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Offline Dave W

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Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« on: June 18, 2020, 07:55:34 PM »
Chinese model company Meng has announced a new 1/32 scale Fokker Dr.1 kit, which may be the unreleased Wingnut Wings tooling.

Meng announced it's DR.1 on its Facebook page which is intriguing enough but our sources say Meng was the company which did the DR.1 tooling for the never completed Wingnuts kit. If so, mystery surrounds whether there has been a deal done to issue the WnW kit under the Meng brand.

As usual not a word from Wingnuts or whoever is running the place now.

In the meantime, Meng has posted images of its new kit.





Also an apology for removing the earlier thread regarding this release. Links here to Large Scale Planes are discouraged due to a very unpleasant bout of trolling and flaming I received from members and some moderators when a well meaning forum member posted my recent article there on the closure of Wingnuts.

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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2020, 08:05:50 PM »
Maybe MENG was the company that also did the tooling for the mighty O/400-100? Lets pray that the bomber will be released by MENG.
In any case it is great news that a respective model company expands its range on WW1 aircrafts.
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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2020, 08:08:35 PM »
I welcome the kit very much, I'm not sure I welcome the stuff about WNW in this announcement. I fear that is going to overshadow this excellent news

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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2020, 08:11:33 PM »
Maybe MENG was the company that also did the tooling for the mighty O/400-100? Lets pray that the bomber will be released by MENG.
In case it is great news that a respective model company expands their range on WW1 aircrafts.

Meng wasn't the tooling company that was doing the HP's...
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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2020, 08:23:24 PM »
I hope it's legit. If not, no DR.1 for me.

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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2020, 08:27:37 PM »
I hope it's legit. If not, no DR.1 for me.

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Unfortunately „the masses“ won't bother...

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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2020, 08:44:00 PM »
I hope it's legit. If not, no DR.1 for me.

vB

Unfortunately „the masses“ won't bother...

Then that would narrow me down to the few who have a conscience. I can live with that. Anything else is pure hypocrisy.

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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2020, 08:55:56 PM »
Meng have a history of excellent ww1 tanks. So i’ll buy at least two of these. As to legit, presumably we mean not copied or stolen molds. Well wnw fired most of there staff with no warning and shut down... so who in this case is it hurting...


Additionally if the rumour mill is correct, Meng were used for the mold tooling and in the future presumably production, so its a bit of a grey area, did they buy the mold, not get fully paid etc... 


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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2020, 09:02:11 PM »
Very interesting news.

If Meng was the tooling company, then a deal must have been struck. To simply rip this off so flagrantly from a partner? Surely not.

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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2020, 09:23:45 PM »
OH BOY OH BOY !

I will be adding this one to the stash when it is released . I have built a few of the WW2 aircraft kits and they are very highly detailed . With a few more in the stash for future builds . So not only do we have Roden , CSM , SH we now have Meng jumping in ...happy days indeed !


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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2020, 09:52:37 PM »
Yep! I'll be adding one of these to the stash.

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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2020, 09:59:42 PM »
Folks...let's go easy on the speculation regarding the Meng Fokker DR.1. Meng is a very respected model company with high quality products.

It is quite possible the Wingnut owners may have done a formal deal with Meng to take over the uncompleted Wingnuts DR.1 projects. We simply do not know so let's not assume otherwise.

Also it's worth noting Meng are saying their kit will include three options in the box - the Fokker F.1, Dr.1 Early and Dr.1 Late.

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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2020, 10:26:55 PM »
Folks...let's go easy on the speculation regarding the Meng Fokker DR.1. Meng is a very respected model company with high quality products.

It is quite possible the Wingnut owners may have done a formal deal with Meng to take over the uncompleted Wingnuts DR.1 projects. We simply do not know so let's not assume otherwise.

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Fair comment, Dave  :)

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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2020, 10:39:40 PM »
Fantastic, A whole new chapter in WWI AC modeling could be opening!

Well done Meng.

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Re: Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2020, 10:58:29 PM »
Also it's worth noting Meng are saying their kit will include three options in the box - the Fokker F.1, Dr.1 Early and Dr.1 Late.

Dave Wilson

Now that's a welcome change from the WNW policy IMHO.
Buy one kit, but build any variant: perfect for AM decal providers.

I remember asking Dave if he could send me the ailerons to alter an Albatros D.V to a D.Va but they weren't available separately at that time and I'd have to buy a whole new kit. (The Jasta 5 trilogy eventually gave both choices of course, as did the last-gasp brown boxings.)

P.S. Possibly a spare cowling to upgrade that old Roden Dr.I in the stash?
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