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As the UK importer of AMK we have been informed that the SIO versions of the Mig 31 are no longer to be produced, also the standalone part is also no longer on the order list.
Rgds Gary
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Tiger Hobbies will be importing at the end of October into the UK models by Magic Factory,
We have included two new interesting additions.
MAGIC FACTORY 2005 1/35 MRZR D4 ATVUT DUAL COMBO SET DUE LATE OCT 2023 £49.99
ATVUT ( All Terrain Vehicle Ultralight Tactical)
INCLUDES
MRZR D4
MRZR D4 ANTI DRONE
CARGO TRAILER
MF2003 NATO WEAPONS SET
PLASTIC PARTS
CLEAR PARTS
ETCH PARTS
DECALS
RUBBER TYRESMAGIC FACTORY 7503 1/35 ARMED ROBOTS DOG AND RQ-20 UAV SET COMING OCT 2023 £31.99
3D printed
1/35 SCALE Robot Dog & RQ-20 UAV Set
INCLUDES
1 ROBOT DOG
1 RQ-20 UAV
2 EQUIPMENT CASES
www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for Magic Factory
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Tiger Hobbies have received their main order of Flyhawk Models including the 1/72 SBD Dauntless.
We are holding a selection of 1/72 AFV 1/700 Ships and both versions of the SBD.
Standard version £25.99 and upgrade version £29.99. The SBD are very highly detailed kit,
www.tigerhobbies.co,uk look for Flyhawk
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Considering what high price what are you comparing it to
In the USA its close to $200 in Europe close to Euro 150.
The UK it can be purchased for £86 to a max of £99.99 so compared in price to the Tamiya with almost twice the weight in plastic.
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GREAT WALL HOBBY L4828 1/48 F-14 TOMCAT NOW LANDED AND FOR SALE
www,tigerhobbies.co.uk look for L4828
Now its landed we can see why the rest of the world is selling this model upto 50% more expensive than Tiger Hobbies. (Tiger Hobbies did the deal to keep the RRP same as Tamiya in the UK.
I will compare this model to the Tamiya version cue to the same price point as GWH in the UK of £99.99
TAMIYA GWH
Box Size in CM 40 X 8 X 29 45 X 11 X 35
Box Weight complete 900 grams 1550 grams
Sprue Count 11 plus clear 41 plus clear
Part count 373 520
Weight in plastic 550 grams 950 grams
Accessories Decal sheets x 3 PE X 3 Film x 1 Metal part x 1
General detail on the GWH model
Open/Closed Engin Nozzles
Open/Closed Flaps and Spoilers
Open/Closed Air Brake
FWD Landing Gear Parked and Extended
Details Radar AN/AW9-9
Wings Forward and Back
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We have just taken delivery of the latest Geclo/Classy/Vespid models.
New releases
35GM0070S This is a Tiger Special of the K2 Ambulance with ATS Driver plus a set of Allied WW2 Casualties on Stretchers. RRP for both separate would be £57.99, buy as a combo for £52.99.
(Note the WW2 Stretcher set with Casualties is inside the K2 Model in plastic bags. This will be offered to our trader customers.
35GM0085 1/35 Ram Kangaroo APC
35GM0090 1/35 LCA Landing Craft Assault US Army Rangers version.
35GM0079 1/35 Modern British Jerry Cans
35GM0049 1/35 Allied WW2 Casualties on Stretchers.
Classy Hobby
1/16 Crew for Classy Hobby Stuart or AHHQ Sherman,
MC16012 1/16 US Army Tank Crewmen with Thompson SMG,
MC16013 1/16 US Army Tank Commander.
VESPID
VS720018 1/72 Tiger 1 Tank Ausf E Early Production
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We are living in interesting times as far as business goes, we have had three major failings in the last few months within the Hobby Trade,
This advice is to do with Pre-orders, nothing to do with sending money to a retailer for a stock item.
One of these failings within the world of Action Figures, may result in Retail collectors losing lots of money.
