Unbeknownst to most of us, there's a special group people within our hobby to whom we owe a very large debt of gratitude! These folks have spent their own hard earned money to pay for plastic injection mold tooling charges that allow us to have models and kits that we would never have otherwise. The obvious guys like Joe D'Elia (A-Line) and Dan Goins (Lonestar Models) who have their own companies are easy to spot. Just as important to us are the folks who pay for these molds without any recognition. Several items in Promotex's catalog are there solely because a couple of these folks personally wanted these models to market.

The newly announced drop deck flatbed trailers (shown above and in our New Products section) are but one example and we owe Ralph Johnson of All World Models for these! That Peterbilt 362E and Freightliner FLB86 we now see in Promotex's and Herpa's catalogs? Courtesy of none other than our friend Bruno Cerri from Trucks N' Stuff. There's several others in our close knit hobby that manage to get a lot of remarkable things done behind the scenes that we never hear about. Without them we'd have far fewer North American prototype trucks available to us. Next time you see one of these guys, tell them "Thank you!' [posted 05/18/2002]