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Originally Posted by uncle beat
The aircraft sales to Latin airlines may be small in numbers relatively speaking, but the interest of Latino people in aviation (and therefore the potential aircraft model market) is absolutely HUGE!! Just go to any town with a sizeable Latin population, and you will see the aircraft spotters out there at the airport. Great enthusiasts, and it is a large void not to make 1/500 models of Latin airlines. I don't accept the excuse that there isn't a market for these collectors, because the 1/400 market seems to have plenty of Latin models. . . .  Just another market niche that hopefully Inflight 500 will take on |
I partially agree with you, my thoughts are that since the 1/400 scale is steadily becoming the largest scale by collectors now a-days, thanks to GJ, DW, and PHX with high quality good looking models, that the 1/500 industry is scaling back, look at Herpa, the loss of StarJets and so forth. I had a few 1/500 and found that as a collector they just don't have the quality that those of the 1/400 scales do. Another thing is cost, all over the world there is a big abundance of spotters, here in the US as I am sure you know there is quite a bit, but unfortunately thats as far as most people go, just watching them and not getting into the hobby, we all know this hobby is very expensive, but then again, what hobby isn't.