Right, good points all around.

I didn't think of some of their offerings like the late and mid Tiger, but essentially, that's just cosmetic. So there's no real innovation happening.

Mato seemed to up the game with the Pz III hull by adding torsion bars and coupling with Clark for better electronics, but that's now well into Tamiya pricing.

Don't get me wrong, small companies can pull it off if they want to. There's one guy in HK that I did business with over the years. He started doing resin AM for 1/35 armor as a side line (his business was wedding dresses). He eventually did well enough with the AM to pull off starting up a model kit company. He's only released a few so far, but they are excellent. Injection styrene, PE, decals, artwork, instructions, all top notch. As a matter of fact that Zundapp I posted a while back regarding mud was his kit. His stuff certainly blows away the Tamiya static offerings in comparison and we're talking a kit that sells for under $20.

That's the only way you're going to get the British and other variants we all ask for besides the same old rehashes. I guess I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something here with Taigen. They seem to pop up in the same conversation as Tamiya, but are really worlds apart. And that's not Tamiya worship, Xion can be used interchangeably. But who else is coming out with new kits?

Dan, you're spot on. If Erik gets a better offer and moves on, Taigen probaly collapses in the US market place.