EDITORIAL
Dear Friends,
March is the month when many
of our centres of attention from Nuremburg hit the market. Today marks
the official availability of our 1:48
scale Fw 190A-5 and the 1:72nd scale Limited Edition Riders In The Sky,
the subject of which is the Liberator
GR.Mk.V (with the GR. Mk.III also
represented). Details on this subject
can be gotten later in this newsletter
and if it’s not enough for you, go to
our Facebook page. Over the past
couple of weeks we have posted
an enormous amount of information about these kits and you’ll find
all the information there you could
possibly need. If you still have any
questions, please feel free to write
us. We answer any and all questions
on the matter. I am happy to answer
your questions myself and do so as
often as I can. What you may not
find out from the Facebook posts is
that these kits will be accompanied
by a slew of offers to the BFC members. This will include an expanded
assortment of markings options and
will include Liberator Mk.V BZ780
with which the well known pre-war
boxer and No.311 Squadron member Vilem Jaks perished. This is something aimed purely at the Czech
market, with possible Slovak interest
as well. Most of the Libs in the package are the same same, the main
differences being the serial number and aircraft letter. This generally applies to the entire RAF, but all
of the thirteen aircraft that are depicted in the kit have an extremely
interesting history to tell.
The BFC offering for the Fw 190A-5
Fw 190A-5/U12 gun pods
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will garner a higher level of attention
internationally and will be a more involved item. This will include cannon
pods in resin, and will include only
one marking option, though it will
be the interesting and well known
aircraft flown by Lt. Hosum of 2./JG
11 from April, 1943. This BFC item
will be a bit more expensive than
the typical offering, but given its attractiveness and layout, I think this
will be considered justified. Both of
the BFC items will become available
in all likelihood in April, and there will
be certainly more to write about in
that month’s newsletter. The March
assortment of BFC items is also expanding, and this by the BF 109G-14
of Erich Hartmann as it appeared
in January, 1945 when the aircraft
was flown by Uffz. Anton Kellmayer,
a member of 7./JG 52 based at Babolnapuszta in Hungary. Techniaclly,
it was no longer Hartmann’s machine, but it gain in appearance by the
addition of an emblem on the engine cowl and a yellow V identifier on
the wing.
After a very long absence, we are
putting the 1:48th scale Fokker D.VIII
back in circulation in March, earlier offered as the Fokker E.V. The
only modification to this relates to
the markings options. First and foremost, this covers the lozenge pa-
ttern, an integral part of most of the
options in the kit. The colours of
the hexagons have been brought to
conform with the latest information
uncovered. The final of the kits for
the month is the Weekend Edition of
the Avia Bk.534 in 1/72nd scale. This
kit is dedicated to one of the more
famous of uses of the type, that as
a testbed for landing equipment for
aircraft being planned for the aircraft carrier Graff Zeppelin.
In March, we are preparing a significant event connected to the new
MiG-21MF. A while back I committed
to attending a contest at Prostejov
and to prepare a preproduction kit
of the new MiG-21 that would be
available there. And if we were committed to making such a kit, it would
available to all those that were interested with the condition that they
attend the show to pick the kit up
personally and so become the first
modellers to won the model. Those
that order the kit by mail won’t be
able to get theirs until the beginning
of April. The model will be very specific in many ways, such as it will not
include a tree with weapons because
these will not meet the deadline for
the show. To compensate, Brassin
pylons and rockets will be included
instead. The decal sheet will be
downgraded to offer a single marking option and an instrument panel
with side consoles. There will also be
a limited number of stencil data on
this sheet. The kit will include masks
but no photoetched. In all, this may
paint this version of the kit in an unfavourable light, but I would suggest
waiting to see the actual item before
passing judgement on it.
As far as accessory sets that go on
sale today are concerned, I would
point out the collection of brass
items for the B-2A where first and
foremost the wheel wells and bomb
bay are covered. A very comprehensive collection of four photoetched
sets and a mask set are available
for ICM’s He 111H-3 in 1:48th scale.
INFO Eduard - March 2018