>we haven't appointed another licencee after GeoHex went belly-up, 
>preferring to supply direct from here where I KNOW what is going out 
>to the customers.... this of course neatly draws this back onto the 
>topic being discussed on the list a few days ago!  ;-)
>
>One thing that has struck me recently, however, is that the F&SF side 
>of the hobby is really quite "spoilt" in the typical quality of 
>castings supplied by most companies in the field - I've recently been 
>buying a lot of 15mm WW2 stuff for my own hobby interest, and 
>(without naming company names, but I've bought from most of them) in 
>many cases the quality of the castings is WAY, WAY lower than ANY SF 
>gamer would accept.... significant numbers of miscasts, broken 
>pieces, missing pieces, wrongly-packed pieces, whole models requiring 
>massive surgery and reworking to get them assembled, etc, etc... 
>including some that are just simply so poor that  the whole model has 
>been consigned to the bits bin!
>
>I'm not saying for a minute that this is the way it should be - just 
>that overall, the F&SF side seems to have significantly better 
>quality control than much of the historical side of the industry.....
>
>Jon (GZG)
>
>>
>>Frits
>>
>>--
>>Frits Kuijlman		     F.Kuijlman@{its,cs,twi}.tudelft.nl
>>Delft University of Technology			The Netherlands
>>The next Murphy Mania will be in Spring 2005, and not in Autumn 2004.
>
>

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