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    Quote Originally Posted by milcoll73 View Post
    no i mean SCRATCHES on the wings of my gotha.....right out of the box. ill post pics to show what i mean.
    Sorry Phillip, I should have read your post more carefully!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Biggles downunder View Post
    Sorry Phillip, I should have read your post more carefully!
    heres what im talking about

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    theyre kind of blurry but you can see what im talking about. this is how my gotha came out of the box. it was a bit of a let down.

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    so I just saw 3 snipes from the new paint schemes go on ebay auction. one finished at 6.50, the other two barely made it to 7.50 doesn't look they're selling amazingly!
    how are the others going? I actually haven't managed to buy any of them yet..

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    Pretty predictably - the D.VIIs are selling well, the others not really - the composition of this series was always badly flawed, and bringing it back with an unchanged line-up just confirms nothing's changed on that front....

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    ARES badly need to get their tooling sorted out so they aren't hampered by having to stick to releasing in fours. They also seriously need to sort out their continually woeful choices of colour schemes that is often mind bogglingly bad. However, I think if they sort the former that latter would follow.

    I also think they should use this forum for some market testing of colour schemes, e.g. let us vote on their choice of say six schemes. No obligation for them to follow the research findings but the model railway makers in the UK pay a good deal of attention to market research and what folk want to see most.

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    I got the feeling they do pay attention to this forum..
    Do we know if all the new releases they have been doing come in that same tooling configuration of 4's like Nexus the minis were?

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    Oh I'm sure they do read the forum but I maintain that any one of us or the forum as a collective could come up with a set of twelve colour scheme that would sell as well or better than those they choose.

    ARES stated a long time ago that they wanted to move to a position of having new tooling to enable them total flexibility with what they release and when. The implication being that they weren't in that position. IIRC they made this statement about the time the reprint of S1 came out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timmo UK View Post
    Oh I'm sure they do read the forum...
    [Smiles and waves at Ares]

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    No Snipes for me. Bought one each of the Fokkers, DH4s and will buy 2 Rolands (no MVR).

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    I only bought the MFJ DVII. I might pick up a couple of Gorings for repaints at some point but I have much of what I want now so can pick and choose. I'm mainly just waiting for the SE5a to come out again – that's the real gap in my collection that I want to sort out. I hope ARES gives us a couple of Western Front RFC/RAF options and doesn't decide to do something 'Snipe like'!

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    Quote Originally Posted by john snelling View Post
    No Snipes for me. Bought one each of the Fokkers, DH4s and will buy 2 Rolands (no MVR).
    Yes. Likewise. I bought Fokker, DH4, Rolands and skipped the Snipes.

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    Personally, I wish Ares had stuck to WWI, and done the various Eastern Europe wars of "aftermath" as a separate set. That way people who want to play with the Red Menace would still have it available, and there'd still be a chance of two slightly-more-useful Western Front Snipes. (I can understand some of why they did it, since Ares tends to look for "colorful" and "different"...)

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    Quote Originally Posted by john snelling View Post
    No Snipes for me. Bought one each of the Fokkers, DH4s and will buy 2 Rolands (no MVR).
    Yes. Likewise. I bought Fokkers, DH4s, Rolands and skipped the Snipes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamondback View Post
    Personally, I wish Ares had stuck to WWI, and done the various Eastern Europe wars of "aftermath" as a separate set. That way people who want to play with the Red Menace would still have it available, and there'd still be a chance of two slightly-more-useful Western Front Snipes. (I can understand some of why they did it, since Ares tends to look for "colorful" and "different"...)
    I agree, I think they should shave stuck to Western Front 1916/17/18 and anything outside of that could have been made available in duel sets.

    Sometimes they go for colourful and different and other times like with almost the Albatros models they just go a bit nonsensical. If they wanted different why do two Jasta 15 SSD? I understand colourful and different as good qualities but if such oddball models don't sell as well as the key Western Front models why do them as part of the main release?

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    I think I can figure out ARES release strategy---both types of planes and color schemes selected...and I think they are doing a pretty good job of it.

    I think their biggest problem is, trying to keep a variety of the miniatures on the shelf to be AVAILABLE on an on going basis. You can introduce/recruit new players until the cows come home, but if they can't go out then and buy a set....what's the point?

