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Subscriptions
Our program of repackaged Limited Edition
kits, those that are formed around other
manufacturer’s plastic, is very ambitious for
this year. There is one development that puts
us down a necessary road. We pay for most of
the sprues we buy in advance, several months
in advance and sometimes even nine months
before the release of the model. This is why
there are usually only a few large projects of
this magnitude in our release schedule, with
lengthy gaps between them, often several
months. In order to manage this and to be
able to afford to do bigger, more challenging
projects and possibly do more of them, we've
decided to start a subscription program
for some of the Limited Edition kits. We will
gradually release information as to which kits
they will be and what the specific conditions
of the subscription are on our Facebook page
and from mailings. Of course, we will offer
significant benefits to subscribers, and to
boot, if you join our subscription program,
you will help us make our offer of interesting
kits more attractive and frequent. The goal is
a win-win situation that I am confident it can
be achieved.
Shows
In mid-January, we will be at the Hradecky
Lev (Hradecky Lion) exhibition in Hradec
Králové in the Czech Republic. I cordially
invite you to our tables. We'll have our full
range there, including the Gunze paint range,
although it's getting a little thin again right
now.
January 30th to February 3rd, we are at the
Nuremberg Toy Fair, and this time, I think we
can go back to calling the visit ‘traditional’.
This time we will have a setup to ourselves
again, our colleagues from Special Hobby
have, like us, reason enough for their own.
We will use the space to organize a series of
lectures or, perhaps more accurately, press
conferences. Instead of one press conference
that we held in one of the conference rooms
before covid, we will hold three separate
conferences right at our booth. The main
reason is that in the past, we couldn't find
a date that suited all of our partners, so there
was always someone missing. I would even
venture to say that those who were absent
numbered more than those who were in
attendance. So we changed the schedule and
are offering three dates and times instead of
one. In this editorial, I have offered several
reasons to visit us and a number of topics for
discussion. I look forward to seeing you!
Articles
In addition to the usual and now mandatory
by popular demand Boxart Stories and the
continuation of the Air War in Ukraine, today
we bring you an article about the usage of
our Space items by Jakub Nademlejnský, an
interview with Honza Bobek, who describes
the origins of the Eduard bunnies and the
personality of their creator, and a technical-
historical article about the development of
the Bf 109 G-6. It was written by yours truly,
and took almost the entire autumn to put
together, when I wasn't on the road, and you
will find interesting information and some
lesser-known facts in it, as did I putting it
together. The original article has now been
split into two parts, because it is simply, but
necessarily, that long and publishing it in its
entirety would be both difficult to prepare
and a long read. And we don't want to put you
to sleep, even though several readers have
already told me that they take the newsletter
to bed as their end-of-the-day ritual. The
second part is ready, we will add some
pictures to it and post it in the February issue.
It will mainly be about the high-altitude Bf 109
G-5, the Bf 109 G-14, as well as the photo-
reconnaissance versions of the Bf 109 G-6 and
the photo-reconnaissance specific Bf 109 G-8.
These are versions that I have long considered
marginal and essentially uninteresting, and
working on this article made me realize that
my impression was incorrect. So now, I wish
you all a pleasant read and I hope you glean
a lot of new and interesting bits of information!
Happy Modelling!
Vladimir Sulc
INFO Eduard
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January 2024