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SPEEDEMON · 12-28-2002, 03:09 AM

William

As Eduardo explained earlier, Pac-Min is Pacific Miniatures for short, which is the same company that has been around for over more than a half of a century. Their models are state of the art and have not been surpassed by anyone yet in the professional market of presentation-grade, promotional models for the airframe and airline industry.

I have been to the Atlantic Models factory in Miami, FL and have seen the Atlantic Models and their process on making these models. This is what I understand from the process of these two:

First of all Pac-Min builds their mold from the blueprints on a CAD system from the air-frame manufactures such as Boeing, Mc Donnell-Douglas etc. which their mold is cast out of solid metal which is very expensive, but can be used many times over and over without losing the accuracy.

Atlantic builds their molds out of rubber block which can be used several hundred time then has to be thrown away because the rubber will wear out due to heat and after so many use and lose the accuracy.

As I understand that the only company that have quality close to Pac-Min would be Space-Models out of England, but won't surpass the Pac-Min's.

Pac-Min does not do custom models for the public, but they do custom for their customers like Boeing and the airlines, which those companies can afford to hace them do a custom model like 1 of 1 item.

There was a guy serveral years ago named Hans Pennell, formerly of Classic Airliners which did custom contract work for Pac-Min and I was lucky enough to have him build me a couple of custom Pac-Min models. If you would like to see these models, here is a link to them:

http://www.diecastaircraftforum.com/...threadid=22363

I hope this info helps you on the difference in these two manufactures and if you like to learn more on Pac-Min here is a link to their site:

http://www.pacmin.com/

Thanks
Art

Here’s a couple of Pac-Min’s:

12-28-2002, 03:09 AM	#4
SPEEDEMON Senior Collector Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: San Francisco Bay Age: 47 Posts: 194	William As Eduardo explained earlier, Pac-Min is Pacific Miniatures for short, which is the same company that has been around for over more than a half of a century. Their models are state of the art and have not been surpassed by anyone yet in the professional market of presentation-grade, promotional models for the airframe and airline industry. I have been to the Atlantic Models factory in Miami, FL and have seen the Atlantic Models and their process on making these models. This is what I understand from the process of these two: First of all Pac-Min builds their mold from the blueprints on a CAD system from the air-frame manufactures such as Boeing, Mc Donnell-Douglas etc. which their mold is cast out of solid metal which is very expensive, but can be used many times over and over without losing the accuracy. Atlantic builds their molds out of rubber block which can be used several hundred time then has to be thrown away because the rubber will wear out due to heat and after so many use and lose the accuracy. As I understand that the only company that have quality close to Pac-Min would be Space-Models out of England, but won't surpass the Pac-Min's. Pac-Min does not do custom models for the public, but they do custom for their customers like Boeing and the airlines, which those companies can afford to hace them do a custom model like 1 of 1 item. There was a guy serveral years ago named Hans Pennell, formerly of Classic Airliners which did custom contract work for Pac-Min and I was lucky enough to have him build me a couple of custom Pac-Min models. If you would like to see these models, here is a link to them: http://www.diecastaircraftforum.com/...threadid=22363 I hope this info helps you on the difference in these two manufactures and if you like to learn more on Pac-Min here is a link to their site: http://www.pacmin.com/ Thanks Art Here’s a couple of Pac-Min’s: Last edited by SPEEDEMON; 12-28-2002 at 03:19 AM.