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by he219 » Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:50 am
Hello pickelhaube,
well, the procedure is as follows: they have a list about all their models in different scales, big scales up to 1/6 I think. Fully equiped cockpit, landing gear down, angled rudders and the camo is included in the base-price. Things like openable canopy, gun bay, cover of the motor, open cowl flaps costs extra money. If you want a model of a type, which they dont have on their list, you better win the lotto first. You can choose the exact plane which you want - so they want shemes and pictures from the choosen plane with all the specific tactical signs, numbers, and the individual camo-pattern, etc. It takes about 9 months to 1 year for manufacturing. To order and talk about all that, I drove to Czech Republic. I can tell you, when I was in their workshop and saw all the molding blanks, I felt like a little boy in the candy-store. They had an old exhibit sample of a Ju 87 G-2 Kanonenvogel in quite a bad shape, with a quite unauthentic camo, so I took it back home and do some rework on it. They have some more 1/18 exhibit samples, like a p-47 (the surface covered with aluminum foil!), a F-14, different Me 109, Fw 190D, Fieseler Storch, a Zero etc., which they sell, but normaly, they just build the models after ordering...