Author: Domi

With the Air-Terre-Mer show in Mons, Belgium, on 20 & 21 August, ends the usual half-year ‘break’ in our show season. The break was shorter than usual, since we attended to the Duchkov Model Show in the Czech Republic over the last week end of July, but never mind, we are nevertheless pleased to go back into action. Heiden, Mol, Fréthun, Veldhoven, Affligem, Dieppe, Telford, London and Putte will at the very least follow Mons in our show calendar before the year is over, though a couple of other shows are still ‘being investigated’ too… This little break has been useful in many ways, including in the making of yet more new patterns that will appear, as resin kits, later this year. Mons could see the arrival of a few new items in the catalogue, but our aim is mostly to display a few of our latest creations there, creations that you will find at shows and in those pages soon afterwards. In the meantime, keep on scale modelling!

Greatly enjoyed the Duchkov Model Show and our visit to AZ Model / Kovozavody Prostejov’s HQ in Prague..! It was a pleasure to spend the week end with AZ Model / KP’s boss Petr Muzikent, his right hand Jan Polc, Duchkov Model Show organiser Pavel Sipka and Zdeněk Laurent, head judge at the Duchkov Model Show competition and, important detail, owner of the Duchkov’s Victoria Bar where we had quite a few..! We plan to get more involved with AZ Model / KP and the 2017 Duchkov Model Show. Watch this space!

Our next show is coming up, this time we’ll be travelling to the Czech Republic for the first edition of the Duchkov Model Show… Come & join us if you can! The summer is a relative ‘down’ time for RetrokiT and for the release of new items but we may have a few new Egg Plane items ready in time for the end of July, depending on how fast the casters can work. We’re expecting the complete kits of the Airbus A330 and A340 (about time the Hasegawa Jumbo Jet Egg Plane gets some company, don’t you think?!), along with the long-awaited cockpit detail sets for the Japanese F-2 and the Phantom II. The Hasegawa Phantom II Egg Plane is also getting no less than 3 sets of differing, detailled, exhaust cans..! We’re now busy working on the patterns for the items we’ll be releasing towards the end of the year, around Telford-time. In between, we expect a few other items to be released including the 1/72 1941 Batplane..! Happy summer holidays!

Our annual trip to the friendliest SF/F show on this planet is just about upon us!  Come & join us!  Along with the latest Bananaaas! and the rest of our RetroSF catalogue, we’ll also carry some very interesting Gundam goodies..!

We are now carrying a selection of 1/144 decal sheets from Polish company Shelf Oddity.  Our first sets includes original markings for the Spitfires, F-14 Tomcats and F-15 Eagles.

We look forward to seeing you in Huy this Saturday!

Shepway Show!  Our next venue, this Saturday.  The following Saturday, we will be in Huy, Belgium for the Amay Modèles Club show.

1/144 photo-etched Lilienthal gliders hit the RetrokiT website today along with some new (and some not so new) 1/144 decals:  Kitsworld’s Warbird Dakotas and Operation Granby Tornados are available now from this site, along with the brand new highly colourful SyHart Mirage 2000C and Tornado IDS sheets.  We’ve re-stocked the amazing Czech AF ‘Splinter’ MiG-21MF sheet from SyHart too..!

 

If you are, like us, of the opinion that the Revell Rafale kit is still a better offering than the newer Trumpeter kits, you must feel frustrated that Revell never updated the kit into a production standard aircraft, nor took the trouble to modify the kit into the C and B variants.  Thanks to RetroWings, updating the Revell Rafale M is not a problem, nor is modifying it into a Rafale C, but there was no easy Revell Rafale B fix.  Well, this is not a problem anymore!  We’ve combined our Rafale C update/detail set with new parts to allow for the making of this two-seater Rafale.  And it is available now!

Yes, twenty new items added to the RetroSF and RetroWings catalogues today.  Fans of the Me-262 will welcome no less than six 1/144 detail and conversion sets designed for the Eduard single and twin-seater 262s, in particular..  The final chapters of our 1/144 ‘coverage’ of the old Arii F-102A also takes place today with Case X wings and a neat little exhaust can to replace the not so nice plastic item..  ‘What if’ fans will welcome the Ju-87C conversion kit, also for the 1/144 Eduard offering (Ju-87B), though of course a few airframes were indeed completed and flew during WWII..  The F-14A Tomcat from Revell gets its long-awaited cockpit detail set, as does the Trumpeter Super Tomcat.  Finally, the LS Jaguar gets a set of 1,200L drop tanks.  In the SF realm, we welcome three new Bananaaas! including one that’s likely to please modern aviation fans, while the RetroWings Egg plane range finally bites into Tiger Models ‘deform’ kits.  Expect more for those cuties over the next few months.  The SR-71 Egg plane from Hasegawa also gets another ‘go’ with the arrival of the D-21 Egg Drone…   Last but not least, SW fans can now add some relaxed pilots to their X-, A-, B-,.. Wing Fighters.