[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by SpaceBadger:

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Wouldn't you love to have a model of a Phong Battleship on your desk?

That's weird, I was just thinking about this today! My Dad's business is making vacuform aircraft model kits, and I was helping pack some for shipment this afternoon. One was a Curtiss XP-55 "Ascender", an odd-looking craft with a single pusher prop, backswept wings, and no tail assembly to speak of, that kinda looks like it ought to be dogfighting with X-wings and TIE-fighters out in an asteroid belt somewhere. I started musing then about how it might be fun to make some molds for SEIV ships! (Not for long, however; it is quite a bit of work to make a new mold for something we can't even sell.)

SpaceBadger

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With the old-style manufacturing, yes it was a lot of work to create a new mold for a model because every mold had to be individually made for that particular model. There are new processes in the works that will basically dispose of the molding process. Thanks to the modern marvel of computer controlled manufacturing processes, "generic" machinery will be able to turn out whatever model you want without refitting. It will then be much cheaper to order up a series of SE shipsets as pLastic or even metallic miniatures. Heck, we might be able to just send them our .X files and request a set like we currently send a Pagemaker file to the printshop and request a book printing.

[ October 23, 2003, 16:49: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]