Jeff, to answer your question, a few manufacturers have donated retail pieces for auction to benefit breast cancer research. How that can be in construed by the OP as "jumping on someone's coat tails" escapes me. At someone else's suggestion, another kitbasher is undertaking a couple of blue pieces to benefit Prostate Cancer research (it's all on Fireengines.net)

Kudos to Mike Gilbert for his effort. That said, the original post in this thread looks more like a promotion for the builder of the piece, rather than the purpose of the piece itself or the intent of the builder.

As somebody else said, there are MANY talented kitbashers around. Writing a column about a small segment of them doesn't make you an expert critic.

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Perhaps “Chief Larry” should go back to his roots and remember what Vince Lombardi once said “Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

Thanks to everyone for their support of this great project.