MikeMaben Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 10 hours ago, Fred Jack said: The voices in my head told me that Revell is going to offer to buy WnW’s dies. Revell doesn't own itself. CANicoll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince14 Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 If - if - the moulds are sold, they're more likely to be bought by a Chinese investment firm than any of the model firms we know. Simply put, they'll be too expensive for anyone other than Tamiya or Trumpeter, and I can't see Tamiya being interested. Having said that, we still have no idea what's going on internally other than all the staff have been made redundant and they've shut up shop. Only time will tell. Andreas Beck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Beck Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 5 hours ago, MikeMaben said: Revell doesn't own itself. Although I wished Revell had had a chance to buy the DR.1 or even the Lanc it´s true, Quantum ,the owner of RevG , sees the future of their brand in different subjects than plastic modelling. My (realistic) fear is that the SR 71 will be their last own development for quite a while. be BiggTim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radub Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Well, since we are allowed to spew made-up stuff, here is my excreta. The moulds do not need to be sold and WNW can continue without any staff. WNW can keep the moulds in storage and take orders from various companies for the components. Let us say that Revelamyiamura wants to release the Albatros in their own boxing, they make a call to whoever is in charge of the warehouse, who then will hook the moulds to an injection machine, push the plastic, send the plastic to the purchaser, remove the mould from the machine, return it to storage, count the money with a big grin on the face and then return to playing games on the mobile phone until the phone rings and start again. That is how Esci stuff keeps showing up under different labels. Radu D.B. Andrus, MikeC, Pup7309 and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmthamade Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Radub said: Well, since we are allowed to spew made-up stuff, here is my excreta. The moulds do not need to be sold and WNW can continue without any staff. WNW can keep the moulds in storage and take orders from various companies for the components. Let us say that Revelamyiamura wants to release the Albatros in their own boxing, they make a call to whoever is in charge of the warehouse, who then will hook the moulds to an injection machine, push the plastic, send the plastic to the purchaser, remove the mould from the machine, return it to storage, count the money with a big grin on the face and then return to playing games on the mobile phone until the phone rings and start again. That is how Esci stuff keeps showing up under different labels. Radu BiggTim, Daywalker, MikeC and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Trumpeter will buy the moulds but recut them to change dimensions and shapes so that they are out of whack and do not match the real aircraft or any known plans then have deep rivet dimples added all over every part regardless if they were fabric or wood IRL.... hehe dmthamade, Pup7309, Pfuf and 5 others 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 11 minutes ago, dmthamade said: That's an olde photogram of Rog's stash, it bigger now, much bigger. Out2gtcha, BiggTim, dmthamade and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, dmthamade said: 1 hour ago, Kagemusha said: That's an olde photogram of Rog's stash, it bigger now, much bigger. His stash is being looked over by TOP men. scvrobeson and BiggTim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 The one aircraft that fascinates me in all of this that has been released is the Gotha UWG: It looked like an optimistic call to release something that esoteric and now with the shut down how many of those are ever likely to be bought, let alone built? I love planes wearing clown shoes but I am betting that we rarely if ever see that kit built in the future. Best regards, Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnarg Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 To mis-quote one of my favorite movies.... "Jackson, Jackson, anyone., anyone...." Simone? "My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Sir Peter pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious." or maybe the molds were in a train wreck and it took a while to clean them up and they got corroded and mixed up with each other... or maybe the freighter carrying them sank mid-ocean, or "I ain't sayin' it was aliens, but...." Now we have all the answers, you can go back and build your stash and never run out of interesting kits, since there is always another shiny object. How about that PZL P.11c? or that X-3 resin kit? or... Tnarg Pup7309, dmthamade and RadBaron 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) 16 hours ago, Pup7309 said: So who do you think would be? Revell itself might not be in a position to buy WnWs assets, but Quantum Capital Partners, who own Revell, probably are. It’s anybody’s guess if they are interested. My guess is that the moulds and IP sell for a lot less than most people expect; 60+ years of tooling and IP from: Revell, Monogram, Aurora, Renwall, and others, sold for only $2.5 million in the Hobbico bankruptcy. WnW has a lot fewer assets than Revell. Edited April 21, 2020 by VMA131Marine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Well, Tamiya does re-box and upgrade some Italeri kits, but, no, I don't know of any other's molds they have bought. There is always a first time. I know I was surprised when they re-boxed the Italeri stuff. esarmstrong and LSP_K2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Hobbyboss bought the full Tristar AFV range some years ago when the company disappeared. So, they already purchased dozens of molds belonging to another company... Fred Jack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Mike Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Trumpeter may just keep the molds they posess. Ugly, but possible. I'd like to see ICM or IBG pick them up. I was told that Hasegawa will acquire the molds. esarmstrong and Rick Griewski 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pup7309 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 1 hour ago, LSP_Mike said: Trumpeter may just keep the molds they posess. Ugly, but possible. I'd like to see ICM or IBG pick them up. I was told that Hasegawa will acquire the molds. Hasegawa? Source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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