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Good evening, dear Friends,
Welcome to this, our penultimate newsletter
of this year. November is traditionally one of the
busier months for us, and this one is shaping up
to be the busiest month for the year, bar none.
There will be a lot going on, although not all
of our activity will be readily apparent at first
glance. High visibility activities will undoubtedly
include our participation in exhibitions and
related events. Next weekend we will be at
Telford for Scale Model Word. We only have
a small square footage table setup at the show,
but considering its size, it's also damn expensive.
Our trip to Telford will be accompanied by
a short, four-day Afterparty, sales events that we
traditionally put on for people who can’t attend
a specific event. We’ll be well stocked at Telford,
bringing along not only the first Profipack of the
72nd scale P-51D-5 Mustang, but, as with E-day,
we also have a theme-relevant item ready, a 48th
scale Mustang Mk.III. Originally, it was supposed
to be just a simple Limited Edition show piece
in a white box, but in the end we decided that
British Mustangs are worth more effort than that
and promoted the item to a standard Profipack
boxing. I have no doubt it will appeal to all fans
of the RAF and British aviation in general, as will
the Profipack DH-2 reissue.
For an older item, the DH-2 is still holding
up very well. The masters were made honestly,
by hand, and the molds are galvanized metal.
As I say, they’ve held up well, more than a quarter
of a century after their creation. You might think
that this kit would be a good candidate for
our ‘Heavy Retro’ line, but due to its execution,
cleanliness of work and type of form, this kit is
still too ‘current standard’ to really belong in that
category conceptually. True, in terms of current
standard kits, the DH-2 hails from the beginnings
of what we see as this type of product, but it is
in a style of work that forms a direct line of
development to today's modern kits. And it’s
not just about the plastic. The boxart was also
created by hand by Martin Novotny. Nevertheless,
it has a lot in common with contemporary
boxarts, as indicated by Honza Bobek's Box Art
Story on the subject of the plot depicted in this
painting.
The last Saturday of November ends this year's
show season in Bratislava, with the resurrected
Plastic Winter event. We are curious to see how
the exhibition and competition will look like at its
new venue. I will be in Bratislava personally, and
I promised to conduct a Slovak version of ‘the Pot’
Q and A session. If I understood the preliminary
agreement with the organizers correctly,
it will be a stand-up discussion. Plastic Winter
coincides with the traditional date of the global
Black Friday event, in which we also regularly
participate. This year will be no different, which
means that the Plastic Winter Afterparty and
Black Friday will be one event, lasting in this
case from Friday to Monday. This is not because
we want to drag out Black Friday to some point
of endlessness, as is the custom for many stores,
but rather because there are some behind-the-
scenes technical considerations that come into
play with activating and ending such a sale.
I recommend being alert with respect to this
event, do not hesitate and do not postpone any
purchases until Monday. You might not make it.
In November we will also finish making the
molds for the P-40E in1:48th and preparing
the Royal Class boxing, which will be new
for February, 2025. This means that whatever
components are going into the kit must be ready
by Christmas….in about seven weeks. As of
today, we have all twelve color options selected
and are working on the decals, tweaking the
color schemes, instructions and accessory
sets, especially those produced by the Brassin
department. As of today, none of the six molds
are ready, but we will change that quickly
during November. All forms are at a high stage
of development, every day more parts, plates
and electrodes are added. We are conducting
final milling, sparking, cleaning and assembling
of the forms, doing some fine tuning and are
getting ready to pop out the first test shots.
You can follow the progress of the work on our
Facebook and Instagram pages. Pre-orders of
the Royal Class P-40E will start on our e-shop
www.eduard.cz on November 15th and will last
until November 26th. Test shots will be available
for actual viewing for the first time in Bratislava
on November 30th. As part of the pre-order offer,
it will be possible to include accessory sets
for the kit as well. Together with the base kit,
a number of these will be made available.
We are working on a printed cockpit, engine,
landing gear struts, wheels and other sets.
The pre-order method on our e-shop will not
be your only chance to buy this kit, and it will
be on sale at retailers from the end of January
who order in time. As with previous Royal Class
releases this year, we will only produce the
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