Re: GZG news: PRE-SALUTE UPDATE!

>Didn't go to Salute, but just saw the pictures of these mecha.
>These are pretty big hunks of metal. Eeps:-)
>
>I am wondering though, considering the current metal prices, if
>outsourcing resin production of really big items wouldn't be viable?

Frankly, no, it wouldn't - the cost of having them contract-cast in 
resin would be almost certainly more than the cost of me doing them 
in-house in metal - true, the materials would be cheaper - but having 
to pay someone else to cast them would more than wipe out that saving!

Jon (GZG)

>
>I definately want a few of these though.
>Frits
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>Frits Kuijlman 				     frits@kuijlman.net
>Delft, The Netherlands