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Regarding the 190 series, this is just a suggestion, but maybe instead of disputing the weights etc endlessly, why doesn't someone suggest a useful intermediate model that HTC could produce using the current 3d and damage models, in the same way that they did with the recent P-47 variants. If you did all the work and presented it with references perhaps Mr HiTech would be more receptive to considering the inclusion of some more subtypes.
Alternate A-8 variants, A-7s and A-9s have been suggested and presented many many times in this forum, I counter that you find me a 6-month gap where one hasn't been.
It is obvious that fatigue over the subject from the community's majority and HT/HTC as a whole, if nothing else, seeds the feelings of dispair and frustration amongst the 190 lovers in this community. The fact we can't set half of our own supporters straight on the overweight issue and that the current model isn't glaringly overweight is another genuine source of disheartening and frustration.
My whole point on this is that HTC has had plenty of time to study the FW190A8 issue, and they've decided (it seems) that the weight of the aircraft is fine. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, the important question is why. Obviously, despite all the documentation the players have found, they still have a good reason to keep it the way it is. Given their willingness to make changes in the past, when errors or omissions have been found, don't you think its conspicuous that they haven't made a change yet? That means that they are in possession of some sort of material that they feel justifies the weight as currently modeled. Perhaps, instead of the semi-annual "fix the weight" thread, some energy could be made towards finding out whatever it is they have. It must exist out there for someone who really wants to find it...
Dragging HT or anyone at HTCs into another 190A-8 discussion, productive or not, is just that - dragged, by force. But I would love for their participation and/or resources to be actively involved in this discussion, however that is nobody's decision here to make so instead you get the nupties, like me.
Keep enjoying your jokes and laughs guys, it'll just make the next 190 thread that leads to nowhere show up that much sooner, and restock HTC's toilet paper supply. So the cycle continues.
Edit: Plazus and Shuffler, when's the last time I came in and pissed in a P-38's bowl of Cheerios in the wishlist forum? Remind me to return the most courteous favor.
