EDITORIAL
Well guys,
we are here with the latest
Info of this year. Thank all of
you who have visited us in our
booth in Telford. It is always
great to talk with you, and it
seem this year Scale Model
World was the greatest occasion for discussion. We were very
busy to get Tempest ready for
Telford, and we are proud we
were able to introduce the kit
there. Actually, we are extremely busy even now entering
December with shipping all
these parcels ordered during
Black Friday and Plastic Winter
Afterparty. Our shipping department looks to be full, but
really full of small as well as big
parcels. However, also Petra by
the help desk is very busy answering the letters protesting
against the expensive shipping
cost. I´m very sorry for it, but
we have had to apply real shipping cost for most destination,
which happen for the growing
shipping charges and expenses.
I understand this is not welcomed and I fully understand,
if you will decide to buy our
stuff form any nearer and cheaper mail order shop. This step
is most significant for European customers, however, but no
panic, the new EU regulation
about the geolocation prohibition will bring better news to
our European customers soon.
So or so, sorry for more expensive postage!
Let me introduce December
2018 new releases. The most
important December release is
surely well known now, as the
new Tempest Mk.V series 1 in
1/48th scale was already introduced in Telford to by reviewed
soon. More than 20 years ago,
the first Tempest was one of the
very first kit releases launching
the Eduard to be a quality hunting company. That time, it was
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quite dangerous step for us,
we were balancing on the edge
of our technological as well as
financial ability and it wasn´t
clear, what such kit could bring
us. What it brought was experience, and need to learn ourselves, what is anything what
we do continuously until now.
I hope this new Tempest can
show what we were able to
learn. To get better kit, we are
in similar position like 20 years
ago, reaching our technological
limits, bringing something new.
The Tempest´s fuselage, with
the mix of negative and positive riveting, is the most expensive kit part we ever produced,
but I suppose it looks nice and
it would be nice for the future
kits like for early Spitfires.
Concerning the actual Tempest Mk.V Series 1 boxing, this
release brings the markings of
the early Tempests of the 1st
production batch, with long
gun barrels in the wings, the
planes entering the service in
ADGB during early 1944, to be
fighting with German V-1 buzz
bombs and supporting the invasion forces in Normandy in
Summer 1944. Markings are
traditional five, decal sheet is
printed by Cartograf, the mask
and PE sheets are included,
with the PE sheet in the latest fashion with the glassed
dashboard´s instruments. The
Tempest Mk.V series 2, with
the famous Pierre Clostermann´s Le Grand Charles markings,
is going to be released in February, 2019. Next Tempest release will follow in June, which
is to be Royal Class edition Dual
Combo kits, where the main
bonus is going to be the book
by Mr. Chris Thomas. And then,
the Summer begins to bring
Mustangs to Chattanooga.
Back to today´s released
Tempest. As usual, we release
couple of aftermarket accessories developed for Tempest kit,
in all the lines, plenty of them
in the Brassin line including the
popular LööK set and magnificent Brassin cockpit set, but
also in PE line with the landing
flaps set, famous Steelbelt
seatbelts set, and with TF style mask sheet in the mask line,
allowing the masking of the canopy from the both side, outside as well as inside. Someone
likes it.
Two other Limited Edition
releases are dedicated to the
100th anniversary of the end of
the Great War, and the 100th
anniversary of the Czechoslovak republic birth. 1/48th scale LE Dual Combo item named
VIRIBUS UNITIS brings two
OEFFAG 153 and 253 kits inside with nine markings of the
famous as well as less know
Austro-Hungarian
aviators.
Item named LEGIE then brings
1/72nd SPAD XIII kit with for
marking of the Czech pilots, fighting during late years of the
Great War in French AF service,
and also markings of the post-war Czechoslovak SPAD XIIIs.
The Weekend line is bringing
Fw 190A-4 in 1/48th scale for
December.
Concerning the aftermarket accessories, except already noted collection of the
sets for Tempest, you can find
new LööK sets for P-40N and
INFO Eduard - December 2018