Woohoo! Raiden Miniatures MiG-15 and Ju88A out!

from Raiden Miniatures:

6th March 2010

We are pleased to advise that we have 2 new planes available . First up is the Junkers Ju-88A1 for all you Battle of Britain fans.  Second for you Korean War fans we have a Mig-15.  And yes before you ask a F-86 Sabre will be along soon.
Thanks for all your kind comments about our new 1/600th ranges, it is appreciated.  Some more information about our first Luft '46 planes will come out in early April.  Also we should clear up a misconception that the Project Cancelled range is only for modern planes.  It will also eventually include some WWII planes that don't fit in with the Luft '46 range.  For example expect Gloster Reapers, Supermarine 317's & FW 187's.

JU88a:

MiG-15:

Ok. lovely bits of kit,  The Ju88a will certainly add a bit of colour tomy 1940 BoB Bag the Hun games...but I'm going to delay purchasing until the Ju87 Stuka, and the F-86 Sabre are  done.

Carbon footprint airmiles and all :)

PS Dave Winfree of I-94 has released more WW2 decalssheets for 1/300 particularly 1940s French and more USN, details at TMP

Raiden Releases and more lead arrives

looking back through an email  from Mark at Raiden Miniatures Mark said back Mid -feb:

"...The Stuka & Blenheim I should be out next month, the Mig-15 later this month & the Sabre in April..."

Mark also provided advice that he thought 1.5in hexes  were ok for 1/285:

"..I personally use the 1.5" hex mats myself and feel they are fine for my 1/285th aircraft.  He-111's have never caused me any problems. Even the B-29's have moved around happily enough..."

Bag The Hun 2  was waiting for me at the post office..
rather hold it and read it than stare at the screen
woo!

The Last haf of my Order from Dom Skelton of Dom's Decals.

The balance of my order plus 2 Kette's of Raiden 1/285 He111's arrived.

Pics to follow when I can find the camera.

Raiden miniatures 1/600 releases

No I'm not kidding.

"Raidens"  is happily becoming  a byword for  nice castings!
from the Raiden Miniatures Website..

".. We are pleased to announce that we will now also be releasing aircraft in 1/600th Scale.  However, as there are enough manufacturers already releasing mainstream planes in this scale we have decided there is no point in just making more Spits, 109's, etc.  So we will be concentarting on two distinct topics.

First up is our 'Project Cancelled' range, this will be for all those wonderful aircraft which never got off the drawing board or were cancelled.  The first release in this range is a BAC TSR-2 which is available now, forthcoming releases will include the Avro 730, Avro Arrow & SR.177.  If you have any suggestion for future releases please feel free to drop us a line here.

The second range will be 'Luft 46' and include all those lovely fanciful German projects plus a few allied targets(Mustangs, Meteors, Tempests, etc.) to balance out the range (and allowing us to make up some Battle Sets).  This range we hope to start to release at Salute(24th April).

All you 1/285th people who are now getting worried, please don't!  1/285th will still be our main endeavour.  And you should see some more releases from us next weekend.

The Work bench has been updated and therer are some cool pics of our fortcoming JU-88A1. .."

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from the website http://www.raidenminiatures.co.uk/18.html
1/600th Ranges

Project Cancelled Range
Code     Description     Designer Cost Pictures
PC601     BAC TSR-2       M        £1.00      Pic1  Pic2
PC602     AVRO 730  ** Coming Soon**

The new BAC TSR2 (lovely, aint she?)

 

 

            

Luft '46 Range
Coming Soon
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Me I'm waiting for the stuka and Ju88  plus the mig-15 will be bagged when  they get round to releasing it..

I'd love it for Mark to plug the holes in  the other 1/600 Ranges

I can think of a Ju52 which I cant see on the Skytrex or TD lists..
any other ideas for 1/600 backfills? modern or WW2?

PS Mark, if you'rereading this how can you consider releasing a 1/285 MiG-15 without a matching F-86 Sabre????