| Re: Tornado coming from Witty cool! I'm in for one.
as for the undercarriage, I dunno...sounds like an interesting but somewhat risky experiment. the lack of gear-up options on their models is really annoying,
and I definitely would encourage them to find some way to enable gear-up display. whether this is the way to do it, though, I'm not so sure...
since diecast models are primarily for display rather than rough play, I really don't think there is much value in having retracting gear as opposed to interchangeable
pieces a la Dragon or, preferably, Century. yes, the fewer pieces the better but surely accuracy is the overwhelming consideration..."fiddly bits" are a major plus if
(and only if) they enable an otherwise impossible rendering of the gear-down undercarriage.
my point? I can imagine some ways of executing a retractable-gear model which involve less-than-painstaking efforts on the landing gear doors...deleting smaller pieces,
reshaping or eliminating some of the more fragile pieces of the undercarriage, using hideous giant hinges, or even eliminating the landing gear doors entirely.
witty should avoid these options at all costs. |