[Epapazian]

I've tried many ways to entice friends who profess an interest in military history and aircraft in particular into collecting diecast. I often give warbird replicas as presents and invite supposedly interested parties to visit our forum to sample its fare. So far, no luck. A while ago I posted a suggestion that the manufacturers and sellers band together to create (and fund ) an industry association which, aside from much needed internal policing activities, would aggressively promote the hobby . How? By inviting manufacturers to donate surplus product to schools, museums and other venues so that more people would see them; by pressing for more coverage of diecast in magazines like "FineScale Modeler"--with the added inducement of ads, of course; by creating the equivalent of infomercials which would air on the History Channel, The Military Channel and elsewhere, showing how such products are researched and carried to fruition, how collector's select,display and in some cases modify the products to suit their tastes, etc. Am I being hopelessly unrealistic? What do you fellows think?