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  1. The model comes with different nose section to enable variants of the B-17F to be correctly done, these are additions to the noses in the standard HKM B-17F
  2. EDUARD 11183 1/48 The Bloody Hundredth 1943, Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress LIMITED EDITION Due August 2024 This is an official licenced product by the 100 Bomb Group Foundation. The model will feature all the main characters portrayed in the recent Masters of the Air TV Series, but the actual historical personnel of the 100 Bomb Group Kit Contents: B-17F 1/48 kit from HK Models Additional sprue of transparent parts for two additional nose types of later B-17F versions than those included in the original HKM kit 7 versions of the color scheme of three squadrons of the 100th Bomb Group, 8th USAAF. Photo-etched parts, masks, and resin parts from Eduard production. Reproduction of a painting by painter/artist Piotr Forkasiewicz. This kit is being prepared in cooperation with the 100th Bomb Group Foundation. To be released in August 2024. It will be a very specific limited edition In collaboration with Hong Kong Models and the 100th Bomb Group Foundation, A 1/48th scale B-17F bomber kit focusing on the legendary unit nicknamed “The Bloody Hundredth.” To achieve this, Eduard are working with HKM to develop a new injection mold that will enable them to create nose variants not previously available in the kit. This enhancement will allow them to include these markings of the legendary machines that served with the unit in 1943: Rosie’s Riveters, B-17F-120-BO, 42-30758, LD-W Piccadilly Lily, B-17F-30-VE, 42-5864, EP-A Hard Luck!, B-17F-55-DL, 42-3413, LN-V Sunny II, B-17F-120-BO, 42-30796, EP-K / EP-J Alice from Dallas, B-17F-30-VE, 42-5867, LN-O Skipper, B-17F-45-DL, 42-3307, EP-N Horny, B-17F-40-VE, 42-5957, XR-D The kit will come complete with masks, photo-etched parts, and brassin parts, as well as a poster by artist Piotr Forkasiewicz. www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for EDK11183
  3. Heller will send the weapon decals to their Distributors who will in turn send them to their retailers. I will keep you posted.
  4. Gecko Models *35GM0007 1/35 WW II British Army Truck Driver Set RRP £14.99 *35GM0031 1/35 Bedford MWC 15-cwt 4x2 200 Gallon Water Bowser Truck (Open Cab Aeroscreen) RRP £38.99 *35GM0061 1/35 Bedford MWR FFW Radio Command Truck RRP £38.99 *35GM0084 1/35 Dragon Teeth Anti-Tank Obstacle Set (Small Version) RRP £10.99 *35GM0111 1/35 60'~70's Saigon Shuttle Motor-Tricycle w/The Driver & Passengers RRP £29.99 Vespid Models *VS720025 1/72 T-90 Russian Main Battle Tank RRP £20.99
  5. PHOENIX PUBLICATIONS F4 PHANTOM VOL 4 British Versions FG.1 FG2.2 and F-4J (UK) IN STOCK £16.99 including UK delivery www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for PH9781739297787
  6. Mike Astley he of Sports Direct and other retailers like Frasers, has purchased 15 Million Hornby Shares that has drove the share price up to 40p from a low of 15p a few weeks ago. Hornby's Capitalization as gone from just over £20 Million to £60 Million, so new owners on the horizon may be. Don't start dancing in the streets thinking of all this investment, this lot are asset strippers and are brutal business folks.
  7. Got a sweet tooth, from Monday Today, (26 Feb 2024) if you spend over £60.00 on the website retail you will receive either Tiger Hobbies branded Lemon Bon bon's or liquorice allsorts in a nice pack.
