that commenting on the striking nature of

the marking options in a given kit seems

somewhat pointless, but on the other hand,

wise marking choices play a big role in

a kit. It’s one of the first go-to things the

modeler examines on opening the box. And

in this case, there is certainly something to

look at. There are an even ten options, and

choosing one will be a tough task for each

owner of one of these kits. The kit’s name

points to the father of the strafers, i.e., light

bombers, and ground attackers equipped

with major gunfire in the nose serving as

deep penetration attack aircraft to generally shoot up enemy airfields, ships, ports

and entrenchments. One of the Mitchells

offered in the kit, named Bug’s Bunny, is the

focus of article by Rolf Stibbe.

Besides the above mentioned kits, we are

also re-releasing two older items, a 48th

scale Fw 190A-8 and a 72nd MiG-21MF.

Both of these are ProfiPACKs.

Accessories

We are releasing a bunch of items for the

Wildcat. For August, you will find a TFace

mask, covering both outer and inner surfaces of the canopy, photoetched landing

flaps, and pre-painted steel seatbelts. We

also have LööK and Space sets among

the new items, and several smaller printed accessories in the Brassin line. These

include exhausts, two types of wheels,

bronze landing gears, and one larger printed set, the cockpit with a reflector gunsight for later production blocks of the

F4F-3. A cockpit from earlier production

blocks with telescopic gunsights and a list

of other Brassin releases will follow in

September and the months after. Besides

August 2022

these Wildcat sets, we have things for other

kits as well, naturally. We have a Brassin

engine for the S-199 in 1:72, obviously applicable to the CS-199 as well, several wheel

sets for the Su-25 (Zvezda), A-1J (Tamiya)

and the EA-18G (Meng). We’ve also got

a seat for the latter. All are in 1:48th, as is

a set of Luftwaffe rudder pedals. We released a similar set in 1/72nd scale in July,

and despite getting some comments on

Facebook about us releasing useless kits,

there is above average interest in it. The

wheel well set for the Mustang is a very

nice set. This item well illustrates the usefulness of 3D printing and what it allows

the modeler to do. Among all this aircraft

stuff, we have two 1:350th scale sets for

ship modelers. We plan on releasing items

for this theme as we go forward, and it is

part of the reason why we visited several

ship museums while in the United States.

You’ll note a rarity among the LööK items

as we are releasing the first such set in

1:72nd scale and it is for the Airfix Beaufort

Mk.I. The rest are straight classics, covering the P-51D and F4F-3 from Eduard, and

Tamiya’s A-1J. It’s also straight classics in

the Space line, and besides sets for our

P-51D and Tamiya’s A-1J, we are releasing

more ship sets in 1:350th. These include US

Navy 12-inch searchlights and 5-inch/25

caliber Mk.10 guns. There are ship sets

among the Space sets that cover watertight doors for US and Royal Navy vessels of

World War Two. The remainder of the Space sets are quite common items, again for

the F4F-3 and the Fw 190A-8 from Eduard,

and two sets for the both old but very good

Tamiya P-47Ds, all in 48th.

I would like to direct your attention to

the new decal sheet for the 1:48th Tamiya

F-14A, as well as the BigEds and Big Sins

for August. Besides traditional sets in the

Big Ed line for Kinetic’s F-104C, we have

two mixed sets of Remove Before Flight

tags and two mixed sets of steel seatbelts,

one of which covers Second World War

Allied aircraft while the other covers Axis

planes. There are two Big Sin sets, for the

Tamiya F-4B and one for the Sopwith Camel powered by the Clerget engine from

Eduard. All of these are in 1:48th scale, as

are the two sets of LöökPlus for Mk.VI and

Mk. X Beaufighters from Tamiya.

And that just about wraps it for me for today. The only thing I’d add is the article from

Miro Barič, dedicated to the fifth month of

the war in Ukraine. There is also an article

covering the six stories depicted in the boxarts of August’s releases.

Finally, I have also one bit of bad news. With

respect to the climbing prices worldwide,

first and foremost energy costs, it is virtually certain that we will not be able to

avoid raising the prices of our products.

As of now, it is not certain when this will

exactly occur, but it looks like November

1st, but could even be as early as September. I thought I would mention that now and

soften the blow a little.

And despite that last bit, I wish you a pleasant read of today’s newsletter.

Happy Modelling!

Vladimir Sulc

INFO Eduard

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