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Info Eduard - September 2010
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The US IPMS NATS weren’t
too busy this year. Frankly
speaking, it was very slow and
some days, such as Thursday
and Friday, were quite long for
all us vendors in the hall. There
were less modelers, evidently,
and even Johnny Vojtech
decided to stay home, which, for me, is akin to
Roger Federer not playing in the US Open. To
be an editor of an economic magazine, I have
to arm myself with a healthy skepticism to get a
general feel for the future of our business, and
taking note of all of this summer’s business
activities, it seems like the depression is back.
Fortunately, I am only an amateur, so I can
afford myself the luxury of optimism. I believe
the show this year was as slow as it was if only
due to the excessively hot weather, coupled
with the hesitation for people to travel to the
opposite coast. In any case, although the show was
relatively quiet, we engaged in the traditional discussions
about our approach to kit and accessory design, and we
received much useful feedback, as usual. I must admit
that such face to face interaction at these shows is
innitely more preferable to the internet forums.
Summer is slowly drawing to a close, and we can turn
our attention to the work at hand for the fall, notably in
regards to E-day. E-day is close; it will be in Prague on
September 18th-19th, 2010. The weather around E-day
is always nice, not too hot, not too cold, usually sunny,
which is not the main difference comparing E-day and the
other European shows to the Nationals. These European
shows are much more intensive, they run one or two
days only, and everyone has a lot of things to do during
that relatively short period of time, maybe because the
European modeler´s average age seems to be much
lower. We are ready for E-day, and hope that Zdenek
Sebesta will not follow Johnny’s lead and stay home!
Another traditional celebration was last week in
Kovarska, on Saturday, September 11, 2010. This
celebration commemorates the 66th anniversary of the
probably biggest air battle over Czech territory during
World War II. It occurred on September 11th, 1944,
with huge material and personal losses on the side of
the USAAF as well as the Luftwaffe. Many World War
II veteran pilots and other air crew of all nations come
together at Kovarska every year, which is a very good
reason for others to come to Kovarska too, if not this
year then in the coming years. I suspect it is one of the
last occasions to meet WWII pilots and to talk with them
personally. Unfortunately, there will be less and less such
occasions in future years.
One kit release looks promising considering the slow
summer, the quarter scale Su-25K in the Limited edition
boxing. This is one of the Limited kits, which tend to sell
out very quickly, actually within about ten days. There
are just a couple of boxes remaining for availability for
E-day. Although you will surely nd the usual discussions
of all that is wrong with this kit and what we could’ve done
better (much better), if you intend to buy this kit, don’t
hesitate. They will be available through September, and
then become rare and expensive items after that. All three
already released Sukhois fall into this category, and I´m
sure that the next one, the Su-22M4, will be among them.
One of the important highlights of these kits is the
Brassin accessories. The most frequent question of the
past several months is if we will release these accessories
in the Brassin line as well. Yes, we will, at least the seats.
But later, probably early next year, after all the Sukhois
are denitively gone from the shops.
We activated our new CNC milling machine in late
August, with basic crew training. The rst test jobs
look magnicent, with a monumental leap over the old
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