Re: GZG news: PRE-SALUTE UPDATE!

Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >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!

Ah well, at least that means the metal prices aren't really bad
then. Yet:-)

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Frits Kuijlman					    frits@kuijlman.net
Delft, The Netherlands