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They really, really made me cranky a few years ago when I got one of their 1/72 Bf109G6 kits ( for nostalgic reasons, I like theblack 12+- and did not know about scalemates back then ). When I opened the tiny box I found the godawful old Airfix kit in there. Needless to say I was NOT amused. But their Bf109B/C is my favorite 1/72 Bf109 ( and I have a metric ton of AZ, Finemolds, Tamiya, Hasegawa kits in my stash )

I for one would love to finally get my hand on a couple of Bf109G12 trainers. I remember they were scheduled for October 2017....

Seems to be lost with all hands on board. Up to 20 death. https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/20-Dead-In-Swiss-JU-52-Crash-231329-1.html Damn, I flew with them twice and at least the second flight for sure was on HB-HOT.

I agree, buying from AZ/KP from outside the EU means NO tax. Which also means no tax to sales for customers with shipping addresses in Norway and Switzerland ( and soon the UK )

Not to be a downer on this stunning piece of art, but I really have some doubts that the Hs123 still did use the splinter camo in 1944. Wasn't it all gone on frontline planes by 1940?

Actually there was another resin kit for sale about 20-30 years ago by iirc airmodel or some other german company. VERY simple kit, basicly already cast. Just add the canopy.

It's also actually the same plane as in the foto

I am quite excited. Not that the Hasegawa or Eduard are bad kits, but I am still looking forward to get a couple of Tamiya 109's in my stash. I hope someone does produce the tall tail for it, that would be even better

I got a ton of stuff from them thru a Swiss seller on ebay. Some of it was mindboggling cheap. But I have not been able to find any information about the company.

Sword are way, way worse. I agree about that. I am not a big fan of the open end boxes anyway.

As I said, older kits ( Zlin Z-381 AZCZ41 ) and I noticed a Spitfire IIB box also falling appart. Need to glue it. Not a big deal, I will fix it during the weekend.

It's a rather common problem with AZ. Could be mostly some older kits, but out of 4 Bu181 kits 3 needed reglueing because they fell appart. Annoying, but easy to fix.

I am more interested to find out about the 109G12 and K4 ( the KP 262 seems to be death in the water as well ) Also will there be more 109 joy packs in the near future? I have 3 2/3 and would like to buy more. But please in the future put in 3 normal and 3 erla canopies and not 2 and 1. That was kind of a nasty surprise.

I really like the Airfix B-26. I got a handfull of Hasegawas in the last few years. But I still kept my Airfix 26 as I think it is "almost" as good as the much newer hase.

when are the 109G12 and the 262 hitting the stores?