I would like to chime in here. First of all the posting reply by KT is the same thing he has been saying for a very long time. As dadada and looks as nothing has changed. The kits are very good and build up nicely. But he just sits on the product and has never done anything with it. People just got tired of hearing this.
He talks about rooves which I think means roof. and under body castings. Cant seem to get a supplier. dadada I know several people offered to assist him including my self. He sent me an Email about 8 months ago, saying he needed to talk to me. Never got back to me dadada.
It is really unfortunate that he seems to not want to run a business,and pursue anything further on getting things out people would buy. It is always a but I reason.
Now regarding resin castings of parts. 1 it is not easy, you have to make a master. 2 it is expensive on cost. Rubber is 45.00 per qt. resin is 42.00 per qt. Resin cures by heat. For my castings on large types I get about 40 shots per mold. For smaller castings I can get about 65 shots. Then you need a new mold.
I am not set up to do casting in bulk and to give a discount, the cost is just not there to do it. Casting is not simple there are many variables the worst is temp and humidity.
I wanted interior parts and under body parts for my models,none was available so I made my own. Right now I have about 80-100 different molds, and close to 225 different items that I can use. On O scale Passenger cars., for Pullman ACF Budd and StlC.
I can assure you that there are people out there that wants these things, based on what I see. So there is interest, you just have to know where it is, Just ask.
So I hope you get something from this posting. This is about as straight forward as it gets.
I am doing R&D on a one piece resin cast roof. But the down side is cost per roof would be 20-25.00 per roof. Would people pay for it ? I would if it is what I needed to build models. If it is not available people would not by it.
So I seriously doubt it anything will come from AML. But me I am just moving on.
cant wait for dadada.
regards
Bill Basden Delta Models
