Question is that each kit sells in it's own quantity (+/- 10-15%) - as soon as sales became slow producer have to decide to continue spending money on stock keepeng or stop production.
Most of the well known companies do the same (ESCI-Mathbox-Italery and much more).
If customers interest will be constant or raise - manufacturer will reissue kit one day.
Please re-issue the Lav-AD.Lav-25.Lav-C.Bmp-2.
I want to buy these ACE products!!!
Without ACE i'm having to buy more expensive Resin models.
I want to give my money to ACE for these models!!
I will ask my friends who are also interested in buying these ACE OOP models to post here.
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Thank you for the reply Alexey.
When the Lav-25/Lav-AD etc (rarely) appears on Ebay now, they sell for at least Twice the Ace price!
There are no Ace Lav-AD/25/BMP2/BRDM and variants on Ebay available to me. (Except for Brdm-2u).
I live in Ireland and have been checking Ebay Europe for months.
Those few online companies that do have them are asking 3 times the ACE price!
Thank you for your support of Modern kits.
I've bought nearly 20 and intend to buy more.
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LAV-25 will probably be issued by Trumpetter this year. We'll check their model and when our bodies will be still good enough - we'll reissue LAV modifications.
As for BMP-2: If You need this kit immediately - try e-bay....
When we'll see an interest to this model from MANY other modelers - we'll reissue it.
I don't know how practical it is, but unless you destroy the molds the second you retire the line, you could always consider the option of a secondary line for by-order production in the less-than-satisfactory kits, Especially for the ones that are modifications of existing tank lines that are still in your production run, such as the TOS-1, where it's two sprues that you produce in addition. If I'm not mistaken, the molds are seperate of the injection machine, so if you retained the molds and did limited production runs, perhaps it might make an alternative option.
Another thought to mind would be stockpile a small unit of the altered sprues to one side, a limited stockpile at best, maybe five or six or however would satisfy a small limited production run, rather than the full box taking up additional space in the warehouse, set it aside.
It's just a shame that I've got to gamble now and pray that I can get the money in time to get the kits I want if they're to be put out of production, or already are out of production.
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Another suggestion for T-72 conversion kit - the BMP-T would be really interesting to see, and you could produce it with a minimum of parts production... well ok, at least with regards to the hull.
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Your idea is good, while I don't think we have to sell conversion sprues without a box - such sets can't be placed on shop shelves as nobody will see them there, hard to store (sprues without box can be damaged) and will look loke a "mud in a gold".
As for the moulds: Yes, most of the molds are conservated and can be used again, but as long as interest to model became low, we have to decide how long we have to wait until reissue and/ or to reissue kit or not.
You're missing a mid-ground alternative to full scale production and complete non-production. If you were to step down production on the lines you're realizing aren't selling at a more than desirable rate, but that you already have molds for, you could have a limited-production line where instead of producing them in regular status, you produce as-ordered, admitting for a time delay.
As to your statement that sprues are not easily stored on their own, I've not much of a knowledge in the field, I will confess, but the molds you use obviously would be, in their mated pairs, somewhat easy to store since they all fit to one dimension when together, thus could be boxed and stored in one location.
I'm not saying produce them on a regular timeframe, but it would give a happy ground for those of us who would like to buy some of the subjects you produce, those that aren't produced elsewhere, such as the TOS-1. If you went with the limited post-run production concept, it would allow you to conserve resources on producing the model versus full scale production, continue income on an already formed design, and continue to measure the impression of the customer base by how frequently the product is ordered. I don't know how it would look from your end, but it would seem to me, to be a viable concept. It allows you to retain a breadth of product, while limiting your main production lines. No need to expand too much.
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