I have to come to realize that the brass importers operate in such a way that if the project is listed on one of the importers porject list most of the other importers will not touch it because competition in brass can kill a project. You get three importers with the same project there may be enough reservations to get it done with one importer but split it up between two or three and that dilutes the pool to the point where neither of the importers can get enough reservations. GK has 4 locos on his list that I want but he cant get projects delivered in a timely fashion and the decades long reservation process he runs is killing his business. I cant believe anybody, including me, would give somebody with his track record of stringing projects along for 10 or 12 years a dime for a model, especially since he is 68 years old. If he pulls off the big boy, which I doubt he can, he will not get enough reservations to do any more models in any scale. If GK falls out of the brass model importing business then all those projects he has locked up on his project list will be free for the other two or three left to make and do in a timely fashion.
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