Twobobs Aviation Graphics Newsletter

02 August 2009Droppin' the "411" for this week at Twobobs!

What's New This Week!

New Hot Babe of the Week is up and this go-round it's the Kara Sahin F-4E Phantom from the Turkish Air Force. This sheet will debut at the IPMS Convention in both 72nd and 48th scale.

We have a combination of good news/bad news on the T-2C Buckeye kit this week. The good news is that the folks at MPM are using new CNC machining technology to tool our new kit (in their words this will be one of the best kits they've ever done). The bad news is that this machine works extremely slow and has delayed the release of our kit. In short, they will not be available in time for the IPMS National Convention. Both MPM and us went back on forth on this to figure out if there was any way we could accelerate production but the kit quality would have suffered so we're doing the right thing and just letting this run its course. The boxes, decals, instruction sheets and CD are all complete and we're just waiting for the kits to show up. Our aftermarket as well as the kit decal sheets were sized up using one of the test shots they made available to me so you can be assured that these will fit accurately on the model.

Sorry guys, I so wanted to make a big splash with these at the show but to delay the release truly is the right thing to do so we can assure that all of you get a quality product.

The pre-orders have gone so well over here that we've communicated to MPM that our first production run will have to be increased and to that end, we've turned the links back on for TBK48-002 which is the Naval Trainer version.

The Nats special kit will continue to be offered up until we sell out of the 500 kits that we had earmarked with those special markings. If you were planning on picking one of those up at the show, you might want to order that guy up now before they're gone forever.

Another great piece of news on the Buckeye kit is that we're making them available to our friends north and south of the border in Canada! We've worked out the logistics of being able to support the shipping of these kits to Canada/Mexico and we're now prepared to let you folks pre-order those as well. Be sure to order product number TBK48-002C/M if you're from either one of these countries. The pricing has been adjusted to compensate for the postage to those countries. The rest of the world outside of the US/Canada/Mexico will have to source their kits from Hannants in the UK or Beaver Corporation in Japan.

We'll have more news to announce on the IPMS National Convention in next week's newsletter as far as show specials, Twobobs Hospitality Suite status and what our raffle giveaway will be this go-round!

Decals In Work!

Here's what's coming as far as our next batch of releases that will be part of our Nats release group. This is the final grouping and these will be available at our booth in Columbus. Website links will be turned on 17 Aug 09. Speaking of website, all of these products have been uploaded to the site and you can preview them there as well.

The instruction sheet images above represent the markings that will come with the two kits we are releasing. All the images below are of the aftermarket sheets that are part of our regular monthly releases.

There's a couple of decal sheets that will be debuting at the Nats as well that I'm close to finishing instructions on. These are below and I'll post instruction sheet images when they are done.

The VFA-115 sheet features the new CAG scheme for their squadron and I've included the jets from one of our releases back in 2001 right after OIF kicked off. All the great nose art and mission markings from that era are included and all of these markings have been resized for the Hasegawa/Revell kit. The resizing was pretty substantial when I redid this artwork, such is the difference between the older Italeri kit and the newer generation Hasegawa and Revell kits.

The CAG jet features markings for both the intake and exhaust. You can get those accessories from Steel Beach.

This USMC sheet features a couple of very colorful (for Marine jet anyways) CO schemes from the Death Dealers and Death Rattlers. I've also thrown in some Litening II pod markings in there for you guys that choose to include those on your model.

So that adds up to nine sheets debuting at the Nats along with two additional sheets that will make up the IPMS Nationals Decal Sheet. Been a busy last couple of months artwork wise. I've already started work on the post nats decals and I'll be knee deep into those once we get back from the convention.

Two of the sheets that will be part of that release are T-2C Buckeye related to include the Hellenic, Bi-Centennial and VF-43 Adversary scheme. Just ran out of time to finish those completely but they'll be available in short order after the Nats.

News on 3rd Party Friends of Twobobs!

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You folks have a great week!!

Bob Sanchez
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