Airacobra Opponents over Instruction sheets, New Guinea Oeffag: Wood Construction pictures and more Built kits I-16 type 17, information Fw 190D-9 and Bf 110G-2 www.eduard.com Vol. 10 Monday, 15 September 2010 Issue 9 EDITORIAL The US IPMS NATS weren’t too busy this year. Frankly speaking, it was very slow and some days, such as Thursday and Friday, were quite long for all us vendors in the hall. There were less modelers, evidently, and even Johnny Vojtech decided to stay home, which, for me, is akin to Roger Federer not playing in the US Open. To be an editor of an economic magazine, I have to arm myself with a healthy skepticism to get a general feel for the future of our business, and taking note of all of this summer’s business activities, it seems like the depression is back. Fortunately, I am only an amateur, so I can afford myself the luxury of optimism. I believe the show this year was as slow as it was if only IPMS USA (from the left Vladimír Šulc and Martin Finger) due to the excessively hot weather, coupled with the hesitation for people to travel to the boxing. This is one of the Limited kits, which tend to sell opposite coast. In any case, although the show was out very quickly, actually within about ten days. There relatively quiet, we engaged in the traditional discussions are just a couple of boxes remaining for availability for about our approach to kit and accessory design, and we E-day. Although you will surely find the usual discussions received much useful feedback, as usual. I must admit of all that is wrong with this kit and what we could’ve done that such face to face interaction at these shows is better (much better), if you intend to buy this kit, don’t infinitely more preferable to the internet forums. hesitate. They will be available through September, and then become rare and expensive items after that. All three Summer is slowly drawing to a close, and we can turn already released Sukhois fall into this category, and I´m our attention to the work at hand for the fall, notably in sure that the next one, the Su-22M4, will be among them. regards to E-day. E-day is close; it will be in Prague on September 18th-19th, 2010. The weather around E-day One of the important highlights of these kits is the is always nice, not too hot, not too cold, usually sunny, Brassin accessories. The most frequent question of the which is not the main difference comparing E-day and the past several months is if we will release these accessories other European shows to the Nationals. These European in the Brassin line as well. Yes, we will, at least the seats. shows are much more intensive, they run one or two But later, probably early next year, after all the Sukhois days only, and everyone has a lot of things to do during are definitively gone from the shops. that relatively short period of time, maybe because the We activated our new CNC milling machine in late European modeler´s average age seems to be much August, with basic crew training. The first test jobs lower. We are ready for E-day, and hope that Zdenek look magnificent, with a monumental leap over the old Sebesta will not follow Johnny’s lead and stay home! Another traditional celebration was last week in Kovarska, on Saturday, September 11, 2010. This celebration commemorates the 66th anniversary of the probably biggest air battle over Czech territory during World War II. It occurred on September 11th, 1944, with huge material and personal losses on the side of the USAAF as well as the Luftwaffe. Many World War II veteran pilots and other air crew of all nations come together at Kovarska every year, which is a very good reason for others to come to Kovarska too, if not this year then in the coming years. I suspect it is one of the last occasions to meet WWII pilots and to talk with them personally. Unfortunately, there will be less and less such occasions in future years. One kit release looks promising considering the slow summer, the quarter scale Su-25K in the Limited edition Info Eduard - September 2010 Page 3 machines, and our technicians and designers are excited. The Eduard season starts on September 1st, I´m sure you The difference in the quality, as well as in the speed of will remember that I noted this fact already over the past the job, is unbelievable. Progress is simply unstoppable! few Septembers. So, just to be sure, Eduard´s season Eduard invested a lot of money in this progress this year, starts in September with E-day, and ends in August with despite the slow down in the global economy, and the the Nats. