Our first 2021 releases, two World War Toons conversions, are now available online! The Panzer IV/70 and Churchill AVRE are our first conversions designed for the Meng WWT Panxer IV and Churchill kits, but not the last, for sure. More will follow soon.
For later this February, the latest two 1/72 RetroTracks kits, the Wickham Armoured Rail Car and the Daimler-Guinness Armoured Lorry, both expected to be available around the 25th of the month, along with two new 1/144 RetroWings items. Note that some pictures of our forthcoming 1/35 RetroTracks Wickham Armoured Rail Car have been posted on our Facebook page and that you can follow its progress there.
January is often a difficult month and we are pleased to offer, for the last few days of this first month of the year, free postage to anywhere in the world on all orders of over 40 euros.
January brought us some temporary setbacks, with our main caster being off work for about 10 days for a major surgery, and this explains why a handful of customers are still awaiting their orders. To all of you, thanks for your understanding, patience and good words that we passed on to said caster. He’s fully recovered now, and busy casting resin.
With this, our expected first releases of 2021, two WWT conversion kits, have been slightly postponed but have no fear, they will soon hit the website; the two new 1/72 RetroTracks kits are still due out in February along with some new 1/144 aircraft detail sets.
The next 1/35 RetroTracks kit is being designed right now, and we expect to put it on the website pretty soon, initially on a pre-order basis. Yet another 1/35 RetroTracks kit is also in the early stages of eventually being released during 2021. More details about both kits should appear soon on our Facebook page, so don’t forget to like it or follow it for all the latest news.
OK, Folks, it’s time to get back to work for us, stay safe and keep on scale modelling!
That’s what we at RetrokiT wish to all, all over the globe (and to the few circling it above our heads!). 2020 could have been worse, but we’ll be happy to see the end of it all the same. We are not really thinking that life as before will re-start soon, but we’d love to travel again, meet old friends and make new ones at shows here and there. When one works from home, confinement is not really a big issue, but the ‘social’ aspect of the shows is being missed, for sure!
As you may have seen on our Facebook page, we have already set into motion the release of two new 1/72 RetroTracks kits for early 2021, available on pre-order at a special discounted price until the 25th of January. Expect a few new similar announcements soon for some of our other ranges. There will certainly be new World War Toons items coming out in January and new 1/144 bits in February; there are lots of new patterns awaiting caster’s time, and we are still producing more…
Take care, be safe and keep on scale modelling, Folks!
What a year this has been. We did manage to attend to a single show during 2020, and it looks as if little will change on that front until well into 2021… At least, we are still alive and kicking, releasing new kits. Once again this year, we have maybe a little leaned towards Chibi subjects, but please bear with us, we have other new releases up our sleeves, and frankly, if you have not try those World War Toons tanks from Meng, you seriously should consider it between two far more serious, more involved subjects, it is a highly refreshing experience! The number of people infected with THAT virus is growing and growing, and that range of ours is breaking records all the time, sales-wise. We are not complaining! And we are having a whale of a time designing those conversion kits, such as this Schmallturm turret illustrated here.
With this in mind, we are happy to announce the release of our latest set in that particular range, this time our first conversion kit designed for the Matilda II kit. Be sure that more will follow!
With the imminent and future releases of batches of RetroTracks World War Toons conversion kits (first the Char B2 Flamm conversion kit, Char B1 Correction Kit and T34/76 Mod.1940 Turret, followed by the Sherman DD Conversion kit, Panzer IV/70 Conversion Kit, Oswald Conversion Kit, and the Matilda Hedgehog Conversion Kit,.. to name but a few!), and the popularity of the existing RetroTracks range (already counting almost 40 conversion or update sets for most of the Meng range of caricaturised tanks), we will be offering a free Meng WWT kit * for every 50 euros spent in our webshop (not including postage). This offer is valid from.. now and will only last until our stock of Meng WWT kits is gone! Better place your order in fast!
* customers do not get to chose which Meng WWT kit(s) they get.
