Need your opinions...

[markcrowel]

Fellow builders,

If you have any opinions at all about this type of model car, please post them. I want as much input from as many people as possible.

The model car hobby hasn't caught on very well with today's kids, and I'd like to help revive it through paper models. I want to market simple, inexpensive, generic cardboard models. They would not be daunting or tedious, but would still involve enough work for a preteen to feel that he will have accomplished something.

Shown here is the first rough prototype. It would have a precut center strip and side panels of lightweight cardboard, of the type found on the backs of writing tablets (about 1/32 inch thick). This should give the model a feeling of substance. The pictorial features would be printed on white cardstock. To assemble the body, the cardboard center strip (grille panel, hood, windshield, roof, and trunk) would be flap-glued to the cardboard side panels with non-toxic glue (i.e. Elmers). The cardstock pictorial features would be colored by the customer with crayons or colored pencils, cut out, and glued to the assembled body.

Scale: 1/32, (six and three-eighths inches long, two inches wide).
Projected price: $2.50 each.
These will be sold at the yard sales that my wife and I have often through the spring and summer. There is too much competition on the internet from free downloads, so I will concentrate on selling them locally.

Thank you in advance for any advice you can give.