I wish to produce the Kruezer M/ The O class/ P class/ Z class Minsweeper/ Z class large recon destroyer and posibly the Wolf class Torpedo ship in 1/350, then 1/144 scale. I would like to sell them for about 20 to 30 dollars profit, however I want to keep them as cheap as posible so I'm estamating about 60 to 100 dollar kits when I put them on E bay. This is not expensive when compared to what other people have done with resincast garage kits in the past. And I want to make these ships because no one else has on a comercial basis yet.
I plan to sell any or all of these as I can produce them at cost plus mail cost to any of You guys from the forums though as I consider You all freinds and Ship enthusiasts, and I am figuring that this should be around 20 to 30 dollars for material costs, and whatever the postage would come to. I am fortunate to have the plans for these ships, and I am looking at drafting plans from them and not just 2d line drawings. I haven't had any success in actually obtaing blue prints from the Bundes Archives, or Ship yards in Germany yet, but hopfully this will change over time. For now the 2D line drawings, Photo info, and books will have to provide as much information on the subject as I can assimalate into logical draftings.
Now that all being said, this is allot on My plate, however I have come into a little bit of money so I am endevouring to finish my Pourch/workshop on my house, and set up a better work area. I have a sick grandmother that I am going to have to help watch, so I plan to set up a drafting set up and computer at My mothers resedence where My grondmother will be so I can work on stuff there as well, and with the way the Jobs and Economy is going down the toilet here in the states I am going to have to start making some extra money some how or I am going to be living in a tent LOL. Any way I didn't mean to go into a rant, But that is what I'm looking into at the time being, and if this can produce a bit of income, I can get into the larger 1/72 scal RC ships again. oh and PS there is a Arado sea plane in 1/144 scale so that is highly duable. When I started the Munich one of the basis for the 1/72 scale was the augmentation kits like the planes.
I am purchasing some mold putty and more resin tomorow to build my first hull mold for the M class in 1/350, so say a small prayer and wish me luck. I also want to paint the 1/72 scale hull and flip it so I can start working on super structer parts so I can post picks and keep this project going. When I get enough progress on the 1/350 stuff I will consider posting a new forum, but I dont wan't it to get in the way of this one, and I don't want multiple forums half finished, so I will only do that if I get allot done in a reasonable amount of time so I could post the whole thing at once and show the whole project from begining to finish and not be stuck in the middle like with this one. I wan't to Thank the Moderators and Creators of this forum as it is an invaluable source of motivation, and idea bouncing, and appologize when I have scewed it a bit off track, and a BIG thanks to Dave Wooley for helping guide it back on track when I slide off.
Smooth sailing to everyone, I'll post soon with some paint pics. Haratio.
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