This is like beating a dead horse. I recently emailed Sanger in November and December, using the contact box at the company site. Guess what? NADA, NICHTS, NOTHING! This guy's customer relations skills, to put it mildly, suck bigtime. Did he hit the lottery and doesn't need the money or, is it that he just plain doesn't give a rat's patootie that his business is taking a hit from the negative publicity that his indifference to potential customers is generating? Re the dead horse, at least it might respond, unlike Sanger Models.

Well, first the good news: according to what's been posted on the Sanger website, the only work remaining is the detailing on the wings; then the kit will be molded with a release scheduled for later in the year. The price is supposed to be in the neighborhood of 95 GBP. The not so good news: this kit will not contain the parts required to depict all variants, as was heralded in earlier announcements: This is some serious mazooma we're talking about when you consider that the price doesn't include shipping.

He would have to have a Blackburn Perth on there... I want one of those! Nyyargh. Carmarthen. I am, in actual fact Welsh, from Gower, and I know this guy. That is to say, I know all his sort. He's down the pub right now. This moment. "Got a website you know. Dial-up 56K. 56K! Can you believe it Evan!" I'm literally not going to buy anything because of this. "WE ARE NOW CLOSED DOWN UNTIL 25th MARCH 2012 NO ORDERS WILL BE TAKEN AFTER 21st FEBRUARY 2012 UNTIL WE RE-OPEN 26th MARCH 2012" Why?? You live in Carmarthen! It's the sleepiest place in the British Isles. John O'Groats has more going on! Blisteringly annoying that all the little manufacturer's with the best stuff are like this. Hopefully one of those industrious little Eastern European resin companies eats his lunch.

Probably likes to nurse his pints; or, there must be a month long happy hour special.

A friend of mine made a "Bear" which is also a huge thing. He constructed a clever system that allows him to take the wings of for moving it to modelling shows. This guy has painted the ceiling of his modelling den to depict an airfield and all his planes hang with heavy fishing wire upside down on the ceiling Add to that a clever transparent plastic false ceiling under the real ceiling and even dust can't spoil the fun anymore. Back to the B-52: very tempting but I never worked with vac and this one may be a bridge too far

Pleasae, back off guys! You don't know (like I don't) what is currently going on in the life of the person(s) behind Sanger or in the fortunes of the company itself. These are very small run kits and the technical challenges (and expense) may be huge, hence, this is possibly only a "hobby company" with the owner(s) having another full time job to take care of.

What, people can't take a vacation???

No. That's being selfish. Did Monty or Ike take vacation time on June 5? Did the IRS take a vacation before nailing Scarface for tax evasion? Did Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Chief Gall decide that they needed a week in Vegas before the Battle of The Little Bighorn? Did Columbus decide to take a tour of the Caribbean before he "discovered" the New World? O.K., I'll give you that one because he did exactly that. The point I'm making is that the proprietor should concern himself with satisfying our needs as hobbyists before even contemplating something as frivolous as this "vacation" stuff.

No. That's being selfish. Did Monty or Ike take vacation time on June 5? Did the IRS take a vacation before nailing Scarface for tax evasion? Did Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Chief Gall decide that they needed a week in Vegas before the Battle of The Little Bighorn? Did Columbus decide to take a tour of the Caribbean before he "discovered" the New World? O.K., I'll give you that one because he did exactly that. The point I'm making is that the proprietor should concern himself with satisfying our needs as hobbyists before even contemplating something as frivolous as this "vacation" stuff. [/quote]