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Info Eduard - August 2010
Today’s editorial is fairly unusual, becau-
se I am not writing it in my home office,
or the kitchen and bedroom, where I’ve
tended to write these in recent months, but
on board KLM Flight 669 some 38 000 feet
over the Atlantic. I’m flying with our team to
Phoenix, Arizona to celebrate my birthday.
Well, of course, the reason for our trip are
the US IPMS Nationals, my Thursday birthday is just
a bonus. However, at my age, it is nothing to celebrate,
so I will be fully focused on discussions with modelers,
as every year.
I hope we will be finally able to issue this August’s
info more quickly than the July issue. I’m very sorry
for the July delay. As it is very often with new projects,
we underestimated how difficult the new form
of the newsletter could be, especially with the English
translation. I trust we will be able to eliminate all, and for
us, new, troubles, and report our activities in real time.
Our new Youtube advertisement for the 1/48th scale
OEFFAG was introduced also in late July, and it seems
it quickly became very popular, much more than we
expected. However, some people doubt the real kit will
be really so easy to build. I can promise that, yes, it will.
The OEFFAG is maybe our first kit release, where all
of the theoretical premises regarding fit were fulfilled at
100%, and the kit fits exceptionally well. There is no
doubt in my mind that there will be some very important
shape problem, such as wrong proportions of seat, or
the size of the wheels, but I must confess that the fit and
sharpness of the parts are my personal quality criterion.
That’s not to say the exact shape is not important, surely
it is, but there will be always too many individual points
of view and individual interpretations of various historical
and technical aspects, that there must be that discussion
forever. Which is not a bad thing, such discussion pushes
the evolution ahead, although it seems the more we learn
on a specific subject, more questions arise. Which is
nice, it gives our bunnies a good chance for a long life.
You can see the beautiful OEFFAG built by Slava Vanous
in this newsletter, and we all here at Eduard think it is
a magnificent job by Slava. I personally hope he will be so
kind and he will prepare an article about his approach to
model building, it could be highly interesting, I think.
The first August working day was extremely important
for Eduard. That day, we received our new CNC milling
machine, which will take the center position in our future
kit and Brassin development. This machine is exceptional
not only for its weight, which comes in at 9 tons, but it
also represents the biggest investment in an individual
machine in company history. We expect it will help us
very much with timing of our new projects, as well with
the quality of the final items. However, we expect that we
will need some time, at least a couple of months, to fully
integrate the new machine into our process, and to allow
us to fully employ all advantages of the new machine.
To understand this well, it needs to be realized that this
new machine is two generations ahead of our topically
used CNC milling machines, and the new machine has
many processes that are automated, and it works faster
and much more precisely. The accuracy of the milling is
about one decimal place higher than the old machine,
and this fact alone gives us a big chance to make much
better kits than in the past with respect to the fit and
quality of the details and surface.
Except for the new machine installation, the summer
period is usually not super exciting, unless you book your
Greek vacation through a tourism office on the verge
of collapse! I was with my wife in Norway. It was fine,
maybe a little bit cooler, which I can now balance out
in Arizona. Weather its hot or cold where you are, I hope
you enjoy the Eduard August newsletter!
Vladimir Sulc
Instruction sheet,
pictures and more
information
www.eduard.com
Vol. 10 Sunday 15 August 2010 Issue 8
New CNC milling machine
Bf 109E-1: Wanderzirkus Janke
Oeffag once again...
Medallion of pilot Franta Toman
Be ready for E-Day
New CNC machine already in its place, under the care of engineers.
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