Babelfish Steve

Lost for words. I can only dream of creating something this good. I could gaze at it for hours.

What more do you need? You have just had it straight from the horse's mouth ... from no less a person than someone who was a key member of that very same "inner circle" and who as such knows about the WNW situation better than anyone else on here - much of which will be details that the rest of us are not privy to. If he comes along and says it's gone, that's good enough for me. But if you want to continue swearing that black is white, by all means carry on.

I'm not. I'm just calling it like I see it. Like many on here I'd actually be delighted to be proved wrong. But I'm not holding my breath. - Steve

Wishful thinking and desperate straw-clutching. Sorry. - Steve

Apologies for resurrecting an ancient thread, but did this ever get built / finished? I ask because I have one winging its way to me as I sit typing this, and would be interested to see and read about other builds. - Steve

I can only humbly doff my optivisor to anyone contemplating such an ambitious project, and I wish you every success with it. :bow: - Steve

Another vote here for the J1. Or one of the D.VIIs. They will ease you gently into the art of rigging (i.e. there's not much of it). Once you've built one WNW kit you will probably be hooked on them. So another tip would be that for now - rather than blow all your modelling budget on something expensive like a Felixstowe or an AEG - snap up some of the earlier "bread & butter" kits while you can, because in recent months they have been going OOP like it's going out of fashion. Two of the D.VIIs have already gone, but there are still two available (the 'Alb' and the 'F'). But how long for is anyone's guess. - Steve

Marvellous work Eric. I wish I could knock 'em out that quickly (and to such a high standard as well). I picked this kit up for a song a while back as one of those "impulse buys", and seeing yours has made me very glad that I did. If I can get mine to look half as good as yours, I'll be a happy camper. Thanks for the share. - Steve

I think I'll just chuck it all in and take up stamp collecting instead! Jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring are how I'd sum it up. - Steve

Many is the time that I have told myself that I am not going to buy any more kits (at least for the foreseeable future), and will just "live off the stash" instead. The longest those noble intentions have ever lasted to date is about one month. - Steve

I can't think of anything worse than PE rigging. Up there alongside PE chains in the pantheon of terrible ideas. - Steve

There has been talk of these "special editions" for some time now (at least since the W.29 first went OOP) but all we've seen so far has been that one reissued as a "duellist" set with the Felixtowe. I agree that they will probably reappear in some form in the future, but on the other hand I'm not holding my breath. - Steve

Whatever it turns out to be, you can bet your pension that the "very-nice-but-I-was-hoping-for-a-such-and-such" posts will quickly follow on the forums. No kit company can ever hope to please all modellers all of the time. - Steve

Just checked the date of that auction and it was back in July 2012! Further investigation on the web told me that they were divided up into 170 separate lots that went for a grand total of 8,800 UK Pounds. Which still less than their true value. - Steve

Worth a lot more than 6k. - Steve