OldTroll

Got an acknowledgement of my e-mails and a "We'll get back to you during out normal (NZ) business hours." If I don't see the refunds on my CC within the next few days I'll have my CC company kill the transactions. I am going to wait for a US retailer (Sprue Bros.?) to pick up WNW products and will reorder then.

I sent an e-mail request to them at their customer support address.

Just canceled my pre-order for ten Camels and the Duelist set. I'll work on my current WNW stash until a dependable US distributor is found. The WNW/WETA combo is definitely not working.

Well, things are looking up. I now have two of each and they are being shipped in pairs of each type at $19.39 per pair instead of $17.70 each. The exception was the two Ship's Camels which will be shipped individually (reason unknown.) Hopefully that will be corrected to a shipment of twp at the combined cost like the others. Time to sit back and wait for shipping notices...

Tried to pre-order two of each plus one Duelist (yes, I know how much that comes to.) Was informed there was only one of each available. Moved on to shipping and found WETA had reverted to the "one kit, one Shipping charge" format so I would get charged $17.70 (to Virginia,) six times and would receive six packages.! I feel a shift to WW2 and Modern Era modeling coming on...at least Sprue Brothers knows how to compute shipping on a multi-item order. Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing?

The supports are 15E, 16E, 17E, 18E in step 2. The engine bearers (9D, 12D in step 9) fit into 15E and 16E and rest against the upper ends of 17E and 18E. The angles of 15-16-17-18E are critical if the bearers are to line up with them. Unfortunately you don't find out if you got it right until it's too late. Alcohol and excessive speed may have contributed to my problems...sigh.

Brian - Study the engine and engine mount assembly carefully. There are parts that need to be at a specific angle that have no positive means to insure their correct positioning; specifically the forward and rear engine supports that need to interact with engine bearers later in assembly. Once you get past the engine assembly things get a bit better. I have mine sitting on the Shelf of Doom at the moment due to the mess that I made of the engine.

Please turn this one off, moderators, before it gets any sillier. After all, WNW is the first model company ever to not deliver a product in the originally announced month or year...

Got mine today (2 kits) from Sprue Brothers. I'll let the "pro" reviewers do their thing but I can say that I am a bit disappointed. I started to assemble the engine and discovered that all the characteristics that Roden has had in the past on the WW1 kits are unfortunately present on this kit. Locator holes and pegs that are not the same size; soft, cheese-like consistency of the plastic; some incomplete mold fills (air intake) and some mold slippage (prop shaft and some engine bits); decals that look like the yellow will be translucent and instruction diagrams that hint at where parts are

Posted on FB by Lukgraph. "VOUGHT SBU-1 Corsair US NAVY The next release of Lukgraph in 1:32 scale. Box-art and 4 painting schemes in a few days. Very detailed over 120 resin parts kit available in December 2016." Yellow wings are always welcome!

Simply wonderful. The attention to detail really sets this apart. Bravo!

Both the model and the photography are fabulous! Beautiful finish and detailing.

Gorgeous! I'm looking forward to getting my shipping notice.

I asked the question, "Why was my order for three kits split into three separate shipments (and shipping charges?)" The answer was: "In the past Weta's main core of products have been large/oversized polystone collectables. With these they ship in singles. Unfortunately there is no rule/application for items to be combined together unless its a very small items like some jewellery that they also sell. This is currently on the list of things to being looked at, and hopefully soon it will have a fix applied to it." Expressing my concern further, I received the following: "I can unde

Just received confirmation from Dave that there are issues with the projected delivery dates being generated by the WETA site. A fix is in the works.

I suspect this is still a work in progress. I ran a couple trial purchases almost to completion and noticed that UPS shipping from the US warehouse was the same for 1 kit as it was for 3 kits. Delivery date was in late October but UPS delivery is normally 3-5 days even from the West Coast. I think we need to give them a couple more days to get all the connections made before we start bemoaning no new model announcements...I hope.

This is now listed as "available" on their website!

13 singles plus the Fokker E.III/DH.2 Duelist boxing. So is that 13,14 or15? Not important...back to adding to my last "free shipping" order.

I purchased three and have to say that my castings did not have the roughness of your review sample. If I have any complaint it is that they offer too many great color schemes. I may have to spring for a couple more.

Looking good, Mike. A lot further along than mine. I completed one engine and then got sidetracked by an AT-6 and then got sidetracked by a T-28 and then decided I should finish a WNW DH-9A before starting any new projects...talk about attention deficit.

Great photos - thanks for posting them.

New photos of kit components are posted on the Lukgraph website.

Well, that's just about as good as it gets! Brilliant build, sir.

I have always used Gunze Mr. Color C058 (Orange-Yellow) for Army/Navy yellow wings. Not the same as the Lemon Yellow used on Navy tails.