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Jiří Šilhánek, owner of Special Hobby, one of the stars of the Friday evening meeting at E-day 2022.

you can build the French, British, Spanish,

Swiss, German and even Icelandic aircraft.

Four schemes are dedicated to the Czech

aircraft, two of them in the military camouflage and markings. One is the authentic

military aircraft painted in aluminum dope

overall and carrying the fuselage number

0572. Later it was swapped for Z-22 from

Belgium. The second aircraft registred

OK-OTP has been restored to the authentic

appearance of the military version C-305

with code 0612. That is the airplane Milan

Mikulecký will fly over the Tank Training

Areaon Saturday. The remaining two Czech

airplanes are Z-326M OK-OTA based in

Prostějov and Z-326M OK-OTF with which

I have an emotional relationship since I had

a privilege to take a ride in it in 2019. I have

to admit that it was one of my nicest flying experiences ever. We flew over Most as

an escort to Lockheed Electra and it was

just fabulous. This is the very first issue

of Z-326 version and the kit will be sold in

DUAL COMBO edition, it is with two complete sets of plastic parts.

There is another first issue being released

in October as a Limited Edition, 1/48 scale

DUAL COMBO named MIDWAY. It is in fact

a Wildcat in versions F4F-3 and F4F-4. The

kit is a world premiere, specifically of the

F4F-4 version which the modeling community is eagerly awaiting due to its combat

Ldg. Sea. Kenji Yanagiya, Kōkūtai 204, Rabaul

base, New Britain, April 1943

c/n 3018, Tainan Kōkūtai,

Buna airfield, New Guinea,

August 1942

PO1c Kyoshi Itō, 3. Kōkūtai, Koepang airfield,

Timor Island, September 1942

Zuikaku Fighter Squadron,

aircraft carrier Zuikaku,

October 1942

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CPO Takeo Tanimizu, Tainan Kōkūtai (II),

Tainan airbase, Taiwan, September 1944

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ling contest winners will be made including

the “Best of Show” winner for whom we

prepared a newly designed award.

The modelers who will exhibit their work

will have the separate access to the building. Them as well as the vendors will be

able to park their cars on the newly built

parking space close to the hall. The visitors

will be able to use the original parking lot,

same as during our Mustang airshow in

2019. There will be shuttle service between

the parking lot and the exhibition hall, or

the visitors can just simply walk over. For

visitors arriving by train in the morning we

will arrange a bus shuttle from Lysá nad

Labem train station and the Tank Training

Area and back to train station in the afternoon. The catering is important part of the

whole event and this year the Tank Training

Area itself will be mostly in charge. Three

refreshment stalls are being planned plus

a larger, restaurant-style catering. Already traditional cafeteria “Air Café” from Brno

will be present indoors.

An integral part of every scale models exhibition and competition are the vendors and

manufacturers booths selling kits, accessories, paint, tools and other equipment.

I cannot speak for other manufacturers

and vendors, but I can reveal the new items

you will find at our tables. Despite the fact

we did not manage to finish 1/48 Mi-24V

kit which we were planning and preparing

specifically for this year‘s E-day our offer

of the new releases will be attractive regardless. In the lieu of absent Hind the top

product targeting domestic market wil be

1/48 scale TRENER MASTER in the LIMITED

series. Zlin Z-326/C-305, the first Trener

version featuring the retractable landing

gear will be offered in ten color schemes.

This aircraft was developed according to

the Czechoslovak Air Force requirements

for the basic pilot training and even though

only ten of them ultimately flew in the

Czechoslovak AF it was extensively exported and its versions Z-326, Z-326M and

Z-326MF are still flying in many countries

around the world. Long lasting successfull

flying career of the popular “threehundredandfives“ around the World is reflected

in the choice of kit markings out of which

record in the Battle of Midway. It is kind of

double premiere so to speak. The kit provides decals for ten aircraft from the period

starting 1940 until June 1942 and half of the

markings feature F4F-3 type. There is one

aircraft in the colorful pre-war scheme,

other two are from the Wake Atoll defense period, escort of the Doolittle bombers

upon their launch for the raid on Tokyo,

another one is from the time of Battle of the

Coral Sea and the last F4F-3, in this case

the only F4F-3A version in this selection,

is from the time of the raid on Marshall and

Gilbert Archipelagos. The remaining five

aircraft are F4F-4 versions coming altogether from the initial production blocks (so

called Early version). They appear as they

fought in the Battle of Midway as well as

in the preceding engagements. Two of the

markings are even presented in two variations. The choice of camouflage and markings is very diverse because during this

period the changes of orders were made

rather frequently. The introduction in the

kit instruction sheet was writted by a well-known aviation historian Tom Cleaver and

even though I am aware the majority of modelers do not read it this text is highly recommended. It is nicely written Wildcat story

within the context of a challenging period of

time. Same is true about the texts accompanying the color instructions.

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