"Wingnut Wings" Permanently Closed Down

[Martin Antonenko]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121537116/sir-peter-jacksons-wingnut-wings-model-company-shuts

Pity!


Cheers

 

[Blind Pew]

It is a pity.

Cue some serious eBay activity

 

[Chris Oldfield]

WW kits have always fetched high prices on eBay, but I can see them skyrocketing now!

 

[fogie]

Mike

 

[kevininpdx]

It’s always sad when a model company big or small close down. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but my understanding is the steel molds used to cast injected plastic are extremely expensive to produce.

 

[Babelfish]

WW kits have always fetched high prices on eBay, but I can see them skyrocketing now!

This isn't "new" news, it first broke way back around mid-April.

And yes prices have been going mad. Just out of interest I've been keeping an eye on things via my watch list, and over the weekend for example a single decal set (!!!) went for US$241 (in words: two hundred and forty one) and a Gotha G.IV bomber went for GBP 580 (at which point someone else offering one at 595 "buy it now" reduced his price to 575 "buy it now", I suspect in an attempt to snag the losing bidder on the first one).

Other WNW kits have regularly been going for figures well up in the 200s and 300s these past few weeks.

The collapse was all rather sudden though, which begs the question of what will happen to the remaining stock that are still part of the WNW company assets. One scenario is that whoever is responsible for winding things up will offload them to their regular trade dealers, who will then in turn flog them off to modellers at something like normal retail prices - at which point some guys currently paying daft money on eBay will probably be kicking themselves.

It'll be interesting to see what happens.

- Steve

 

[Ned Ricks]

It is my understanding that the steel molds are very expensive, indeed. Similarly, they are quite durable as anyone who has bought a re-boxed kit will attest. (Check out website www.scalemates.com to see some examples of how many times the injection molded product can be re-boxed, re-decaled, etc) So, perhaps someone will buy the molds of existing kits and continue to produce under a different label.

Do I recall correctly that this is the same Sir Peter Jackson who did the Hobbit movies and the WWI restored movie They Shall Not Grow Old?
NR

 

[Babelfish]

So, perhaps someone will buy the molds of existing kits and continue to produce under a different label.

Possibly. But even then there will still be guys out there willing to pay a premium for the WNW original boxings.

It's like on here when we get guys wanting to buy, say, Poste Militaire or David Grieve originals. Someone chimes in helpfully offering the Bonapartes boxing, and Mr. Collector says no thanks, only interested in the originals.

Do I recall correctly that this is the same Sir Peter Jackson who did the Hobbit movies and the WWI restored movie They Shall Not Grow Old?

Correct.

- Steve

 

[marco55]

Do I recall correctly that this is the same Sir Peter Jackson who did the Hobbit movies and the WWI restored movie They Shall Not Grow Old?
NR[/quote]
He is a huge collector of WWI items,figures,etc. Years ago the Perry Bros. made some large figures especially for him (they specialize in 28mm usually) and was instrumental in getting that gigantic diorama made in 2015.
Mark

 

[Ned Ricks]

His "making of..." bit about how They Shall Not Grow Old came about was worth the price of admission at the movie theater. A person who was passionate about his task, I think.

N

 

[theBaron]

Yes, it's the same Peter Jackson who butchered Tolkien's works.

 

[Cannonball]

Sad news. Not really an aviation modeller as such but picked up their Sopwith Triplane kit flown by RNAS pilot Raymond Collinson at my local model shop some months back. Always taken by the detail of their kits. It’s still sat in my grey army at present.

Neal

 

[alecs00]

Woah that's a real shame