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Info Eduard - December 2011
The “Miguary” Year will close in December
with a big show – a nal release of the top re-
presentative of that MiG generation - the MiG-
-21BIS. It’s not very often that we can do some-
thing like with the quarter scale BIS: a release of
a kit that was never designed correctly. While
you may disagree, the good old OEZ Letohrad
brought out a BIS several years ago, but had no-
thing common with a BIS. Because we have resol-
ved not to change the main MF fuselage body,
most of new parts are found on one frame.
But this doesn’t mean that there are just a small
number of new parts. Other differences are
covered by photo-etched parts. You may read
about all the changes in a separate article in
another location in this magazine. To reect the
importance of the BIS in the history of global
aviation history, the kit is supplied with six mar-
king options, something I feel to be a luxury by
itself. By this way, decals are printed by Carto-
graf. It is necessary to add, that these markings
are so colorful and interesting, that the selection
of which scheme to use will be a hard task. Be-
cause of that, we have opened, once again, a
special offer of MIG-21BIS OVERTREES, which
will allow you to buy plastic parts with photo-
-etched set at a favorable price. This offer is
for a limited time and will expire by the end of
the year, so if you are interested, don’t miss this
opportunity.
PLASTIC KITS
Our second December kit release is a Limited
Edition quarter scale Bf 110C/E in MTO. This
good older kit is (as usually is the case in this
edition) supplied by photo-etched set along with
resin wheels. Perhaps you remember the heated
debate about the wrong wheels in our Bf 110
kit. Well, during the rst release of our Bf 110E,
it went through a similar ame war on the forums
as the MiG-21BIS nose, although the dimension
deviation was smaller. You may, at least, see that
the history repeats itself in the modeling world
as well! In any case, what are found in the actu-
al Limited Edition are the correct wheels for the
C version, as well as for E and later versions.
These wheels are not only correct, but are also
very pretty and an interesting solution. Persona-
lly I think, it would be a hard task to nd better
ones and these are a good bonus for the actu-
al release of that famous plane. There are ve
markings, including one Italian. Since this is an
MTO related subject, we can’t simply overlook
Italy as a regional power country! So it is also
tting, that our own decal design was printed by
Cartograf in Italy.
Like every month, a WEEKEND edition needs
to be included in our offer. This time it is a 1/72
scale F6F-3 HELLCAT. You know this kit already,
there is nothing new to write about,
but look carefully at its decals. Not Cartograf
this time, but our own printing. I understand that
a note about Eduard decals can cause measles
or a panic attack for several customers, but with
a detailed study of the actual decal sheet, you
will see that things have changed there as well.
New decals are to a very high standard and
we here at Eduard are sure that they will satisfy
even the most exacting customers. Pattern accu-
racy, colors, and smoothness are very ne here.
As well as ease of application that is a weakness
for Cartograf – although these Bolognian decals
have our full respect.
AND WHAT ELSE?
This is the favorite question for a modeler to
ask. Regrettably, we are actually at the end of
the year and more information will come, as usu-
al, in January. So, now in a nutshell: January will
bring a Su-27 in 1/48 scale Limited Edition...
in the absence of powerful storms around the
worlds oceans. This Sukhoi has been signicant-
ly improved by Academy, which upgraded their
tools, as well as by us. In this case, of course, by
our resin Brassin and by photo-etched set and
last but not least by attractive decals. Its price
is... how to say diplomatically and not to frigh-
ten?... relatively high, but it is a good value for its
high quality. So guys, this price is high like – you
know what (ll in a word which was used also for
a free pursuit by Luftwaffe night ghters in
WWII – and translate it into your own lan-
guage), but it‘s worth it.
I forgot to mention that in January, there will
be four new items in the kit range. It is not so usu-
al, but during next year it will happen. So next
January’s new kit will be another one 1/144
MiG-21, this time a SMT. It will be in a Dual
Combo again, like the 1/72 scale Hellcat
Mk.I/Mk.II.
The last one is an old, good, and everlas-
ting Airacobra in the WEEKEND edition, this
time as an N version and in Soviet marking,
of course, in one of those colorful Guardian
Units. For each of the mentioned kits, I would
like to recommend that you study each decal
sheet. All of them, but the Su-27, are again
introducing Eduard new printing standard.
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