Strana 4
Dear Friends,
Today we have 52 days to go until the start of E
-
Day, so it‘s
high time to talk as much as possible about what awaits
us this time around. You probably know the basics by now.
We start on Friday, June 26th in the evening, and end on
Sunday, June 28th in the afternoon. Friday evening will,
as usual, be a warm-up for the early birds, with model
registration opening at 5pm. We will only have time
to focus on one item from the program on Friday, the
presentation of Eduard‘s new products for the rest of this
year. Catering will be available for the rest of the evening,
provided, as last year, by members of the military history
club of the 97th Infantry Division of the US Army from
Litoměřice. On Saturday, catering will be strengthened
by additional entities, the Café by the Lake will be open,
which will again be included in our program, the Brno
Air Café will have its stand at the exhibition, and several
other businesses will also be added offering ice cream
and other snack items, and the cafeteria opposite Hall
G will also be open. It will most likely be warm, maybe
even hot, so refreshments will be useful. However, it may
also rain, so we will have covered spaces in the NS Hall
on standby, if needed.
Saturday
We start at nine o‘clock in the morning on Saturday.
The parking lot will be secured just like last year, the
parking fee and the entrance fee are valid for both days,
which means that if you pay on Saturday, you don‘t pay on
Sunday unless you lose your identification band. Unlike
previous years, this year BFC members will also pay
an entrance fee. Before you start chewing me out, read
the following first. BFC members will receive a special
admittance kit, different from other visitors. It is a 48th
scale model aircraft. We also have a admittane kit for
non-BFC members, in this case it is a 1:144 scale plane.
This indicates that there still is a unique admittance
for BFC members. The entrance fee is still not paid by
participating modelers, who will again receive a unique
‘participant’s kit’. If a BFC member is an exhibiting
modeler, he also does not pay an entrance fee, and he
will also receive a participant kit. If a BFC member would
like to add a ticket model to it, they can voluntarily pay
the entrance fee and then they will receive the ticket
model as well. I will not reveal the types of ticket and
participant kits to you just now. As is our custom, we
keep them secret until the start of the event. That is, until
Friday, June 26.
Workshops
On Saturday, the program will have a significantly
higher pace. Workshops will be held in Hall A, six of
which will be on Saturday and two on Sunday. The
workshops will include a presentation of new Gunze
paints and weathering materials by Jozef Blazek,
building a new Hybrid P-51B Mustang in 1:32 scale with
Jan Baranec, a demo on working with ultrasonic knives
from the Japanese company Echotech hosted by Daisuke
Yanagimoto, painting figures with Jan Merhaut, another
workshop will be led by Lukas Deml, and we are also
counting on a presentation of new products in 3D printing
with Petr Silhanek, owner of the company Part2Print.
The Pot Q & A
There will be big discussions and presentations in
Hall G. We will start on Saturday with the presentation
of Eduard releases, followed by other sessions, the first
dedicated to Eduard, moderated by Jindrich Sterbacek
and hosted by me, the second dedicated to Special Hobby,
moderated by Petr Švihovec and my guest Alfred Riedel.
We still have room for one more discussion with a foreign
participant, but he is not yet confirmed, so I will tell you
about him in the June editorial. For Sunday, we are
leaving the presentation and discussion on the Eduard
Hybrid series and the new P-51B Mustang kit in 1:32 scale.
It will first be in Czech for the locals that come to E-day,
and then in English for foreign visitors.
Discussions by the Lake
Compared to last year, there will be fewer large
discussions in Hall G. The large discussions will, like
last year, be supplemented by shorter interviews with
guests in the Cafe by the Lake location. That is the
café right behind Hall G. Last year, the interviews in
the café took place at the same time as the program in
Hall G, which somehow interfered with each other both
in terms of time and sound. This year, we will do it so
that the programs in these two locations do not overlap,
but complement each other. We assume that it will be
somewhat more relaxed, and it will give visitors a better
chance to complete more points of interest offered by
the program than they were able to in the somewhat
hectic program of the one-day event. In the interviews
in the café, you can listen to other Czech producers,
such as Petr Muzikant, owner of the company AZ / KP,
Stanislav Rieger from Aires and Jiri Bodecek, owner
of the company Boa. Guests will also include Jaroslav
Hajecek, director of the Czech representation of Bell,
Lebanese modeler and Airbus A-350 captain Karim Bibi,
Lubos Kuna, member of the SMCzR board and also the
man without whose service no model competition in the
Czech Republic can do without, Italian modelers Paolo
Portuezi and Fabio Besani, café owner and collector
Albert Kronek, figurine manufacturer and book publisher
Pavel Beranek… and I could go on.
Model Club Presentations
Compared to last year, two more halls will be available
this year. In one of them, in Hall S, model clubs with their
presentations will be the focus of attention. Some of the
clubs will participate in a performance led by Petr Vacek,
the purpose of which will be to present model work to
the non-modeling public. If you are not quite sure what to
expect from this activity, don‘t worry, I feel the same way,
but given Petr Vacek‘s abilities and personality, I am quite
sure that it will be a good investment in your time. If it‘s
stimulating a curiosity in you, go to Hall T and see what
it’s about. You will definitely meet many of your friends
there and I am sure that you will not be bored there.
Raffle
The Saturday program will conclude with a raffle.
After last year‘s experience and positive response, we
decided to expand the raffle. We have been able to secure
a number of valuable prizes, such as paintings, aircraft
parts and unique model kits. I will not hide the fact that
we have been eyeing raffle announcements at foreign
exhibitions for some time now, where the Japanese are
the real masters in this field, who can turn the raffle
announcement into a great show. So we decided to try it
too and prepare a great show. It will start on Saturday at
4:00pm in Hall G. When it ends, the afterparty will begin
in the catering area, again provided by our partners from
the 97th Infantry Division. The program will also include
a tasting of rums by Mr. Albert Kronek, the owner of the
Brno bar and Air Café.
Sunday. Awards Presentations
and Tours
On Sunday, we will be taking the foot off the gas
pedal a bit. In addition to the already mentioned double
presentation of the Hybrid series and the new P-51B
in 1:32, we have two trips prepared. These are optional,
only for those who are interested in historical events
and memorable places. The first is to the battlefields of
EDITORIAL
INFO Eduard4
May 2026