Spitfire Mk1a - from 'Wingnut Wings'....

[BarryW]

The team behind Wingnut Wings have formed a new company - Kotare Models and their first kit, a 1/32 scale Spitfire Mk 1 to be released next year. If Wingnut kits are a guide this will be a stunner....

At last, what I have been waiting for, a decent new tool Battle of Britain era Spitfire in 1/32 scale.

The Modelling News: Preview: Kotare's first kit release - the 1/32nd scale Spitfire Mk.Ia (Late) is announced...

[Tim Marlow]

Could be an early incumbent in your man cave then Barry?

[Isitme]

Good news to hear of their return.
But I see one other forums members have already gone into orgasms with a wish list of items they would like produced - such a shame they will all soon be criticising the company for not producing the kits they want - 1/32 scale Vulcan - really......
Let's hope this forum can keep things in perspective.

[Dave Ward]

Good news to hear of their return.
But I see one other forums members have already gone into orgasms with a wish list of items they would like produced - such a shame they will all soon be criticising the company for not producing the kits they want - 1/32 scale Vulcan - really......
Let's hope this forum can keep things in perspective.

Yep,
The Facebook pages of the manufacturers are full of moans of ' if only you'd done in it in xx scale, you'd have a winner!' Or 'you'd have been better off making the Mark QQQ' The latest I saw was on the Roden Facebook page - they'd just announced their 1/35 Greyhound Bus - all the comments were, why not 1/32 - the Universal bus scale?......................
Dave

[Guest]

It’s long been my observation that people who have something to complain about, speak up much more frequently and more loudly than people who are fine with the matter. This gives a very skewed perception of how well-received the thing actually is.

[Tim Marlow]

The only real way to determine the popularity of a kit is by counting the boxes going out of the door! This one will initially sell well due to its provenance, and if it’s as good as expected, will continue to sell well over the years because of the subject matter. There will always be a small minority that complain that something is a fraction of a millimetre too far forward or back, but they probably don’t build anything anyway….
It will be interesting to see which way they develop the range though, the Wingnuts range had a lot of unusual and interesting subjects, some of which could not have been commercially successful….if they repeat that business model they will not be as successful as they should be.

[Airborne01]

Good news to hear of their return.
But I see one other forums members have already gone into orgasms with a wish list of items they would like produced - such a shame they will all soon be criticising the company for not producing the kits they want - 1/32 scale Vulcan - really......
Let's hope this forum can keep things in perspective.

Behave! Yes really! Well said Mike. A 1/32 Vulcan will need its own hardened shelter in the Granny Annex! Might as well have a Victor and Valiant in the same scale to ensure Granny's eviction!
Steve (The Incredulous!):confounded:

[BarryW]

The only real way to determine the popularity of a kit is by counting the boxes going out of the door! This one will initially sell well due to its provenance, and if it’s as good as expected, will continue to sell well over the years because of the subject matter. There will always be a small minority that complain that something is a fraction of a millimetre too far forward or back, but they probably don’t build anything anyway….
It will be interesting to see which way they develop the range though, the Wingnuts range had a lot of unusual and interesting subjects, some of which could not have been commercially successful….if they repeat that business model they will not be as successful as they should be.

The very fact that they chose this subject bodes well for them for not making the mistakes WWW made.

This will be the only new tool Mk1 Spit in 1/32 and I would suspect that other ‘short noses’ Spits (early Mk1, MkII and MkV) will follow.

My hope is that they will follow up with a Hurricane of which there no newly tooled kits from mainstream companies.

Some I have seen, on FB, have asked for an Emil but there are two good Emils available in 1/32 (Dragon and Eduard) and I would not be surprised if ZM will follow up their Gustav with an Emil as well.

Some good days ahead for 1/32 I suspect with these, ICM, HKM and ZM producing great kits not to mention. GWH stepping into 1/32 as well.

[Gern]

Behave! Yes really! Well said Mike. A 1/32 Vulcan will need its own hardened shelter in the Granny Annex! Might as well have a Victor and Valiant in the same scale to ensure Granny's eviction!
Steve (The Incredulous!):confounded:

Don't know what they're moaning about! There's already a 1/32 Vulcan - admittedly it's vacform but at least they got one ....

What we really need is a Dakota! Imagine the dio possibilities for a 'plane that's been around for so long and has appeared in every war since WWII.

[AlanG]

I said it at the very beginning (on different forums) that either a Spitfire Mk.I or Bf109E would make great financial sense for them to first off. They are way popular and there is not really a great kit out there of these aircraft.

I'd love to get one but i fear their price is going to be al a WNW. So chuffin expensive.

[AlanG]

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[Isitme]

I said it at the very beginning (on different forums) that either a Spitfire Mk.I or Bf109E would make great financial sense for them to first off. They are way popular and there is not really a great kit out there of these aircraft.

I'd love to get one but i fear their price is going to be al a WNW. So chuffin expensive.

Exactly, but then they will fall into the multi variants issue of producing all zillion marks of one subject and other subjects will get ignored. I have seen this with Airfix, Haswgawa, Tamiya etc, but then they fail to correct the issues that are put in front of them.

[BarryW]

Exactly, but then they will fall into the multi variants issue of producing all zillion marks of one subject and other subjects will get ignored. I have seen this with Airfix, Haswgawa, Tamiya etc, but then they fail to correct the issues that are put in front of them.

If they adopt the same quality and style of Wingnut then there won’t be much, if anything, wrong with the kit and, yes they will provide a range of versions.

It makes perfect commercial sense to get the most out of the moulds so as well as a late Mk1 you can be sure of an early, a MkII and one or two versions of the Mk V.

Doing a number of versions does not necessarily prevent new subjects being released, you can see that with ICM who are producing kits like rabbits, lots of subjects with lots of versions.

You cannot, by the way, equate Tamiya to Airfix and Hasegawa as they all work very differently.

Sadly Tammy seem to have stopped issuing 1/32 aircraft all together now, or at least new subjects. Hasegawa just keep re-releasing old kits every now and then with new decals and nothing much new.

Airfix, who are regularly making new releases (not 1/32 of course), from what I have seen are just doing one or versions of a subject though, of course, they are producing new tools of old 60’s and 70’s subjects which is very welcome.

[AlanG]

Hasegawa just keep re-releasing old kits every now and then with new decals and nothing much new.

I can think of a few Fw190 kits i'd love to see re-released by them

[BarryW]

I can think of a few Fw190 kits i'd love to see re-released by them

I totally agree. I have been looking out for their ‘D’ for ages.