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Info Eduard - July 2011
EDITORIAL
Our MiG Year has slowly rolled into its second
half. If anyone among you has been pondering
something along the lines that there have seen
enough MiGs, than rest assured, that that is not
the case! We are carrying on with the same theme
here in July, with the release of the MiG-21MF
Weekend Edition. And since there are certainly
other MiG types in the world besides the MiG-
21MF, this kit will be accompanied by the Limited
Edition MiG-29A. This is not a new kit, it’s the
older Academy offering supplemented by our
brass and Brassin accessories, along with a decal
sheet produced by Cartograf, as is the common
practice with our Limited Edition releases. We’ll
take a bit of a rest from the MiGs in August.
As you are probably already well aware, August
is reserved for our 1/72nd scale Hellcat. The rst
will be the dash 3, and will be released along
with, likely for the last time, the now somewhat
archaic 1/48th scale Tempest.
In September, we will return to the MiGs,
as a Limited Edition kit of the MiG-21MF in
Czechoslovak service. And to keep it from
being too simple, it will cover service with
Czechoslovakia, The Czech Republic, and
Slovakia. One of the ten offered marking
options included covers ‘Lovec Tygru’ (‘Tiger
Hunter’), well known for carrying our company
logo on the n. Also included will be the logo
and an art print of the aircraft by Pavel Rampir.
In October, we will be releasing the Weekend
Edition of the MiG-21SMT, along with a Limited
Edition boxing of the MiG-29UB. The end of the
year should see the release of our MiG-21bis,
but that’s a bit of a way off yet.
July also sees MiG-21 special theme offer
on our website, in the form of plastic and
photoetched components for sale for the MiG-
21MF and the MiG-21SMT under the Overtrees
name. This is a product offer for those who
already have our MiG-21, and who wants
to build more versions using the other decal
options, or using the decals produced by other
manufacturers. The kit contains plastic and
photo-etch parts and mask only, no decals, no
instructions. You can nd the purchase conditions
on www.eduard.cz.
Despite the onslaught of the holidays, we
still have a good offering of new photoetched
brass sets for this month. We have continued to
focus on ships, for which we have four new sets
this month, two of them covering railing types.
Interesting among ship modelers will be a color
set of life rafts. In the aircraft category, we have
nally nished the 1/32nd scale SUFA, the F-16I
from Academy. Also in 1/32nd scale, we have
a set for the Hawk Mk. 53 from Revell, and two
sets for the Bf 109E-4 from Dragon. Notice that
we don’t disregard the competition!
In 1/48th scale sets, I would like to direct
your attention to the S-2E Tracker by Kinetic,
not to be confused with the set released for
Italeri’s S-3 Viking! Also worthy of pointing out
is the set for the Pilatus PC-6 from Roden, and
two sets covering the Tornado ECR from Hobby
Boss. In 1/35th, we have two sets covering the
Nashorn by AFV Club, three for the Merkava by
Hobby Boss and, especially noteworthy, another
set covering plants in the form of eld owers,
butteries and bugs. Who knew? Butteries
and bugs in 35th!......evidently a popular brass
subject. Take a wild stab at which PE set we
sold out rst of at ModellBrno. If you said the
Sunower set, you’d be bang on, followed
closely by the Grape Vines, and the most
frequently asked question was about a release
plan for water reeds.
Other items that went like hotcakes at Brno
were MiG-21 Brassin sets. It sould appear that
nothing for the MiG-21 disappoints. In August,
we will be releasing another MiG set, the rst of
Brassin cockpits for the type. However, we are in
July, and this month sees the release of a Brassin
Radar Set for the F-16.
The Brno experience for us was a good one,
with the usual crowds conrming your interest in
our products. The dinner hour was occupied by
the usual conversation surrounding the impending
demise of our hobby, but there was no evidence
of a crisis at the show itself. As I noted earlier,
interest at our stall was large, even frenzied.
Display kits also hinted at no crisis. Unofcially,
there were some 3,000 entries. I would tend to
believe the number. First of all, the boys from
Brno know how to count really, really high, and
secondly, I had a lot of work to do to make
sure that I could get a look at everything on
the display tables. In connection to the Czech
Republic Junior Championship, which was
a part of the ModellBrno agenda, there was
(yet again) talk of the lack of new blood in
the hobby. Well, that may always be the case,
as there is an uncomfortably large amount of
distraction in the world vying for the attention
of young people. Even I bought my son ‘Rise