News and Status 5/12/08. We have appointed a new exclusive distributor for Great Britain for our Pacmodels kits. They will be selling wholesale to hobby shops there and also retail. As of today, we will not be accepting retail or wholesale orders for our Pacific Coast Models kits from the United Kingdom. Their contact information is: Cammetts Ltd. Adlen house Eardisland Leominster Herefordshire HR69BD United Kingdom cammettco@btinternet.com Telephone : 01544 388514 http://cammett.websds.net/ I am now back at the office full-time. My recovery is progressing nicely. Please address your e-mails to me for now. Alycia has left the company for another job. We have a new salesperson who is in training now. Beth moved to Sacramento, CA. Her replacement, Ryu Christian has taken over for her. Ali D'Italia: Our order from Ali D'Italia has arrived and backorders have been filled. The Caproni C.311-314 AD24 and the Fiat BR.20 Part 2 AD25 are back in stock. Italian Schneider Cup Racers AD26 is sold out. AS01-AS06 are back in stock. We have received a re-print of "Caproni and the Sea" with new information and photos. You can see it under books, Giorgio Apostalo (GAE 001). We have received a new book into stock. It is "Italian Special Colors", a 124 page hardcover book of all color photos of Italian aircraft in the most unbelievable paint schemes. It has to be seen to be believed! It is up in our catalog under "Other Books". ISC01. Our stock of Friulmodel items is now low, but we have placed another order. We now carry most of their metal figure lines. We have all of their new 1:48 scale tracks except for ATL 4810 which was out of stock. If your local hobby shop does not carry these tracks, please ask them to contact us. We received another shipment of Skymodels decals and kits. Backorders have been filled. We have finalized a list of new kits for the remainder of this year and for next year. It is an interesting list and we hope that you will like them as we announce them. There will be some real surprises! We are open to suggestions for new kits for 2009. The Spitfire MK.IXc (PCM 32005) has arrived! Backorders are being filled now. Box art is Johnny Johnson's aircraft. There are decals for his aircraft, another RAF, Polish RAF, USAF, Italian and Russian service. It is up in our catalog for orders. Due to the drop in the dollar, new orders will be priced at $59.95. It will be followed shortly by another new kit, the Spitfire MK.IXe (PCM 32006). The MK.IXe plastic, resin, decals and boxes are ready for shipment. The PE and color painting instructions are being worked on. There will be two decal sheets in this kit along with a canopy painting mask. Our 1:32 scale kit, the Reggiane Re.2005 (PCM 32004) is in stock now. The kit looks really good with great detail. The decals include the Regia Aeronautic, the ANR and the Luftwaffe. The kits also includes color painting instructions and PE. You can see more information and photos on www.hyperscale.com,www.modelingmadness.com and www.largescaleplanes.com. AlphaFlight resin kits of the 1:48 Cant Z.1007 have arrived and backorders are being filled. The final amount produced was just enough to fill all the orders. AlphaFlight has informed us that they can make a few more, so we have placed a small order. The production of the next new kit from AlphaFlight, the 1:48 scale resin kit of the British Sunderland MK.III flying boat (AF 48017) has begun with a small quantity of kits already completed. This is the largest kit they have ever produced as each fuselage half is one piece. They will be shipping 12 kits to us this week. This will not be enough to fill the backorders, but they are making more. We will ship backorders using the oldest orders ship first method. They sent us some of the first pieces cast for us to check out. The detail is great and I am really looking forward to receiving this kit. We have stock of the new AlphaFlight 1:48 resin kit of the Cant Z.506 floatplane (AF 48016). The floats are hollow to keep the model weight down. This kit includes PE and a Cartograf printed decal sheet which includes the Red Cross decals for Air/Sea rescue and German markings. It looks great! AlphaFlight has supplied us with a few of the Fiat Br.20 early version (AF 48015). The BR.20M (AF 48014) is sold out and out of production. Lifecolor has new sets of their water based acrylic paints which you can see in our catalog under Lifecolor "Pigment and Paint sets". Two different sets for German WWII armor, Nato armor, two different sets for German WWII uniforms, Italian WWII vehicles and two different sets for Luftwaffe WWII. There is also a WWII Kreigsmarine set and a Dust & Rust set which are now in stock. The is also set #2 of the WWII Kreigsmarine and a WWII US Army Olive Drab which are now in stock. Click on the description for the color chart of each set. We are sorry to say that FM Details has ceased production. We will delete those items in our catalog which are out of stock. Our 1:32 scale Macchi C.200 (PCM 32001) is back in stock. The Macchi C.205 (PCM 32003) is back in stock also. The Macchi C.202 is also available. "Italian Armour in German Service 1943-45" is sold out. Regarding Karaya, their line of armor accessories includes tow cable sets with resin ends, tow cable sets without the resin ends, metal machine gun barrel sets (for armor and aircraft) and their metal track link sets for the Tiger I early and late. We are also stocking their tow cable sets in 1 meter lengths. We have the new Jordi Rubio gun barrel for the Comet and Friulmodel tracks for the Comet. A feature in our catalog which you may find interesting is that when you are looking at an item, you can click on the photo or description, it will take you to a second page. At the bottom of that page will be listed any items related to the main item. You can click on any of those to either look at it or add it to your order. We are offering a "Lay-away Plan" for all orders totalling $50 and up. You may reserve items and depending on the total order amount, pay in 2-4 installments with the last installment including freight and tax. Contact us for more details. Thanks to all of you for your business! Best Regards Ken Lawrence Pacific Coast Models, Inc.