I am planning 2 Silver post war Snipes already!
I really want a Hanriot HD1. Want to do some Italian colourful schemes.
A Dolphin looks possible.
Don't worry about silver-period markings for the Snipe - if WNW don't do them I have thirteen profiles drawn so far..... We might also need new ailerons and fin/rudder, but I'd expect that they'll be in the kit as they were used (I think) during the war. I also have some photos of the new one at the RAF museum. On that note the RAF Museum Hanriot has apparently gone off to EnZed as part of the RE8/Snipe/Albatros D.V deal with The Vintage Aviator, so I'm VERY hopeful that we'll see that one from WNW soon and the 48th and 72nd Hanriot decals are due to be printed soon, so the donkey-work on them is done.
After the arrival of the Hannover, I had a good dig to see what other machines used the Argus AsIII and one which came up was the Roland D.IIa - a beauty and no mistake and it would fit into the missing list in both Merc D.III-powered D.II form and the IIa as two different boxings of a broadly similar set of mouldings. The D.IIa was slightly longer in the nose, had a different pattern of louvre panels around the nose and also had a minor change to the positioning of undercarriage legs to accommodate the cg change, so on the face of it, fairly simple to produce two kits.
Others I think we could/should see in the near future are the DFW C.V - produced in greater numbers than any other German WWI warplane and the Albatros C.III from the German side and a Sopwith Strutter in a number of different boxings a Bristol Scout and maybe an Armstrong Whitworth FK8? The BE2 series should also be along soon - so many different versions there!
All good fun to speculate upon. Meanwhile, it's about time I spent some time at the modelling desk!
