oyoy5 Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 I hope their sales are going well and the release a D.VII in 1/24 adameliclem and coogrfan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonH Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 (edited) deleted Edited May 16, 2022 by DonH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 I heard WNW developed a Camel and DVa in 1/24 but never released Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyoy5 Posted May 15, 2022 Author Share Posted May 15, 2022 That is what I heard as well from one of WNWs designers before they closed shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adameliclem Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 12 hours ago, DonH said: I suspect this is a similar situation to the Border Models Lancaster. They acquired the tooling for a price and released the kit. This is a long way from the investment required to design and develop a completely new kit (or so I am led to believe).  So, don't hold your breath. The WNW Lanc project was acquired in an incomplete state - incomplete tooling and design -  and required further R&D work by Border to make it ready for release. The 1/24th WNW fighter projects acquired by Meng were in a less-advanced state and required more in-house design work by Meng. The road to finished kits wasn’t smooth or cheap.  If Meng’s kits sell well, they could certainly expand the range on their own. They don’t need other authors to start projects for them. They (like Border) are probably tired of seeing their own specific labors credited to WNW. For that reason alone, they might give new 1/24th WWI subjects a permanent rest. That would be too bad, because Meng’s 1/24th Dr1 is a real beauty.  Cheers, Adam coogrfan and scvrobeson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ringleheim Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 23 hours ago, oyoy5 said: I hope their sales are going well and the release a D.VII in 1/24 I think it remains a long shot but it could happen, you never know. Â I was extremely excited over Hasegawa's 1/16 "skeleton" kit of the Sopwith Camel. Â That came out in 2013. Â At the time, I commented that I hope we see more in a new series of kits, as I love that "skeleton" look particularly for WWI aircraft. Â Here it is 9 years later and we never got a second, and I doubt we'll see another one. Â We probably would have seen it by now. Â Stuff of this type is just too "out there" for manufacturers to take a chance on. Â Instead, we'll get 10 million Tiger tank kits, Spitfires, Yamato battleships, and so on. Â It never changes. Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adameliclem Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 30 minutes ago, ringleheim said:  I was extremely excited over Hasegawa's 1/16 "skeleton" kit of the Sopwith Camel.  That came out in 2013.  At the time, I commented that I hope we see more in a new series of kits, as I love that "skeleton" look particularly for WWI aircraft.  Here it is 9 years later and we never got a second, and I doubt we'll see another one.  We probably would have seen it by now. Well, we did get more skeletal superkits, but not by Hasegawa. Artesania Latina of Spain has produced a Bf-109G and Fokker Dr.1 in 1/16th, as well as a Camel of their own. Cool stuff.  Cheers, Adam Rick Griewski 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 (edited) On 5/16/2022 at 4:08 AM, adameliclem said: The WNW Lanc project was acquired in an incomplete state - incomplete tooling and design -  and required further R&D work by Border to make it ready for release. The 1/24th WNW fighter projects acquired by Meng were in a less-advanced state and required more in-house design work by Meng. The road to finished kits wasn’t smooth or cheap  They (like Border) are probably tired of seeing their own specific labors credited to WNW. For that reason alone  Are you so sure about this? I would like to know where you got your information on what Meng had to do... They only tooled a clone of the 32nd engine sprue. They didn't correct or make any fine tuning that the kit required.   Edited May 16, 2022 by Dave J Paul in Napier 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Oh boy… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adameliclem Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 6 minutes ago, Rick Griewski said: Oh boy… Yeah, put WNW, Border and Meng in a thread and…yeah. C’est la guerre.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Yupp Sean means well but things just evolve. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiZac Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 I for one would be very keen on a 1/24 D.VII, if any kit manufacturers are listening...! adameliclem, scvrobeson and D.B. Andrus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 If you want to know precisely what was or was not done when WnW stopped working on the two Fokker projects, simply get the last Windsock Dr.I special issue. It is co-authored by Richard Alexander who explains in detail all the design changes and the final modifications made or not made by Meng. No assumption, just basic facts that clearly show that very limited fine-tuning was still foreseen (such as lengthening the cooling time before removing the wing sprue from the casting machine, filling a small line in the rudder and two or three similar trivial things). It is also interesting to see that some slight changes further made by Meng are actually useless and/or confusing! LSP_K2, Paul in Napier, KiwiZac and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Not sure the point of this thread: wishful thinking is fine, but Meng wouldn't say and I can't see a conversation beyond that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyoy5 Posted May 16, 2022 Author Share Posted May 16, 2022 Meng answered my email, thank you adameliclem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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