Squadron Welcomes NovemberNNooveemmbbere 20162200116 BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE Hundreds of NEW Products Inside! Gifts for you and gifts for those you love! PLASTIC MODELOD E L KITS K I T S • MODEL ACCESSORIES See back cover for full details. BOOKS & MAGAZINES • PAINTS & TOOLS • GIFTS & COLLECTIBLES Order Today at WWW.SQUADRON.COM or call 1-877-414-0434 Dear Friends SQUADRON Well, we hit November! The month of the “days”. All Saints Day, all Souls PRODUCTS Day, Veterans Day, Revolution Day and Thanksgiving Day. Oh, did I forget? NEW Election Day! Lord, help us! Meanwhile, here at Squadron we are rallying to get all shelves stocked and be ready for the holiday rush in December. Whether you are starting to shop and want to share the gift of modeling with others – or you want to give yourself a gift, this flyer is packed with new products sure to make you smile. As I mentioned earlier this year, we are adding new lines into our inventory every month. We are very excited to announce the addition of Yahu and Miniart lines this month. Be sure to check them out on pages 4 and 27. Get excited for many more new additions to come! In this issue of the flyer, you will also find our new monthly Squadron Product releases which in- clude our latest tool – SQ10315, 4 Piece Premium Micro Tweezers Set. This set consists of a select choice of tweezers that are essential to the hobby. I have personally selected the styles that I know will be most helpful in your workroom. The Heroes & Warriors collection continues to grow with the addition of WAH35518, German Soldier WW2 “Taking Five” found on page 30. Finely sculpted and molded in resin, this highly detailed figure depicts a German trooper cleaning the bottom of his boots during a lull in the fighting. Don’t miss out on the new Squadron Signal Publications, A-25/B-26 Invader In Action book now available! Authored by renowned writer David Doyle, the publication gives you a broad overview NEW 4 Piece Premium of the development, history and role of the Douglas A-26 Invader spanned over almost five decades, Micro Tweezers Set including a distinguished record in WW2, Korea and Vietnam. This new title is profusely illustrated with more than 175 photos, 35 of which are in vintage color, as well as two color profile illustrations This set consists of a select choice and 10 line drawings. of tweezers that are essential to And finally, November is the month most recognized for Thanksgiving. So before I close and in the hobby. Set includes: Fine name of the entire Squadron team, I want to express our gratitude for the patronage that we receive from point, Fine Curved, Blunt End all of you. Without your support we wouldn’t be what we are today and this after almost half a century. and X Action Tweezers. This value So thank you! We are glad that you are part of our family! pack will help you do the job Cheers! more efficiently. Jef Verswyvel SQ10315 Chief Modeler at Squadron $21.98 $19.99 NEW A-26/B-26 Invader In Action Book David Doyle. The Douglas A-26 Invader served the United States with distinction in various combat roles during World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Originally created as an attack aircraft, with the designation A-26, the Invader was designed to replace the A-20 Havoc, North American B-25 Mitchell and the Martin B-26 Marauder for the U.S. Army Air Forces. This new title is profusely illustrated with more than 175 photos, 35 of which are in vintage color, as well as two color profile illustrations and 10 line drawings. NEW 80 pages. SS10242 $19.95 $17.99 WWW.SQUADRON.COM 2 TOLL FREE: 1-877-414-0434 TOOL MANIA Why do we need so many different tools to build a model? I remember a time when a potato knife and my mother’s nail file sufficed to finish the task. Very simple fundamentals. Sometimes I got really lucky and found some leftover scraps of sandpaper in my dad’s toolbox that he used to sand the rust off his screwdrivers or any tool that was left out in the rain… usually by me or my brother. Those were the days! When building and painting a kit took about a few hours and the result made you happy. So where did I drop off the cliff? Especially when I was always very reluctant to try something new. To give you an example, a long time ago I used to employ globs of tube glue all the time. Velpon, Britfix 77 or any gel formula I could lay my hands on. I didn’t care about the strings that I’d spun after gluing the fuselage or wings together. That was something that belonged to the territory and you dealt with it. When liquid glue was introduced in the early seventies, I climbed on a soap box and cried blasphemy! It