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Eduard´s benefits are even now obvious despite. For example, there year! are no more critics to the quality of the color photoetch Keep on modeling! printing after acquiring the new machines, which may mean that the topical quality of the color etch is now at a comfortable level for modelers. Also, the restock Vladimír Šulc of the PE sets is much faster now, the spring problem with restocking has been resolved. Now we have to improve kit production, as we still are not as fast as we’d like to be. However, we reorganized our manufacturing process from the spring of 2009, which was a complex operation, but making it much more effective. During the next few months, we will make some final changes and improvements, when the new machine will take its rightful place in our technical system, and the results will be evident in the next releases. Our investment activity is not yet complete this year, and we would like to launch our new website before the end of fall. We all here are looking forward to seeing the new site up and running, although I´m personally not able to understand all of the niceties of the expert discussion. No matter; the IT guys surely know what they are doing, and all will go well. Or at least start well. Have you missed any of the previous issues of INFO EDUARD? Just click here on the cover. The rest does itself…..;-) All older issues from years 2001-2010 of Info Eduard can be found here: Newsletter 2001-2010 Info Eduard - September 2010 Page 4 SEPTEMBER KITS La-7 1/48 PROFIPACK Cat.No. 8098 White 10, Vasiliy A. Zaitsev, deputy CO, 1st GSAK, 1944 White 12, Lt. Col. Filipp M. Kosolapov, CO, 937th IAP / 322nd IAD, Prague – Kbely airfield, Czechoslovakia, May 1945 White 63, 813th IAP, 215th IAD, 8th VA, winter, 1944/45 White 06, c/n 45210806, 2nd Czechoslovak Fighter Regiment, Prague, May – July, 1945 White ‘17’, Maj. Vladimir D. Lavrinyenkov, CO, 9th GIAP, April, 1945 White 06, c/n 45210806, 2nd Czechoslovak Fighter Regiment, Piestany Airfield, 1946 BUY La-7 1/48 ProfiPACK (8098) Info Eduard - September 2010 Page 5 SEPTEMBER KITS P-39 Airacobra over New Guinea 1/48 Cat.No. 1152 LIMITED EDITION P-39D-1 s/n 41-38353, 35th FS / 8th FG, Milne Bay, December 1942 P-39D-1 s/n 41-38338, Lt. Don C. McGee, 36th FS / 8th FG, Milne Bay airbase, fall, 1942 P-39N-5 s/n 42-18810, 40th FS / 35th FG, Nadzab, fall, 1943 P-39D-1 s/n 41-38401, Maj. Norman “Coach” G. Morris, CO of 35th FS / 8th FG, Milne Bay, fall, 1942 P-39N-5 s/n 42-18802, Lt. Roy Owen, 41st FS / 35th FG, Tsili-Tsili airbase, August, 1943 P-39Q-6 s/n 42-19927, Capt. L. A. Tate, 82nd TRS / 71st TRG, May, 1944 P-39D-2 s/n 41-38509, 80th FS / 8th FG, Milne Bay airbase, January 1943 - Two complete kits of P-39 versions D, N and Q. - Full color 16 page PUBLICATION about P-39s over New Guinea. - Huge decal sheet for 7 interesting markings and complete stenciling. - Photo-etched accessories and Express mask. I think you get panic, because of P-39 Airacobra over New Guinea BUY 1/48 (1152) carrot shortage here in Papua! Info Eduard - September 2010 Page 6 SEPTEMBER KITS Avia B-534 serie IV 1/48 WEEKEND EDITION Cat.No. 8475 34th Fighter Flight, Air Regiment No.4, Hradec Kralove, Czechoslovakia, summer 1937 BUY Weekend edition Avia B-534 serie IV 1/48 (8475) Japan Navy aircraft carrier deck 1/48 Cat.No. 8803 BUY Japan Navy aircraft carrier deck 1/48 (8803) Info Eduard - September 2010 Page 7 SEPTEMBER BRASSIN 648021 F-16N engine 1/48 (for Tamiya kit) 648021 F-16N engine 1/48 (for Tamiya kit) BUY 648021 F-16N engine 1/48 (TAM) 632002 F-4B/J/N/S seat 1/32 (for Tamiya kit) 632002 F-4B/J/N/S seat 1/32 (for Tamiya kit) BUY 632002 F-4B/J/N/S seat 1/32 (TAM) EXPECTED EDUARD BRASSIN Info Eduard - September 2010 Page 8 SEPTEMBER PHOTOETCHED 49499 F-111A interior 1/48 (Hobby Boss) 48664 Fw 190D wooden landing flaps - 48654 Fw 190D-13 1/48 (Eduard) 49508 Bf 109F-2 S.A. 1/48 (Zvezda) 36130 M-1131 blast panels 1/35 (Trumpeter) 49508 Bf 109F-2 S.A. 1/48 (Zvezda) 36134 Sherman Firefly Mk.Ic Hybrid fenders 1/35 (Dragon) 73362 E-2C 2000 S.A.