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WINGNUT WINGS LANCASTER!!!!!!!!!


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I know I'll be recommending my investment partners to place 1000 each of HKM and WNW Lancaster kits in airtight storage somewhere eternally safe like Svalbard, where the Global Seed Vault is.

 

Hang on, just getting a tickertape message here, something about permafrost melting ....

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On 10/25/2018 at 6:09 PM, Chek said:

Hang on, just getting a tickertape message here, something about permafrost melting ....

 

That has actually been occurring since 2010 at least, according to Russian studies in Siberia. Not a lot at this point, but enough to be measurable.

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I zipped an email off to Richard, and he was kind enough to reply.

 

He said that the research work for the movie did not help WNW with their kit - they did their own, seperate research, as the movie research was completely different to what WNW required.

 

He also said the kits would be sold on the same basis as all WNW kits - limited run.

 

Finally, the 4 books on the designers desk, hinting at French, Italian or Austro-Hungarian subjects - "don't necessarily read too much into books seen in the background, as they have all sorts of reference books lying around."

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Does it really matter whether or not WNW used research that was done for the Dambusters movie or did their own independent research?      Is there a concern that the accuracy would be somehow different?  WNW has a pretty good reputation for researching a subject to make an accurate kit, so this seems like a moot point.  Same with how long the kit has been in development.  8 years, 5 years, 2 years, what does it matter?  They’ve shown some CAD and test shot images, and most of us are familiar with the quality of WNW’s kits, so I think we’ve gotten a fair impression of what the kit might be like.  Can’t believe that we’re up to 40 pages on a kit that was only announced a couple of weeks ago and won’t be out for a year.  Keep looking at this thread to see if there is any NEW information of the kits, but not finding any.

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50 minutes ago, Dave Williams said:

Does it really matter whether or not WNW used research that was done for the Dambusters movie or did their own independent research?      Is there a concern that the accuracy would be somehow different?  WNW has a pretty good reputation for researching a subject to make an accurate kit, so this seems like a moot point.  Same with how long the kit has been in development.  8 years, 5 years, 2 years, what does it matter?  They’ve shown some CAD and test shot images, and most of us are familiar with the quality of WNW’s kits, so I think we’ve gotten a fair impression of what the kit might be like.  Can’t believe that we’re up to 40 pages on a kit that was only announced a couple of weeks ago and won’t be out for a year.  Keep looking at this thread to see if there is any NEW information of the kits, but not finding any.

 

I think the point of making this distinction is to decouple the kit from the movie. One of the underlying assumptions about this kit from the get-go has been that it's a tie-in with the movie, and that its conception, design, and even release timing have all been driven by that. I think we can now state that it's an independent Wingnut Wings production in all departments, driven only by PJ's love of the Lancaster. The movie may never even see the light of day, but the kit most definitely will.

 

Kev

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is it really going to be a year? WNW lead times from announcement to release are usually very short, their Felixstowe(largest kit to date) was announced when about 2 months from shops IIRC

 

from what ive seen of the kit, it looks closer to release (and far better IMHO) than the LOOOOOONNNNGGGGG awaited HK version......

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2 hours ago, Markjames1968 said:

is it really going to be a year? WNW lead times from announcement to release are usually very short, their Felixstowe(largest kit to date) was announced when about 2 months from shops IIRC

 

from what ive seen of the kit, it looks closer to release (and far better IMHO) than the LOOOOOONNNNGGGGG awaited HK version......

 

WNW’s own webpage says “late 2019” for release.  

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17 hours ago, CATCplSlade said:

The notion that the kit was based on the movie research got squashed quite a while ago, I thought. Like within the first week the kit was announced. Just shows you how misinformation continues to spread when people don't read through a thread from the beginning.

 

16 hours ago, Dave Williams said:

Does it really matter whether or not WNW used research that was done for the Dambusters movie or did their own independent research?      Is there a concern that the accuracy would be somehow different?  WNW has a pretty good reputation for researching a subject to make an accurate kit, so this seems like a moot point.  Same with how long the kit has been in development.  8 years, 5 years, 2 years, what does it matter?  They’ve shown some CAD and test shot images, and most of us are familiar with the quality of WNW’s kits, so I think we’ve gotten a fair impression of what the kit might be like.  Can’t believe that we’re up to 40 pages on a kit that was only announced a couple of weeks ago and won’t be out for a year.  Keep looking at this thread to see if there is any NEW information of the kits, but not finding any.

I apologise, guys.

 

I won't darken your doors in the future.

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On 10/24/2018 at 5:23 PM, MikeMaben said:

 

Yep , and some dreams turn into nightmares !!  :o

 

 

Definitely 2 seperate hobbies. Once you get to some number of kits in your collection,

it just becomes a matter of time. I 'might' be able to finish my stash if I sat down with

a bottle of glue and a bowl of warm water (painting would take too long) and worked

on them every day. I'd have to hang them from the ceiling of the whole house 'and' the

garage.  (hey , maybe if I skip the decals :P)

 

 

 

There is a large group of modelers who collect unbuilt kits. I know as I was a member for years as the info from them kept me up with whats new. Also I could trade buy and sell to the other guys.The informal group folded when the guy who ran it retired.  He stopped his publication "Kit Collectors Clearinghouse. But the guys still collect kits.

Then consider how close the two informal groups were. Many kit collectors started as model builders and then the number of available kits over ran their time and ability to build them all.

 

Some early kits I was even  forced to sell as they were brigning in $500 each. 

 

My humble PROPOSED  SOLUTON. Displaly the unbult kits. Just cover the walls in one room with the unbuilt kits. Like wallpaper. Some kits can be hung from the ceiling.

They could increase the insultion in that room. Think of the money you will save by lowering the heating bill, by not buying glue, paints, airbrushes, etc. 

You can use the saved money to please your wife by taking her out to dinner, movies, etc. Then she will not object when you buy more kits. 

:punk:

 

 

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