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page contains news and additional information from our company as well
as from modelling in general. It will be updated from time to time and
is written in English and German. If you have interesting
informations
you may send them to us by e-mail. If you got pictures on the models we
produce and other interesting types we will be happy to display them
here.
As long as there are no leagal- or copyrights violated.
It may take some time to translate the news to one of the languages, so it may happen that it is published in one language first or only! Please regret this. We established an "Archive"-page to prevent the "NEWS"-page from growing too much and to keep it up to date. You may visite this archive only by using the link ARCHIVE here! From the "Archive"-page you may navigate by use of the regular buttons to any other content of this website. |
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Important Notice: Orders which are not payed four weeks after recieving the invoice, will be treated as "not wanted anymore" and be cancled without further notice!There is only a "guarantee of delivery" for orders after complete payment, within four weeks after recieving the invoice. Delivery occures immediatly on availability. And at last, please add an expressive reference line to the reference field of your e-mail. We will eliminate all e-mails without an expressive reference line in the reference field, due to the hugh amount of spam mails we get every day! Thank you. |
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| 15.12.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, the 88mm Flak 36/37 in 1/18scale, by 21st Century Toys will arrive probably tomorro. Everybody who had ordered and payed it will get it shipped then within the next 2 days. Everyone who wants to get one of these models before christmas need to be very quick, because we have got only 3 left! But there will be a second delivery early next year. For all interested in the DeLoreans from "Back to the Future" here some picture as an appatizer! We will get only a few of them, so preordering is a good idea!
and at least the seasons greetings to all of you customers and friends:  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009 wishes Thorsten Schrecke, 48 Special Models.
The picture shows my hometown church "Marienkirche" in wintertime in the past and today. |
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| 09.12.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, the below shown Hobby Master models have arrived yesterday and can be delivered instantly! The CCF Harvard Mk.4 is a plane used by the German Bundeswehr at the Flugdienststaffel Technischen Schule 1, in Kaufbeuren, in Bavaria, in 1960. This model is made from metal! It has two canopies (open/closed) as well as two landinggear versions (open/closed). Also included is a display stand. Quality is superb and hard to top by any hobby modeller. All markings and insignia are printed on! This model is a jewel for collectors that they shouldn't miss! The Ju-87 is the same kind of detail and accuracy. Also made from metal and painted correctly with all markings! Only the 50kg bombs and the antennas need to be put on. The conopy can be taken of for placeing pilots in (not included). The new year announces its novelties now. At the end of January we will get a movie modell highlight! Well known from the "Back to the Future" trilogy, there will be available the legendary DeLorean in all 4 movie versions as an 1/18 scale ready built display model. Pictures follow soon. This car is a specialty already, due to its stainless steel chassis and its bad reputation in getting broken. Although it was a futuristic design it had had some problems and never made it to the common market much. By the "Back to the future" movies it got a memorial set for ever. I will get me all four models to place them in my vitrine, because I had the honor to work with some of the men who made the movie props, as well as I am a fan too! We will get only a few items of each, so interested ones should send an e-mail for pre-ordering! |
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| 03.12.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, Just before Christmas here some presents that bring happiness under your Christmas tree! New and only in limited quantities available is the CCF Harvard MK. IV Bavaria by Hobby Master in 1/72 scale, as flown by the German Bundeswehr during the early days. This one is a rarity because of its German markings which are not seen so often. Another goody is the JU-87G marked as S7+CL of StG3, Gambut/Lybia, Nov 1942. This model is also a completed 1/72 scale display model, very true to the original  Both models are available in limited quantities only and probably sold fast!
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24.11.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, unfortunately the first load of brown 1/16 scale RC King Tigers is already gone! At the moment we can only offer you the green version of the model. We don't have any pictures of this paint sheme jet, but will add them as soon as possible. Santa Claus is a Flak 88 fan too and has a gift for all fans. We will get a charge of 21st Century German Flak 88, in Africa sand paint sheme, around mid December (about the 15th December 2008). The Model will cost 89,00Euros in our webshop and is available in very limited numbers only. But is is worth the money if you take a look at the pictures! It will be available to order in our shop instantly. So the Christmas charge of models is very limited and gone fast we recommend to order quick if you want to find it under your Christmas tree. All others will get it as a firecracker for New Year then. We ask your understanding on that.   |
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| 21.11.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, until further notice we have stopped the distribution of Frontline items. Customers interested in these items may contact Frontline directly, please. |
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| 07.11.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, here we are again! Christmas dawns at the horizon and as a little thank you to our customers for a pleasant year, we decided to add some Super Discount Offers to our shop. Some items, which are on many X-mas wishlists, have been extremly lowered in price, before the big X-mas shopping run starts! This discount offer is limited until November 30th, 2008 and as long as it lasts! So some items in stock are very limited you should be fast to get them, because they may be gone! Where are the items to be found is part of the game and will not be told here. So have fun exploring our pages! |
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| 04.11.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, On Monday a Star Wars novelty will arrive and can therefore be ordered now! It is the exclusive Rebell Tie Fighter with Hobbie Klivian figure. This figure comes exclusivly only with this model!!  The figure is approximately 3,5" and the model about 35cm high. Ready built display model, only some parts need to be put together! |
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| 15.10.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, we are working on a better way for you to order from the shop directly. At the moment ordering from foreign countries is only possible by sending an e-mail, due to the fact that our shopsystem can't process foreign country adresses and postage fees. So this is quite complicated it will take a while until this function will work bug free. So during that time please send your order by e-mail! We ask you patience. Newly arrived have the 5cm Pak 38 in 1/6 scalein three color sheme with temporary winter camo. This model is 88cm tall and made from polystyrene and resin cast parts. The barrel is machined aluminum and the breech, as well as many other parts, can be moved! The model is pre-assambled and painted and needs only some drops of glue to be finished. Our 1/6 scale range will expand continously and some items will not be shown here, because we get only one item sometimes. So for all interested in this scale, take a look at the shop pages frequently! By Torro/Heng Long the Panzer IV Ausf. F2 (Sd.Kfz. 161/1) with shooting function or infrared battle simulation as well as the Sturmgeschütz III Ausf.G (Sd.Kfz. 142/1, früher Version) with infrared battle simulation are available now!
