New 1/144 Grumman FF-1/GE-23 fighter

It's already available the 1/144^th scale version of Grumman FF-1/GE-23 - a fighter biplane we had launched at 1/100 some weeks ago. Just as its bigger sister, it consists of 5 resin parts (2 of which are alternative noses) and a few smaller pieces in white metal, such as struts and propellor blades. Cockpit is made of translucent resin too. Boxed set is completed by a decals sheet containing US, British Empire and Spanish Republican markings.

We are proud of this our third Spanish Civil War aircraft, manufactured as said at both 1/144^th and 1/100^th scales. This new model can be found at our website priced at €10.95.

1/56 M1 Armored Car preview

I'm happy to show you some shots of our upcoming Cunningham's M1 Armored Car, that will be our first 1/56 scale model of 2015.

Casting of the ultimate model has already started - as you can see, it will be mostly high quality resin, with a few smaller parts in white metal. We expect to release it before Summer.

UNL-35 Armoured Car preview

Our next 1/72 scale SCW fighting vehicle is now almost ready for release. Here below you have what one of our ultimate UNL-35 armoured cars looks like, once built and painted by Heresy Brush:

Model itself will be made mostly of high quality resin, with only MGs and headlights cast in white metal. It will be released in 2-model boxes --I can't give you a price of it yet, for this depends on some latest hour invoices; anyway, I can reasonably expect it not to be more expensive than our Bilbao AFV.

A first batch of this pretty AFV has already been cast, so that we are now just waiting for box design to be completed and brought to printshop. Therefore, we can assert it will be released next month --that is, March 2015.

20mm Republican AT guns

I'm proud to show you the result of a collaborative work between us and The Plastic Soldier Company consisting of a hard-plastic & white metal combined set, that comprises two Soviet 45mm AT gun sprues along with their Spanish Republican crews.

The new set includes two of such sprues, so that a small 2-gun AT battery can be built from a single box.

As for the accompanying figures, they consist of 6 crewmen and a leading officer, all them unique and different to each other. Figures have been superbly sculpted by Xan as usual.

This is what this our new set looks like once painted and depicted by HeresyBrush. An enviable job indeed, don't you believe?

This 20GEF004 - Republican AT guns set is already available from our website --and it's priced at € 15.95.

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.