This is likely one of those things that, once the machinery is in motion, it's not worth scrapping a production run over, because you'd need to re-print all the transfers and (possibly) change physical tooling
I can happily live with the hurris as they are - touching up is no great effort and for actual gameplay use the issue's trival (the unpainted canopy framing bothers me more, to be honest). One of the guys I was playing with at my club on wednesday night was besotted with the Hurricane I had out. He's an enthusiastic wargamer, plays lots of different things including Bolt Action and X-wing, and picked up the
BoB starter (plus 2 mats and several extra planes) - last week after a previous intro game I'd run at the club earlier in the month.
I do think Ares are doing a good job at making models at a price point competitive with X-wing's minis for what must be much smaller production runs. Mass production is always a compromise. To be honest, I would rather Ares spent more effort in promoting the WW2 game, recruiting stockists (the event a couple of weekends ago was a start), making Point of Sale material, building up a player base, and so on.
WGS seems to still bubble just below that critical mass where it's a no-brainer for a stockist to carry - we need to get the game to that point.
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