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It’s break time, with our next show scheduled for the first week end in August in Enghien, Belgium.  Traditionally, we trade at SmallSpace early July in Hanslope, a small village near Milton Keynes in the UK, but this year, unfortunately, we could not do it.  It is a very nice, friendly show, and if you are a SF/F fan, the only place to be that Sunday.  Make the trip, you will not be disappointed!

Anyway, July is also rather traditionally a month during which we tend to sculpt a lot – I do not know why! – and therefore, expect a number of releases for the upcoming big shows of the autumn.  In the meantime, we are planning the re-birth of RetroTracks, the release a fairly large number of new Bananaaas!, some 1/72 aircraft conversion kits for fans of certain Belgian comic strip characters, some 1/144 aircraft bits (Saab 35, Me-163, F-19,..) and quite possibly (though this may have to wait until the autumn) launch our 1/100 aircraft detailing range…  Enjoy the summer, Folks, but keep checking this page and our Facebook page too for the very latest updates!

Three small shows are just behind us now and we’re soon off to attend to one of the ‘big ones’, ModelBrno in the Czech Republic.  The level of workmanship we saw during our last visit to Brno, and more recently to Moson in Hungary speaks volumes about the quality of scale modelling in Eastern Europe..  Amazing! For us at RetrokiT, it is also a way to push our boundaries a little outwards, we meet in Eastern Europe many modellers from the East and the South that have never heard of us.  It is interesting and extremely valuable to see their reactions to our products.  Mind you, we are not putting down the smaller shows, far from it, we tend to have more time at those for the other important things like talking to people, seeing the models on show, demonstrating pattern-making, and yes, visiting the bar..

No less than 12 new items were introduced into our catalogue during the show in Middelkerke on 21 May, and those will trickle down onto this website over the next few days, while we get ready for our next shows, Miniatur Challenge in Dusseldorf, Germany, on Saturday 27th of May and the 5ème Salon de la Maquette et du Modèle Réduit in Beuvry-la-Forêt, France on the 3rd and 4th of June…

Some more changes to the calendar, with a cancellation first, since we can not attend to the re-scheduled Small Space 6 show, the first time we will miss this show since its creation…  And Seraing, Belgium, is a new stop for early October – to be fair it’s only 2 km away from home and we are part of the organising team -.  In the meantime, after a month of April almost entirely dedicated to our other activity (face-painting), we are back at work on RetrokiT stuff, with hopefully the first of 20-odd new releases reaching those pages by the time we visit the seaside town of Middelkerke, Belgium, on 20 May.

Our next outing will take place on Sunday 21 May, to the Belgian sea-side town of Middelkerke, for what had become a kind of little pilgrimage to one of the friendliest show of the year.  We just come back from Moson Show in Hungary, we had the big Euro Model Expo in Lingen, Germany, not that long ago, and the Southern Expo near London, UK, just before, and we also recall the magnificent show of the Félés du Maquettisme early in February…  It’s been a handful of large shows, lots of travelling, lots of new releases, and it’s time to take a little break before we hit the road again.  The highlight of those shows is meeting and talking to people who appreciate our work and talking about things like their suggestions for future releases.  Middlekerke should see a handful of new releases (although we take a break, some of our casters do not!), and more will follow throughout June and July, before another little break that will lead us to the big shows of the late summer and autumn, for which we have a long list of new items being prepared for…

We are pleased to offer on this website the first 1/72 resin kit of a new company called AFV+.  Although RetrokiT has of late decided to move away from the 1/72 AFV scene,  we also are partly to blame for this new venture and wish to promote this exciting new range a bit more while AFV+ grows a bit more and can do the job on its own.  Good luck, Jean-Luc and the others at AFV+..!

After a busy start of the year with four shows in Belgium, the UK and lately, Germany, we are looking forward to our first participation to the Moson Show in Hungary..!  Our Calendar page has been updated again.  Only about 20 more shows to attend to before 2018…

RetrokiT will be there, of course!

Time of the year for our annual trip to Hornchurch, NE London, UK, and the Southern Expo where, as usual, RetrokiT will offer a special prize for the best Junior entry at the competition. This prize commemorates the scale modelling achievements of our late daugther Tena, who was lucky enough to get top Junior awards at the Southern Expo back in the naughties. Not once but twice! This prize consists of a certificate, a trophy and a scale model (which we will chose once we know the interests of the winner). Interestingly,  the previous recipients of this award have all (but one!) been girls…

We are proud to announce the release of our latest 1/200 item, a conversion kit aimed at the Hasegawa 737-200 kits to turn them into the often forgotten initial, shorter variant.