We are now at 13 possible orders from this list, and seemingly 6 from the French Laverda club so we'll no doubt have the 15 necessary orders to get the ball rolling. I'm waiting for feedback from the Laverdamania forum.
I'll give it another month of so before contacting the model maker.
Question: to avoid any individual or club taking a financial risk on this, I think it necessary to ask for payment on order, at least partially. So as to keep things financially transparent, it would be good that an account be used solely for this operation, with a single person having access to it and capable of producing copies of the account statements on demand. Any ideas?
I thought of a specific Paypal account but there are certainly other possibilities.