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EDITORIAL
Good evening, dear Friends,
We've had a hectic March. I understand that
it might not seem that way to you, but every
bar looks different from the dining room than
it does from the kitchen. In order for the view
from the dining room, in other words, from you,
the customers, to be positive, the staff in the
kitchen (us), has little choice but to be very busy.
So, hectic is good. The goal of the kitchen staff is
to have a dining room full of satisfied guests, and
that is also the case with us. A proven method is
to bring new ideas and new stimuli to the table.
In our case, we also launched a mobile canteen,
with which we went to one exhibition every week
through March. We've never done that in the past.
There was some doubt as to whether or not it
was even manageable, and it turned out to be
just that. So we set out for Verona, Bytom, Prosek
and Prostejov, and all in all, the time and effort
invested was well worth it, certainly at least for
those of us who attended and prepared those
exhibitions. Our customers liked it, they looked
satisfied, no one complained, so we will continue
with our event participation program. The rest of
the year will be a little more subdued and in April,
we are going to only one exhibition, in Moson.
But I won't be there, I'm going to a wedding on
the same date. Martina Kurakovais getting
married, and she is a shareholder in Eduard,
making her my business partner, and is also the
chief technologist of our tool shop, the lady who
is largely responsible for the appearance of our
kits. She is marrying Mr. Ladislav Jonáš. This is
the man who designed, among others, the Focke-
Wulf Fw 190 and all the Spitfires that Eduard
has produced. He is also responsible for the
MiG-21s, including the upcoming MiG-21F. Now
he's constructing another sweet little item, but
I won't tell you what that is just yet. We will have
plenty of time for that later.
In Prostějov, our exhibition and production
activities were closely related. During March,
we completed all the molds for the P-51B
Mustang in 1:48th, we also completed other
operations necessary for the release of kits,
such as the design and start of production of
decals, instructions, photoetched, masks and the
basic Brassin sets. So right now we're ready to
release the Mustang, and we've been hitting the
market in March to see what customers think.
And customers like it, which is very positive
news after two years of no one ripping down
walls to get at new kits. This is also new to
our operations. At the beginning of March, pre-
orders of the Royal Class P-51B took place with
an unexpectedly good result, which saw us reach
almost 4000 ordered items. This is significantly
more than the usual sales of kits of this series
released so far. It shows that the modellers'
demand for the restoration of the Royal Class line
has a solid foundation and that I was wrong to
underestimate the call. We then took a hundred
boxes of this tasty little Mustang morcel in white
boxes to Prostejov, where we sold them all, plus
54 Overtrees. In Moson, similar activities will be
repeated, because the new releases for May will
be on sale there, and they will again be mainly
about the Mustang!
April Releases
In April, we are releasing another Gustav,
a Limited Edition kit dedicated to the late versions
of the Bf 109 G-6 and Bf 109 G-14. I understand that
the 72nd scale kits are perhaps getting a little old
for some people who see them as nothing special,
but I'd say that the opposite is, in fact, true. The
version of the Bf 109 G, which the kit is dedicated
to, has not been taken seriously by anyone yet,
really. There are some G-14 kits out there, but
they are quite old, and the late G-6 versions,
the Erla canopy and tall rudder machines, or
a combination of the two, have been more or
less avoided by most serious manufacturers.
However, we will not be accused of dropping
the ball on these aircraft. If we're going to make
these Messerschmitts, we're going to make them
properly. As well as the Wildcat, one more of
which, the late version F4F-4, we are releasing
in Profipack form (1/48th) also in April, along with
the Fokker E.III in the Weekend line, and again, in
1:48th. Plus a lot of photoetched, masks, Brassins
and other accessories, as you will see as you
scroll down the pages of this month’s newsletter.
Hyperscale
As promised, I started a discussion on
Hyperscale. The beginning was quite a rush, and
I admit that I found it difficult to keep up, but now
things have simmered down a bit. I'd say we get
along with the modelers rather nicely, I've only
had two minor misunderstandings so far, and
that's better than it was in my early days other
forums. The only snag is one thread where we
are dealing with how the wing should look on
the Mustang. It's about whether it should be
completely smooth or whether it can have panel
INFO Eduard4
April 2024