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Old 08-09-2010 | 10:11 AM
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transatlanticflight
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Default RE: Scale poseable pilot making

All good Patti,

How about a compromise on stature. Not Arnold...not Abe Lincoln... Brad looks proportonal...for the NBA. The guys are right..a lot of 1/5 planes are really 1/5.5 (I think the yellow kit is 1/5.5). And things do get cramped in the cockpit with the challenges of scaling down.

Pricing seems on target for the larger scales, painting and custom heads...all good. What's the exchange rate now? Anyone?

I was hoping those 1/6 light weight bodies could mate to BBI heads, hands and feet...and retail in the ball park of $50-75 dollars...You know more about your production costs...but if you could settle on a plug and even have them mass produced on the cheap...that price point would give a 1/6 arf guy a lightened pilot for $125 total cost. I think this is the outside price point to convince them to buy your body rather than drill the BBI doll full of holes (which I've seen guys do) or just live with the extra ounces.

Blondes have more fun...looking forward to your WASP pilots. After all, there's a lot of down time between sorties...

Got my answers here so don't sweat responding to my PM about cost...and got it on the custom head price...which is fine. Now I just need to setlle on scale...1/6 or 1/5.

Rick