Edited 28 Oct 2016 07:41, 5 years ago, edited by kingfisher

Could it be and this is a real long shot here that the factory that was going to produce both the C30T for Shrike and the Ixion 32 class models claimed the C30T tooling as their own when Shrike found them selves scraping the bottom of the barrel for some money. So in lieu of money changing hands the tooling was simple given to them at no cost to clear the debt. The factory could then lease the tooling to a manufacture/distributor and at least get some money back on the investment, which looks like it might have happened. But in the mean time cost's for production have gone up and as the third party has to pay for leasing the dies etc and then getting the models put together the cost per item simply blew out. This does sound feasible though.

I do not know if the above is true but then again it might just be so.

No, not true.

The truth is much more "juicy" than that!

Paul

Not the first time you have claimed to know the truth behind the situation. The last time you made the same claim several months ago on this thread you went quiet when I challenged you to spill the beans. I issue the same challenge again to put up or shut up.