HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHO MAKES WHOSE ARFS? DOES WORLD MODELS MAKE SIGS' ARFS? WHO MAKES LANIERS, HANGAR 9, GREAT PLANES ETC?

I think they are almost all made by children over in Thialand or something

Very good question.....I have a few ideas, but no facts to back them up.
I too, would like a wee bit of inside info here...

Ant takers bold enough to let it slip?

I think they all come from one big ARF sweatshop......he he he.....the new workers are the ones that work on VMAR ARF's.....the more experienced sweatshopee's work on the World Models & Sig ARF's.....lol

Mike

Probably gets tiring for them, making soccer balls and nike shoes all day...

This is from the K&W website and worth a peek! Quite the "factory" there in the Phillipines!

http://www.kwmairpl.com.ph/company.html

All I can say is "WOW!!!"

Jerry

ditto!!

I guess shirts are optional on "casual Fridays" he he he

Mike

I think on Fridays they take a break from the tedium of model building and go out to chop balsa.

I can tell you where they are NOT made--my shop!!!

Sig ARF's are made by Hacker, in China.

Vince

thats a lot different than i thought a factory would be

While visiting the AMA IMS show in Pasadena, CA I had the opportunity to talk with the managing director for C.B. Hobby House. They are a Thailand based ARF factory with impressive planes. They make some of Lanier's ARFs, the Cap, Edge, etc. They also make the Wild Hare aerobatic plane.

Their web site is www.cbhobby.com. You will see their line of direct sales products, however, their commercial catalog available at the show did show many well know ARFs in their factory. Quite nice too, I might add.

I had a great talk the manager about Bubba Spivey. I asked him how was it to negotiate with Bubba, all he could do was smile.........broadly!


Dan

Damnathius,

I like the third photo of the guy with the chain saw cutting the balsa. He must have been the same guy that cut the wing joiner and firewall on my latest VMAR !!

Seeing the chain saw explains everything !

I'd still like to see what's in the factory glue pot?

Yeah, no kidding Joe! I think he also cut the 1/4" spars in my Nieuport 17 kit, and had a hand in the die cutting!

danmilo, now I know who actually makes my LanierRC 1/4 scale Extra 300L. CBhobby's EXTRA 300/S-120 looks just like it, except I like CBhobby's covering scheme a lot better.

I suspect the H9 1/4 sccale Cap 232 is also made in Thailand, judging from the Thai writing on the packing slip pasted on the factory brown outer cardboard box.

VQ ARFS (like from Morris Hobbies) are made in Viet Nam.

Hope that doesn't bother any veterans...

Here is a shot of the CB Booth and what I would say is the Wild Hare in a differrent covering layout.

Dan

The guts. Nice laser cuts, CNC foam capability. Not bad.

Dan

Lanier's 3rd scale Laser 200 is made in China. (It has "Made in China" decals applied in several places) The model is very well made and flies well but it bothers me that I thought it was made somewhere in South Carolina.
The guy making it was probably working under slave labor conditions and the profits going into new technology to improve their ICBMs. As Lenin said, "Capitalists will sell you the rope you hang them with." Enjoy!