On reflection it shouldn't really come as a surprise as the costs of setting up the Company, establishing commercial contracts with the factories etc would have been huge, then add on the R&D and tooling for each kit as they came along. Not Corona related evidently. One such change might be that the engineering and project processes are gonna be disrupted under another name. Sign in to follow ... one way of doing so would be to offer boxes of 12 of a kit, in stripped-down overtrees style, at a good discount. Likewise Duncan, I have a secret coffee can in the garden for my Handley Page 0/100 and 0/400 and 2 DR 1's However, I have always found Dave Wilson a pretty steady source of information in the past, ergo my trust in his posting. Sadly, Bernard Hill played Yosser Hughes in "The Boys from the Black Stuff" - a series by Alan … If it is true, there is a possibility that the virus is just the last straw. And that kit you’ve just opened would have been worth more today lol With the presumed closing of the Wingnuts business, would anyone know if the website will remain for a period or will it be taken down at some near future date? Or a virus. Wilson, who stated on Hyperscale that he is a professional journalist, further stated that his original message was based on multiple sources with information who did not want to be named.
Until we hear news good or bad from richard or the crew at WNW I will take it that they are struggling with Covid 19 like the rest of the world and I do not publish random rumours.In this case there is sufficient information from a number of sources to confirm the Wingnuts news is sadly true, as is the news that all production of aircraft at The Vintage Aviator has also been terminated.As Forum owner I formally approached Richard Alexander at Wingnuts yesterday seeking official comment. I have worked hard to maintain the standards that WnW wanted and I will be very sad to see them go if that is what happens. The rush of sales of my remaining WnW stock continues, 3 went out the door this morning and another has been bought in the time I've been typing this. It's put the "stick and string "modellers into a bit of a flap then. because these kits scream build me and i love them. In the short term I will be bulding one and keeping one from the stash why? The other problem will be those that want to build their kits will soon be priced out of the market by speculators. At one time I had six or seven of these kits in the stash, but when prices got crazy a few years back, and I realized my stash was getting stupidly large, I off-loaded them. But has anybody bought one of those from WNW? However sometimes these things get their own head of steam people see things like that and react to protect their money, so therefore they cancel orders and put company's that are already in a precarious position over the edge. Just saw this on the Facing Book, went to the forum, sad indeed.
I have been sitting on funds waiting for the release of the Fokker Triplanes to make sure I could afford to buy enough at launch date to make the loss to exchange rate and import costs etc. Twelve is too much, even for me. From what I read on the forum, the Lancaster, Fokker DR1, Hansa D1 and Handley Pages are going to be axed, and that's a shame i'm in agreement, with all of the above, the panic buying could work for people or it might not, If some other company were to buy the assets of the company they then have state of the art WW1 kits ready to go without any of the R&D costs etc. Looking at it from a modeler’s perspective, this is The first alleged victim of this is seems to be emerging and the rumor is that it is However, this might mean that their upcoming Lancasters are never to be happening, as well as other probable changes. ""Reactions here and on social media pages to the shock Wingnuts news seems to dismiss the closure as just an unsubstantiated rumour based on hearsay. Details are yet to be publicly disclosed but it’s understood staff have been informed they no longer have jobs at Wingnuts, and all assets- the moulds etc- are to be disposed of. As per a response I just made on Facebook an hour or two ago on same subject - I have discovered that I've gone bust on the internet at least twice since I started my little business. Wingnuts, which was begun by … I feel badly for the very dedicated folks that worked there. I have only one in the stash now, the RFC Pup "Chin-Chow" boxing simply because Yes I know there are much more important and horrible things happening around us today, but it would be very sad indeed if this was to happen. I know the Peter Jackson has been getting some flak of late, but you just don't know whats real and whats made up nowadays. As someone on the forum said, Sir PJ had a bit of bad press last year regarding corporate tax subsidies for his company, etc.
If you have an account, "Richard Alexander, General Manager of Wingnut Wings has responded to the Forum request for an official comment on what is happening with the business right now and the reports it is being closed down permanently.He says: " Nothing is finalized yet but it looks pretty grim. As an official Wingnut Wings Retailer the last email I received from WnW was on the 11th March announcing another limited release of more Albatros and Pfalz kits but without decals. I think we need to wait and see what the future holds In the short term I will be bulding one and keeping one from the stash why? (if i had the money I would be in for the tooling myself) i could then put these kits back on sale and the money that people are spending now as an "investment" would then be gone. I suggest you check the … It is fair to say that panic buying has set in. However often the writer, in protecting his sources, cannot disclose who said what to him. From what I read on the forum, the Lancaster, Fokker DR1, Hansa D1 and Handley Pages are going to be axed, and that's a shame The real problems have been there a while. I know the Peter Jackson has been getting some flak of late, but you just don't know whats real and whats made up nowadays.