by dreinecke » Thu Aug 15, 2013 9:23 pm
Hello! Not what I was expecting tonight when I got home. Chet - you're a nut and are just goading me into releasing more new kits ;) Soon, I promise!
The other comments are too kind. I do try to further the hobby by helping others learn resin casting, helping folks with scenery and tracks, and getting kids into the hobby by providing them cars and tracks.
I started after I switched from HO to 1/32nd scale slot cars and was looking for additional vintage Trans-Am series cars to go with the 1969 Camaro and Mustang that Scalextric produced. That proved to be a fruitless search at the time and I decided I would have to produce my own field of cars that utilized their chassis for parity in club racing. Thanks to a very good friend who tutored me in resin casting, here we are 10 years later. I'm not a perfect modeler, but I do my best to produce realistic and quality castings that anyone can build fairly simply. Besides, when the large companies don't make them, someone has to ;) When they do make them, I simply switch to another car. Let's be honest though - they can do it much better in a factory with computers than me, but I think I have more passion for the cars sometimes.
I do have a "real" job in Information Technology that pays the "real" bills, but this effort simply allows me to enjoy my hobby, meet new people, and drive little cars that would be too expensive for me to drive in the real world.
Even though RMS is a hobby business, it is a real business, and I treat it as such. I pride myself on my quality and customer service and I think that is my legacy - as if I have one LOL. While many casters have come and gone in the years I've been doing this, I've actually expanded and branched out into Rapid-Prototyping for some of my kits. Pretty heady stuff for a guy working in his basement and garage, but I love it.
As for the Yugo - it has been pushed back until after the Pacer... ;) The Lada isn't on the list since I refuse to ship to former Soviet Bloc countries anymore...too many packages are nicked going there!
As for the cars I've done that are now available, the list is much smaller than you might think:
Cougar - soon to be released from Scalextric
Challenger - soon to be released from Scalextric
AAR - done by SCX
68 Camaro - soon to be released from Pioneer
70 Camaro - done by Scalextric
'65 Galaxie - done by Rev/Mono
Cheeta - done by MRRC/Carrera
Thanks for the nice words and Happy Slotting!