was never going to work! Now if I don’t have my Plastic Weld close or liquid cement, I panic. What about my scalpel, bladed knife, cutting mat, putty applicator, punch & die sets, sanding sticks, magnifier, razor saw, sprue nipper, needle files, scissors, caliper, scriber, hemo- stats, 3 versions of super glue and ten different tweezers? The list goes on and on. I realize that I need those things before I can function properly. Why? Well the answer is very simple. Having the right tool for the right job is part of the culture we are in. We all evolved into the 21st century without knowing it. Even us modelers. It is all about quality, convenience, availability and yes, there maybe be a little bit of snobbism thrown into the equation. But it feels so good to sit in front of your workbench and admire all the gadgets that you have acquired and at your disposal. The thought that you can tackle the most complicated build and have all the tools to do it, feels like absolute gratification. That quality by itself also became part of our hobby. It carries the same philosophy behind it as the stack of un-built model kits we have in our garage. We “need it all” to function at our best. Did we become snobs in the real sense of the word? Not necessarily. Now, I have the same en- joyment as when I was a kid – I have just set the bar a bit higher on the quality I expect out of my builds. It makes me happy at the end of the day. And that is what it is all about. It is just a different stage in my life where I have evolved, learned and improved the skills of my hobby. It might take me forever to finish a model and sometimes I never do, moving on to something else. But the essence of it all is that it brings me fulfillment. And…I have the tools to do it! Cheers! Jef Verswyvel AIRCRAFT ALL NEW AIRCRAFT 1:144 Scale 1:100 Scale From Germany NEW Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner The Boeing 787 NEW Embraer 175 Fuji Dream Airlines Kit has en- Dreamliner is an American long-range, mid-size widebody, graved surface detail, detailed (cabin and interior, engine with twin-engine jet airliner by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. intake turbine faces, wheel wells and optional undercarriage), 787-9 is a lengthened and strengthened variant with a 20 nose weight, filigree pitot tubes and antennae, transparent feet longer fuselage and a higher maximum take-off weight windscreen. Decals and painting reference for (10) FDA aircraft NEW Grumman E-2C Hawkeye Designed for detection - includes airframe stencil data, hatch outlines, windscreen at a distance, the E-2C Hawkeye gives its force sweeping (MTOW), seating 280 passengers. Kit features engraved panel lines, detailed optional position landing gear, boxed-in wheel and fuselage window frames, door frames, wing walkway advantages in command and control over its opponents. Kit boundaries, nacelle trim, instrument panel and consoles. features engraved panel lines, detailed cockpit, single piece wells, highly detailed nacelles (including dual intake compres- TM92197 $42.00 $33.99 rotatable propellers, rotatable radar, detailed undercarriage, sor fans and exhaust cones), injection-molded cabin windows single piece canopy and nose glazing. Decals and color ref- and cockpit windscreen, plus optional display stand. Decals 1:72 Scale erence for a single aircraft: VAW-116, US Navy, USS Constella- and painting reference for Boeing Demonstration Airplane - includes hatch outlines. tion, November 1994 - includes stencil data, instrument panel ZV7021 $29.95 $23.99 and other interior, propeller accents. RG3945 $15.95 $12.99 1:100 Scale From Germany NEW Hellcat Mk.I Weekend Edition Grumman F6F Hellcat was an American carrier-based fighter aircraft designed to replace the earlier F4F NEW Mil Mi-24D Hind Kit features detailed interior Wildcat in United States Navy (USN) service. The name Hellcat with instrument panel and control column, fuselage detail, replaced it in early 1943, Royal Navy at that time adopting the transparent single piece canopy and segmented windows, use of the existing American naval names for all the U.S. made separate main rotor blades (movable), 1-piece tail rotor, aircraft supplied to it, with the F6F-3 being designated Hellcat detailed undercarriage, guided missiles and rocket pods. Decals F Mk.I. Decals and markings for (2) aircraft. NEW Boeing 727 The versatility and reliability of the and color reference for 335th Aviation Regiment, Soviet Army, EU7437 $16.95 $13.56 Boeing 727 made it the best-selling airliner in the world Kundus, Afghanistan, summer 1980 - includes stencil data during the first 30 years of jet transport.