Reading some of these replies, you can tell we've been spoiled by WNW up until now.
I fear the days of relatively niche WWI machines appearing in 1\32 have gone. Roden will only kit an aeroplane when they forecast good profits. Hence, they've stuck to well known, single seat, single engined fighters, looking to release multiple boxing's of the same basic mould to sweat the costs as much as possible.
And they've never turned their nose up at sales by allowing kits to become sold out, something I'll never really understand WNW allowing as a matter of course - all that lost revenue?!
Roden could adopt the Eduard model - that WNW were trying to get towards - of releasing an "overtrees" kit of just the sprues, a standard kit of sprues, decals, & instructions, and a premium offering some of the now quite widely available AM in the box - machine guns, seatbelts, photo etch, turnbuckles, figures, extra decals, resin wheels & seats, Yahu panels, ez-line, wire wheels, painted props, etc. They did something like that with Encore's Albie, SE.5a & Dr.I, which had the basic Roden sprues with PE & resin extras.
This really could be an opportunity for Roden, WNW have abandoned the market in its entirety. Roden have dozens of 1\32 kit moulds to work with to get started, whilst perhaps looking to develop new kits - two seaters, seaplanes, post-war versions, etc.
It could get very exciting.
