I just got a stack of the brand new Eduard masks, which from now on will be cut from Tamiya tape. Haven’t tried them, but they look good. The old olive green vinyl masks, with their tendency not to stick where you most need them too, are a thing of the past. Can’t wait to try them ou. But, as fate would have it, the ones I got first, I don’t have kits for, such as the Trumpeter 1/48 P-40B and the Hasegawa 1/72 He-111 (they also included a new color PE fret for this kit, and it is beautiful, but again, it’s one I’ll probably never use since it’s not in my scale, thought I hear nothing but good things about the kit. So now I have masks – almost a must for this plane - and I have a PE set and decals for it. But no model, and no plans to get one. Um, the line forms on the left[}:)].
They also sent me two large sets for the interior and exterior of the Hasegawa 1/48 Strike Eagle, as well as two new kits from their Limited Edition series of very colorful, mostly WW I subjects (so far, although I got the Bf-108 Taifun in foreign markings from this series). These kits are re-releases with markings and masks for the most colorful and unusual versions of the plane they could find, and they’ve done a great job of finding good subjects. The decals are stunning, such as those on the new Albatross DIII. What kills me is that I want so badly to make this model, and I don’t have a clue how to simulate an entire woodgrain fuselage. I can barely do a passable wooden prop.
Finally, I got some more samples from Eduard’s new line of decals, including a set for 1/48 Hasegawa’s Bf-109K-3 (it also comes in 1/72, and is quite a departure from the same old 109’s we’re so used to), and a sheet for Japanese B-29 interceptors form late in the war, including 2 Ki-44’s, a Ki-100 and a Ki-45, all colorful subjects. These, too, come in both 1/48 and 1/72.
Tom
Sounds like Santa arrived early in Brooklyn. Eduard has been raising the bar a bit with their pre-painted PE. I haven’t seen any of the new decals, but I suspect they are made by someone else & marketed by Eduard. Cartograph perhaps ? As far as the masks go, I never thought much of the old ones, but the new use of Tamiya tape may make them useable. I wasn’t aware of a 109 kit from Eduard, think maybe you meant 108 ?
Regards, Rick
No. It’s a decal set for the Hasegawa kit (I don’t have the 1/72 sheet is, so I don’t know what the recommended kit is, though there can’t be many options there). And yes, the decals are made by a firm called AVI Print – www.aviprint.cz – and they are beautifully inked and in perfect register. Eduard has released, I think four or five new sheets so far for this series, both in 1/72 and 1/48, and none of these sheets, so far as I know, go on any Eduard kit.
And since you mention the Bf-108, the Eduard re-release of this kit in its Limited Edition series (I’m alway wary when a company uses this term, because I assume the edition is limited to as many kits as they can sell) includes marking for a half-dozen foreign operators of the type, and the kit, as it was in its original Profipak incarnation, is a joy to behold. And now you can build in Japanese, Rumanian, or any other marking that will make it stand out from the other Taifuns and their limited paint schemes. I never built the original, but am looking forward to this one, if I can ever catch up on obligations.
Tom
I was refering to your reference to the Bf-109 in foreign markings. Only one I know of is a Bf-108.
Regards, Rick