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      • That Oh Wow moment
        08/20/06
        I've talked about this before, the oh wow moment. when you first start building a kit, you finish a wall or detail and it hits you. You get it, you see the strength of our paper kits. I thought I was immune to this but while taking a break, I grabbed a new kit that has been in the backburner fo

      • really small houses
        08/20/06
        As we get ready for the Ihobby expo, we have a lot of loose ends to tie. Designing and building the booth and of course building kits to show in the booth.
        Bro Dave has been building a lot of HO (he's a died in the wool O scale guy) and I think he kind of likes the small scale challenge.

      • Salesmen
        08/18/06
        I'm not a particularily good salesman. I went around to most of the local hobby shops about 2 months ago dropping off catalogues and introducing myself. then I kind of got busy. yeah, thats a good excuse. I know real salesmen are like bulldogs. they don't let go till they get a sale. Just

      • N and Z
        08/12/06
        As if brother Dave doesen't have enough to do. He's been playing with N scale and Z scale versions of our kits. (told you there was stuff going on behind the scenes)
        I have to admit, they look good. Very good. I know we have a competitor that sells N and Z but what I don't get i

      • picture upload
        08/12/06
        OK, The pix upload didn't work. back to the drawing board. we'll get it.

        Some who buy our textures regularily will have noticed a few things.
        We have started to rotate the images to run down the long side of the sheet. We had requests for longer rather then taller textur

      • pix in the blog
        08/11/06
      • don's input about laser cutting
        08/01/06
        Don, thanks for the input. we have looked at laser cutting the kits and it will probably happen in the future. Right now its a cost issue. we try to price the kits in an attractive range. We have to take into account the cost brought about by wholsaling. If we add the cost of laser cutting the kit p

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