Author: Domi

Into this summer of ’24, we are still, here in any case, waiting for some warm and dry weather.. Not many chances of enjoying ourselves outside, so we keep working on the design of yet more patterns for future releases. And we take some time to build a few models ‘just for fun’ too..!

Anyway, we are slowly getting ready for our next show, in Mons, Belgium, during mid-August. If you haven’t attended to this show yet, try to come along, it is a very friendly show for the whole family, featuring many ‘sides’ of our hobby, including wargaming and R/C modelling. And Mons, the town and its area, has a lot to offer too for all visitors. And of course, come and say ‘Hello!’ at the RetrokiT stand..!

We have just released yet more ‘Chibi’ cockpit detail sets, this time for the Freedom and AFVClub single-seater F-16 kits. We are already at work on more of those sets for the latest Chibi releases, it’s actually hard to keep up with all those new kits!

Our 1/144 E-2C sets are being cast as we write, they should be out very soon, while new Bananaaas are on their way to the casters for release in Mons, as it happens.

Despite the weather, keep on scale modelling, Folks!

In order to celebrate the release of our 50th World War Toons conversion kit, the StuG III ausf.G, we are offering a 20 % discount on ALL items in our RetroTracks AFV Chibi catalogue for orders placed via the RetrokiT website between now and 11.59pm (GMT+1) on June the 14th. Postal charges apply as usual. What better time to start or complete your collection !?

Just keep on scale modelling, Folks!!

Here, in Western Europe in any case, the sun is still playing hide & seek (and to be fair, it is mostly losing the battle!) with the clouds and our spring has not been particularly enjoyable, unless of course you are a duck. Anyway, all s not wel, cold and bleak, this is also an opportunity to try to complete a few ‘just for fun’ projects and certaily complete a number of new patterns for future releases! It is still had to say whether the summer will be better, but until we know for sure, we are still working very hard on numerous projects that should bring some of you some joy in the not too distant future.

The ‘June’ batch of new releases includes a new WWT conversion kit, the StuG III ausf.G, a cockpit detail set for the Freedom Compact Series MiG-21 and a set of SSME ‘bells’ for any 1/144 Space Shuttle kit out there, a welcome improvement on any plastic parts in any of those kits.

If you have any suggestions (mostly if you can also provide the reference!!), we always welcome and often act upon receiving them.. So, until we hear from you, we leave you with a small list of a few brand new items that should be released this year again..

1/144 Mirage 2000D/N Conversion Kit

1/144 MiG-23UB Conversion Kit

1/144 A-10N/AW Conversion kit

1/144 E-2C Cockpit Detail set

1/100 A-4M Cockpit Detail Set

1/72 Piper Cherokee Arrow Cockpit Detail Set

1/72 Super Constellation Engine Nacelles

1/72 Fokker S-11 Cockpit Detail Set

WWT M7 Priest Conversion Kit

There you go, just jo whet your appetite.. There will be a few other new items and a handdful of re-releases too added to this list before 2024 is out.

So, make the best of the poor weather, build yet more scale models, Folks!

Early May brings us a series of new 1/144 detail sets for the Apache attack helicopter, a cockpit detail set for the Great Wall Hobby F-35A chibi kit and last but not least a long OOP item that has often been atop of our followers’ requests, the Mr Wolf and Red Hot Redhead double bust set.

This re-release has been slightly modified from the original release as it had been pointed out that the glass ink bottles they were meant to be displayed on were difficult to locate, while many of our clear resin copies were less than perfect and had to be rejected, driving the price up.. Therefore this latest ‘variant’ of the two busts does not require any bottles to be displayed and can be used with any fairly standard plinth. We hope this slight mod will prove to be as popular as the original release.

Moving forward, the 1/144 Revell E-2C Hawkeye will soon be revisited with a series of new (or re-worked) items, while the 1/144 Space Shuttles will get some highly detailed SSME bells. The Freedom Compact Series MiG-21 will soon be getting some cockpit details and a StuG III ausf.G conversion kit will be available to convert the Meng World War Toons Pz III. That’s for the coming weeks only..

Until then, keep on Scale Modelling, Folks!

May the Fourth is upon us, Folks! Our newest Bananaaas! set is available on the RetrokiT website and ready to be shipped too! To celebrate May the Fourth, aka Star Wars Day, we are offering FREE postage to anywhere in the world to any order containing a minimum of 30 euros worth of RetroSF SW stuff, be it Bananaaa!-related or not. The order can thus contain other, non-SW-related items, including RetroWings, RetroTracks, or Risqué items, but must include 30 euros worth of RetroSF SW items in it to qualify. Postage will need to be paid but will be re-funded via Paypal once the parcel has been shipped. This offer is valid from now until midnight (GMT) on the 5th of May 2024.

PS: Our latest Yodabananaaa! is available separately from the SW set, as are the long-OOP Darth Bananaaa! and R2-Bananaaa!

