David, no one is denying your right to an opinion, but 'profoundly depressing' seemed an odd turn of phrase. Not being a 7mm modeller i am not familiar with your range of kits and what you produce but i would suggest a 1/32nd scale BR Brake Van would do rather nicely, there are a lot of 1/32nd scale engines, coaches and wagons out there but very few Brake Vans, many do 1/32nd but not necessarily 'finescale' which in the context of Gauge 1 refers to the wheel and track standards.
Turning to the G1MCo coaches, i know little about plastic moulds and any knowledge i do have is therefore secondhand, when i spoke to the Proprietor of G1MCo he told me that there would be compromises including the windows, basically to produce moulds that resulted in a model similar to the Tower would push the final price up to a similar level and the whole project would then not be viable do to the lack of sales at that price.
Personally i have gone down the Tower route but i can understand why many would not. There is this rather strange idea that has built up over the years that the average G1MRA member is a retired Judge, General, Banker etc who owns vast parts of the Home Counties to build a layout in. Sorry folks but this is wrong, some might well exist but the average member is just an ordinary guy on an ordinary wage/pension who has to consider each purchase.
I notice that Hornby are bringing out simpler items to keep the price down, how many Hornby coaches can be purchased for the price of one Gauge 1 coach? worth bearing in mind.
A supplier of Gauge 1 engines once said "if you want to make a small fortune out of Gauge 1 then start with a large one
" cheers Rob