KenLawrence

Greetings, Mary Ellen and I have decided to either sell or close PCM by end of September. We are having a SALE! These brands are 40% off our normal retail. The prices in the catalog ARE the discounted prices! KittyHawk LifelIke Decals PCM, Inc. Xuntong Amusing Hobby Asuka/Tasca - 30% off! Classic Warships Publishing EBBRO Cars Meng Models Panda Hobby Rye Field Models Tiger Models Takom Xact Scale HK B-25J Glass Nose $120.00. Check other HK items for prices. Some quantities are very limited. We will try to keep stock status current. Thanks to all of you here who supported us over the years! We appreciated it. Best Regards, Ken & Mary Ellen Lawrenc PCM, Inc.

Look at the lineup of those who "like" this post. They have been wrong about this MpM project coming to market for years now. When I originally stated that this project would take a very long time, some people got all over me and our kit of the Tempest. Well, I had lots of unpleasant experience with them on 4 projects. Unauthorized changes to my masters, i.e. the spinner on the Macchi C.202 was completely changed and wrong. The pebbly surface on the 202 and 205 was their doing. 18 month late on the 1:48 C.200 kit. The list goes on and on. So if I have a "shoddy attitude" toward them, there is complete justification for it. If, and I do mean if, they bring out the Tempest kits, well good for all of you who have been waiting and waiting for them. We sold out of ours and for that, I thank all of the great modelers who do support PCM and me. Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good Night! Ken Lawrence

Greetings, It has been a long time since I visited this site. I am shocked, shocked to hear that the MPM Tempests are not out yet. How many years has it been now? Someone said "Spring", but did not specify the year? A large number of people had bad things to say about me about this subject, but this all simply proves that I know my MpM. As unpleasant as they can be sometimes, facts are still facts. As someone who experienced long delays in projects with them, I sympathize with you. Merry Christmas, Ken Lawrence

Greetings, HKM 32 01E15 now in stock and shipping! Retail $169.95. www.pacmodels.com Thanks, Ken & Mary Ellen PCM, Inc.

Greetings, KittyHawk's new 1:32 F-86D "Sabre Dog" kit (KH 32007) is now available for pre-order at www.pacmodels.com. ETA is Late February. Thanks and Best Regards, Ken & Mary Ellen Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc. info@pacmodels.com

Greetings, Our container shipment has docked, been unloaded, cleared Customs and is ready for pick-up by our trucker. We hope to receive it on Wednesday and begin shipping the 1:32 OV-10D then. Thanks for your patience and Merry Christmas, Ken & Mary Ellen Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc. www.pacmodels.com info@pacmodels.com

Greetings, The Old News is that for any of you who have our kit and have not built it, there are replacement parts available (free of charge, post paid) for the spinner and the radiator bulkhead. Please check the wheel well insert as it may be warped. If it is, it will be very evident. Replacements are available also free of charge. If the fuselage halves or wings are warped, (which has rarely occurred), please inform us and we can send replacement pieces. The New News is that we are out of stock of this kit. We are interested in re-issuing it if we can get pre-orders for 200 or more. 300 is the minimum threshold for production. We are changing our catalog to read "TAKING PRE-ORDERS!". So we appreciate all of you who bought our kit, especially any of you who bought 3 or more of them, and hope that there is enough interest so that we can re-issue them. We will be informing all of our hobby shop customers about this. Thanks and Merry Christmas, Ken & Mary Ellen Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc. www.pacmodels.com info@pacmodels.com

Greetings, Sorry to hear that it was a piece of CRAP. Did you have a warped wheel well set and/or an oversized bulkhead? If so, replacement parts are available at no charge. You must be one heck of a modeler to take a piece of CRAP and have it come out "rather nice". Congratulations. Best Regards, Ken PCM, Inc.

Greetings, We now have new Classic Aircraft Pictorials book (CAP07) in stock at: www.pacmodels.com. $17.95 retail. Thanks and Best Regards, Ken & Mary Ellen Lawrence Pacific Coast Models Inc. info@pacmodels.com

Greetings, We have this book in stock now at: www.pacmodels.com. Thanks and Best Regards, Ken & Mary Ellen Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc. info@pacmodels.com

Greetings! I thought it went "When you laugh, the whole world laughs with you!". I based my statements about their announcements on their track record and my personal experience with them. At the time,many people agreed with me and now I suggest that you just keep watching to see what, if anything, happens with these "kits". Our policy is that when a new PCM kit goes into production, we announce it and not before then. It seems to me that all kit makers should have the same policy, but they don't. This results in bad feeling towards them. Best Regards, Ken PCM, Inc.

