It’s been a long time in coming, but Victor is finally here! Victor is the companion to our earlier Un-dead Bride bust; the happy (!?) couple can at last be re-united for your painting pleasure!
Also new is our M4A1(76)W conversion kit for the still sooooooo cute Meng ‘World War Toons’ Sherman M4A1 kit. And with yet more World War Toons tanks being released or announced (Somua S35, Pz 38(t), Pershing, Stuart,..), we have enough work for the next two decades, we think..! Fun has come back to scale modelling! Enjoy!
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..
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.
4-part conversion kit designed for the Meng World War Toons Pz III kit.
Boxed Kit. In Production.
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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…
Two more items join the RetroTracks Chibi catalogue today, with the Medium Tank M3 Conversion Kit and associated early-style boogies and road wheels. This range has grown very rapidly and we now have about 50 conversions available, to fit most ‘World War Toons’ kits so far released by Meng. We have a few more coming up but we will take a small break during July when we expect no new release, or nothing major in any case, but work continues on new patterns for the future.
The show in Mons, Belgium, mid- to late-August, should see us release a few new items and we still have plenty other new releases and some re-releases planned for the rest of the year.
So, for those like us in the Northern Hemisphere, take some time to enjoy the warm weather and for the others, well, keep on scale modelling, Folks!
6-part resin conversion kit designed for the Meng World War Toons M4 Sherman kits and the RetroTracks Medium Tank M3 Conversion Kit (RTE056).
Small bagged Kit. In Production.
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‘In Production’ and ‘In Stock’ imply that the item is still in production but that it may not necessarily be available right away for immediate shipping. Past the initial 25 castings of any new release, all our products are now manufactured upon reception of orders. We aim to ship all orders within 3 weeks of order receipt, though most orders are posted soon after the order is received. ‘Out of Production’ and ‘Out of Stock’ imply that the item is currently out of production. In case of doubt, do feel free to contact us first via e-mail.
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In case of doubt, do feel free to contact us via e-mail.
6-part resin conversion kit designed for the Meng World War Toons M4 Sherman kits. Note that for an early production model, set RTE057 offers the early-style boogies and road wheels.
Boxed up Kit. In Production.
Please note:
Stock Levels
‘In Production’ and ‘In Stock’ imply that the item is still in production but that it may not necessarily be available right away for immediate shipping. Past the initial 25 castings of any new release, all our products are now manufactured upon reception of orders. We aim to ship all orders within 3 weeks of order receipt, though most orders are posted soon after the order is received. ‘Out of Production’ and ‘Out of Stock’ imply that the item is currently out of production. In case of doubt, do feel free to contact us first via e-mail.
P&P charges
EU (including EFTA countries and European micro-states) Buyers
Shipping to any EU (European Union) country (including European Free Trade Association states – Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland – and European microstates – Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Vatican -) is charged by the size of the largest item of the order. Please visit our ‘Condition of Use‘ page for current postage fees. As we keep our stock levels to a minimum, our products are generally produced upon receipt of orders, meaning that we aim to ship all orders, first class (airmail) within 3 weeks. We will contact you shortly after your order in order to give you an estimated delivery date.
Rest of the World Buyers
Shipping outside the EU (EU plus EFTA countries and European micro-states) is also charged by the size of the largest item of the order. Please visit our, ‘Condition of Use‘ page for current postage fees. As we keep our stock levels to a minimum, our products are generally produced upon receipt of orders, meaning that we aim to ship all orders, first class (airmail) within 2 weeks. We will contact you shortly after your order in order to give you an estimated delivery date.
In case of doubt, do feel free to contact us via e-mail.
We really like getting feedback about our releases, old or new. Having for over 10 years now designed cockpit detail sets for a great many 1/144 aircraft kits, we were made aware that we should have released a lot more sets of ejection seats that could be used in kits that have not, for a reason or another, received the ‘RetroWings treatment’. And so, starting next month, we will try to remedy to this situation. Talking to you Guys (and Gals!) is important to us, sometimes we do not see the obvious and those exchanges, be them face to face at shows, on Facebook or via e-mails are important to keep us meeting your expectations and demands. So, do not hesitate getting in touch with us!
The end of March 2023, as promised, brings us our latest World War Toons conversion kit, illustrated above. More of those conversions are being prepared (M75, M37, StuG III ausf.G to name but three), but we are not forgetting our other ranges and we have quite a neat series of other new products still to be released this year. So keep visiting our Facebook page to be kept abreast of what’s cooking!
12-part resin conversion kit designed to fit the Meng World War Toons Panzer II kit.
Boxed up Kit. In Production.
Please note:
Stock Levels
‘In Production’ and ‘In Stock’ imply that the item is still in production but that it may not necessarily be available right away for immediate shipping. Past the initial 25 castings of any new release, all our products are now manufactured upon reception of orders. We aim to ship all orders within 3 weeks of order receipt, though most orders are posted soon after the order is received. ‘Out of Production’ and ‘Out of Stock’ imply that the item is currently out of production. In case of doubt, do feel free to contact us first via e-mail.
P&P charges
EU (including EFTA countries and European micro-states) Buyers
Shipping to any EU (European Union) country (including European Free Trade Association states – Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland – and European microstates – Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, Vatican -) is charged by the size of the largest item of the order. Please visit our ‘Condition of Use‘ page for current postage fees. As we keep our stock levels to a minimum, our products are generally produced upon receipt of orders, meaning that we aim to ship all orders, first class (airmail) within 3 weeks. We will contact you shortly after your order in order to give you an estimated delivery date.
Rest of the World Buyers
Shipping outside the EU (EU plus EFTA countries and European micro-states) is also charged by the size of the largest item of the order. Please visit our, ‘Condition of Use‘ page for current postage fees. As we keep our stock levels to a minimum, our products are generally produced upon receipt of orders, meaning that we aim to ship all orders, first class (airmail) within 2 weeks. We will contact you shortly after your order in order to give you an estimated delivery date.
In case of doubt, do feel free to contact us via e-mail.
