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