    As far as the Snipes and post (intra) war color schemes: Two points: 1) Late war 'superplanes' dwell there. I fully expect at some point, to see a wide variety of schemes for them in the post-war period. Why? That's when they were deployed in numbers that matter...or 'survived' the war to go on. 2) The itty-bitty wars after WW1 are largely unknown. I like the way ARES is putting a flashlight on that era.

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    Duplicate post, so I'll add a WW1 'selfie'.

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    Part of the problem of keeping the product range on the shelves is that the range has been shown to be very patchy – the desirable parts sell out quickly leaving the also rans hanging around for far too long. That is a dreadful strategy and why bother continuing to make stuff that simply doesn't sell very well. If ARES got it right we'd see all the models sell at roughly the same rate. All three models of a type should be equally desirable.

    I wonder how many people are really honestly that bothered about minor air wars in bi-planes when they can be the Red baron et al instead. I'd say the mass appeal of the game could primarily be based around the Red Baron and his adversaries and would probably sell better. Do people really care that the RAF flew Brisfits in Iraq and who were they flying them against anyway? If ARES wanted colourful why not go for a Home Defence operated one – then there's a really attractive (read highly desirable) plane to fly against the lovely Gotha model. This stuff is so easy and so basic yet they keep messing up. Why? It's comically bad. Then we get two almost identical black DVa's when there are just so many other more colourful different ones to choose from. If they have a remit I can't fathom it out and the patchy sales don't suggest to me that they've yet got it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timmo UK View Post
    Part of the problem of keeping the product range on the shelves is that the range has been shown to be very patchy – the desirable parts sell out quickly leaving the also rans hanging around for far too long. That is a dreadful strategy and why bother continuing to make stuff that simply doesn't sell very well. If ARES got it right we'd see all the models sell at roughly the same rate. All three models of a type should be equally desirable.

    I wonder how many people are really honestly that bothered about minor air wars in bi-planes when they can be the Red baron et al instead. I'd say the mass appeal of the game could primarily be based around the Red Baron and his adversaries and would probably sell better. Do people really care that the RAF flew Brisfits in Iraq and who were they flying them against anyway? If ARES wanted colourful why not go for a Home Defence operated one – then there's a really attractive (read highly desirable) plane to fly against the lovely Gotha model. This stuff is so easy and so basic yet they keep messing up. Why? It's comically bad. Then we get two almost identical black DVa's when there are just so many colourful different ones to choose from. If they have a remit I can't fathom it out and the patchy sales don't suggest to me that they've yet got it right.
    In general, I agree with your post. There are 'bread & butter' planes that should ALWAYS be available, as you said. Those "Duel Packs" for example...but the Rules & Accessories pack should be there, too.

    When I was a scale modeler, as a kid. I remember buying a lot of "turds" because that was what was on the shelf. I used to envy the other planes in a series portrayed on the side panels of the box, but rarely seen on the shelf. Example: the AIRFIX He-111. Never saw that until I discovered one in an obscure variety store years after I became aware of it. I felt like I had recovered the Holy Grail.

    But ARES seems to have problems with the 'basics', no?

    I am sure, some of the other oldtimers remember the plethora of 'bread & butter' kits that we all got bored with as modelers: The P-51, The Japanese Zero, The Spitfire and the Messerschmitt Bf-109. Whatever the company, or scale those were the FIRST (sometimes only) planes that were covered.

    That was the beauty of AIRFIX (and later Revell, Monogram, etc.); Once they covered the 'basics' they had the market and profit to branch out into more obscure planes. I can see the same pattern for the diecast (Corgi) models and such.

    If WGF continues to be popular, I would wager that some of those present Asian hobby 'giants (Dragon?), will step into the vacuum and begin producing compatible miniatures...that can be stand alone static "toys" and/or be easily adapted for the game.

    I'm still trying to figure out how to incorporate these for a ground-attack/bombing scenario.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Timmo UK View Post
    Sometimes they go for colourful and different and other times like with almost the Albatros models they just go a bit nonsensical. If they wanted different why do two Jasta 15 SSD? I understand colourful and different as good qualities but if such oddball models don't sell as well as the key Western Front models why do them as part of the main release?
    They needed a Western Munchkin unit to counteract the German Munchkin unit. >:)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xen View Post
    so I just saw 3 snipes from the new paint schemes go on ebay auction. one finished at 6.50, the other two barely made it to 7.50 doesn't look they're selling amazingly!
    how are the others going? I actually haven't managed to buy any of them yet..
    thats less than wholesale

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    Yep I guessed it might be less than wholesale. I often wonder how stores make any profit sell minis for $9.95 even!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timmo UK View Post
    Part of the problem of keeping the product range on the shelves is that the range has been shown to be very patchy – the desirable parts sell out quickly leaving the also rans hanging around for far too long. That is a dreadful strategy and why bother continuing to make stuff that simply doesn't sell very well. If ARES got it right we'd see all the models sell at roughly the same rate. All three models of a type should be equally desirable.

