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I am very pleased to present what I feel to be a historic lot:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=218843966
This first of 9 lots to be sold on SC, eBay and perhaps BRICKS is an
instance of my custom hopper. Big deal, you say? True, I've sold these
before. But this is historic because I sincerely believe that this is
the first time ever that a model has been commercially offered
UNASSEMBLED, and WITH INSTRUCTIONS by anyone other than LEGO.
Unlike Steve Barile's offering of the Chessie (a ground breaker in
custom trains, and a great model) and unlike Suz's offering of CEKs,
this model actually comes with instructions showing step by step how to
build it, and will be shipped unassembled. At the end of the
instructions is a partslist.
In theory I can begin counting out parts and never actually doing the
assembly, simulating by hand what the TLG bagging machines do. In
actuality, I still did the assembly to make sure the model was complete,
but it will be sold unassembled.
I'd like to thank the members of the train community for encouraging me
in pushing the limits of what is modelable, and the members of the CAD
community for helping me create the instructions. Special thanks go out
to Mike Poindexter for all his help with MLCad, Steve Bliss, for all his
general help, and to Michael Lachmann for a great program. Of course, we
cannot forget to thank James Jessiman in spirit for making it all
possible.
I hope this sparks other members of the community to offer custom models
in kit/instruction form.
Normally I would not cross post to this diverse a newsgroup list with an
auction announcement, but I do think it's significant. Follow ups set to
market.theory because I think discussion of kit sales (how to foster a
cottage industry, what sort of kits are good candidates, etc...) belongs
there.
PS, another minor first is that I think this is the first time a POVRay
illustration has been used as a gallery picture, but that's not as
significant as initiation of third party kit sales.
--
Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
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NOTE: Soon to be lpieniazek@tsisoft.com :-)
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