There is no doubt that Peter Jackson is allowed to release every kit he likes.
But what makes this release so ignorant and arrogant is, that he harms another company severely that hasn't got his millions in the back.
Don't tell me that this is not the case because they are planning it for 8 years (if that should be true...)! Everybody, even me who doesn't care at all for a Lancaster, knew that HK had one in the making for quite a long time. It would have been simply a question of honor to warn them ("Hey stop that, we are also doing a Lancaster, let's not get into competition here!"). And don't tell me now "of course they did, it's HK who went on, ignoring that warning", as this is the most unplausible variant of this story, let's be honest! So all this friendly "we don't want to harm other companies"-talking semms not to be worth a penny and is obviously just a clever advertising strategy. Who doesn't prefer buying from the good guys? It seems as they aren't these good guys there in New Zealand, just ordinary business guys who stop at nothing...
Will I buy a Halberstadt? Yes, it's one of my favorite.
Will I buy a Lancester? Nope.
Will I celebrate WNW as this great modelling wonder company some people keep it? Nope. I celebrate Copper State Models, there are the really cool guys
Will WNW care? Nope.
Andreas