We are now past Scale Model Challenge, with only a small handful of shows left to attend to before the New Year. We’ll first be off to France, in Alsace, then in Belgium for our second participation to the ‘Caméléons’ show in Fleurus, then will be in London for the Guideline Publications’ Plastic Model Show early December.
Our provisional show schedule for 2019 is already online, there will be changes, no doubt, but it’s looking like an interesting year with several new shows and a few ‘big ones’ like Vienna, Moson, and Brno just for the first half of the year.
We took the opportunity in 2018 to establish ourselves into another ‘niche’, that of the ‘Egged Tank’, and it has paid off, not only in terms of sales, but also in terms of pure fun, and maybe more importantly for some, with the return of our 1/72 AFV range, and even new kits and figures in our 1/35 AFV range. The Belgian JPK is likely to be our next 1/35 venture, while three new 1/72 AFV kits are due to be released in late January already, and few more also planned for later in the year. As Meng is still releasing new World War Toons kits, we are also very likely to continue expanding our range of cartoonish conversion kits.
The 1/144 and 1/100 aircraft scenes have seen fewer (than usual) RetroWings new releases this year (please blame Meng’s World War Toons releases for that!) but we have about 15 new 1/144 and a couple of 1/100 detail or conversion sets awaiting casting, and several more in the making. And our long-awaited 1/144 MiG-21 ‘Analog’ conversion kit is now out!