Fokker DR.I in 1/32 announced from Meng

[DocRob]

Got my Roden DR.1 yesterday and while browsing through the sprues have to say, it looks pretty decent. With some add-on's, like an Aviattic cowling and some spare Wingnut seatbelts, accompanied with Montex Masks for Rudolf Klimkes bird, my urge for a DR.1 ends here.

Cheers Rob

[BlrwestSiR]

Well, the kit is now up for preorder. Lucky Model has it for $38.99:

https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?search=Y&q_brand=MENG&q_category=&q_scale=32&q_word=&q_show_instock_only=N

Much less than I would have expected. 

Me? I'm getting a 1/32 Viggen.

Now if they do a Duelist release with Snoopy on a dog house in flying garb I might change my mind. 

Carl

[Jeff]

I see other places, this discussion went on for 15 pages ! Holy Doodle.....no wonder we, in this world have a tough time agreeing, good thing we don't have to really decide something important !   I might have to jump off my wallet too... this maybe kind of cool, I do hope maybe a Sopwith triplane too..

[krow113]

Astounding hypocrisy being displayed in the last few weeks over a model kit.

If hypocrisy was money , model forums would be banks.

[Wumm]

8 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Well, the kit is now up for preorder. Lucky Model has it for $38.99

At the current exchange rate; just shy of $57 Au, so with shipping and Tax I estimate around the $100 mark once it arrives Down Under (given that the Meng Komet kit is $85 at a local store here.)

Still quite a bargain, considering the WNW Albatros I last spied here was going for $149.

This is probably more of a factor in the WNW demise than people realise... A Company based at the bottom of the Globe, relying on supply from half a World away, structuring their business model around a foreign currency, and then shipping to a Customer base largely back on the other side of the Globe. 

S

[krow113]

Still cant understand they ran it at a loss?

Heres another clue;

70 plus models in the catalogue , at 250-300K a mold set and you think plastic model kits are going to repay all of that outlay?

[nmayhew]

that LuckyModel price is stunningly cheap!

 

best I have seen elsewhere is AK Interactive at 54 Euros-ish

[GazzaS]

2 hours ago, nmayhew said:

that LuckyModel price is stunningly cheap!

 

best I have seen elsewhere is AK Interactive at 54 Euros-ish

I pre-ordered one today. 

[Vandy1 VX-4]

Here is some more info and kit shots

https://www.themodellingnews.com/2020/07/preview-test-build-shots-of-mengs-32nd.html#more

 

[TJTX]

Yup, the sprue shots say it all.  That's the Wingnut molds.  

[krow113]

That didnt take long now did it...

GOOD!!

Start blasting out the back catalogue and bring these kits back into everyones price range.

$1500 Gotha G IV's ????!!!! Help me Jebus!

[GazzaS]

35 minutes ago, krow113 said:

That didnt take long now did it...

GOOD!!

Start blasting out the back catalogue and bring these kits back into everyones price range.

$1500 Gotha G IV's ????!!!! Help me Jebus!

I've heard that Meng doesn't have the other kit's molds.  But I wish they'd all come back.