mattcour

How would aftermarket guys survive otherwise ??

How do they come off, if you ever tried yet? Easy?

Let me ask the other way: If your figures are correct (that is 10-15k for a 32nd scale) and no company as far as I know would bother less than a 100% profit margin, that means ICM would recoup the tooling investment just with a thousand kits? I don't think so. If you would have the investment return that quick, nobody would bother short-run moulds for 2-3k copies. And on the other hand nobody would undergo investment costs of a steel mould for just 5k copies. In general, I can say that for any plastic injection product to be viable and profitable, you would wish to produce at least a few ten thousands, which is what I think ICM must be doing as well. Wingnuts would not be closing down if you would get your tooling money back with just a few thousand kits.

Unfortunately you are more than very very wrong but I sincerely wish you were right and I was wrong. It is true tooling costs are remarkably down thanks to 5 axis CAMs and tools mostly being produced in China. It is also true we -happily- have a proliferation of new kits and brands, but not only because moulds are cheaper than before but also the market is quite high and modeling is popular as never before, with small companies having the ability to produce short run kits. If your figure regarding the 32nd scale to be 10-15 thousand relates to short run moulds, that is ok or about ok, but if we are talking about Tamiya level P20 steel moulds polished to highest grade that are designed to produce hundreds of thousands of copies, well, the costs are just like I said and not a penny less. Sorry to let you down, but for 10-15k you would not even afford outer shells of a new 32nd scale Tamiya tool and let me tell you this is not a guess but information based on some industrial experience.

Modern tooling sets for a detailed large scale model kit costs over about 200k USD, at least. I'm pretty sure it is even double for a project like the Lancaster. A manufacturer will have to sell about 25-30k copies just to have such an investment return. I doubt Wingnut product line would ever achieve these numbers in a short time so the business might be already bleeding out and given the public reaction against the group they are a part of, maybe someone has considered it a best time for a stop-loss.

On top of my buying list. Price seems reasonable given the dimensions. Am I becoming a resin guy ??

Impressive. I'm really looking forward to see it in flesh.

I wonder how the 3D printed tiny parts arrived, it is a major concern for me. Too many delicate parts on the Facebook photos, definitely would not do good to have some of them broken. And how is the surface detail, casting quality etc? Would you hint? Got really excited when I saw your box as mine is also on its way.

"...to arrive to the release of our new fantastic kit." Well, that's a very humble statement indeed... We've seen so many "fantastic" kits... Wait until you bring it out and see how it's brutally killed by rivet counters

Man, you really been an early bird

I have the order number 10168 and it has been shipped on Thursday. I do not have any new email updates probably because my order has been shipped, but received an email before the start of shipments saying orders up to 10200 would be shipped in 16 March week, with 10200 and up would be in 23 March week. Hey Speedy, what is your order number?

Great model of a great aircraft with great photos! Thank you for sharing.

Wonderful Viggen model. One of the most beautiful cold war jets and imho its splinter scheme is by far the best scheme on any aircraft, both by colours and geometry. I wish there was ever a 1:32 scale! By the way, yours is an AJ37 and these have three actuators under the wings, while the interceptor JA37 has four.

Very nice model of a very rare subject

Masterfully crafted Horten. Simply gorgeous!!

Nice build.

Very good job, nice model indeed.

Brilliant.

The model is great and even great with that hangar. Good job...

Marvelous ! Never built a chopper myself, but I think I will after having seen this one. Lovely tidy model.

Skyrocket is about 2.5 longer than the Skystreak, excluding the expensive pitot which is also about another 2 meters and that makes the Skyrocket about at least 4 meters longer than the Skystreak. So it may have a different price tag if size is a definitive factor in pricing,

Ok now. All pictures show this great looking Foxbat.

Good. all-rocket version is fine. But the jet & rocket version is a better looking airplane imho, if only looks would matter, with the air intakes and possibly with all the RATO bottles. But you wouldn't see these on the Crossfield aircraft...

Superb! I liked it very much not only because it's a very good looking Viper but also because I like D-Day stripes on aircraft. Matt

These are really mean jets, especially the F.1. Such a shame that no company ever produced one in 1/32nd scale. Nice models. Matt