@EastCoastIron posted:That might elicit the question, which of the projects has the longest duration so far, and who has a track record bringing in models?
I'm sure it's all good intentions, but don't forget the old line: The road to Hades is paved with good intentions.
It's always been my opinion, if you plan to gamble on a model, (and it is most certainly a gamble) one better be able to absorb the loss should something go amiss. That in NO WAY implies any shady business, but a lot can happen between here and the Orient. Ships sink, planes fall out of the sky, political upheaval, pandemics! "Lions and Tigers and Bears, OH my!" I sincerely wish all you folks with money invested the best. I do not derive joy from others misfortune!
East Coast Iron
Nicely written East Coast Iron,
I worked the brass department at the original Caboose Hobbies for several years and learned many stories about various projects that were awesome results and some royal blunders. Yes things have gone shady as you wrote in the hobby and one such incident that particularly stands out was I think “Mile High Brass Trains” or something such and such and those Kumata California Zephyr cars in HO back in the 1980s. This has NOTHING to do with THIS thread I know. From what I was told the importer business person that was doing these models took payments for these models based on speculation of arrival; he never filled the orders and took the money. Prison time I was told the eventual result, so many years ago now the stuff of mythos but nonetheless it’s really happened. 
That is crazy huh!
