The list of Eduard’s new products being released at E-day is not over. There is a Zero,

Hamp in fact because the Americans considered the A6M3 Model 32 a new type of

aircraft and therefore gave it an individual

code name. A6M3 Zero kit will be sold as

1/48 scale Profipack edition. Decals will feature five aircraft representing the variety

of camouflage and markings of this Zero

version during the various stages of its

combat career. Indeed, its career was very

colorful when it comes to both the aircraft

missions they flew and coloration they

sported. The markings have been produced

again in cooperation with the renowned researchers incorporating several new facts

unearthed recently.

The list of kits being prepared for E-day

include 1/48 scale Fw 190A-8 in WEEKEND

edition featuring four unusual schemes:

Lt. Luck‘s aircraft from Il/JG 1 during the

fighting over Germany in the spring of 1944,

Uffz. Pape‘s aircraft from JGr. 10 featuring

the snake artwork on the side of the fuselage, Uffz. Birk‘s aircraft from III./JG 5 from

Norway in the spring of 1945 and the personal aircraft of Major Kennel, commander of

the II./SG 2 fighter-bomber unit. The last of

the five new releases is the reissue of the

1/72 scale Mig-21PFM in Profipack edition.

The decal sheet will offer markings for five

airplanes, two Czechoslovak, one Egyptian, one Vietnamese and one from German

Bundesluftwaffe from the period of Germany unification. Besides the model kits there

will be a plethora of the aftermarket items

presented at E-day, obviously for the new

upcoming kits in the first place. Among

them there will be a wheel well for Wildcat

or the tailwheel for Zero model 32 with the

complete installation enabling a modeler

to show this detail on the opened fuselage

tail cone. There will be Brassin and PE sets

including the nozzles for Meng F/A-18E/F,

sets for 1/48 scale Tamiya P-38J Lightning

including the rivets from Eddie the Riveter

series, new Look and Space sets and also

the set for 1/72 scale Fore Hobby German

Schnellboot. There will be a “ton” of these

accessories, but they will be covered in the

October INFO to be released shortly before

E-day, on Thursday, September 29.

September new releases-model kits

1/48 scale Tempest Mk.II in The Ultimate Tempest boxing will be reissued in the

LIMITED series. The kit includes the photo book by Chris Thomas covering the

Tempest Mk.II service in RAF, in the Royal

Indian Air Force (RIAF) and the Royal Pakistani Air Force (RPAF) complemented by

the decal sheet for ten aircraft both in production version without a tropical filter and

with a tropical filter and the cockpit water

tank. You can find the excerpt from the book

in today’s INFO. In ProfiPACK edition we will

release the 1/48 scale Fw 190A-3 kit featuring the reduced armament of two wing

cannons and decals for two aircraft from

France, one of which is Josef Priller’s personal mount, another one Holland based

JG 1 aircraft, Norway based JG 5 aircraft

retrieved from the sea many decades after

the war and the JG 51 aircraft from the Eastern Front sporting green camouflage.

The time has arrived to reissue our Bf 110

line of kits. It took a long time but all good

comes to those who wait. In the Weekend

edition we are reissuing Bf 110E with four

markings, one from the Mediterranean

theatre, one from the Norther Europe and

two aircraft are from the Eastern Front.

At the same time two other items are being returned to our catalog: 2132 Adlertag

in the LIMITED series and Profipack 7081

Bf 110C/D.

1/72 scale kits dominate our line of new

releases, rather unusual occurrence. Besides Bf 110E in Profipack series we will release Avia S-199 with the older type of canopy (Erla haube). It contains six markings,

three Israeli and two Czechoslovak. These

two model kits are complemented by 1/72

scale Spitfire F.Mk. IX reissue in the Profipack series. The decals feature the aircraft

of S/Ldr. Bernard Duperier from No. 340

Squadron RAF and S/Ldr. Stanislaw Skalski from Polish Cobat Team in North Africa, then No. 611 Squadron RAF aircraft and

a USAAF 52nd FG Spitfire flown by Lt. Leonard V. Helton from the fighting in Tunisia.

BRASSIN

The majority of our October new releases

in Brassin series is again 3D printed.

Among them are sets for our 1/48 scale F4F-3 Wildcat, for example the cockpit

for the early F4F-3 with telescopic gunsight, standalone seat and a dinghy (including the opened storage on the fuselage

spine). The dinghy is offered both stored

and inflated and includes the paddles. For

our 1/48 scale A6M2 Zero we offer the tail

wheel set. At the first glance it may seem

unnecessary even strange. On the second

thought you will realize it is not about the

tail wheel itself but its complete interior

design including the rear fuselage tail cone

cover. Using this set you can build the model either with the uncovered tail cone and

expose the tail wheel installation or build it

with covers on. We are also releasing the

set of wing weapons wells for our Zero kit.

We believe we are the first manufacturer

who created these wing weapons wells for

both Zero models 21 and 11. The references

are extremely difficult to come by and we

would not have succeeded without the invaluable help of researchers from Japan,

Europe and North America.

The sets for the new 1/48 Tamiya P-38J

kit are in high demand as well. In October

we will release three sets for this model.

Besides 3D printed items for this important

kit, we will also release dedicated PE sets,

bronze landing gear legs, Space set and

a decal sheet in the Eduard Decals series

for the aircraft from PTO. We will continue

with the preparation of the further sets and

decals. For the 1/72 scale Arma Hobby kit

of the Nakajima Ki-84 Frank Japanese fighter we are releasing the seat, landing

gear wheels and engine exhausts. And we

will work on more accessories for this kit

in the upcoming months. Currently offered

is the set for our 1/48 scale Sopwith Camel

kit (Bentley engine) where the majority of

the parts are 3D printed.

Space and Löök

In the Space series we offer the sets for

P-38J (1/48, Tamiya), F4F-3 early (1/48,

Eduard), Yak-9T (1/32, ICM), Spitfire F

Mk.XVIII (1/48, Airfix) and F-86F-40 (1/48,

Airfix). In the Look series which purpose is

an easy replacement of the kit parts, we are

offering two sets for F4F-3 Wildcat (1/48,

Eduard) and one set for EA-18G by Meng

(1/48). In the larger sets from LooKplus we

sell the products for Su-25 (1/48, Zvezda)

and for both AH-1H and AH-1J (1/48, Tamiya).

Photoetched sets and masks

Alfred Riedel, CEO of Special Hobby, will present the company's production and plans in presentation at E-day 2022

on Saturday afternoon.

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INFO Eduard

The new items in our PE product section

are dedicated to some really nice model

September 2022