We are pleased to announce the imminent release of our second Risqué by RetrokiT 1/10 bust, Bela. Once again, we are offering the kit as a pre-order until the 15th of Septembver 2020. Not, as usual, at a special price, but with a little free ‘extra’, a so far un-released Pinhead Bananaaa!, that will only become available on its own early 2021. Three more busts are either sculpted or in the process of being sculpted for this new RetrokiT range, we hope to have two of them released by the end of the year.
2020… What a year (so far!). As we write those few words, yet more shows are being cancelled and our calendar looks very bare for the second half of the year. We fear that unless a Covid-19 vaccine is found soon, there will be few shows being organised next year, at least for the first few months of 2021. As we do organise shows too, we know how hard the current situation is for most, if not all clubs and associations planning something in the near future. A lot of clubs, associations and organisers, rely on a yearly show for their survival…; no shows mean no income, and in some cases, with leaflets, posters,.., and even venues to be paid for, major losses. Let’s hope for a brighter future.
With shows disappearing one by one from the calendar, our release schedule is being affected, some items being released earlier than originally thought, others later. Today we are pleased to announce the release of our latest ‘Chibi Tank’ conversion, the Early M3 Stuart, with the distinctive octogonal turret, a nice and easy change of ‘skin’ for the Meng World War toons M5 kit. Also new, albeit on pre-order status (at a discounted price) until the end of July, is the first of our Risqué by RetrokiT bust, Alpha, our hommage to Japanese artist Hijame Soyarama. Alpha will soon be joined by Bela, our female pinhead bust, due to be released in early September, and at least three more busts later in the year.
Other future releases, this summer, should include a few more World War Toons conversions, a new Bananaaa! and some 1/144 aircraft bits.
Better news still, our Free Postage Offer continues and still applies to any order valued (p&p included) over 60 euros (p&p refunded at the time of shipping).
Not all the way, but a first step. Our on-going relationship with AZ Model and KP in the Czech Republic brings us to a new ‘level’, with the release of our first 100% injected-plastic kits. This was a project we have been working on for some time already, there was much to learn on our part and the support from our Czech friends was simply wonderful. Of course the new kits take a lot from the very nice AZ Model Bf-109 kits, and only introduce a few new ‘RetroWings’ plastic parts for the conversion, but hey, it’s a start, and we look forward to continuing this partnership, for sure!
Apart from this very exciting development, we have some new resin kits coming up soon, in particular the ‘Death Star’ display stands for the 1/144 Bandai kits. We plan to extend this 1/144 SW range in the future to take advantage of the lovely Bandai kits. Also coming in soon is the 1/72 Astir CS-77 cockpit detail set with pilot to double our offer in that new 1/72 resin detail set range of ours.
Much more is in the making, visit our facebook page to find out what!
Finally, we are able to post to most countries outside Europe again. A small mountain of parcels awaits and all those parcels will be posted from Monday 25 May onwards, over a few days (in order to keep Post Office staff sane and other Post Office users relatively happy!). We want to thank all those who have ordered over the past few ‘lockdown’ weeks and have had to wait for the shipping ban to be lifted.
Our next releases will be the 1/72 Astir CS-77 cockpit detail set with pilot and the four ‘Death Star’ bases for (primarily) the 1/144 X-Wing fighters from Bandai. Those should be coming out around mid-June. The new releases pace should grow as we get nearer the September shows (fingers crossed!). Those following us on our Facebook page are aware that we have been busy over this lockdown and have a large number of new patterns in store awaiting casting and eventual release!
Note that the current offer of free postage for any order totaling over 60 euros is still ‘on’ for the time being…
We at RetrokiT / RetroWings ares just about to release our very first ‘all injected-plastic’ kits. Yes, plural. Two 1/72 boxings of a ‘what-if’ Bf-109 Zwilling are about to hit the shelves here and there. Those kits are the brainchildren of our good friend Pavel Sipka, made real thanks to the generous folks at AZ Model who steered us and advised us for the pattern-making (of the few ‘extra’ parts needed for this conversion based on the AZ Model G-6 kit). It took time and energy and money, more than originally thought, but it was a great project to be involved with and we certainly learned much, hopefully allowing us to be faster and more efficient in the future! We hope you will enjoy those new releases too!