One collectors may be out of pocked upwards of £4,000, which they paid money upfront for Figures going back to 2019, these figures are upward of £300 to £500 each
Unfortunately I have seen this trend of sending retailers money up front ( usually them offering a great price) becoming more common across the hobby selling spectrum.
Keeping your money in their account 6 months or a year and they are now enring interest, they are not doing you a favor.
My free advice is do not do it, a retailers offering to secure a product with a reasonable deposit or small none refundable deposit is fine, but full money upfront on a pre-order is at this time or in fact at any other time, foolish.
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Also remember if we did not import this product someone else would have the UK market to themselves, hence you have fair competition, if we decided to pull out of importing Kotare, what do you think the price would do,
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The RRP from our traders before discount will be £93,99 , We have booked the USD, pre booked the shipping, so its now all put to bed until it arrives, once again it will be air shipped so may be 8 days in transit not 60 to 70 by sea,
There will be no price increase, no vat to be added ( its already added in the £93.99, our retailers will be able to offer it at a reasonable price at the RRP or below the RRP, its their right and choice. So any price you see is no fairly. tale, thats their price.
Tiger Hobbies cannot by UK Trade law allowed to tell our retailers, what to sell it at, we can only provide an RRP as a guide, for you the ultimate customer, so you can see if you have paid a fair price.
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Tiger Hobbies have put up on pre-order for October 2023 the following new models.
KOTARE K32004 1/32 Spitfire MK I Early with three marking options. Tiger Hobbies RRP is £93.99 includes Vat and UK delivery and will be at Tiger Hobbies within 8 days of release from Kotare in early Oct 2023.
( Our retailers will also be getting it at the same time ( 48/72 hours) of landing.
Tiger Hobbies received our K32601 Spitfire Brian Lane on the 20th of Jun 2023 and these were shipped to our retailers within 3 days.
Andy Hobby Headquarters 1/16 M10 Models. due late Oct 2023
AHHQ006 1/16 US ARMY M10 Tank Destroyer RRP £169.99
AHHQ007 1/16 British M10 Achilles with QF 17 Pdr RRP £159.99
Again please check with our retailers they may do a little discount.
www.tigerhobbies.co.uk
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Tiger Hobbies are having an Hasegawa sale on FIVE line,
www.tigerhobbies.co.uk please loom for HASEGAWA SALE.
Hasegawa SALE 1:48 F-4J Phantom II with One Piece Canopy Model Kit HAPT06 sale price £27.99
Hasegawa SALE 1:48 US Navy F-14A Tomcat Jet Fighter Model Kit HAPT46 sale price £49.99
Hasegawa SALE 1/48 USAF F-104C Starfighter HAPT19 sale price £21.99
Hasegawa SALE 1:48 JU87G-2 Stuka Anti-Tank Kanonenvogel Model Kit HAJT54 sale price £24.99
Hasegawa SALE 1:72 USAAF North American B-25J Mitchell Bomber HAE16 sale price £34.99
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The Numbers are
AHHQ-006 for the US M10 Version with 3 inch gun
AHHQ-007 for the British M10 Achilles version with the QF 17 Pdr.
Both these models are due Late October 2023.
I will not be releasing our RRP until later in the month, but please take this into consideration.
As a note AHHQ in the USA are offering these models for $149.99 but once the goods are landed at your doors the price will balloon from $149.99 to close to £187.99
Or $234.00, the maths below.
Cost price from HHQ $149.99
Shipping to UK ( Big Box) $ 40.00
Sub total $189.99
Exchange rate 1.25 Tourist £151.99
Vat 20% on cost price £ 24.00
Courier Handling Charge £ 12.00
Total at the retail customers door £187.99
Tiger Hobbies thus your retail price will be cheaper, that’s all I can say, and thats before our retailers offer some discount.
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Tiger Hobbies will do a limited pre-order for the New 1/48 Seaking for the next 7 days ending 31 Jul 2023.
