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   Today we are happy to being able to share with our readers photographic coverage showing what our busy toolmakers are currently working on. The first three photos capture the aluminium tooling blocks and their components that have been produced using rather standard and straightforward method of milling. When finished, these blocks will be used for injection moulding parts of the 1/32 I.A.R.-80A kit for our partners at Azur-Frrom. Under Special Hobby label, another version of this WW2 Rumanian fighter plane will be produced here, namely the BoPi dive bomber version. Some of the tooling blocks will be shared by both these models.    The other photos show a rather different type of moulds which have been created by the help of so-called electro plating process, sometimes also known as galvanic deposition. In the first two photos of galvanic moulds you may recognize parts of our 1/32 Westland Whirlwind kit, the remaining four pictures are much easier to guess, the p...

Our team are working hard on several various projects now and we are happy to share with you the photographic coverage of our efforts. The first of the projects is the floatplane version of Letov Š.328 observation aircraft, in the attached photo you can see our new additional sprue with the floats. Next would be the Casa C-212 kit, you may remember seeing some of the sprues already, now we are about to finish the final frame with some smaller parts. The very first testshot has been just finished and we have to test assembly the parts with those from the earlier sprues. There is flash around some parts, some other parts still need some polishing   and also their respective position numbers have to be added but all in all, not that bad I am sure. And in the last couple of photos you can see the test fit of the 3D-printed bomb and bomb rack for our new 1/32 IAR-81 in BoPi version. In the kit, all those parts will of course be of standard styrene format. But now these rapid prototy...