Editorial

Good day, dear Friends

We usually write about E-day no later than the week after the event, but this year it is different. As you know, E-day was held in Litomerice on the first Saturday of October, and we are just now in the process of evaluating it, after one month. Of course, this has its reasons. There is an advantage to looking back at it after almost a month, with peace of mind and a cool head. I think I will not contradict the assessment of E-day participants when I say that it was a very good event. The area of the Litomerice exhibition center does have its limitations and would benefit from reconstruction, but in principle it suits our purposes well. However, it is not really suited to our autumn schedule, when cold and otherwise inclement weather threatens. We also need more space for competition models, club exhibitions and table space for vendors. And we also need more time for the accompanying programs. It is interesting for visitors, but it is practically impossible for them to manage everything. That is why we decided to make several fundamental changes. The first concerns the length of the event, and we will return to the two-day format. The second concerns the date, and after twenty-five years we will abandon the autumn date for E-Day 2026, which will be held on June 27 and 28, while we will also keep the Friday afternoon program going. The third change is the scope of the event. We have also rented the remaining two exhibition halls and E-Day will be in seven halls instead of this year's five. We recommend the additional halls primarily to gain more space for competition models and club exhibitions. These changes will of course have various other impacts on the event, both on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. It is quite clear to me that there will be many objections to the two-day format, and their proponents will probably decide not to come. But there’s not a lot we can do about that. But we will do a lot for those who decide to come and I promise that you will definitely not be bored in Litomerice next June!

Some of the November new releases had their premiere at E-Day. The introduction of the new Hybrid series brought the most discussion, interest and, it seems, expectations. As I wrote in my last editorial of our monthly newsletter, we are working intensively on other projects in this series, and if you don't know about them yet, you can get to know them further on down in this newsletter, in which we publish our plan for the upcoming year. In addition to the Hybrid series, you will also find basic information about the new EDUARD HKM series, the first item of which we launched a preorder for at the end of October, as well as about the upcoming news in the classic series of kits. Of these, the Spitfire Mk.Vb in 1:72 scale is the closest to being realized. Although we won't be able to get this kit to Telford this week and sell it there, we will definitely be able to offer it two weeks later in Bratislava at the Plastic Winter event, along with other December new releases. These include the 48th scale Kittyhawk Limited Edition, dedicated to the British Kittyhawk Mk.Ia and Mk.IV British equivalents to the P-40E and P-40N, the Spitfire Mk.Vb medium production versions in a 48th scale Profipack kit, and the 48th scale A6M2-N Rufe as well.

Basic information about these kits and all other November and December releases in the aftermarket product lines can be found on the following pages. And with that, I wish you a good read!

Happy Modeling!

Vladimir Sulc