Around the Industry For the Months of August and SeptemberS 2004

Aircraft:

Halinski and FlyModel are both offering a 1:33 Aichi D3A1 "Val." Marek Pacynski (Models by Marek) has several new models out, including a 1:33 Aviatik Berg D1 and a captured P51B mustang T9+CK. Modelik has quite a number of interesting aircraft out, including the Nakajima Ki-115 "Tsurugi," Avia B.534, Yak-17 and Yak-23, and Focke-Wulf Ta-154. Wings of Horus has a new BE2e bomber in 1:33. Digital Card Models has a B-25 Mitchell bomber as well as the unusual Coanda 1. Thai Paperworks has a Myasischev M4 "Atlant" in 1:144.


Ships:

GPM has the Conte di Cavour in 1:200, and their website is picturing what looks to be an upcoming USS Saratoga. JSC has a couple of new offerings in 1:400, including the Queen Mary 2 and the WWII Japanese aircraft carrier Zuiho. Shipyard is offering a dual kit of the Berbics in 1:96 and the yacht Szwedzki XVIII in 1:48. Cardmodels.net has announced a large ship model competition that will run through the end of the year with the prize being Digital Navy's newly revised 1:250 USS Arizona.