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Please note that RetrokiT will not be trading at this year’s event.  However, we are happy to organise for the picking up of orders at the show.  E-mail us, at info@retrokitonline.net, your wishlist before the 10th of October.  In order not to interfere with the trading during the show, beware that all orders that you want to pick up at the show must be paid in advance (Paypal or bank transfer, the details will be discussed via e-mails) and NO money will be exchanged at the show.

We are, however, trading at Modeling Mania at little earlier in October, so if you can, feel free to drop by as it is also a show that is worth coming to with a large array of international exhibitors and traders, a competition, a fantastic raffle with a large number of great prizes, including a set of 15 of our Bananaaas! (itself worth 150 euros, and that’s not the biggest prize of this raffle, by far!!) and, being Belgium, a well-stocked bar. What else do you need?

Well, that’s all for now but keep us scale modelling, Folks!!

September brings us a lot closer to the end of the ‘nicer’ seasons, and, rather sadly for those of us who like warmer weather, Christmas is only a few weeks away now.. Thankfully, we at RetrokiT still have much to keep us busy and think about that!

Our latest releases include two sets that we are pretty pround of, first a 1/144 ‘late MiG-21PFM dorsal spine’ that, also rather sadly, Eduard forgot to add to their catalogue when they released their gorgeous tiny MiG-21 Fishbed series of kits. It’s been a while since we’ve had the pleasure of purchasing a brand new 1/144 Eduard kit, and even their reprise of certain Platz kits petered out.. Sad, very sad.. But it gives us the opportunity to be creative and fill in the gaps..!

The other important release, for us in any case, concerns the still OOP 1/72 Airfix Piper Cherokee Arrow kit, one of those beautiful kits that Airfix released in the 1970s. The fact that it is OOP does not matter that much to us at RetrokiT, a lot of our best-seller items are designed for such ‘rare’ kits. We have found out over the years that a lot of those OOP kits still linger in many ‘stashes’ out there; this is an opportunity to get that little gem of an Airfix kit out in the sunshine, Folks!

A set of 1/144 Dassault Rafale ejection seats is also being released this month; this release follows a ‘trend’ established after hearing many request from our customers, or would-be customers that wanted to furnish their cockpits without too much mess. Not everyone wants a detailed tub after all, the main think visible through those tiny canopies being.. the ejection seat. So both options are available now, on top of extra small conversions we released a while back for the Revell Rafale.

So what’s to be expected next from RetrokiT. Well, we have, almost literaly, tons of masters ready to be cast and we must remain patient because it would be counter-productive to release 35 or so new products in one go..! That said, next month, we will continue releasing a few of the new Bananaaas! we sculpted during June 2024. That won’t diminish the number of Bananaaas! in waiting since 3 more are in the process of being compteled right now, but there you go. We are also working on a new line of product ‘derivatives’ that we plan to release soon before the Xmas we talked about earlier on.. Wait and see.

New patterns are still being produced, including that 1/200 Boeing 727-100 conversuon kit pictured above; it’s been a while since we added an item to that range.

There you go! Enjoy, for those in the Northern hemisphere, the last warm days of the year, but don’t stop scale modelling, Folks!

August brings the annual show in Mons, Belgium one of our favourites haunts, a two-day extravaganza bringing together various facets of our hobby, from R/C ships to drones to wargaming to train modelling and of course to static scale modelling. It’s a very convivial affair, a real family show with lots of public participation, do visit it, you will not be disappointed. Easy acces, plenty of free parking and free entrance too.

August also bring us the 1/144 E-2C Hawkeye sets, old (but re-designed) and brand new; we had aimed to release those sets earlier, but sh.. happened, as it does, and the sets are thus being released a bit late… Please accept our apologies! Also being released this month are two brand new Bananaaas! and two more that have been OOP for a long time.

With this in mind, keep on scale modelling, Folks!

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!