Website working fine again

I'm most relieved and happy to let you know that our www.minairons.eu website has just been fully restored at last, with all its main features properly working.

Most important, these good news also include our PayPal payment module, that had ceased to work two weeks ago --due to have become outdated and no longer supported. Such module has been adequately updated folollowing PayPal's own directions, so that it works fine again.

Apologies to all those having had issues during those stressing two weeks!

Moroccan Regulares preview

We've already started working on a new set of Spanish Civil War 20mm figures. It's now time for one of the Nationalist side's most feared shock troops: the native Moroccan troops known as Regulares. Here below you can watch some sketches of the first one of two forecast sets devoted to this colonial corps:

As usual, this first set will comprise 13 askari riflemen and 2 NCOs --mostly dressed in a between seasons uniform, with varying headgear. All 15 figures will show a different, unique posture.

Sculpting work of this new set started some days ago and is progressing at a fast pace, so it allows us to expect having them ready quite soon.

Website down

Some of you perhaps have already noticed that our www.minairons.eu website is currently out of order.

Our maintenance team is hurriedly working to solve this. It's still uncertain whether they'll be able to sort the issue out in a matter of hours, or days instead. Please accept my most sincere apologies for this temporary inconvenience.

All our e-mail addresses are working and fully functional, however. If you are in the need to get in touch with us, whatever the reason for, keep confident that we'll be promptly responding to you. Apologies again.

New 1/100 Grumman FF-1/GE-23 fighter

We're proud to announce the release of our first model kit of 2015: Grumman FF-1/GE-23 fighter at 1/100 scale, the first aircraft carrier based fighter, a few dozens of which were acquired by the Spanish Republic during SCW.

Model kit itself is well detailed albeit quite simple, as you can see in the image above. All main parts are made of high quality resin, while struts and propeller are white metal. As a novelty with regard to previous releases, this kit includes a translucent resin cockpit.

As with formerly released aircraft, our 1/100 Grumman FF-1/GE-23 fighter has been released in a box whose reverse includes an assembly schema and a painting suggestion. Kit also includes a decals sheet with markings for US, Commonwealth and Spanish Republican service. it's been priced at € 15.95, just as the rest of our 1/100 aircraft range.

New SCW figures!

This below is the preview of 3 new sets of SCW 20mm figures we're going to release on Saturday 27^th. A first batch of all them has already been cast, so they will be fully available right after Christmas. These new releases consist of 2 different field artillery crews --one for Nationalists and the other for Republicans, ideally-- and a set of Republican vehicle riders, those same included in the IGC Sadurní carrier kit, that will be now available separately.

The Nationalist artillerymen set you can see above consists of 4 figures, a small sprue with a heavy shell and 3 crossed rifles. Similarly, the Republican one comprises 4 figures too, with two of those same shells and a rangefinder on tripod - as it can be seen below:

On the other side, the above commented Republican riders set includes the 4 seated soldiers below. All sets are to be priced at €4.95. Please remember, they'll become available on Saturday!

New 1938 Racing Cars!

We are happy to acknowledge you all about our latest release before Christmas - the first set of a hopefully successful new range, one devoted to 1938 Grand Prix racing cars, that we expect to make at 1/72 and 1/100 scales altogether.

As it can be seen on the picture above, this first set includes 3 different racing cars in a box: Mercedes Benz W154, Auto Union type D and Alfa Romeo c12/312. Each of them consists on a single part resin hull, two white metal shafts, four resin wheels and a white metal driver masterly sculpted by Xan Miniatures for us. Besides, the set is completed by a decals sheet with number serials in white, black, blue and red.

This new set of 1/72 scale 1938 Racing Cars is fully available right now at our website, as well as the Interwar period Benach M1935 fast tank pre-announced some days ago, too.

Benach tank, available for pre-order

Despite the development of our first Interwar AFV has been hampered by every kind of obstacles, we have paciently managed to sort out each one, until the first complete models have started coming out from workshop at last - albeit at a rate lower than desired at first. So that we can now proudly show the first ultimate models of Benach M1935 fast tank at 1/72 scale.

Each boxed set contains 2 complete tanks, mainly in high quality resin with some smaller parts in white metal or plastic. Each tank is accompanied by the full compliment of alternative running gears - for building them as either in on-tracks or on-wheels mode, at choice. The full set is completed with a decals sheet with WWII Turkish, what-if WWII Spanish Republican, what-if Catalan Republican and VBCW Liverpool Free State markings - a lot of dystopic choices!

The new Benach M1935 fast tank is already available for pre-order at our website, while awaiting to have ready the last accessory part - that is being manufactured right now. We'll be able to start shipping orders in one week's time. Don't miss the chance and pre-order yours right now!

Nationalist Cavalry ultimate greens

The 1/72 SCW Nationalist Cavalry set we had announced some time ago is ready at last. Here you have some captions on them:

They'll be brought in foundry in the next few days, so it can be reasonably expected to have the new set ready for release by January.