Greetings, KittyHawk has announced their newest 1:32 scale kit of the USAF OV-10D "Bronco" (KH 32003). This is sure to be a very popular kit and comes complete with a full weapons load, interior and engine detail. It will be shipping to us at the end of this month and the ETA is Mid-October. Please contact your favorite hobby shop to pre-order. If you don't have a favorite shop, you can order from us at: www.pacmodels.com. http://www.pacmodelscatalog.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PCM&Product_Code=KH+32003&Category_Code=KH+132 Thank you and Best Regards, Ken & Mary Ellen Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc. info@pacmodels.com

Greetings, The day we all have been waiting for has arrived. Pls check the vendor board. Thanks, Ken PCM, Inc.

Greetings, We are pleased to announce the new HK Models kit (HKM 32 01E07) of this famous aircraft. It is complete and several versions can be built with it. It includes a nose wheel weight, PE set and decals for different versions. The ETA is late August (maybe earlier) and we are taking pre-orders. We ask that your pre-orders be firm as we will be basing our order quantity on them. We expect that this kit will be a very good seller and we wish to make certain that we can get enough to fill all the pre-orders. Here is the link to our News/New Items page: http://www.pacmodels.com/news.php Thank you and Best Regards, Ken & Mary Ellen Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc.

Greetings, Please send us your address if you still need the instructions and we can see if we have an extra set. Best Regards, Ken PCM, Inc. info@pacmodels.com

Hello Bruce, "And if you are reading this in Japan, how about some work on the Ta-152 and give us the C version? New engine, new wing should do it." We have a very nice Ta-152C-1. Plastic with resin details, PE set by Eduard, Decals and color marking and painting instructions printed by Cartograf. It has received very good reviews. The retail price is $54.95. You can see a built model on our site at: www.pacmodels.com. Here is a link to the PCM aircraft page. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see it. http://www.pacmodelscatalog.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=PCM&Category_Code=pcm Regards, Ken Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc.

Greetings, <<Shortly as I've used it would mean soon, but lacking that defined meaning as "real soon" say?>> Say "real soon" as in 6-12 months more time, then say "maybe or maybe not" based on their history? <<There are numerous photos of the kit edging closer to release,...>> Has anyone seen more than 5 or 6 photos of what appears to be a solid carving? If so, please inform us where we can see them. The use of the word "edging" is really quite accurate. <<...yes I know it's probably about a year later than they said it would be initially,...>> Has it been only a year? It seems so much longer than that. Does anyone know when it was first announced? <<...but there's little point getting all het up about it, they'll be released when they are.>> That is exactly the point. Don't you mean they'll will be released IF they are released, given the record. <<Using the word elastic and indefinite would have been crass and poor English,...>> Both words are accurate in this case. <<...you've evidently got an agenda there, but I don't.>> My agenda is clear. I object to people making statements which are mis-leading and not factual. <<It really is nonsense to say that isn't based on fact, did I give a definite date when the kits are to be release? The Revell Spitfire II is due for release in two days time, but the world might end tomorrow, so that wouldn't be a fact either, but we can only say such in retrospect, no?>> This is nonsense. <<I think the kits will be superb going off the photos I've seen, that's my honest opinion which I'm entitled to, as other people are theirs, live and let live, no?>> If you have seen or know where we can see these photos which show that it will be a "superb" kit, please share them with us. <<I was being sarcastic calling all the British aircraft ugly, it's a terrible trait especially for those living in Manchester, England, this was in reference to Alan's post #22.>> Not everyone would think so. <<It's rather disingenuous of you to presuppose I lack the ability to think logically and that when I see photographs of master of a model in the making which rivals one of yours...>> I didn't pre-suppose it, I concluded it from what you wrote. Oh no, a "superb" kit would not rival our kit, it would be superior to ours as it would be almost perfect in every area. Dimensions, accuracy, ease of assembly, clear and easy to follow instructions, Cartograf decals designed by a master designer and checked by an expert for accuracy. Color painting/marking instructions, also printed by Cartograf, on heavy high gloss paper to resist spills on it. PE by Eduard. Even really good box art would be there. Based on past experience, it seems unlikely that if a MK.V, series II appears, it will rival ours. <<...I enter a Wonderland-like state where those facts are a psychedelic imagining which hold no weight in the real world. Maybe the world is flat after all?>> If the shoe fits... <<You're certainly not stepping on my toes, but I do find your oh-so-obviously pedantic posts infinitely tiresome.>> Apparently not as you have spent a great deal of time responding to it. I have been called a lot of names, but never pedantic, so I looked it up. It means "narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned, unimaginative, dull." It doesn't seem to me to fit me. And since I have been around for a lot of years and I have only been called this by you, I must conclude that it is not descriptive of me. <<Is that the kettle I can hear boiling..?>> It must be your kettle as I don't use one. Thanks for the fun and Best Regards, Ken Lawrence

