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ails cover for full det SSeeee bbackack cover for full details. OctoberOOccttoobbeer 2201600116 BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE The ALL NEW F-14A From Tamiya is Here! 1:481:48 ScaleScale NEW See Pageg 4 for completep details.detaills. MASSIVE Over 100 Brand BIGBIG SAVINGSSAVINGS onon PopularPopular Kits!Kits! SquadronSquadron Signal Book SaSale!Sale! NEW Items Inside! PagesPaP51ges 51-52 PagesPages 24-25 Order Today at WWW.SQUADRON.COM or call 1-877-414-0434 Dear Friends SQUADRON Summer passed by just as quickly as it started, kids are back in school for over PRODUCTS a month now and life has gone back to its regular routine. As the air starts to become crisp, l look forward to when I will be able to work on my projects without too many distractions. I have a few irons in the fire, like Tamiya’s NEW 1/48 Scale F-14A Tomcat to name one, that will keep me focused for a couple of months (Page 4). I have already done an in-box review on this fantastic kit which you can watch on Squadron TV and I will document the build from start to finish. Just in time for this new kit, True Details has released an F-14A Ejection Seat set. Combine this with our Squadron Signal Publications book Tomcat! and you are well on your way to building an incred- ible model! You can check it all out on Page 4 or on our website. In addition to lots of interesting new kits, we have three new Squadron Products debuting this month. The first one is the Squadron Signal Publication (SS10241), F-105 Thunderchief In Action book from renowned author David Doyle. An 80 page book telling the development and history of the “Thud” documented with many color and B/W photos from private collections and augmented with a dozen line drawings and eight color profiles. Don’t miss the latest release in our Heroes & Warriors line - (WAH35517) SS Wounded Tank- ers (page 28). A resin, two figure vignette in superb detail, featuring two German tankers walking away from battle, supporting each other is the perfect accent to your figure collection or diorama. In an effort to make finishing your models a little easier, we introduce our own branded 6 oz. bottle of Paint Thinner for Acrylic Paints. This high quality, great value product can be used both to NEW thin acrylic paints, clean your airbrush and has less odor than normal brand names. NEW Paint Thinnerr The Squadron warehouse is chock full of freshly restocked kits and accessories you won’t want for Acrylic Paints to miss. Don’t forget to explore our full line of products on Squadron.com. You can also get your 6 oz bottle of acrylic paint thinner. fill of me by clicking the link to Squadron TV and catching up on the latest Squadron Minute. Thins water based paints. Also can So all good on the western front with much to look forward to this fall! So get that glue ready and be used as airbrush cleaner when dust your hobby knife - a lot of great stuff is coming your way! using acrylics. Special reduced Cheers! odor formula. Works great with Jef Verswyvel Tamiya, Testors & Vallejo paints! Chief Modeler at Squadron SQ7073 $7.45 NEW F-105 Thunderchief In Action Book Doyle. The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was the larg- est single-seat, single engine combat aircraft to enter production, was conceived as supersonic, low altitude fighter-bomber capable of delivering a heavy nuclear payload. While never used as intended, the Thunder- chief did see extensive combat. The F-105 carried the brunt of the U.S. bombing campaign during the early part of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam by completing more than 20,000 sorties. Features development, production and deployment of the seven Thunderchief NEW models with nearly 200 vintage photos, line drawings and eight color profiles. 80 pages. SS10241 $19.95 $17.99 WWW.SQUADRON.COM 2 TOLL FREE: 1-877-414-0434 -85$66,&3/$67,& Are we becoming extinct as modelers? Are we becoming dinosaurs? What’s wrong with young people these days? Kids are so intense, so impatient that they can’t seem to sit still for ten minutes to even glance at a model. It scares me sometimes to see what is developing in the world I live and breathe in. To see our future leaders handling their game controllers like there is no tomorrow makes me question how long it will take for that generation to turn me into Soylent Green. It is quite an awakening if you have to ask your 5 year old granddaughter to adjust the time clock in your car. But then again I keep forgetting that same world keeps evolving whether I like it or not and I better stay on the boat and rotate with it. Maybe it’s time to go back to the basics and ask ourselves what we can do to make this industry more attractive to the younger generations. Is it actually lack of interest that keeps young people away? Is the hobby becoming too expensive for their little pockets? How can we make our