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YAH , WOHL , MEIN ,KITTEN PETTIN POSTER !!HE. HE.                              Tankerbuilder

Buy German...

You do realize that not everyone on this site is American right?

DON ,you my friend are a jewel .I am with you 100% the reason for the post was to let folks know that we would probably have it AMERICAN . BUT you haveto do business with them for them to build enough following to putout a product .TOMS is a case in point . They finally  came out with 1/96 diamond plate (somewhat expensive )( I hope it sells ) with urging from builders in that scale . This is what I was thinking about when I wrote this .  You take care and catchya on the next post        tankerbuilder .

Personally, i would like to buy British. But i know with models, as with many things, that just isn't going to happen in a lot of cases. As Don says, when you are dealing with small concerns which deal in small quantities, its just not possible. If you just bought from the US, and i just bought from the UK, it wouldn't be long before either of us couldn't buy from anywhere. If theres only one company makeing this stuff, there has to be a reason for it. And that will be that the demand just isn't high enough to justify mulitple companies producing the same items.

Well, I certainly prefer to buy American, if for no other reasons than pragmatic things like shipping costs, worrying about exchange rates, etc.  If multiple sources exist for a ship, I'll buy Tom's- my favorite, or else GMM.

However, these are all small concerns, with limited funds for investment for product development, so I do not feel upset when only one source offers a PE set for a specific ship. In that case I buy from whoever produces it.  Ideally, I would like to see it from Tom's or GMM, but I know it is impractical to assume they will always invest in the development for the set I need.