    I wonder how many people are really honestly that bothered about minor air wars in bi-planes when they can be the Red baron et al instead. I'd say the mass appeal of the game could primarily be based around the Red Baron and his adversaries and would probably sell better. Do people really care that the RAF flew Brisfits in Iraq and who were they flying them against anyway? If ARES wanted colourful why not go for a Home Defence operated one – then there's a really attractive (read highly desirable) plane to fly against the lovely Gotha model. This stuff is so easy and so basic yet they keep messing up. Why? It's comically bad. Then we get two almost identical black DVa's when there are just so many other more colourful different ones to choose from. If they have a remit I can't fathom it out and the patchy sales don't suggest to me that they've yet got it right.
    The problem is that your perfect release is a horrible release for someone else. As I recall, there were quite a few members on this site that wanted post WWI planes.

    And lots of members have asked for Squadron or Jasta packs... so releasing different planes from the same unit is following the market research.

    I personally would love to see some big changes made in their paint scheme selection and tooling/release setup. But it all comes down to having the money and time to do all that.

    With every release we have some that are happy and some that are not.

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    I saw the Roland was to be out on 8 Sept. Any idea if they have been sent out? Waiting on a pre order so hope they will be out as scheduled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobP View Post
    I saw the Roland was to be out on 8 Sept. Any idea if they have been sent out? Waiting on a pre order so hope they will be out as scheduled.
    I saw them at Games And Stuff over the weekend. I don't think they look as good as the originals. But that was based on looking at them in the box, as opposed to a side by side comparison.

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    I got mine last week, bought in the UK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobP View Post
    I saw the Roland was to be out on 8 Sept. Any idea if they have been sent out? Waiting on a pre order so hope they will be out as scheduled.
    I picked up one this past weekend at my FLGS. It was their last one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oberst Hajj View Post
    The problem is that your perfect release is a horrible release for someone else. As I recall, there were quite a few members on this site that wanted post WWI planes.

    And lots of members have asked for Squadron or Jasta packs... so releasing different planes from the same unit is following the market research.

    I personally would love to see some big changes made in their paint scheme selection and tooling/release setup. But it all comes down to having the money and time to do all that.

    With every release we have some that are happy and some that are not.

    I really wish they would release naked miniatures that allow you to paint them up a you want maybe with some decal sets and a reduced price!~ Now those would sell like hot cakes!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by FarEast View Post
    I really wish they would release naked miniatures that allow you to paint them up a you want maybe with some decal sets and a reduced price!~ Now those would sell like hot cakes!!!
    Wished for many, many times. And they would sell like hot cakes to the ~200 customers that play the game and repaint. The other ~5000 customers would not be interested at all. There is just not a large enough market of us repainters to make this worth while to Ares. They would have increased expenses (due mainly to logistics) and we'd want them at a discount. Just does not make good business sense

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobP View Post
    I saw the Roland was to be out on 8 Sept. Any idea if they have been sent out? Waiting on a pre order so hope they will be out as scheduled.
    Started shipping yesterday form the AA store. I've not done a side by side yet, but I like the looks of the new ones better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FarEast View Post
    I really wish they would release naked miniatures that allow you to paint them up a you want maybe with some decal sets and a reduced price!~ Now those would sell like hot cakes!!!
    I hate painting miniatures; I'm not good at it and I don't have time; it's probably what stopped my table top gaming when I was young.

    The fact that WoG comes prepainted is one of the biggest draws for me.

    That probably makes me unusual on this forum, which seems populated with modellers as much as gamers.

    When 3D colour printing becomes a cheap enough proposal, or Shapeways offer it as service, then I'll become a modeller, because my talents lie elsewhere.

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    You are not alone Fox. While I love to do repaints and am pretty decent at them, the pre-painted minis are a huge plus for me. Like you, I don't have the time or desire to paint every single plane that I want in my collection.

    and while the rules set for the game is very well done, it's the pre-painted minis that has made it a success.

