Meng announces a 1/32 scale Fokker DR.1

[Jeff K]

Also a 1/10 bust of MvR will be included in a limited edition release of 1000 kits, as per the latest MENG post on their FB page. More surprises!

Not sure if I want a bust of MvR. But I plan building 3 kits. The artwork makes me sigh but if the kit inside is good and not much more than Roden’s I’ll definitely bite. But I guess they still have to materialise:D

i'm definitely gonna give the statue a miss. the box art is awful, and riddled with errors, but it looks like the price will be rather nice. i'm not too concerned about decals either, i expect the Pheon and Aviattic to go nuts on Dreideckers. i've also got both Cutting Edge Richthofen Bros sheets in stash.

main thing though i'm hoping this is a sign that more WNW molds will show up. i'm pretty much sorted for the old stuff (except for D.VIIs and Junkers D.1) but i have a faint hope a Paralyzer may materialize somewhere.

[bobs_buckles]

Here is one I prepared earlier.
I took a meme, reworked it and applied my own text.
You're welcome 

I'll be BACK!

[Juan]

 

"Wolfie" would agree.......

Should have been PC 12.... obviously

[Europapete]

 lolololololol  nice one VonB.

[Eric Armstrong]

Here is one I prepared earlier.
I took a meme, reworked it and applied my own text.
You're welcome 

I'll be BACK!

Anyone using PC 10 on a Dr.1 should be dead.  Everybody knows it was PC12 on the Dr.1...

[Dekenba1]

After all this, I've decided against getting the new Meng kit. I've 4 Roden Triplane kits, plus Encore's kit, plus loads of AM.

I just cannot justify buying it. It might be better than the Roden kit - will be better - but I'm trying not to fall for the "chase for perfection" thing. The Roden kits are GOOD ENOUGH, for me at least, especially as they're less than half the price & I already have 4!

In that vein, I'm flogging 2 SE.5a's, as I have 5 of the Roden kits. And my Gotha G.IV is going as well. And an RE.8, a Felixstowe, LVG, W.29 & W.12. Pfalz D.IIIa, Pfalz D.XII, Taube, Junkers J.1 & D.I.

My illness has changed my plans, and suddenly modelling has become far less important to me. Plus, my financial plans have changed & the money is more important.

[Monty]

I have ordered 3 today.. can we sort out whether I should use PC10 or PC12 please??

[RLWP]

I have ordered 3 today.. can we sort out whether I should use PC10 or PC12 please??

Looks sort of greenish to me:



Richard

[Monty]

Nice one Richard! But the crosses on this one look more like crosses..

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ATB, Marc 

[RLWP]

I do wonder why Fokker didn't just make a load of Tripehounds

Richard

[Vickers]

Here is one I prepared earlier.
I took a meme, reworked it and applied my own text.
You're welcome 

I'll be BACK!

Hilarious! Much better than the one I did in response to the Eduard lozenge decals way, way back in the day:

[Pup7309]

Hilarious!
So we can assume Meng will crank out these in infinite numbers?

[RAGIII]

Hilarious!
So we can assume Meng will crank out these in infinite numbers?

The Richthofen version with the Bust is a limited edition: 1000, the other Who knows but I am fairly certain sales will warrant continued production.
RAGIII

[macsporran]

The irony here is just unbelievable.

WNW spend a decade creating a gold standard brand and establishing a new golden age for WWI modelling, but keep refusing to listen to customers clamouring for them to release the single most widely popular subject of the period. Instead we get huge models that most of us can't afford or display or dull subjects like the DFW that are pretty low on our wish lists.
Finally, as financial reality closes in, they acquiesce and start to tool up for this plane (which would sell in shedloads), spending another hefty sum on moulds etc. Then the bean counters call time on the company.

Out of left field, Meng (who had the moulds) announce that they will release the model, benefiting from Wingnuts hard-worked-for reputation for quality, R&D work, investment, etc.
Given the response of the modelling world so far, it's quite possible Meng may sell more (WNW) Fokkers than everything else ever created by PJ's team added together! Even modellers with no interest in The Great War, will likely give The Red Baron's model a try, especially in legendary WNW quality at Meng's price. (....and no rigging!)

WNW do all the hard work but exit stage left. Meng invest very little but will probably make a fortune.
(Maybe PJ's empire will get a commission back on each one sold, but the profit should have been going back into the now thanklessly dispersed Wingnuts team IMHO.)

[Borsos]

Nah, the DFW was very high on my wishlist. Much much higher than every dull red Dr. 1.
And given the importance of both planes... some four thousands of DFWs doing the crucial work of artillery spotting and reconnaissance  (being a joy to fly and a formidable opponent even when attacked by Allied scouts) versus some 320 tripes that were copies, arriving too late on the frontline (time of the rotary was gone, even Richthofen had waited for the Fokker D. VII...) .... Nah....
Andreas