hobby appealing enough so these juveniles might pick up an X-Acto knife and start chopping plastic? As I mentioned in a previous article, my dad guided me into this wonderful hobby. Why can’t I do the same? It is then that I realized that maybe we are the impatient ones! Not the kids. If each one of us would take one youngster, son, grandson, nephew etc. under his wing, we wouldn’t be in this debacle and the industry would rejuvenate overnight! Sitting down with kids can sometimes be very challenging but can also be very rewarding as long as you put the right ingredient into the mix and that is patience! Being modelers, we should have plenty of it! Now is the perfect time to draw in new enthusiasts to our hobby. Manufacturers are cranking stuff out by the dozens and all the plastic deprivation I went thru as a kid, is continuously changing into a new world of availability. The industry is thriving and the subjects available to build is at its highest ever. At one of the previous model shows I attended, someone commented that this hobby is becoming an adult only hobby. I don’t know if I can agree with that. It makes a lot of sense to bring more kids into the equation if we want to avoid arranging a future National Convention in a nursing home! But maybe, just maybe, there is a way to broaden our horizon and expand to a more youthful public instead of duct taping a kid to a chair and force him to finish a 1/72nd Zeppelin Staaken! Jump out there and share with others the pure fun and excitement of building a model. If we each take one neophyte under our wing, we have just doubled the hobby overnight! I admit that our hobby kingdom suffers from the Father Time Syndrome but with that knowledge we should be able to stop the termites gnawing at its foundation. There are many ways to lure more whippersnappers into our direction. That’s why I praise model clubs who donate part of their agenda to teach young kids the wonders of our hobby during make-and-take sessions. Or manu- facturers who incorporate modern stuff or play on the popularity of some TV shows. Each one of you out there can make a difference. Think about the joy you had growing up building models and how much fun it could mean to a kid once exposed to it. Embrace the idea of paying it forward and make a young person aware that there is so much more to it than slapping a fuselage together! Meanwhile, I still stay invigorated to build my next model and feel twenty five again when someone announc- es a kit I’ve been waiting for, until I pass by the mirror... Cheers! Jef Verswyvel AIRCRAFT ALL NEW AIRCRAFT 1:48 Scale NEW Grumman F-14A Tomcat The F-14A was the initial two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather interceptor fighter variant for the U.S. Navy and first flew on 21 December 1970 and made its first deployment in 1974 with the U.S. Navy aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65). Kit has fine engraved surface features, well detailed tandem cockpit, optional swept or extended wings, optional (airbag and sealing plates, canopy, nozzle and refueling probe, boarding ladder), (2) figures (seated pilot and Radar Intercept Officer RIO), detailed wheel wells and under- carriage, armament (AIM-9 Sidewinders (x4), AIM-7 Sparrow (x4) and AIM-54 Phoenix (x4)). Decals and color markings for (2) aircraft: VF-84 (Jolly Rogers) and VF-2 (Bounty Hunters) U.S. Navy Fighter Squadrons and Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) unit. TM61114 $115.00 $91.99 MAKE YOUR TOMCAT COMPLETE! NEW F-14A MB GRU-7A Resin Ejection Seats Set comes with 2 finely molded resin ejection seats for the New Tamiya F-14A Tomcat. Rendered in grey color, these represent the early ejection seats. Very nice detail, which includes 2 different configurations of seatbelts, separate “blast tube” and extremely crisp molded harness that will give the seats the right ‘organic” look. TD48432 $10.99 Tomcat! (SC) Drendel. This book presents a personal narrative of the testing and operational use of the Tomcat. More than 150 color photographs, color paintings, and color profiles; 64 pages. SS6092 $16.95 $15.99 WWW.SQUADRON.COM 4 TOLL FREE 1-877-414-0434 ALL NEW AIRCRAFT AIRCRAFT 1:72 Scale 1:48 Scale NEW -X$::,,*HUPDQ%RPEHUKit features engraved panel lines, forward fuselage interior, well appointed NEW ):$::,,*HUPDQ5HFRQQDLVVDQFH3ODQH Kit features engraved panel lines, highly detailed cockpit and (cockpit, radio operator and bombardier’s stations), separate gunner station, multiple transparent accents, single piece flaps and slats, highly detailed twin engines with optional cov- 2-blade propeller with separate spinners, MG 15 machine gun er, underwing dive breaks, choice of propellers and spinners, and MG 17 machine gun, detailed wheel wells and optional full defensive machine guns, (x4) external bombs with racks, undercarriage, boarding ladder, (x4) (110 lb) bombs.
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