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Correct, The SE.5a has been sold out for over 2 years.
http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/product?productid=3Eric
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The LVG C.VI was sold out - it came back as a reboxing in a duellists kit.
The RE.8 'Harry Tate' was sold out - it came back as a reboxing in a duellists kit.
The W-29 was sold out - it came back as a reboxing in a duellists kit.
The DH.2 was sold out - it came back as a reboxing in a duellists kit. Then it came back in a character reboxing.
The Albatros kits were sold out - they came back as a 3-kit reboxing.Then they came back as a character "Jasta 5" reboxing.
When the Albatros Jasta 5 was sold out, Albatros came back as NINE special editions.
The Hannover Cl.II sold out - it came back as an "early" reboxing.
The Sopwith Triplane sold out. It came back as a character reboxing.
The Pfalz D.IIIa sold it - it came back as TWO special editions.
Both Snipe kits sold out - it came back as a character reboxing.
The Fokker EII-EIII sold out - it came back as both a duellist kit and a character kit.
The Fokker D.VII F was sold out - it came back as a character reboxing.
WNW releases kits after they become "sold out" - it's a cheap way of raising cash.
The idea that the SE.5a would not, as some point, be reboxed is ignoring the evidence.
Of course, I assume that the moulds will find their way back onto the market at some point, WNW or sans WNW.
Actually this might have been pretty smart marketing or perhaps one of many possible set pieces: the initial run was a set # with an option for X number of re-runs at xx $ each thus the "re-boxes". Or if you wish to engage in the..." evil capitalist devious plan" run Y # of kits But sell only Y minus A as a bench mark to declare a "sold out " status to keep Y minus A to be sold later at a higher price--OOPS higher prices never happened. Or, how bout some combination of the previous 2. Or 3, we really do not have enough information to know what really happened, or what is GOING to happen.
Remember that when the kits were 1st released, it was a bolt of lightning, not a single rumor of them was floating around anywhere, which in this hobby is unheard of; my calculation is that it was underway for at least 7 years before they appeared. Ray Rimell is one of a very few "outsiders" who had some involvement/knowledge/input whatever in WNW ( he has never said exactly what, much to his credit). On his fb website his only comments have been..." wait and see"...
Was looking forward to that Dr-I even the Lanc. frontend, and Sure, I'd like a Dh-4, Halb D-II/III, Roland D II, Hanriot... ad infinitum, but if we never get more I'm happy to have some and seen the greatest kits of subjects that in our wildest dreams would never exist !
