RETRO ROCKETS #71 1/3/09

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Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great holiday season. We
took a break for the holidays and are now busy playing catch up with
all the orders in the hobbyshop. Besides spending time with family,
I’ve been catching up on a lot of busy work that has been piling up.
We made some minor software upgrades in the shop, which should be
virtually unnoticeable. I completely upgraded the software that runs
the main site, including moving to a new server. You should find that
everything is humming along fine. The site is running and responding
considerably faster than it previously did. I’ve also wrapped up all
the end of the year accounting, and completely migrated to new
accounting software.

If you have not made your reservations, now is a good time to get them
for Wonderfest, which is the middle of May. The website is not yet
updated, but don’t wait to long. I highly recommend staying in the
Crown Plaza (formerly the Executive West). There are all sorts of
after hours activities and opportunities to hang with your fellow
model builders. We’ve got rooms for the Cult Suite reserved already.
And we’re in the midst of planning Sci-Fi University with our
friends at Federations Models. www.wonderfest.com is the website.

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve launched a CultTVman You Tube page.
We’re posting clips from the Fantastic Modeling videos, and will
hopefully include some new material…. that is if we can ever get
around to producing it. Please contact me if you want to submit
something! Rob Mattison, the producer of Monster Model Review is
putting these up for me.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CultTVman

Still have a bunch of news from around the model world….

RETRO NEWS

MORE FROM MOEBIUS

Moebius delivered us a little Christmas announcement this past week.
They will be releasing a second Iron Man kit… the Iron Man Mk II,
which is essentially a chromed version of the original kit. The new
kit will come withe decals for the rivets, eyes, and chest panel.
Sneak peak photos can be found on the Moebius website at
www.moebiusmodels.com or on the news page at the CultTVman site

REVELL GERMANY STAR WARS KITS

The German IPMS site has announced the 2009 releases from Revell
Germany. It appears they are continuing the line of Star Wars kits.
The announced kits ar: Anakin’s Jedi Starfighter, Obi-Wan’s Jedi
Starfighter, Republic Gunship, Magna Guard Fighter, V-19 Torrent
Starfighter. All kits are listed as “Clone Wars” and all are listed
as new toolings. There is no indication of size or scale, but they
are scheduled for October. Also announced were some Revell space
reissues, including a 1:8 Apollo astronaut, the 1:96 Saturn V, and
1:96 Columbia and Eagle. These are different from the scheduled
American releases that were announced at iHobby last October.

AND FROM REVELL IN THE US…

The three reissued Deals Wheels for 2009 are shipping. I’ll have
them in the shop this week.

THE LAND UNKNOWN FROM ALCHEMY WORKS

There’s a cool new dinosaur coming from The Alchemy Works. The Land
Unknown dino is a big figure with a base. Look for it soon on the
Alchemy Works website

FANTASTIC PLASTIC UPDATES

New from Fantastic Plastic are these kits: Avro 730 British
Supersonic Bomber Concept is a 1:144 scale kit. This is a reissued,
improved model with rescribed panels, landing kiears, bomb and bay,
and detailed cockpit. The Lenticular Re-Entry Vehicle is a 1:72
scale concept kit from the 60’s that resembles a flying saucer and was
designed for nuclear weapons. This kit has 22 parts including weapons
bay.

Look for these and more on the Fantastic Plastic site at

THE SAUCER FLEET IS COMING

Jack Hagerty’s long anticipated follow up to the Spaceship Handbook is
scheduled to arrive this month. The Saucer Fleet has over 300 pages,
and 10 chapters covering many of your favorite movie saucers including
the Jupiter 2. Like the Spaceship Handbook, this title is full of
illustrations by Jon Rogers.

You can order on the ARA Press website. We’ve also got a bunch coming
to the Cult Shop

http://www.arapress.com/saucer.html

NEW DECALS FROM ACREATION

Acreation is following up their 1:350 aztec panel decals with several
similar products. First out are Aztec panels for the 1:350 Nx-01, as
well as the 1:1000 NX-01. Each set comes with illustrated placement
guides. Also out are 1:1000 grid patterns for the primary hull of
the Classic Enterprise. These allow you to accurately recreate the
very faint grid lines as well as the “rust ring” on the top of the
saucer. Decals for the 18″ Enterprise will be out soon. And
decals for the Enterprise-E are being developed. These can be
ordered through Acreation’s site and they will also be available
through CultTVman

http://www.acreationmodels.com/

LUNATIC FRINGE’S LATEST

Belle of the Yukon is the newest kit from Lunatic Fringe. This is
another cheesecake kit with a cute model posed on a bearskin rug.
1:7 scale with 7 resin parts. Check out all the kits on the Lunatic
Fringe site

BIG FRANKIE NAMEPLATE

Headless Hearseman has produced a new Gigantic Frankenstein nameplate
for the Moebius Big Frankie kit. This sweet nameplate measures 5
inches wide… perfect for a giant monster! You can get these from
their site or the Cult shop.

ARVEY MODELS MEDICAL FRIGATE

Arvey has come out with a couple new kits. The Nebulon-B Medical
Frigate is available in two sizes. The big kit is 10 inches long with
lots of detail, while a smaller 3 inch kit is also available. The 3″
kit is in scale with the AMT Star Destroyer.

http://www.freewebs.com/arveymodelproducts/