  8. HELLER 1/48 Jaguar GR1/GR3 coming back very soon, Due into Tiger Hobbies 26 Feb 2024 We have just been informed that the Heller 1/48 Jaguar GR1.GR3 will arrive at Tiger Hobbies on Monday 26th Feb 2024. We have them listed on the site as the next postage will be Monday,
  9. ZOUKIE MURA SWS48-15 1/32 F-4E LATE PHANTOM II MISSOURI ANG £67.99 DUE END OF QTR 2 2024 Pre-order Period Today 23 Feb 2024 to 05 April 2024 , please contact your retailer before this date. We have this a a very special RRP of just £67.99 www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for SWS48-15
  10. The UK RRP for this model will be £89.99 thats before dealer discounts. At the moment our retailers are offering this item for between £76.99 to £89.99. There is someone one the forum who may order it from Euro land as it is been offer at Euro 80 plus shipping. Lets look at this. Euro 80 is after general public exchange rate 1.15 is a very reasonable £69.99 plus shipping its going to be a big box so not much change out of £15.00 that takes it to £84.,99, you may then be clobbered with Vat at 20% of your purchase price £69.99 plus vat is £13.99 plus your shipping that makes the steal ££98.99. Here is the sting in the tail. I will cut off all trade pre-orders on the 31 March 2024, we are only ordering what our trade order, plus a small amount for our web retail, and those will be £89.99, so if you are interested in this model please contact our retailer before last week in March. 2024.
  11. Tiger Hobbies have taken delivery of the new Hobby 2000 1/48 P-38 Lightning and 1/48 A-10C Ex Academy, plus re-stocks of the 1/72 B-26 Marauder. Also just arrived after over 18 months delayed and the import company going bust, we have received the 2nd part of the Hasegawa delivery. These include 1/32 JU87G £62.99 1/32 P40E £53.99 1/48 SBD £27.99 1.48 P40E £29.99 1/48 A4 Skyhawk £29.99 1/48 A7 Corsair II £50.99
  12. What did you expect the price to be, GWH 1/48 Jets go from £79.99 for a Mig 29 to about £110 for larger Flankers and F-14 Tomcats. In fact I though it would be a lot more, but thats the price you pay of you want a Great Wall Hobby. There are no oversea prices as yet, but I expect close to $100. If you cannot afford this or the price puts you off, there are some decent options such as the budget Hobbybpss for about £36.99 or the better Academy for about £45.00 and now the Hobby 2000 just landed around the £40.00 mark based on the new tooled Academy model. The Tamiya version is cheap as chips about £25.99. This will not be a large import and the cut off date will be about the end of March, so if you do want a GWH version get in touch with your retailer in the next month or so. The reason why is in the line above, plenty of other versions.
  13. Tiger Hobbies have just released the details of the new Great Wall Hobby 1/48 A-10C Thunderbolt II. The UK RRP before dealer discount will be £89.99. Cut off for pre-orders will be 18 March 2024
  14. Tiger Hobbies have purchased a good number of SCI-FI & Fantasy Modeller Magazine, these are ex stock thus brand new condition. Vols 16, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, and 45. This magazine stopped publication about 8 years ago and was produced on high quality paper of about 100 pages with many full colour pictures. The Magazine fell foul of the growth in on line products and its like may never be seen again. We have these for sale for just £12.99 each including delivery www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for Sci-fi & Fantasy Modeller.
