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I'd guess it's leagues better than HpH's, which is a bit disappointing, to put it mildly.

Patience. I'm confident that, given time, pretty much every request will be met at some point by WNW. They'll run out of subjects otherwise.

Brave, daring, non-conformist choice.

How about the bright pink Fokker triplane with orange stripes? I can find no record anywhere that proves he didn't fly it.

LSP, without speculation, would move with the speed of continental drift

Disappointed, but you can't please everyone!

I'd hazard a guess that the financial returns are not great enough. 1/48 is far more affordable & needs less space, and the range is practically limitless. Everybody wants to make a buck, and if the 1/32 aviation market was deemed a profitable area, we'd be seeing a lot more kits coming out.

I'm going for some obscure, experimental Austro-Hungarian flying boat. Or a German two seater.

Damn. At least the Ashes look safe!

Careful Jennings, you'll be criticized again by fellow Americans for being unpatriotic.

Healthcare costs are kept far, far lower than in the US, but this results in more waiting time than US patients experience. Similar to the UK.

This is looking rather good. I know the kit gets a poor press, you can tell from the very cheap prices the kits available for, but is it that bad? Is there much AM out there for it? It's one cool looking aeroplane, the work on this one is very good indeed.

It's beautiful! I particularly like the swept wings for high speed - pure optimism.

He couldn't care less. Wingnut Wings produce basically whatever he fancies building at home one rainy evening. He fancies a Lancaster in 1/32, and he's getting himself a Lancaster in 1/32. I get the feeling that if he wanted to build a 1/4 size scale model of a seagull, he'd just go ahead and get an injected plastic 1/4 scale model of a seagull produced. Then we'd have different breeds of seagulls, different colourings of seagulls, baby seagulls, boxed squabbles of seagulls, etc. They'd be the best 1/4 scale seagulls anywhere, as long as you didn't want an American, Italian, Austro-Hungarian or French seagull, because you can bet your bottom dollar Mr Jackson would like Anglo-German seagulls. But he'd ignore the most famous German seagull, despite consumers queueing around the world for one, because he's funny like that. But he'd produce a few obscure German seagulls, and multiple British seagulls, even though their all the same dull colour.

Just get the Hase kit and, if you don't like a particular aspect, you can guarantee that there will be some decent AM to replace it.

Quality of the photos is terrible? Did he use a camera or a potato?

My KH kits looked amazing as well. Then I built them. They were no longer amazing.

Very impressive indeed. Just beautifully done. Anybody who doubts that WNW are at least the same level as Tamiya, needs to look at builds like this. In fact, this very one. The ailerons look a bit cleaner than the wing - any particular reason for that? The only way it could be improved, and I'm being really, anally picky here - is perhaps a tad more weathering? Not a criticism, just me wildly trying to find something constructive to add.

Congratulations.

Sounds good! Maybe a Gotha & a Viper powered SE.5a?

May I please just add an addendum to my post? It wasn't meant to be critical of MM, although upon re-reading, it may well read like that. In that case, my apologies to MM The actual product looks superb and, judging from where 3D technology costs are at the moment, $55 is entirely reasonable in relation to costs of production. My frustrations are more to to with the fact that the Beau has been utterly ignored in 1/32 for almost 50 years, so that we have to spend a small fortune on AM and scratch build various bits, in order to get a decent, accurate Beaufighter. That's certainly not MM's fault, but it does mean that the market is fairly small dues to the costs & effort involved in turning the kit into a reasonable model. The Beau would make a brilliant 1/32 kit. It looks like a very cool warplane, it carries plenty of ordnance, it's popular - especially with us Brits - plenty of schemes available, especially for a Brit aeroplane, and historically it's a significant WWII warplane. I'd snap up a new tool Beaufighter without a seconds thought. In the meantime, thanks to MM for allowing die-hard Beaufighter fans to improve the ancient Revell kit.

$55 for a cockpit that contains no throttles or levers, requires additional investment in airscale decals for the dials, has no radar operator parts whatsoever, will be visible only through a fairly small, thick and distorted cockpit canopy, has zero seatbelts represented, requires significant surgery to fit and then becomes part of a $25 kit that is approaching 50 years old, with raised panel lines that requires a great deal of work to bring up to date, dodgy exhausts, poor wheel wells, oversimplified engines, incorrect props and questionable canopies?! Not sure it represents a sound investment, not unless you are absolutely screaming for a 1/32 Beaufighter. And once you buy everything, somebody like HK, Tamiya, etc, will launch a new tooled kit, because that's sods law.

What will you do with your 14 Gotha kits?

£53.99 with Hannants on pre-order.

I love WNW kits. Love 'em. Have well over 50. But these? Zero interest. Only WNW would get away with kitting what are essentially experimental types.