EDITORIAL

Dear friends and fellow modellers,

Greetings from Bavaria‘s Nuremberg, our stall numbered B75

in Hall 7. That is our complete location where we can be found at the

toy fair today, tomorrow and the day

after, with the short exception of Friday between 1:30 and 3:30 in the afternoon. Between those hours, our

entire contingent will be conducting

our traditional press conference

in the Stockholm room in the Service Centre North section. We invite

everyone who attends the Nuremberg Toy Fair to come by and visit!

Our stall is this year decorated

in the spirit of the seventies in keeping with the main attraction of our

display, the 1/72 scale MiG-21MF.

It’s release is coming up fast, and

it is slated for May 1st, an appropriate date for such an item. Nuremberg

offers the first actual look at the

plastic in person and is well worth

it because, as we all know, no amount

of CAD drawings, screenshots, Facebook posts or similar such modern

little technical BS is any substitute

for a little cuddle with freshly pressed plastic. In this case, the plastic is still nice ‚n warm, as the first

of these came off the machines immediately before departure to the

fair. The plastic for other significant

new items planned for 2018 are not

yet being displayed, but their time

will come at shows over the second

half of the year. In all likelihood, the

Bf 109G-10 will be introduced at Kit

Salon Nymburk in Lysa nad Labem

and will be available for purchase

at the IPMS Nationals in Phoenix,

Arizona. The Tempest will come at

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E-day on September 28, 2018, also

at Lysa nad Labem.

We do have some other fresh new

releases with us to show in Nuremberg, starting off with the MERSU

and the Spitfire HF Mk.VIII, which are

new for February. You can read more

about these items in this newsletter.

Of course, we are not neglecting

the newly tooled line of 48th scale

Fw 190As, and besides the already

released versions, we are preparing

a new one, the two-cannon Fw

190A-5, for March. And while on the

subject of March releases, another

of our little gems can be viewed, this

being the RIDERS IN THE SKY 1944

Limited Edition boxing dedicated to

the Liberator GR Mk.III and GR Mk.V

in Coastal Command RAF service

from 1943 to 1945. The major part

of the decal sheet and the accompanying publication will be dedicated

to No.311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron,

which will probably be easily forgiven by the home market. As a sidenote, a former radar operator from

1943 on on these aircraft, Mr. Kafka of said squadron, visited Eduard

in January. A description of his visit

and a little about the man himself

is included in this newsletter along

with the relevant introduction to the

model kit being developed.

Most of the attention of modellers, the press and retailers at

shows is directed at model kits.

Accessories, photoetched sets, masks and Brassins usually stay in their

shadows despite being the most significant parts of our catalogue. This

is because they tend to operate on

a quantitative level, and it’s rare for

an aftermarket product to evoke the

same level of intensive discussion.

This year, we have no shortage

of items in this category with two

new lines of products that hold

pretty high promise. The first of

these are T-FACE masks that are

applicable to both the outside and

inside surfaces of clear parts and you

can now try these out for yourselves

as the first ones are being released

for Revell’s 1/32 scale Mustang.

These have been available since January, but in the beginning were not

labelled as such. The second line,

although still in the pre-production

development stage, shines by virtue

of its potential to significantly raise

the level of any model you set out

to build. These will hit the market

through the second quarter of the

current year under the name EDUARD LOOK. And what exactly is this,

you ask? It is a combination of current generation coloured steel seatbelts and coloured resin instrument

panels. The belts are pre-painted,

as noted, and weathered and the

panels, besides also being pre-painted, have lenses over the instrument

dials. The packages will typically

include the instrument panel, easily

installed in the model without the

need of cutting, grinding or sanding,

and a set of belts for which the same

can be said. Both will be well visible

in their appropriate kits, and both

will substantially raise the standard

of the model without major work

and at a reasonable expense. What

else can be offered? Well, at the

moment, we are contemplating the

inclusion of gunsights, so it appears

that there is always the potential to

INFO Eduard - February 2018