  15. Tiger Hobbies have added a Leopard 2A7V RM5109 to our growing and popular Core Range of good value AFV. The models will land end of April 2024 and the new RRP will be a stonking value £43.99 TAMIYA one is £59.99 Border Models £63.99 So the Rye Field one is very competitive at just £43.99. www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for RM5109. We have also lowered the upgrade set from £31.99 to £25.99 RM2069
  16. A blast from the past, Heller have re-issued the Jaguar GR1/GR3 in both standard and gift set. This was issued though Airfix in its day/ Standard £34.99 Gift set £36.99 The kits are both exactly the same with 5 decal options for various Royal Air Force Jaguars, the gift set comes with Paint Glue and a Brush. This is a nice value alternative until Airfix pull their finger out and do a upto date version of the often overlooked Aircraft. www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for HEL80427 Standard HEL56427 Gift Set
  17. Magic Factory will release a new tooling of a brand new into service with the US Army the M10 Booker AFV. The model will be in 1/35 and we will let you have more details as soon as we have them. For pictures please check out our website www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for MF2008
  18. Tiger Hobbies will import the brand new 1/16 Gecko Models Universal Carrier MK II or Bren Gun Carrier in Jul 2024. The RRP is set at £99.99 with a pre-order price of £89.99 www.tigerhobbies.co.ok look for 16GM0016
  19. Tiger hobbies will no longer stock Flyhawk or ICM Models, we will of course order these in for our trade customer but it will not be stocked. We have reduced all ICM by 15% and Flyjhawk by a little more, Example 1/700 KMS Bismarck was £47.99 now £40.99
  20. Rye Filed models will release a 80 anniversary 1/35 Tiger 1 Late Production Battle of Villers-Bocage. The model will come with a 3D Printed Figure and is due to arrive end of Qtr 1 2024. This is a good value price of £43.99 before dealer discount, as one poster on this forum stated you can get 3 Takoms for the price of 2 Rye FIeld modes, The RRP on the new Takom is £49.99 so work that one out. Also we have a range of 15 Rye Field models that are now prices about £36.99 tp £39.99 so Tiger 1 007 is now £36.99. www,tigerhobbies.co.uk look for RM5101. You will notice the box artwork has no image of the tank number on the turret side. This is due to the fact no one really knows and they have been arguing about this since Wittmann did what he did on that day. This is whats known, Wittmann Tiger was 205 but that was having maintenance or simply broke down, so Wittmann was dismounted and forward when he saw the British column advancing up the hill, he rushed back to get a Tank and popular belief it was Tiger 222, but it could have been 231 or 212. So like an earlier Dragon Issue D6947 it comes with all three markings.
  21. Circloy made a great point, small model shop will stay small or local If they do not go and grab the business, either on line, shows and promotions of their outlet in magazines, Many will sit and wait for customers to come through the door, and those days are over. It is worth note that in Feb of 2016 Hornby were days form been taken into administration, they were on their rears after their valuation dropped from £50 Million to £9 Million in 48 hours after the massive share crash due to been caught out by the city in Dec 2015/Jan 2016. It is also worth note that Hatton did help Hornby during this period ( we all know in the trade what roughly happened) and also 2016/2017/2018 is when Hattons turnover according to companies house peaked at £14.5 Million. Check out James Mays Big Trouble in Little Model Britain TV Show ( free on line) you will see the fallout from this. One company was in a desperate situation and another company made the most of an advantage over the desperate company, Once the desperate Company found itself of better fiscal footings some time later they made their move against the company who took the advantage. All in the show. Exactly what happened we in the trade kind of know but the exact figures involved is speculation but it was a lot.
  22. AltcarBoB made a very important point, for every tear shed about Hatton's, much merriment will be had in many a small railway model shop, who may now get a fair chance of selling something, rather than having some one rubbing their noses in it over, its cheaper at Hatton's. Also the larger retailers are like T Rex need feeding all the time, and there was a period in may be 2016 to 2018 when Hornby did not release enough products to feed a mouse never mind a T Rex. This is why i suspect the larger retailers started to look at other suppliers and even ventured into making their own product, There was also the little matter of the larger retailers getting much more favorable terms, time to pay and discounts, this stopped once new management started at Hornby on or about this time, so selling became a little more fairer across the board. Hatton's turnover peaked at about £14.5 Million on or about 2017, last accounts were just short of £11 Million, still good money but not £14.5 Million.
  23. It is Hatton's Model Railway that decided to close its business in a orderly manner, making sure their creditors are paid and may be leaving an opportunity to come back one day. This has to be applauded, better than struggling on and been pushed out of business by Creditors ( Banks, Trade suppliers and others). This is one of the UK largest Hobby retailers and has been for some time, so it shows the state of business in the UK and others need to take heed or cut cloth accordingly. Best wishes to all staff at Hatton's Model Railway.
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