PS 2: Penny Bananaaa! is also released on its own today.

Happy SW Day and keep on scale modelling, Folks!

Our next show will be Scalemodel World in Geel, Belgium. A one-day show that we encourage you to visit, for its friendly atmosphere and high level of workmanship on show. We have been trading there for a long time now, it has always well worth being there!

It is a bit early to say what new items we will unveil at this show, so busy our programme of release is… We have just released our latest, if minute, complete kit, a 1/144 Fieseler Fi-103A-1 / Re 4, along with a new Bananaaa! and a handful of 1/144 re-releases. We are aiming for a new Bananaaa! collection for May, one that will include four Bananaaas! including two that have been OOP for a long while and a brand new limited edition one. Still for our RetroSF range, our long OOP set ‘Mr Wolf and Red Hot Redhead’ is coming back, albeit in a slightly re-worked form. In 1/144, we also expect the Hawkeye folded-wings set to be available again that month. All those re-releases are to fulfill requests from some of you, Guys; do not hesitate to ask!

We have just posted on our facebook page images of yet more forthcoming sets, such as the 1/144 Mirage B/N conversion kit and several 1/144 AH-64 bits and bobs.. Follow us on facebook to get the latest info.

In the meantime, keep on scale modelling, Folks!

First show of the new year for RetrokiT, Euro Model Expo in Lingen, Germany. Always a busy event, it will be nice to see old friends again, some of which we only see yearly at this very show, and meet new ones too of course! This will be the last but one EME event, with the filal, ‘Gold Edition’, taking place in 2025; we already look forward to what the organisers have in mind for the future..

Lots of releases this month, particularly if you are into 1/144 aviation modelling; Three new Tomcat sets and the re-release of all out single-seater Jaguar sets to upgrade or detail your old LS kits. One more Jaguar set remains to be released, the Jaguar M conversion kit which we hope to release later this year, but we have lots of other things planned to be released first, including, a Fieseler Fi-103 A1 / Re 4 (complete kit), a MiG-23UB conversion kit, a Mirage 2000 two-seater conversion kit,… and that’s a few examples for our 1/144 range. New Bananaaas! are coming too, we will also soon re-release an early RetroSF item that’s been requested many times over the past few years, and yet more toon conversion and detail sets.

As always, we welcome your suggestions, so feel free to drop us a line via e-mail, or via our Facebook page.

And as always, keep on scale modelling, Folks!

Following the release in January 2024 of our WWT Brummbar conversion kit, of the 1/144 Phimat/Barax/Barracuda pods set and above all the long-awaited 1/144 Mirage F.1 Two-seater conversion kit, we have embarked in a programme of re-releases of older sets, figures and kits that have been unavailable for one reason or another for some time. February 2024 sees our 1/144 Alpha Jet cockpit detail sets re-surfacing again, timely one could say since Revell have just re-released the kit too!

Coming back soon too are our 1/144 Jaguar cockpit and noses sets, the 1/144 Hawkeye folded-wings set and, in the RetroSF range, the Wolf & Red Hot Redhead set.

All those re-releases are not a sign that we are slowing down any, just a proof that we are constantly listening to our customers and trying to please them. Indeed, we have plenty of new items to still be released this year again, namely some more 1/144 Tomcat bits, yet new Bananaaas! and much more!

So do yourself a favour and drop us a line with your suggestions for future releases and re-relases!

In the meantime, keep on scale modelling, Folks!

2023 has been a busy year! This 31st of December, a very last new release, our 29th of the year, hits the shelves! We hope you like it! We have yet again a large number of new releases (and a few re-releases too) planned for 2024, plenty of plans and ideas too, making it hard to be more precise at this very early stage. Simply regularly visit our Facebook page to be made aware of the latest developments!

Let us wish you all a happy New Year, full of great scale modelling projects!

See you in 2024.

2023 has been a pretty busy year, with, so far four re-releases (including the much-awaited 1/144 TA-4J conversion kit) and 28 new releases. We expect one more new release to conclude this year’s bounty. Another new Bananaaa!, if you must know..!

The first new releases of 2024 are being cast as I write those few lines. World War Toons fans will soon have a Brummbar conversion kit to deal with, while another long-awaited set, the Mirage F.1 two-seater conversion kit should keep a few 1/144 modellers happy for a little while.

We are working on our schedule of shows for 2024. It will be published shortly and if still a far cry from the pre-Covid years, when we attended 25 to 30 shows a year, we are definitely not giving up on the chance to meet a few of you here and there throughout the year!

As always, during 2024, we will be awaiting ideas and suggestions from you, so do not be afraid of contacting us, and please regularly visit our FB page as this is the place where we offer the first glimpses of what’s to come in our growing ranges!

All the best wishes to you all for the end of the year celebrations. May 2024 bring a quieter, safer, nicer place to live in, as 2023 will certainly not be remembered amongst the best years of the 21st Century for the human kind…

Keep on scale modelling, Folks!