Horsetan Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 Small manufacturer bites the dust Presumably IRM / Accurascale are on rather stronger financial footings.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbonnet Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Horsetan said: Small manufacturer bites the dust Presumably IRM / Accurascale are on rather stronger financial footings.... You presume correctly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 21 minutes ago, Warbonnet said: You presume correctly. The shirts barely covered the money-belts at DEMU... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbonnet Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 9 minutes ago, Broithe said: The shirts barely covered the money-belts at DEMU... Or my belly, but sadly that’s another story... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 15 minutes ago, Warbonnet said: Or my belly, but sadly that’s another story... Ballast - for extra stability... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railer Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 (edited) Someone on RM web recently dug up one of his past posts on projects he has been part of. 2 things really jump out, as in it he claims, to have "designed" the IRM ballast and bubble wagons on commission. Edited June 9, 2019 by Railer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 On 6/8/2019 at 3:36 PM, Horsetan said: Small manufacturer bites the dust Sad to hear. Just goes to show pre-paying for models can be a risk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railer Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 31 minutes ago, Noel said: Sad to hear. Just goes to show pre-paying for models can be a risk. It's some forms of crowdfunding business models that are the risk to be fair. Pre paying for models is relatively risk free form established business entities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbonnet Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Noel said: Sad to hear. Just goes to show pre-paying for models can be a risk. The mechanism of crowdfunding is not the issue, it’s the execution. If you look at how Revolution Trains has constantly delivered it in the British market it demonstrates how it can and should be done. It’s always worth doing your homework on the company first. Thankfully in the early days of IRM we got the measure of this guy and sacked him, taking over the projects ourselves. It’s fair to say we had a very lucky escape, and could write a book about the carry on. But that’s for another day. The sad part of this is the amount of honest customers burned by him. 1 hour ago, Railer said: Someone on RM web recently dug up one of his past posts on projects he has been part of. 2 things really jump out, as in it he claims, to have "designed" the IRM ballast and bubble wagons on commission. He certainly didn’t design them, they were designed in China with our feedback and corrections. Both projects required major revisions when we took them over as he failed to communicate the corrections to the Chinese designer and we decided to do in house CAD design thereafter. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 14 minutes ago, Warbonnet said: He certainly didn’t design them, they were designed in China with our feedback and corrections. Both projects required major revisions when we took them over as he failed to communicate the corrections to the Chinese designer and we decided to do in house CAD design thereafter. Presume the NEM pocket location was part of his helpful contribution. You made the right call to break off and take it in house, ever since that chassis everything that followed seemed flawless not to mention superbly accurate and detailed. Onwards and upwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John-r Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Aren't we all glad you saw through him look at the fantastic models your producing . Nobody can touch your level of detail, or commitment to the hobby. Ha,Noel you just beat me to it onwards and upwards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railer Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Some of the sad part is from what I can see on RM web. The amount that got burned with the DJM 92 and are afraid to take a punt on the Accurascale 92, asking if they are crowdfunding too. Alot of them are presently surprised too that it's actually got to tooling because of the shinanigans of others. They're finally starting to appreciate the Accurascale brand and business model. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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