I really would like to believe that Arizona Models offers something of value to WWI modelers. I love visiting the site and the catalog is gorgeous. So I think there's potential there. If nothing else they are a convenient clearing house for WWI model plans. The plans are designed by a range of well-known and respected scale modelers, for example, the Pfalz DIII plans by Tom Polapink. I ordered the 1/6th scale plans and got them right away.

Maybe they just need to be a little bit more upfront with what we're actually getting. For example, they could show a photo of the kit parts along with a photo of the finished model. This is particularly important for their dummy engine kits which are apparently little more than a bag of stock wooden parts and a drawing of the original engine.

In some sense they aren't really a kit producer. They just ofter laser cutting for a range of plans -- and then throw in some additional wood and some hardware. Construction manuals are provided so they're really targeted more at serious builder's who can build just from plans. But then modelers that can do this may also have fairly high standards in terms of what they expect from a laser cut short kit.

I would hate to see them go out of business but do hope they can turn things around a bit.