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    I love painting and I'm a modeller, but I'm also a dad and the rest, cabbie, baby sitter... So straight out of the box is also fine with me.
    Is stripping them that hard?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Twisted_terrain View Post
    I love painting and I'm a modeller, but I'm also a dad and the rest, cabbie, baby sitter... So straight out of the box is also fine with me.
    Is stripping them that hard?
    I’d also love to get some bare minis from Ares. For me it’s not that the minis are hard to strip (I normally just paint over what is there anyway, an airbrush helps with this), it’s just another step I have to do. And sometimes that extra step could be the deciding factor in if I have the time and energy to do the repaint

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    Ergo: I bought a 6 pack of ares from Dom (decals) today, for this Sundays wings over the southeast, cos I just don't have the time to build let alone paint my Valom Fokker D.VII's in time, and they come with decals. They are nice models to. One day...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Twisted_terrain View Post
    Ergo: . One day...
    Ah! Si.
    The number of times I have said that. My workshop is littered with the One day... items.
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    I looked at my one day pile the other day, it includes lots of magnetised swappable inserts for Opel blitz 15mm trucks, I even did a cut down, that was before I started collecting a Japanese army. Just before I dived headlong into wings. Seriously I love pre-painted.

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    Thanks for the update on the shipment. Should get them by Friday. Have some Box Tops to send to you.

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    Or, why not a Jasta Pack, with the basic "standard unit insignia", and cards and decals to mark the miniature as any one of several pilots from the unit?

    That way, you have a fully prepainted Combat Ready miniature (less the "personal markings", then you have the decals and card if you want to identify it as a specific pilot. Also gives a reason to buy more than one copy...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oberst Hajj View Post
    Started shipping yesterday form the AA store. I've not done a side by side yet, but I like the looks of the new ones better.
    Since yesterday Rolands are available here in one of our online stores "in stock = w magazynie)" status.

    http://www.rebel.pl/e4u.php/1,ModPro...y/2135/?1&p=20
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    Quote Originally Posted by Twisted_terrain View Post
    I love painting and I'm a modeller, but I'm also a dad and the rest, cabbie, baby sitter... So straight out of the box is also fine with me.
    Is stripping them that hard?
    This is the case for me to. I was a keen modeler in my teens and early twenties. I made barbwire for 1:72. Did extencive remodeling when the details were missing or wrong but now, how much I want to do them, there is no time or SPACE!! I did some refitting of the topwing on one of my tripes (it was not parallell with the other wings) but that is what I are able to do wright now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
    Ah! Si.
    The number of times I have said that. My workshop is littered with the One day... items.
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    This constant beating of the poor Snipe..

    I have talked aboute this in another thread but maybe the Snipe would have been more welcome if it had been paired with the Fokker DVIII. (and the DVII with the SE5a or perhaps the sop. Dolphin)
    I like the Snipe. It it a blast to fly. But I agree that the choose of paintscheme for the reprint wasn't the best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LOOP View Post
    This constant beating of the poor Snipe..

    I have talked aboute this in another thread but maybe the Snipe would have been more welcome if it had been paired with the Fokker DVIII. (and the DVII with the SE5a or perhaps the sop. Dolphin)
    I like the Snipe. It it a blast to fly. But I agree that the choose of paintscheme for the reprint wasn't the best.
    I don't use the Snipe, except as stand-ins for the long overdue Sopwith Pup. I would love a Dolphin, as they were used for the last 6 months of the war are were noted for their performance at high altitude.

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    Quote Originally Posted by greenalfonzo View Post
    I don't use the Snipe, except as stand-ins for the long overdue Sopwith Pup. ...
    Oooh! How close in appearance/scale are these two planes? I like this idea. A lot!

    Nice one Kev.
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    wow be away for awhile now have to buy more...always more

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    Quote Originally Posted by greenalfonzo View Post
    I don't use the Snipe, except as stand-ins for the long overdue Sopwith Pup. I would love a Dolphin, as they were used for the last 6 months of the war are were noted for their performance at high altitude.
    Kev, thank you it was an excellent idea. Just the one I needed. Snipes sitting around collecting dust and my need of Pups for Bloody April. My next buy from shapeways had a hard time fitting in Pups because of all the other aircraft needed (RFC N17s, FE8s, Be2c, Fe2bs, ect)

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    Quote Originally Posted by OldGuy59 View Post
    Oooh! How close in appearance/scale are these two planes? I like this idea. A lot!

