FINALLY ! The Union Hotel is here.

After two years plus, it’s finally available.  Thank you all for hanging in there with us.  If you have any questions or experience any problems, please let me know.  One more thing, when you go to open the files you are going to find a lot of new and revised information.  Take the time to browse through it.  It will be worth it.

Update on Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 10:46AM by Dave

Hello folks.  One more update on the hotel.  You can chalk this one up to “I forgot how I did it last time” also commonly called CRS disease.  When I posted the Hotel, I did it with a <.zip> file and while it does make it convenient in that I can send files in folders, I have been chastised, more than once, that <.zip> files are a pain and it means that you need an unzip program on your computer.  (One comes with Windows, don’t know about MAC’s.) I will go back and put everything into <.pdf> format and repost it as soon as I can.  In the mean time, the zip will be active.

Dave

Printing Bigger rather than Smaller

On our DISCUSSION page a comment was made that if you print our kits in 1:24 scale you will probably loose resolution.  I commented that I have a 1:24 Box Cab on the workbench.  Don’t think resolution is an issue.

NEW PROCEDURE FOR FUTURE DOWNLOADS PLEASE READ

In this space previously and on the DISCUSSION page, I briefly mentioned that with all future products, we were thinking of providing them only in O scale and also providing you with instructions to print the kits out at your desired scale.  Well, we are no longer just thinking about it, with the release of the hotels, it is becoming our new way of making kits available.  For too many reasons to list, it make good business sense to us.  So, just to let you all know how this is going to work, here is what will happen with the release of the hotels.

The ADD TO CART button, will not mention scale.  There will only be one button that you can select.

There will be only one price.  Data is data.  You get the same amount of it no mater the scale.  Our new pricing model will be one price irreguardless of your final scale.  It will be lower than the historical O scale prices, but more than the HO or N pricing of the past.

Included with the kit download, will be a “PLEASE READ ME FIRST” file which will contain a lot of information about building paper model kits.  There will also be information about reducing with your printer to get the scale that you want.  With this information you will be able to produce kits in any size SMALLER than O. (1:48)  You will NOT be able to scale larger because you will run out of paper space.  This will not be difficult if you follow instructions.

I hope you all will embrace this new way of doing things.  It is what our competitors have been doing for some time and it will greatly help in streamlining our way of developing kits which should help us to get new things to market much more quickly.

One final thing about the “READ ME FIRST” file.  One of the problems of providing kits that can be scaled down is that any text on the kit pages is reduced also.  That becomes a problem when you are reducing from O scale to Z scale.  Very little is readable.  So the plan is to “Eventually” eliminate all of the text from the actual kit pages.  Any special instructions that may be needed for the kit will be included in the “READ ME FIRST” file.  Also a list of “conventions”, standards that will be used in displaying the kits, will be included.  This will be things like defining which way to bend a tab base on an icon rather than text.  Something that will be understanable, even though reduced.  I said the text will eventually be eliminated.  Until you all get used to the new way of doing things, some text will remain but you may have to view it on screen to make some of it out.

Sorry for changing things, but as we move into our second decade, we really need to move forward.

Thanks for you support and understanding.  Please send your questions to me at <mize1@sbcglobal.net> or use the “DISCUSSION” page.

BACK to the July sale for a minute.

Hi everyone, Dave here.  I am making a final pass through the books reguarding the July sale and I’ve noticed some discrepancies.  I do know that on at least two orders I refunded all of your money instead of just the 40%.  My bad, it’s on me, but what I am concerned about is that everyone that ordered got their order.  EVERYTHING SHOULD BE DELIVERED BY NOW.  If you haven’t received your order yet, please contact me at <mize1@sbcglobal.net> with your order info. (PayPal order number and date please)  We will solve any issues that are outstanding.

Thanks for your help.