All who are desperately looking for the Minotaurs Tank by Frontline Tabletop will find it at the following link:  Just click her, to go to the shop pages!
See what nice diorama can be made with 1/18 csale models here:  |
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| 15.10.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, for all looking for the Frontline items please notice that we can't process foreign country adresses with our shopsystem jet! To order items from outside Germany please send an e-mail with your order and shipping address. For more information on how to order please refer to our "Terms of Business" page at the link TOB. We will update the product information in English as soon as possible in the webshop. |
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| 01.10.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, we had have a hard exhibition weekend and it was a good one too. Frontline Tabletoppresented its collection of new items to the public for the first time and got only positv feedback on its models! Since then all models are available in our webshop and can be ordered. Only the Shelters (Bunker) will take 2-3 weeks until delivery. Due to production specialties and lack of storage space we preproduce them in limited quantities at the moment only. Who is interested in one of them shouldn't hasitate to order them soon, because if many orders come in we will produce them much faster then. Please notice that there is no printed assembly instruction in the "Minotaurus" Tank Kit! We will upload an online version within the next days. Which is for downloading. The model itself is easy to be built by a medium skilled modeller without an instruction, because most important parts come together only one way! The rest is for free designing the kit and giving it a personal touch. Included in the tank kit is the so called Pz. Uprate Set (Art.-Nr. FL-BT003), which consists of 40 parts. It is for detailing the tank model or any other vehicle model you like to and making it your own special design. This set is also available as a single kit, for giving your army the personal look, even if the vehicle kits are from other manufacturers. All Frontline Tabletop armor models come with integrated magnets to keep them in position. They can be interchanged within a click! This may help a lot when you are playing on a competition. You only need one tank model and may interchange any weapon or gun you like in a glimps. Same is the shelters. For painting your models we can't tell you enough that our JPS-Color paints come in about 1000 shades of the most known paint scales, such as the FS (Federal Standard) Skala, which is the one that GW paints and the paints of most other companies are based on. They only use fantasy names to name them. There will come a list from JPS-Color soon to see which paints fit the other scales. Who is working with the GW Scale will find the most tones in the FS Scale again. As a hint for all not color blind modellers we can say take a look at our JPS-Color pages and see the paint lists there! Who doesn't find the right color there is simply blind. |
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| 01.10.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, today a shipment of the model of the V1 Fi103 Flying Bomb has arrived. The model can be ordered from our webshop now. Please click the picture to get to the item directly.  Display Model Modellsize: Wingspan: ca. 30cm Length: ca. 40cm |
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| 25.09.2008 Dear Customers and Friends, sometimes miracles happen. Without notice and unexpected we got a long waited for delivery of Zero fighters in 1/18 scale together with the new Bf-109G2 Trop. Also the new Schimmwagen Typ 166 im Maßstab 1/6 has arrived. All items are available and can be seen in our webshop behind the link. They are sure worth a glimpse. Notice: the Zero fighter came in a new different paintsheme. The pictures will be updated as soon as possible! Also some helicopter plastic kits in 1/72 scale from the japanese science fiction movie "Patlabor 2"- the Movie have arrived. These JGSDF AH Hellhound named choppers are a real design masterpiece and will be loved by fans of the genre! Next we got new 21st Century Military Vehicles Models in 1/18 scale. Including the M48 Patton in Vietnam version of the USMC andfitting figures from the movie "Platoon", also the M16 Halftrack with 4xMG in oliv/brown and the Sd.Kfz.251/22 with Pak 40 in a new, very attractive, camo. Our stock of 1/18 figures grew too. Including the figures of "Operation Market Garden" and the long missed pilote figures! There is more to come next! Such as the preassambled Fi-103 V1 Flying Bomb wich is now available again! Also most wanted was the R2-D2 Trashcan. At the beginnig of the year the view we got were gone as fast as lightning. After hard trying we organized another two of them and if your are not fast enough the FORCE strikes you first! New are also the assembled and painted tank and aircraft models in 1/144 scale. Ideal for collectors or tabletop gamers which want to fight the battles of WWII. Our Frontline Tabletop series of models will be officialy released at the Modelexhibition of the PMC-Main-Kinzig e.V. at 11.& 12. October 2008. For the people that can't be there and meet the guys from Frontline Tabletop we added the item already to our website and the E-shop. Take a look and be amazed of the design and at most of all the possabilities what you can make from the kits! |
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| 05.08.2008 Dear Customers and Friends,< |
