EDITORIAL

Dear fellow modelers,

After a two-year hiatus, forced by the pandemic and lockdowns that came with it, this

year the E-day is returning to the calendar

of the top scale modeling events. It will

take place on October 1 in the new exibition hall at the Milovice Tank Training Area.

The doors will already open on Friday afternoon, same as in the previous event in

2019. Besides the possibility of the advance

shopping at the vendors booths the Friday’s prelude will also offer the opportunity

to meet some interesting guests. First one

will be Jiří Šilhánek, the founder and owner

of Special Hobby company who will share

with us the insider’s view of our industry.

Those of you who attended Jiri’s show in

2019 know that they will experience another suggestive narrative and incredible

stories. Another guest on Friday evening

will be Jaroslav Velc, well known aviation

artist and another legend of the industry

who will present his book “In the Clouds”.

This book contains all his artwork applied

as the boxart for the plastic scale models and its presentation and sales will be

launched during the main program on Saturday. Since we anticipate that the majority of attendants of the Friday’s chat with the

author will want to purchase the book and

have it signed by him we will arrange the

sales on Friday. The book will be offered at

special price of 1,700 Kč, discounted from

the regular retail price of 2,200 Kč. The third Friday’s guest will be Milan Mikulecký.

On Saturday he will fly over the Milovice

Tank Training Areain Zlin Z-326MTrener

Master registered OK-OTP and carrying the

military fuselage number 0612 and at least

part of the chat with him will be focused

on this particular airplane. Its livery will

Both subjects of this photo will be at this year's E-day. One in person, the other as a kit.

be included in our Trener Master LIMITED

Edition kit which sales will be launched at

E-day. Milan is not only a pilot. He is also

getting quite a recognition as a military and

political analyst commenting on the Ukrainian conflict, besides other topics. I will not

conceal that I am one of his followers and

that it was one of the reasons why I invited

him to E-day. I am sure that interview with

him will be anything but boring.

On Saturday the program will be aligned

with our traditions. Besides launching

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Jaroslav Velc byl průkopníkem leteckého výtvarnictví u nás a patří v tomto oboru ke světové špičce. Jeho ilustrace na obalech stavebnic modelů

znají nadšenci letectví po celém světě.

Mnohé z jeho ilustrací se mezi nimi staly

kultovními a dodnes je tento výtvarník

pro většinu autorů leteckých ilustrací

velkým vzorem.

mální věrností, dokáže dodat strojům

trojrozměrnost, dynamiku pohybu a vytvořit dokonalou iluzi prostoru.

Ve své době vytvářel boxarty nejen

pro české výrobce leteckých modelů (Kovozávody Prostějov, Směr, OEZ

Letohrad, …), ale i pro řadu zahraničních výrobců (Monogram, Matchbox,

Revell). Kromě toho přispíval do časopisů ABC mladých techniků a přírodovědců, Letectví a kosmonautika a dalších.

Jeho méně známou celoživotní zálibou

je entomologie. I na toto téma namaloval řadu krásných ilustrací, vlastní rozsáhlou sbírku motýlů a brouků a disponuje obdivuhodnými znalostmi z tohoto

oboru.

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Mr.Velc’s book and the morning presentation of the new Eduard projects two “Hot

Spot“ debates (a.k.a. „boiling kettles“) will

take place. The first one will be moderated by myself and will follow up on our new

items‘ presentation, Eduard’s evolution during the past three years, about our plans,

projects, innovations and the future in general. The second “Hot Spot” will be moderated by Freddy Riedel from Special Hobby

and will be focused on their plans, projects

and company’s future. Further on the schedule there will be various workshops either

organized by our company or other exhibiting companies, like already mentioned

Jaroslav Velc’s book kick off held together

with its co-author Ondřej Neff. This will be

followed by authors signing the book. We

are also preparing the flight demonstration. This year it will be all about Treners,

mainly because our „Trener Master“ LIMITED Edition is one of our top new releases

announced at E-day.

In the light of the recent tragic Hurricane crash in Cheb unfortunatelly I have to

say that the plans for the air display has

not been fully set yet and the cancellation is still possible. Should that happen we

have arranged for the similarly attractive

“ground option” which will be the part of our

Saturday’s schedule. At the end of the day

the traditional announcement of the mode-

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INFO Eduard

September 2022