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Info Eduard - November 2011
its appearance all throughout its life. Furthermore,
our chosen ‘8208’ appeared as presented only
a few hours. Our information should sufce
for the majority of modelers, and will allow
completion of a reasonably accurate rendition.
For someone who has had actual contact with the
documented aircraft, our information might be
viewed with a more educated eye and with the
understandable criticism. Of course, someone like
that would be able to by-pass our presentation
entirely. I am not sure what would stop anyone
from building their model according to their
own interpretations, and use their own above
standard knowledge of the subject. It could even
result in a good subject for our newsletter!
The new little MiG inaugurates a new Eduard
line called ‘SUPER 44’. Not that we would have
enough of new lines, but 1/144th is very specic,
so we decided to work on the individuality of it.
Gradually, we will incorporate older kits back
into the line, and some new ones as well.
In the Weekend Edition, November sees the
Fokker D.VII MAG in Hungarian colors. Thanks
to the red star markings of Hungary in 1919,
most people have trouble identifying this
aircraft, and it tends to be surrounded by some
confusion. Most of our visitors in Chicago took it
for a Soviet machine. So, to be clear, it isn’t. It is,
however, Hungarian. Among other things, one of
the advantages of this aircraft is that it lacks the
lozenge markings. With respect to the Fokker,
this is very unusual.
That’s not all for new kits. A base is a pretty
critical part of a kit, and this month, we have
new items along this theme. It’s not entirely new,
but we pre-colored our PSP base. These will be
released in limited numbers, as the pre-painting
is not really a simple matter, and demands
a signicant production capability. That means
that after selling out the rst run, this item will not
be available for some time. So, if this item grabs
you by the boo-boo, I would suggest that you
don’t stall. At some point, its going to become
a rarity!
December is getting close, and with it, the next
of our MiG-21s, the ‘BIS’. This kit has some detail
changes incorporated into it, and some that we
didn’t. Both have their reasons d’etre, and will
be discussed in greater detail in December’s
newsletter.
The offered photoetched sets for November
is again very inetersting, as it was in October.
For the mostpart, this can be attributed to
1/32nd scale, where we have new sets for the
He111 from Revell, and the P-51D from Tamiya.
Besides that, we have new sets for the Spitre
Mk.V from HobbyBoss and the Su-25K from
Trumpeter. In 1/48th scale, we have three sets
for the Fw189 from Great Wall Hobby, and
a set for the Bf110D Nachtjager from Dragon.
In 1/72nd scale, we have three sets for our
Hellcat, two for the F-22 from Academy, and
one each for the Bf110B from Airx and Bell
212 from Italeri. Of course, there are also sets
in the 1/35th AFV category, and among them,
new items for color waterplants. The vegetation
sets are surprisingly popular! The photoetched
items are rounded out by a sextet of ship related
sets in both main scales, ve of them for 1/700th
scale.
And that leaves us with the Brassin sets.
November brings us three new sets, two for
Soviet (or Russian) weapons, and speed brakes
for the F-16, in 1/48th. This is the most common
scale that the Brassin line is associated with. With
respect to our raised level of activity in 1/72nd
scale, we’ll need to take a look at the possibilities
for the Brassin line for that scale as well.
So, with that, I wish a good read through our
newsletter. To nish off, I’d like to say one more
thing about the Tempest. Although the pre-order
offer with the T-shirts has expired, we do have
a small reserve left composed of about forty
kits, which are still available. We’ll likely keep
some of those for the spring show season...good
news for those that stalled back then, and read
to the end of this intro!
Keep on modelin’
Vladimir SULC
The promised re-issue of the August
release of 1/48 Tempest Mk. V is on!
Don‘t miss this oportunity. This is really
the very last issue of Eduard‘s Tempest
in this shape!!
BUY Tempest Mk.V 1/48