To get this pre-order please send an email to [email protected] attn Gary
Please provide your paypal address if its not your normal email address.
If you use the website this will be a notify in stock only not a pre-order.
www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for A11006
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Arma Hobby have announced a new version of the 1/48 Hawker Hurricane. the Hurricane MKIIc Trop.
This will be released end of August 2023.
RRP same as the last kit £45.99
www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for AH40005
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Tiger Hobbies attended Flying Legends 2023, which this year due to not been able to find a venue, what held at the site of former RAF Church Fenton now Leeds East Airport.
The event was held over the weekend of 15/16 Jul 2023.
We managed to get a small booth in the concession village near the entrance, at a good price, so turn out the only seller doing pure models, there was a general flight store with a few and book seller with some older Corgi. He was selling them off for a £10.00 each. I snapped up two EE Lightnings and one chap got a Mustang certificate No 1.
We took Hobby Master Dircast 1/48 fighters ( linked to the aircraft flying) so we had various Spitfires, Hurricanes, Mustangs, P40, Wildcat, Corsairs ( Devotion) which were the best sellers. Lots of Eduard kits and the new Kotare Spitfire kits. Plus a sprinkling of Jets Typhoons and F-35 which sold well.
Overall it was a great weekend with lots of selling.
The down side was the weather on Saturday, but like by magic the weather cleared with blue skies for the flying display, on Sunday the weather was much better and a full and longer display with a great mass fly past of about 20 plus warbirds at the end.-
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Arma Hobby 1/48 Howker Hurricane MK IIc AH40004 has now arrived at Tiger Hobbies
www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for AH40004
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Tiger Hobbies will issue the 2nd batch of the Kotare Spitfire Brian Lane on Thursday 13 Jul 2023,
Any Tiger Hobbies retailers ordering these models should have them by Monday 17 Jul 2023.
If you missed out on the first issue please let you Tiger Hobbies retailer know.
We have also lowered our RRP on the first issue from £99.99 to £93.99 on K32001
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Tiger Hobbies will import the new small range of Plastic kits by Magic Factory Models
We will import all six of their releases including the IDF Iron Dome and 1/48 F-4U Corsair duel combo.
As usual our imported prices to our trade customers will be very competitive.
The RRP on the Corsair set will be £59.99 before any dealer discount.
www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for Magic Factory
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You may well be right why we ended up buying the C17, as the lease was possibly temp until we got the A400M which was in development for years before coming into service.
The basic reason we bought, borrowed, leased or stole was we had a massive deficiency in strategic Air Lift at the time of increasing oversea commitments
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My last oversea det was to Alaska for 4 months, came back on a Herc, took about 3 days.
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As I stated its been got rid of due to simple cost savings, I think the RAF Brass would be more than happy to keep it, but whos going to rock the boat and tell the MoD.
The basic problem is they are getting rid of a perfectly serviceable Aircraft with plenty of lift left, that's still been produced, replacing it with a platform that is not totally fully capable as yet, but I am sure it will be made fully capable.
Basic Logistics why operate a 10 ton truck when a 5 ton truck does the job.
You are right everything comes to an end, and only time will tell if they have made the right move.
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Tiger Hobbies are just finishing off our trade initial issues of the 2nd Kotare Spitfire.
All others stocks have been removed from sales for about 3 weeks including our website.
Our trade customer have been told, this is to give all our customers the chance to sell the new Kotare Spitfire, before re-stocks.
These will be offered to our traders again and retail in about three weeks for a limited period before going away for longer term storage as these are limited editions and we will not restock again this issue.
Only 10% is been kept back for longer term storage so not a huge amount.
We also have a small amount that have been damaged in shipment about 10 models with bad boxes, these can be purchased for £79.99 including UK delivery if you are interested in building the model and not cooing over the box.
If you are interested please send and email to [email protected] attn Gary, we will then send a paypal invoice or you can ring up and make card ,payment.
