to that opinion. And now, Czech football has years of recovery ahead of it as
a result. The same can be said for the
quality of model kits. I have heard that
all arguments around the quality, or
lack of, model kits are a waste of time
because he, who gave us the last, literally POS evidently designed only to make
money is laughing at all involved in the
discussion and is just raking the coin in.
I think that this is false because if this
was in fact true, the said manufacturer
would be in all future economics textbooks. There has actually never been
a case in economics where a firm with
a declining level of quality and a rising
price survived in the long term. It may
be true that owners of such companies
really did laugh with the feeling that
they screwed everyone over, but that
lasted only until the moment when
they realized that the amount of money in the cash box wasn’t enough to
rake in even with a dining fork. Personally, I don’t care how such companies
end. I am much more interested in how
our industry will fare as a whole. And
it, should it avoid ending up like Czech
football, demands exposure and care
of ethical behaviour of all involved,
especially from model journalists and
from uncensored internet discussions.
Something evidently something my co-speaker in the Pot doesn’t agree with.
E-day did introduce and make available October releases, at least in model
form dedicated first and foremost to
the home, ie. Czechoslovak and Czech,
aircraft. This theme governs three
of the five new releases. The fourth is
a Weekend Edition Bf 109G-4 and the
fifth a ProfPACK Fw 190D-9 Late, which
is a rebox of the older kit, while the G-4
is being released also as a BFC offer with
markings of Slovak ace Jan Reznak. That
really doesn’t have much to do with the
formation of the Czechoslovak Republic, but hopefully it will please our Slovak
brothers.The three purely Czechoslovak
items are all Limited Edition releases
and represent three different timeframes over the one-hundred year history
of our state. The centennial anniversary is also what these kits are dedicated
to. The First World War period and the
twenties are represented by the SPAD
XIII dubbed LEGIE (Cat.No.11123). Two
marking options cover Legionaire pilots
serving with the French Aviation Militaire at the end of the war, while the
other two are Czechoslovakian post war
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machines carrying the flag type national insignia.
The period immediately following
the Second World War is represented
by the Avia S-99/C-10, which is the Bf
109G-10 from the WNF (Diana) production. These aircraft served first and foremost with border patrol units and the
marking options reflect that. They may
seem pretty much like they are all the
same, but Czechoslovak modellers will
appreciate this kit.
The final October kit release, familiar
to many of you from E-day, hails from
the eighties and the nineties. It’s called
BEDNA (which translates to the BOX).
It is the MiG-23MF/ML, and as a large
Limited Edition kit, it includes a publication and a pile of resin and photoetched
accessories and a large decal sheet. This
concept is fulfilled by BEDNA very nicely,
being simply chock full of modelling goodness. The publication is very detailed,
the Brassins include missiles and the
seat and more accessories are available
separately. The completeness of this kit
is reflected in the price, but the value
was accepted as very good at E-day.
Unfortunately, it falls short in terms
what is available for Overtrees that
were available for this kit. There was
a mistake made in the order for this kit,
and unfortunately it was not possible to
correct. In November and December,
we will release several MiG-23 accessories, or more accurately, correction
sets that will include the wheel wells
and, especially, the intakes. Therefore,
I recommend monitoring our Facebook
page and on the page EDUARD ONLINE
that we would like to make functional
through October. But, seeing how as
nothing really seems to come quickly
around here, lets say through the final
quarter of this year, but preferably in
October still. This page will shadow our
Facebook page for those that are not
particularly fond of Facebook. The page
will be simple but very informative and
will also include a discussion forum for
individual contributions as well as well
as general themes. Aside from outright
inappropriateness, there will be no censorship of the forum.
As far as accessories are concerned,
you’ll find items for the MiG-23 as well
as for the new releases such as the 48th
scale Beaufighter Mk.X from Revell, the
M-3 Lee in 1/35th from Tamiya and the
F-5E in 1/32nd from Kitty Hawk. Also
new is the Meng 1/35th scale Porsche
King Tiger, for which we have three sets.
There are also sets for older models,
such as the Tamiya F-16C/N in 1/48th
or the MiG-25PD (1/48th ICM). The
Brassin line is noteworthy with its three
1/48th scale LööK sets and the DB 605
engine for Tamiya’s Bf 109G-6/U4 in
1/48th as well. You can, of course, have
a closer look at all of this month’s new
releases in the pages that follow.
The next-to-last October Weekend,
the 19th – 21st, will see the clash of
the toughest modellers ever seen in the
traditional Iron Bunny 2018 event. Four-member teams will have the same goal
as always, and that is to build a model
in 24 hours. Exactly which kit they will
be building will be found out by them
as well as you on the night of the 19th,
and I am sure it will open some eyes!
Again, the entire event will be streamed
and you will be able to monitor all the
action and the fainting right before the
end live. And those of you wondering
about our Novemberfest event. It will
be skipped this year, but will be back
next year, better than ever!
In closing, I would like to comment
on an opinion that has repeated itself
recently regarding October’s releases
commemorating the formation of the
Czechoslovak Republic. The criticism
says that if these kits are in fact dedicated to the formation of our state,
then the instructions should e in Czech,
but they show preference to English.
I would like to point out that the truth
is that we would like to make the aviation history of Czechoslovakia, the Czech
Republic and Slovakia more accessible
to the modelling world at large, and
not just the home market. We hope
that we are succeeding in this endeavour and that it is largely due to using
the language spoken by the majority of
the modelling world. We are sure that
the father of our nation, T.G. Masaryk,
would agree with us on this. And another Czech giant, Maxipes Fik, would
add ‚‘how many languages you know,
that’s how many times you are an animal!‘. In our case, a modeller.
Happy Modelling!
Vladimir Sulc
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