The Big 400 Scale Survey - Page 2

doug seeley · 04-30-2021, 05:00 AM

I did not vote. I'm a small time collector (300 models, north of $10,000 in expenses, with shipping fees as part of the cost), rather ignorant of the total 1/400 production picture, and unsure of some of the questions in the survey. In my collection I have representatives of all the major manufacturers, and they all have some great models, and the occasional dud, too. At the moment, my purchases are limited, with the main objective of replacing some earlier moulds with better ones as they come along. Doug Seeley

RStretton · 04-30-2021, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by doug seeley

I did not vote. I'm a small time collector (300 models, north of $10,000 in expenses, with shipping fees as part of the cost), rather ignorant of the total 1/400 production picture, and unsure of some of the questions in the survey. In my collection I have representatives of all the major manufacturers, and they all have some great models, and the occasional dud, too. At the moment, my purchases are limited, with the main objective of replacing some earlier moulds with better ones as they come along. Doug Seeley

You do yourself a dis-service Doug. You have been an important collector and voice during the time I've been collecting and your posts and photos have been great. 300 models is a decent sized bunch I'd have thought for most collectors.

Make sure you vote in part 2, which will be more up your alley.

JJ Skippy · 04-30-2021, 08:38 AM

Me personally I have about 170 models. Pretty small compared to what some other folks on here have, but it’s still decently sized nonetheless. Will wait for part 2.

purpleplane · 04-30-2021, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by JJ Skippy

Me personally I have about 170 models. Pretty small compared to what some other folks on here have, but it’s still decently sized nonetheless. Will wait for part 2.

I have 343 right now (with 3 more on the way)....looking forward to part 2.

CBL · 04-30-2021, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by vellnueve

The Phoenix 380 is pretty good as is the 747-8F

And basically all of AV400's modern moulds (2017 and later) are outstanding.

Well, I think that their A380 is simply the best one available.
Same for their 777

And as I was saying earlier, all company have their true hits and their very lows. Phoenix's A300 is certainly a low!

RStretton · 04-30-2021, 04:06 PM

Part 1 of the survey is at 530 responses, which I'm happy with and is I think a decent representation of collectors considering it is more than the run of most 400 releases nowadays.

The Big 400 Scale Survey Pt2: You & Your Collecting

So on to part 2. This one everyone should be able to fill out without any problem and again all responses are welcome. It asks 19 questions about your collection, what you care about as a collector and what you'd like to see. If we can get a similar 500+ response then I think the results could prove useful to the manufacturers and maybe help guide some of their decision making in the future. At the very least it will provide a view of the most active English speaking collectors in the market. Here's the link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...rm?usp=sf_link

RStretton · 04-30-2021, 09:12 PM

Part 2 is over 120 responses already. Keep em coming! Some interesting results already.

C141*Lifter · 05-01-2021, 02:34 AM

I just filled out Pt 2. Not sure how useful the "How important is...." questions are. I mean, why would anyone score less than a 5 on any of those questions? If a good number of respondents scored 3 on how important QC is, for example, is that supposed to signal to manufacturers that it will be okay to relax QC? I hope not! Maybe I'm totally missing the objective of those questions.

Maybe a more thought provoking method would have been to make us rank in numerical order the importance of those items. So the most important item would be a 1, second most important a 2, and so on. That might better reveal where collectors place their priorities with these models. Just a thought.

Harvey

RStretton · 05-01-2021, 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by C141*Lifter

I just filled out Pt 2. Not sure how useful the "How important is...." questions are. I mean, why would anyone score less than a 5 on any of those questions? If a good number of respondents scored 3 on how important QC is, for example, is that supposed to signal to manufacturers that it will be okay to relax QC? I hope not! Maybe I'm totally missing the objective of those questions.

Maybe a more thought provoking method would have been to make us rank in numerical order the importance of those items. So the most important item would be a 1, second most important a 2, and so on. That might better reveal where collectors place their priorities with these models. Just a thought.

Harvey

I said this earlier. Ranking isn't actually possible with Google Forms or other free survey software. I can either ask what is the most important (which people complained about) or give you a scale and ask for all of them. Not everyone has put 5 for all of these things so the results comparing all 5 do show some comparability.

Clearly a lot of people don't care about moulds or Phoenix would never sell a 747-400 ever!

C141*Lifter · 05-01-2021, 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by RStretton

I said this earlier. Ranking isn't actually possible with Google Forms or other free survey software. I can either ask what is the most important (which people complained about) or give you a scale and ask for all of them. Not everyone has put 5 for all of these things so the results comparing all 5 do show some comparability.

Clearly a lot of people don't care about moulds or Phoenix would never sell a 747-400 ever!

Got ya. Thanks for doing this. And you're right about the Phoenix B744! Wouldn't want one even if it was free, but that's just me. I've got an earlier generation Phoenix B744, very acceptable. But this survey focuses on today's models.

Harvey

Mesprit · 05-01-2021, 04:10 AM

Not sure how much you value my opinions because I only have 123 models, but I did the survey anyway.

European Collector · 05-01-2021, 04:35 AM

Ok, Richard, this time you hooked me aswell. Though as it was stated before I really have no clue what this survey should change in the business to let the collector/customer benefit from it. I would assume it is only for the statistics, but hey, what do know I...

RStretton · 05-01-2021, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Mesprit

Not sure how much you value my opinions because I only have 123 models, but I did the survey anyway.

Everyone's opinion is valued. If you're buying models then your opinion matters - simple as that.

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Originally Posted by European Collector

Ok, Richard, this time you hooked me aswell. Though as it was stated before I really have no clue what this survey should change in the business to let the collector/customer benefit from it. I would assume it is only for the statistics, but hey, what do know I...

Yeah I don't know. I'd hope it gives the manufacturers some clues as to where to focus efforts and who their customers are. It can't do any harm and as you say the results are interesting anyway.

We've got over 250 responses now.

purpleplane · 05-01-2021, 09:27 AM

Richard, just wanted to thank you for the survey. I'm no "big time" collector by any stretch of the imagination, but I do enjoy the hobby, and if it can help get some models made (cough cough, DC-9-10's)....then I'm all for it.

Tris10&11 · 05-02-2021, 05:27 AM

Thanks Richard for doing the survey. I really look forward to the results of both!! Should be interesting!

RStretton · 05-03-2021, 06:14 AM

Ok the results of part 1 have been written up and will be published after part 2 has closed, which will probably be tomorrow or the day after.

Part 2 is at over 400 responses. Please vote if you haven't already.

JaxDiecastAircrafts · 05-03-2021, 07:00 AM

Will there be a part 3?

RStretton · 05-03-2021, 03:46 PM

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Will there be a part 3?

Probably not at this point. I don't want people to get too fatigued with surveys. The next most obvious thing to do would probably be to have some more targeted surveys aimed at discussing what people want the individual manufacturers to do but I think I'll leave it for a while.