    Nice one Kev.

    They are the same length, with the Snipe having a couple feet extra wingspan. The only really noticeable difference in design being the Snipe's thicker nose/front of the fuselage (and subsequently smaller space between it and the top wing) to accommodate the bigger engine. The plain-Jane schemes on Wave 1 Snipes really help them blend in with the other earlier war stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oberst Hajj View Post
    The problem is that your perfect release is a horrible release for someone else. As I recall, there were quite a few members on this site that wanted post WWI planes.

    And lots of members have asked for Squadron or Jasta packs... so releasing different planes from the same unit is following the market research.

    I personally would love to see some big changes made in their paint scheme selection and tooling/release setup. But it all comes down to having the money and time to do all that.

    With every release we have some that are happy and some that are not.
    Why don't we run a poll on it:

    Which would you rather see?

    1) ARES current varied releases of models across all theatres during and after WW1

    2) A well considered range of colour schemes of Western Front aircraft only forming the key releases. The unusual models sold as duel packs to ensure the 'oddities' e.g. flying boat and Iraq Brisfit have a plausible combat adversary.

    The second option makes good marketing sense to me (as it's so easy to build the marketing strategy around the enduring and popular Red Baron legend). The other seems to be a curious way to continue to run a business which has a history of very patchy sales precisely because the odd models are not to the taste of the majority. We can all name, list and spot the duds before they are even released. With the exception of the German Camel ARES still go ahead and release the models even though the broad opinion here says 'bad choices' as the Snipes have proved to be. Why do they do it – beyond me, if the so called fan-boys and girls of the game (i.e. us here) don't even want the model… etc etc.

    On the matter of unpainted models, as much as I'd like them to do this I can't see it ever happening and although for a long time I really hoped they would release sprues I now don't think it would be a good move for ARES from a profit perspective. My hope is that a major plastic kit maker starts to release 1/144 WW1 models that come in as few parts as possible, like the ARES models, to make them suitable for gaming. It's the sort of thing Revell might do. The Valom kits are nice but are squarely aimed at the modeller and the wing surfaces aren't as convincing as those on the ARES models, which rather put me off them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Timmo UK View Post
    Why don't we run a poll on it:

    Which would you rather see?

    1) ARES current varied releases of models across all theatres during and after WW1

    2) A well considered range of colour schemes of Western Front aircraft only forming the key releases. The unusual models sold as duel packs to ensure the 'oddities' e.g. flying boat and Iraq Brisfit have a plausible combat adversary.

    The second option makes good marketing sense to me (as it's so easy to build the marketing strategy around the enduring and popular Red Baron legend). The other seems to be a curious way to continue to run a business which has a history of very patchy sales precisely because the odd models are not to the taste of the majority. We can all name, list and spot the duds before they are even released. With the exception of the German Camel ARES still go ahead and release the models even though the broad opinion here says 'bad choices' as the Snipes have proved to be. Why do they do it – beyond me, if the so called fan-boys and girls of the game (i.e. us here) don't even want the model… etc etc.
    And that's the thing, if you run that poll on this site, you will get the response you expect.. but our ~100 active players are just a very small sampling of the gamers out there. I totally agree that Ares could do a better job with their release for us, but take what I found when I went to Prague last month. The local game store there that all our Prague pilots fly at had 3 or 4 for the camo British Spitfires sitting on the shelf. You can't find those anywhere in the US, UK or Aussie. But there they were sitting on the shelves while all the other Spits were gone. Each geographical area wants different planes. Pair that with limited production volume and working capital... and it's nearly impossible to get a perfect release.

    None of us old timers wanted the Snipes, we already have them and they mostly gather dust. But new players do want them, so there were sales to be had. The fact that Ares reused the old Series 2 molds, meant we got equal numbers of Snipes as D.VIIs

    I'm always hard at work on Ares to break those releases up and or print more of one type then the other.

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    I'm always hard at work on Ares to break those releases up and or print more of one type then the other.
    Thank you, for your representation.

    Any date yet on the next release? I know you were asked for some input on the series 3, any feed back on what aircraft or release date?

    On series 2 I bought every D.VII and DH4 and bought 2 of the 3 Halberstadts (not the MvR because I already have it).

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