MENG seems to hit a snag in production. It was cranking out kits one after another until the Rolls Royce/Magach, and then it just stopped completely unlike other kit makers. I wonder if they were spending a ton of effort on their flop-to-be wandering earth vehicles.

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MENG seems to hit a snag in production. It was cranking out kits one after another until the Rolls Royce/Magach, and then it just stopped completely unlike other kit makers. I wonder if they were spending a ton of effort on their flop-to-be wandering earth vehicles.

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While I think it would be a shame to loose out on a new M4A3, the Wandering Earth is a Chinese made movie, and might have a very large market in China. We will know sooner or later.

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MENG seems to hit a snag in production. It was cranking out kits one after another until the Rolls Royce/Magach, and then it just stopped completely unlike other kit makers. I wonder if they were spending a ton of effort on their flop-to-be wandering earth vehicles.

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While I think it would be a shame to loose out on a new M4A3, the Wandering Earth is a Chinese made movie, and might have a very large market in China. We will know sooner or later.

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I know. The lack of overseas interest is putting Meng at a high risk, and scifi subjects are themselves not as popular as military. Adding to that they must be paying a substantial licensing fee, thats why I'm predicting it'll be a flop.

I really hope this doesn't put them under, their kits are wonderful. It's so jarring that the latest Panzer IV race doesn't have their name on it.

I have to agree. I don't understand why they didn't jump on the PZIV, or the PZIII. I like their Panthers.

Meng is facing some serious financial issues from what I have heard, with too many kits released and not enough sales.

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I have to agree. I don't understand why they didn't jump on the PZIV, or the PZIII. I like their Panthers.

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Their Panthers are some of the worst on the market with only ancient Tamiya Ausf.A and all Italeri ones being worse. Just an IMHO.

what do you have against their Panthers?

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what do you have against their Panthers?

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To begin with, the plastic colour and overtextured 'cast' parts. These two things are unimportant if we talk about accuracy, I know. The running gear. Roadwheel hubs are flat whereas in real life they are dome-shaped and you can hardly (if at all) spot any flatness on their face. Ausf. A suffers from incorrect turret front plate (SBS to the rescue) The sprockets should have slotted nuts (all Panther kits should, but don't have this feature). Track guide horns are too rounded at the top when they should be flat etc.
All these flaws are evident, but there are many more...

Too many kits released? Really? What about some other new players? Takom, RFM etc. Don't they produce 'too many kits' yet?

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I have to agree. I don't understand why they didn't jump on the PZIV, or the PZIII. I like their Panthers.

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Their Panthers are some of the worst on the market with only ancient Tamiya Ausf.A and all Italeri ones being worse. Just an IMHO.

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Too many kits released? Really? What about some other new players? Takom, RFM etc. Don't they produce 'too many kits' yet?

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In short, yes.

I had a long conversation with an Asian executive about the modeling biz, and he's not sure that Takom and Meng can survive. They basically light one kit off the sales of the previous one, with no plan for sustainability. So many kits of the same vehicle, for example, can't be good for the collective health of Takom, Meng and RFM, yet the three of them are popping out "me,too" vehicles at astonishing rates.

So just looked again over at HobbyEasy,now it's gone from 8/8 released date to now 8/14.Im starting to think that this release just might not happen.