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General Discussions / Re: Italeri news
« on: March 06, 2015, 07:46:50 pm »
I overall agree on your point but...
a) italeri products are in my view inferior to yours with respect to quality of design and options but they are still high standard products. I have just bought a couple of their tanks from warlord and i should say that are not bad and in particular far better than resin counterparts.
b) For modeller higher quality counts but for many wargamers has a smaller value (at least in friendly games items may be proxied a little so not much relevant if the muzzle is precise or you have the beautiful detail in the wheels). I am not saying that is not good or required i simply say that for a specific market that may not be very important.... Of course yours have many variations and more details but also more pieces to assemble ...
Again I do not know whihc is your target market but i think that wargamers are an important part of your sales base...
c) Italeri products may be competitive price-wise with yours (clearly non taking into account the quality). 3 panthers from psc come at 54 GBP + 15% post and the warlord platoon costs 55 GBP so there is a 15% difference and similarly this is the difference for others but the tiger the difference is higher 3 tigers come at 62 + 15% vs 55... However if you get them directly from Italeri the difference is even higher since in their sice the tiger is at 19 EURO vs almost 30-35 with the unfabourable change we have now... In some cases cost may have a role in the choiche.
these are just my 2 cents.
Given this i think:
a) not a big issue if you have overlaps with other producers. it is important to have the best selling like pziv or stug rather than obscure variants.
b) keep high quality since this is a distinctive feature but perhaps go in the direction of offering more kits of the same model: i already pointed out that with the sherman you cannot have a separate turret so hae two models with one of your boxes. his could be nice and also will be liked by some.
for example the t34/76 and 85 could have been combined so that you may interchange simply the turret. I know that the ring was larger and placed differently but perhaps simple solutions could be done to circumvent. I don't know if this means more sales for you ...
c) ask your reseller to keep postage cost low... basically thse make an artificial 15-20% cost increase of your models
...
d) keep us informed about your production plans... that may be useful for us as well... I wanted to buy the t34/85 from warlord but i refrained when i saw you announced yours... (and i am egerly waiting them!!!)
keep these as constructive comments of a nhusiast customer...
you are doing an excellent work !
by the way italeri announced a modular building too...
garga
a) italeri products are in my view inferior to yours with respect to quality of design and options but they are still high standard products. I have just bought a couple of their tanks from warlord and i should say that are not bad and in particular far better than resin counterparts.
b) For modeller higher quality counts but for many wargamers has a smaller value (at least in friendly games items may be proxied a little so not much relevant if the muzzle is precise or you have the beautiful detail in the wheels). I am not saying that is not good or required i simply say that for a specific market that may not be very important.... Of course yours have many variations and more details but also more pieces to assemble ...
Again I do not know whihc is your target market but i think that wargamers are an important part of your sales base...
c) Italeri products may be competitive price-wise with yours (clearly non taking into account the quality). 3 panthers from psc come at 54 GBP + 15% post and the warlord platoon costs 55 GBP so there is a 15% difference and similarly this is the difference for others but the tiger the difference is higher 3 tigers come at 62 + 15% vs 55... However if you get them directly from Italeri the difference is even higher since in their sice the tiger is at 19 EURO vs almost 30-35 with the unfabourable change we have now... In some cases cost may have a role in the choiche.
these are just my 2 cents.
Given this i think:
a) not a big issue if you have overlaps with other producers. it is important to have the best selling like pziv or stug rather than obscure variants.
b) keep high quality since this is a distinctive feature but perhaps go in the direction of offering more kits of the same model: i already pointed out that with the sherman you cannot have a separate turret so hae two models with one of your boxes. his could be nice and also will be liked by some.
for example the t34/76 and 85 could have been combined so that you may interchange simply the turret. I know that the ring was larger and placed differently but perhaps simple solutions could be done to circumvent. I don't know if this means more sales for you ...
c) ask your reseller to keep postage cost low... basically thse make an artificial 15-20% cost increase of your models
...
d) keep us informed about your production plans... that may be useful for us as well... I wanted to buy the t34/85 from warlord but i refrained when i saw you announced yours... (and i am egerly waiting them!!!)
keep these as constructive comments of a nhusiast customer...
you are doing an excellent work !
by the way italeri announced a modular building too...
garga
