Ken Lawrence

Click on this at Kagemusha above.

Spectacular!

Sword has the molds. I don't know what shape they are in though.

Part 2 is worse. Best to ask Loic if he knows if Sword has any interest in another run of any of the kits Sword made for us.

Loic from Kit Link bought all of our inventory when we closed. We had moved to Texas so I told our warehouse person to ship everything to Loic. I don't know if the replacement parts for the Tempest were sent to him or disposed of. I brought this up because our kit built was featured on this site. The builder listed changes to improve the kit which is fine with me. However, the seat and the wheels were not corrected by the checker we paid. He then made the corrected parts and sold them. I didn't think that was proper. Still don't.

We gave our masters to a well known person in the industry to check. We paid him 3 times what he asked. He was to inform us of any corrections needed for the masters to be readied for production. After a few weeks (fine with us), he gave his approval without any changes. There were 3 areas which stood out as being incorrect. 1) Wheels. 2) Seat. 3) radiator and propeller hub. Sword immediately made 2000 sets of the radiator and propeller hub and sent them to us by Air. We sent out a mass e-mall to all of our customers (including shops) that we would ship them free of charge to us as soon as they contacted us. We also posted this on the major internet sites. Few did. Lo and behold, the seat and wheels replacements were soon on the market from the person who checked our masters. Stay tuned for Part 2.

Hello Alan, I'm happy to see this model. This is one of my favorites and Sword did a great job on it. Meeting you at Nuremberg are fond memories for me. It gave me great satisfaction that a few of us could bring some Italian and British aircraft to modelers. Cheers, Ken

I play PanzerCorps2 General level Spanish Civil War. My 4 Hs 123a-1 s contributed big time to many victories. Love their looks and accuracy! Just transitioned to the Ju-87A.