I don't see the excitement. Restricting people to buy more expensive products to get a wanted type that is out of normal production (cf. LVG VI with Camel) is cynical. Why not just re-release the Albatros DV series (and Fokker DVII) a single kits?
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GrahamB
Marketing strategy Graham - simple as. WNW want you to be tempted by a new offering. Triple kitting is easy when all the bits have already been cast. They don't care how many kits are actually built - unassembled is what they sell. How many kits by WNW or any manufacturer are sitting in cupboards opened but otherwise untouched? In my previous pursuit of wooden model ship models the estimate was about 5% of sold kits made it to completion!
So if they reissued a single plane it'd just be a repeat - an Airfix - but all three - wow - a new audience and very little skin off WNW's nose. Ditto the LVG - brilliant to re-package it with a Camel. Not the same LVG kit but an entirely new one because it comes with a Camel! Buy now! Get a Camel for free (certainly it would be free if you bought after the Sold Out sign for the LVG went up). So you buy the twin or triple kit to get the kit you missed out on but it costs a lot more - never mind. Then you might build one of them if that. That is marketing.
WNW loves people who collect kits. If they waited for each kit that was bought to be built they'd be out of business. They love cupboards fill of unbuilt kits. They love tempting us to buy in the vain hope we will build them all. No fault them - they are in a business and they make a great product which they seduce the faithful with their kits so that we fill our cupboards with boxes of never to be assembled plastic bits.
All power to them. This is not a criticism - they are very clever at all levels.
I'm guilty of a minor cupboard fill of kits but won't buy any more. That is until the Taube shows up...
...and this little trilogy looks pretty cool too...as does the new HPH offering shortly to be released...and how tempted I am by the CSM kits...
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