S and M models: Do they still exist?

van883 · January 05, 2013, 12:48:59 AM

or have they gone the way of all things..?

Hobbes · January 05, 2013, 01:43:19 AM

They were present at SMW last year. They don't have a website of their own I think.

NARSES2 · January 05, 2013, 01:57:19 AM

Van

They were at Telford as Harro says and Hannants stock them http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php?product_category_id=&product_division_id=&manufacturer_id=14521&code=&product_type_id=&scale_id=&keyword_search=&setPerPage=25&currency_id=

van883 · January 05, 2013, 02:56:33 AM

Thanks, both. I saw that Hannants stocked them, but seeing as they had no website (I cannot believe that in the second decade of the 21st century that this is a sound business approach) I wondered if they had gone belly up...

Van

Martin H · January 05, 2013, 06:19:34 AM

Mel Bromley is most certainly still going strong. I last saw him at the Coventry traders fair early in December. He has quite a few possible ideas to look into, after a number of us got talking to him at both SMW and Coventry.

He lives in Rugby, and I have dropped a few heavy hints to him and his missus about getting him to Join IPMS Coventry & Warwickshire.

van883 · January 05, 2013, 09:17:32 AM

Quote from: Martin H on January 05, 2013, 06:19:34 AM
Mel Bromley is most certainly still going strong. I last saw him at the Coventry traders fair early in December. He has quite a few possible ideas to look into, after a number of us got talking to him at both SMW and Coventry.

He lives in Rugby, and I have dropped a few heavy hints to him and his missus about getting him to Join IPMS Coventry & Warwickshire.

Let's hope one of the hints was a website

The Wooksta! · January 05, 2013, 12:11:13 PM

Is there anything to the whispers of a 72nd Avro Tudor from that source?

Martin H · January 05, 2013, 03:40:48 PM

Quote from: The Wooksta! on January 05, 2013, 12:11:13 PM
Is there anything to the whispers of a 72nd Avro Tudor from that source?

I'd say its highly unlikely in 72nd. If Mel does do a Tudor is more likely to be in 1/144th. Mainly due to the sheer cost of the thing to produce and a sky high retail price to make the project pay.

The Wooksta! · January 05, 2013, 03:58:30 PM

True, although it'd be no bigger than an Avro Ashton.

Martin H · January 07, 2013, 09:13:22 AM

again true Lee. Cept Magna havent got a warehouse full of I.M. 1/144th Viscounts that arnt shifting quickly enough.

Mel has said he learnt from that debacle and will only deal in projects he can afford or has a fair chance of shifting the full stock of. Plus he doesnt do his own casting......He uses some guy in China.