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 Welcome to the second Wings900 family newsletter -
as you can see, we've got a new design for the newsletter. And we've got some
great new stuff on the site too.
To start with, we've added blogs to Wings900. Anyone who
feels like it can now start their own blog on the site, just by going to "Blogs" on the
main menu and clicking on "My Blog
Dashboard". It's really simple to use and a great way to share your collection
with everyone else on the site. All the stuff we previously had in news will now be announced via our own site blog
(appearing now on the site's front page) and if you
use an RSS reader, there's also an RSS feed you can grab here to get all posts
sent direct to you.
We've also cleaned up the menus a little to streamline
them and make them easier to use. A couple of things have been re-ordered and
"Submit Ticket" and "My Ticket" have been ditched from the Help menu and we've
got "Contact Us" instead. We've also gotten rid of "Chat" on the Forums menu and
"Links" from the main menu - all the links are still there, we're just going
through to make sure they all still work and will be putting up a new links
section shortly.
The other big news here is that Gallery Subscriptions
have been removed as the gallery service is now
FREE! So we'd like to invite everybody to go ahead and add as many images as you
like! From June we'll also be making the eBay listing generator free
too!
 Away from the Wings site itself, we've got a
couple of other new things - first up, there's now a Wings900 bookshop on
Eclector with a wide selection of aircraft and model aircraft-related books.
And secondly, you can now once again display your Wings with pride thanks to our
revived W900 Café Press shop
with logo T-shirts, license plate frames, clocks, mugs and other great
stuff!
Now lets take a look at what's been happening on the
sites themselves...
Wings900
In the new Blogs section on Wings900, we've got...
well not a huge amount just yet, because we've only just launched it today!
However, to make sure we had some good stuff to get going with, we borrowed a
few posts from our friends over at Toy Collector, like
these great entries on Cubana and the Douglas DC-6.
Chat in the in the General section has
covered topics as diverse as retro airhostesses, flying lessons, volcano/plane conflict
issues (very timely!) and vacation trvel in an
A380.
Over in 1:500, we've had WW news, Herpa's Air Jamaica Express, Niki ERJ-190 and Garuda Indonesia
A330-243. In 1:400, we've had the Gemini 1:400 April
releases, pics of one man's new 747-8 and a collection milestone...
Going slightly bigger, in 1:200, we've had photos
of JC Wings Virgin America
A320 and Gemini's 1:200 April releases,
while on the custom front, the
seriously cool member-made models on show have included this Spanair MD-83
EC-FXA and an Adria A320.
Lots in the Review section too,
including Herpa's US Airways Airbus A333 in 1:500, Luftwaffe Tu-154M and Ansett Australia
B727-277A.
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Scale600
& Toy Collector
Last, but not least, April chat on our smallest-scale forum
included more about shopping for 1:600 scale in
London, a status update on the new Schuco Schabak Mould
747-400s and a look back at some rare older Schabak
models. It wasn't all quiet over on Toy Collector either, as
there were more blog posts on Limox, Revell and Socatec!
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Hope you enjoy it all and see you next month!
The Wings900 Team
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