News from Special Hobby 02/2025
Dear business friends, The first month of 2026 is justus, as is the Nuremberg Toy Fair 2026. It was very pleasant to meet our business partners and friends and gain new ones. The number of exhibitors, especially in the model industries, was lower than in previous years. However, there were even more of them here as visitors. Overall, the participation was lower than before. The question is where the fair is heading to and whether the fair management want and can do something to make it more attractive. The German model magazine ModellFan awarded our 1/72 SN72007 Kriegsfischkutter kit with the title Model of the Year 2026. This is by no means the first Model of the Year award we have received. But it is the first time that our ship model has been awarded. At the fair, we mainly presented the models planned for this year. In addition to the 1/72 DH.94 Moth Minor Coupé kit, which you will find as a new item in this newsletter, there was the 1/48 Heinkel He 177 planned for the s...