Greetings, <<Has anybody heard of any success or tried contacting HK for a replacement part? I'm afraid that "Don't hold your breath" may be the common theme for an answer. Hope not, but.....>> The best method I know is to contact the hobby shop from whom you bought the kit. They can contact their distributor who may have the pieces needed in stock. If not, the distributor can get them from HK. Makers prefer this method as they can make 1 shipment of replacement parts for all the customers who needed them. Thanks and Best Regards, Ken Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc.

Hello Darren, <<Same price as the J's through the big Asian shops.Gouging on prices in the USA on Asian produced kits by Wholesalers..would never happen...lol.>> Please be assured that there is no "price gouging" by wholesalers in the USA on the HK kits. I don't know what the landed cost is in other countries. I do know that the U.K. and Europe have a steep Value Added Tax of over 20%. Best Regards, Ken

Greetings! We are happy to inform you that we have received both the Standard version (HKM 32 01E03) and the "Deluxe" version of this "Gunship" kit in our warehouse. The pre-orders are being shipped this week. We have only a small number left in stock, so now is a good time to order one. Thanks and Best Regards, Ken & MaryEllen Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc. www.pacmodels.com info@pacmodels.com

Hello Jimmy, <<Did you miss the part where you happen to be selling the kits in question?>> Yes, I did miss that part :-). <<Isn't it in your best interest to have the consumer think that they are indeed limited run kits?>> No, we at PCM, Inc., want modelers to know the facts. When it comes to the plans of kit manufacturers, there is a tremendous amount of speculation and guessing. If modelers know that they can look to PCM, Inc. for accurate information, they will be confident in knowing what is really going on. <<I don't intend to be belligerent, but I don't think it's in any way guaranteed they won't re-release any of these kits at some point...be it 10 years from now. Even HK could say they won't...things change.>> Your message wasn't taken that way. I explained the decision making process. People can judge the possibilities of a kit being re-issued if they know the process. <<Edit to add: I sincerly need to stress I in no way intend to be negative toward you, Mr. Lawrence...just my view.>> Understood. No negativity taken. Best Regards, Ken PCM, Inc.

"Any word on the HK B-17F? Thanks. Bill M." Hi Bill, Nothing firm yet. We are waiting too. Thanks and Best Regards, Ken PCM, Inc.

"I will believe in HK as a mainstream manufacturer once they release something on their own; in other words a kit that wasn't already in the hopper when the WingScale split took place." Hello Bob, Please prepare yourself to become a believer soon. "They will all likely be re-released once stock is gone and demand is back up. It may take a couple of years but they aren't going to dispose of molds that they spent resources on. Hello 3Putt, First, how will they know if demand is back up? The only method they can use with confidence is to announce to their distributors a re-issue of the kit with a reserve order quantity. Then ask for firm orders and see if they get enough quantity to begin production. This presumes that they have time in their existing production schedule to make a re-issue production run. Second, each kit has a minimum production quantity which must be run to keep the unit production cost equal to or lower than the first production run cost in order to hold the original retail price. Costs of raw materials, production labor, transportation, new kit boxes, shipping cartons, decals, marking & painting instructions, assembly instructions, PE, packaging, advertising, promotional samples and shipping costs must be calculated in order to justify a re-issue. Then their distributors must give them firm orders which total quantity requirements. If there is not enough order quantity, then no re-issue. You are correct that they will not dispose of the molds in such a way as to render them unuseable. They might be able to use some of the molds to make other variants. Even waiting some years may not generate enough firm orders to do a re-issue. The person who said if you want it, buy it when you, can has the right advice. Thanks and Best Regards, Ken Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc.

Greetings! Regarding HK Models B-25J "Glass Nose" bomber, we have stock of this kit (HKM 32 01E01 & 01E01 DK). This kit is out of production according to HK. There are no plans to re-issue it. If you have a local hobby shop, you can have them order it for you from us. If you don't have a local shop, you can order it direct from us. Here us the link to their kits in our catalog: http://www.pacmodelscatalog.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=PCM&Category_Code=HKMAir132 These are the normal grey plastic kits. Thank you and Best Regards, Ken & Mary Ellen Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc. www.pacmodels.com info@pacmodels.com