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!