Starship Modeler: What Do You Want?

Tell the folks that bring us models what you want!

Starship Modeler - The complete information source for modelers who build sci-fi,
fantasy and real space subjects

Let's face it - most of the spaceships and science fiction kits we want to build don't make it into kit form (or at least not as mass-market injection molded plastic kits we can afford!). As long as marketing types who don't watch our favorite shows make the decisions on what new kits to produce, this won't change.

What to do? Write a letter! There's an unwritten rule amongst consumer products businesses: for every letter they get, there are 20 more folks who feel the same way, but didn't write. Also, most manufacturers are ten times more likely to carefully read and acknowledge a written snail-mail letter than e-mail or phone calls. So - put a crowbar in your wallet and spring for a first-class stamp (c'mon - 32 cents is less than you'll spend on a jar of paint, for cryin' out loud). Tell the model companies what you want to see on your hobby shop's shelves (or quit whining).

New Poll:

Deck36 Technical Construction, a professional industrial modelmaker in the UK, is currently looking into producing mixed media kits. The primary subject matter for these kits is to be original designs, not necessarily TV or movie based, but possibly using an existing universe as a background. Any and all aspects of SciFi will be considered as usable material, whether it is vehicles, figures, or whatever. Deck36 intends to apply the latest techniques to these kits, and at the very least all resin parts will be transparent vacuum-cast PU resin shells, to allow infinite lighting and painting possibilities.

Are these type of models something folks would be interested in buying? What do you think of the idea? Let Brian Dainty, the proprietor of Deck36 Technical Construction, know. All coments would be gratefully recieved and seriously considered.

Revell-Monogram

Babylon 5, Star Trek: Voyager, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers Want to see a kit of the Prometheus from Voyager (or from Babylon 5, for that matter)? How about reissues of those cool Buck Rogers kits? Write R/M and tell them!
USA Revell-Monogram, Inc. attn: New Product Development Committee 8601 Waukegan Rd. Morton Grove, IL, 60053.	Europe Revell AG Henschelstrasse 20-30 D-32257 Bunde 1, GERMANY

AMT/ERTL
Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Trek: Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Lost in Space (movie)

Unless they hear from you, the modeler, AMT/ERTL's Marketing guys develop their world-view through the eys of their biggest distributors. Trust us - that's probably a very different set of kit subject priorities than any of us share. Your input is IMPORTANT! Tell them how you yearn for a Correllian Frigate or an Akira-class battleship, or what ever it is your heart desires.
USA AMT/ERTL Toy Co. Attn: Tom Walsh (Marketing Dept.) Highways 136 & 20 Dyersville, IA, 52040.	Canada Ertl Canada 2000 Ellesmere Rd, Unit 1 Scarborough, Ontario Canada, M1H2W4	Europe Ertl Europe Ltd. Falcon Rd Sowoton Industrial Estate Exeter United Kingdom EX27LB

Polar Lights
Lost in Space (TV)

These guys are great - and even respond to e-mail! If it's something from the TV classic "Lost in Space" you want, tell them.

USA

Polar Lights/Playing Mantis
805 Wolfe Ave.
Cassopolis, Mich 49031

There are other manufcturers out there - and as we get their addresses, we'll post them here. And if you're particularly fond of a sci-fi or real space subject that isn't listed above - send letters to all these companies!

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