Ah yes time rolls on! We will start with the Sopwith Comic conversion set from Freightdog/Blue Max. As has been mentioned before he is working on providing a LeRhône engine with the set. It looks like it was designed for the Eduard kit. I have one in hand so I'll do a review later.

Nice start to the new year, hopefully soon followed by the elusive WNW DVII.

Happy new year to all.
Keith

Hi Stephen

according to Colin it is designed for the Eduard kit and the LeRhone will not be added. You'll have to source it from another kit (Colin mentioned the Eduard Ni17 has two types included) or aftermarket. All included marking optios require it.

BTW AZ will issue a Gotha G.V soon ,,, I bet it is the Hippo kit

happy new year and

all the best

Steffen

Some pix in my review and his info
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Hello from Freightdog,

We are please to announce the new Blue Max 1/48th Sopwith Camel Night Fighter conversion is now available to order, priced at £18.00 plus £4.00 worldwide postage.

The Comic Camel was a field conversion for Home Defence use in the night fighter role. The conversion consisted of moving the Camel's cockpit back, while also relocating the machine guns from in front of the pilot to above the wing (to avoid the pilot being temporarily blinded by the muzzle flash). The Comic proved to be successful in the role of intercepting German Bombers on route to London during 1918, one of the decal options being B2402 of 44 (Home Defence) Squadron, "B" Flight, Hainault Farm, Essex, 1918, credited with destroying a Gotha G.V attempting to raid London on 25th January 1918 while flown by Captain George Henry Hackwill. For his actions he was awarded the Military Cross.

Designed for use with the Eduard Sopwith F.1 Camel base kit (not included). This set features a complete new fuselage and seperate top decking, navigation lights, Holt flare brackets, Lewis guns and Foster rails are all included in resin. Please note the set does not include the Le Rhone engine that was used in most Comic conversions. This must be sourced seperately.

Blue Max is a brand of Freightdog Models, this item will only be available direct from the Freightdog website.

Images can also be found at http://www.freightdogmodels.co.uk

Best regards Colin - Freightdog Models

Yes, I mentioned your review here several days ago. Colin discussed this with me too.

1:48 Gotha G.I

After his first attempt at providing news to us, Mike of LSM has more to follow up. He sends us status reports of recent offerings and a listing of new projects.

Link to Item

If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

HGW just sent out their first newsletter. WWI and WWII subjects here.

Released last September Eduard 1:48 early Spad XIII.

From our Man Jean-Luc at the 2012 Toy Fair!

From Aeroscale member Jean-Luc Formery at the Nurnberg Toy Fair 2012!

AZ Models Gotha G.V 1:48. It looks like the Hippo mold.


For much more on whats coming out, see here.

That does look nice – and more manageable in size than the WNW Gotha

Mikael

Just in from Neomega, A couple of Vector 1:32 resin engines.

Clerget


Gnome

What can we expect ? a few more dioramas I hope !

Roden giving us another Airco DH 9.

In the recent months we have had the release of Mirage's 1:48, 5 colour lozenge decal sheets for their Halberstadt CL.II ( and now maybe their CL.IV) kits.


These 5 colour lozenge decals just arrived today. Upper & lower colours with lozenge rib tapes. Review to follow.

Neat , nice to see more options when it comes lozenge decals . the colours sure do look close to the Microscultp line ......
Also nice to see the tapes in the format ( no having to cut your own )

Look forward to your review Stephen .

Thanks to WNW I just recieved replacements for the kits that dissappeared enroute on 21.2.11.

Good to see you finally got some plastic in the post, Stephen. Nice of WNW to send replacements

Mikael

More from HGW arrived today! It is decal sets in 1:48 of faded / transparent type of 4(set #548023)& 5(set #548022) colour lozenge . Great for interior use or for giving your bird a well worn or "over" varnished look it would seem.

WARNING! You must clear coat these to use. You can damage these with more than casual handling. Make sure your thumbnail edges never run across the un coated decal surface.

Also HGW sent along 132044 HGW 1:32 Albatros D.V / D.Va Super Detail set.



contains:
132055 ALBATROS Seatbelts (micro fibre)(Review done previously)here.
132056 ALBATROS Surface Details
132040 ALBATROS Radiator
132023 Mercedes D.III PE Set (Review done previously)here.
632006 Albatros MASK
Wood grain Decal (light wood) - Tester

The wood grain decal is called a tester but should be considered a teaser to get you interested in purchasing the separate full sheets. (I did a review on the 1:48 wood grain sheets here at Aeroscale).

Look at the WNW wesbite. Under the decals and accessories title it appears there are going to be 4 new products available soon. Catalouge numbers are 9996-9999, and prices are from $10-$20. As their decal sheets are $19 I wonder what they will be? Scroll to the bottom.

http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/decalsandaccessories

Dear Sir
it is for alternatively sprue (for ex. 132E0005 Mercedes D.III/IIIa/IIIau, cost 10$).
sorry for my english.
Spyros

It seem like Eduard has started a trend with extra sprues. If the Mercedes is WNW $10 offering I wonder what the others will be?

Dear Stephen
I think the others prices are for the diggerent spue's size (small, medium, large).
WNW charge an extra $10 price for postage.
Spyros

AZ Gotha GV 1/48 for sale:



http://www.modelimex.com/1-48-gotha-g-v-3x-decal-versions


Regards.

Don't forget about the new 1/32 Silver Wings Siskin IIIa:

http://www.silverwings.pl/new-kit.html

Doug