We have listed a number of the damaged box on on our site
www.tigerhobbies.co.uk look for K32601 Damaged
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All the operational reasons for keeping the Herc are still there, such as specialist Special Forces requirements, according to reports the A400 is still not fully cleared to do some of the Herc capabilities.
The RAF are getting rid of about 25% of its Military lift assets for no other reason than cost saving.
I spent 26 years in RAF Supply and Logistics so the dear Herc was always there, not due to the fact its old, due to the fact its needed.
The C130K we got in 1966/7 and retired in the early 2000's, the C130J was purchased brand new again about 2000 so not that old.
The real shame is at last the RAF was using the C130 for its basic design function of a short to Medium range Tactical Lifter, leaving the long range strategic lift to the C17 and the A400M.
Bit of history for you.
Back in 1964 the then UK Gov cancelled the TSR2 which I am sure you know all about, but at the same time they cancelled P1154 the supersonic Harrier variant and importantly for the RAF Logistical role, cancelled AW681. AW681 was a Jet Powered Strategic Lifter that looked very much like the C17 (Please google the AW681).
The RAF Transport fleet at the time consisted of Bristol Britannia, Hadley Page Hasting, C47 Dakotas, Backburn Beverley, DH Comet, AW Argosy ( The Whistling Tit), all of these were either side loading or tail siting, or a complicated rear loading system. The USAF at the time had C141 Starlifter, C123 Provider and C130 Hers which they had been using for over 10 years., all with modern rear loading ramps. With the cancelling of AW681 the RAF took on board the Short Belfast large but underpowered, that gave a lot of trouble and served only from 1966 to 1976,
1976 GET RID OF THE LOT.
The year I joined the RAF and after the withdrawing from East of Suez, retired in one go, Comets, Befast, Argosy, and the last of the Hastings and Beverleys, leaving only the VC10 for passenger work (10 Sqn Shiny 10) and C130 for all military lifting, both tactical and Strategic, hence when we retired the C130K they had more flight hours than any other countries C130 as we had ragged them to within an inch of their lives, buy flying them all round the world.
The basic design of the C130 Herc is the same as the C47, the Maximum amount of Cargo that can be flown into the shortest, roughest possible landing strip.
The arrival of the C17 in 2001 made a massive difference for the RAF at last 40 years after cancelling the AW681 we had a Jet Powered Strategic Air Lifter with modern Loading/unloading Systems, thus leaving the new C130J to do what is was designed for Tactical Air lift. The Problem of the C17 was the RAF could not make up its mind and initially leased the Aircraft from the USA, hoping to chuck their hat into the new Airbus A400M programme. Delays with the A400M, and the obvious qualities of the C17 already in service and doing its job was to buy them which they did in 2007ish plus buying 2 more.
There are 20 plus A400M in service with the RAF and they are working hard to make it work well, but both the C130 and C17 were proven systems up and running when we got them, I think getting rid of the C130 is possibly the stupidest decision in RAF Logistical history and I am sure it will come back and bite them in the rear within a year or so. The World is a dodgy place at the moment, and defense cuts of any type should be put on hold until Ukraine situation is solved.
VC10 Note, in the 1980s when British Airway retired the VC10 the RAF got most of them and converted them to Cargo/ Tankers (KC kerosine/Cargo), this was to replace the old V Bomber fleet doing the tanking at the time. At a similar time we also took on ex BA L1011 Tristars for the same reason. The Falklands War was a massive logistical kick up the RAF's rear and showed us totally lacking sufficient long range cargo lift capability.
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Meng new 1/35 Apache AH64D Longbow Helicopter will arrive September 2023.
Tiger Hobbies RRP will be £78.99 so around £21.00 Cheaper than the takon RRP
www.tigerhobbies.co,uk look for MNGQS-004
GREAT WALL HOBBY L4828 1/48 F-14B TOMCAT CHECK THE UK PRICE
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Hi
Sorry for the late reply, we do not but a number of our retailers do.
The trouble is the size of the box its beyond the Royal Mail threshold for reasonable price, so you are looking at at least £50.00 to ship