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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by higssy I'm really tired of hearing it's made in China. This has to stop long term it is really going to effect our economy. I'm a mould-maker and this threat hangs over our heads all the time. They can build moulds much cheaper over there than we can and there technology is suprisingly good. I work for a major company and our Gm plus others from the Corporation went to China to view there shops and techniques. If we're not careful, five years down the road we'll be out of a job and wondering what happened. I don't see any solution othere than the Government putting a stop to it. Not only does it affect plastics but every other function of life, if they can build it cheaper somewhere else then there going to do it, which will put alot of people out of work. Governments need to industrialize the world to help Countries catch up. [/quote] The heads of a lot of our US companies have been asleep at the switch. Revell/Monogram used to make five (5) large sailing ships models. Now they only have one, the USS Constitution. Trumpeter, a Chinese company has seen the void left by Revell/Monogram and many other plastic model kit makers in our hobby market. Trumpeter is now bringing high quality plastic models to the US market, at fairly hefty prices, and the stuff is selling like hotcakes. There are a significant number of hobby retailers that are not going to go along with the Horizon deal. This means that there will be a void on their shelves for mid-priced locomotives and rolling stock. The Chinese have been making these products for a long time and selling them to US companies. We may soon seen model railroading products, with Chinese brand names, filling the Athearn void on hobbyshop shelves. They won't be cheap, but they will be very high quality. Don't be surprised when you see their high-end products on the shelf right next to Kato's. The Chinese are prepared to compete in our market place and the decision makers in our hobby industry have only themselves to blame.
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