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General Category => Market Place => New Model Kit News/Reviews => Topic started by: The Big Gimper on November 17, 2012, 09:03:54 AM

Title: Verlinden
Post by: The Big Gimper on November 17, 2012, 09:03:54 AM

Not my scale but very important regardless:

(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i340/Osprey_Modelling_Blog/Suppliers%20pics/Verlinden/November/ScreenShot006.jpg)

Full list of Verlinden products here  (http://www.themodellingnews.com/2012/11/octobernovember-2012-new-items-from.html)at The Modelling News.

Title: Re: Verlinden
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 02, 2014, 09:10:13 AM

Interesting new addition:  1/35 Flame Thrower Turret for M113:

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qN33Ce85HTs/VBnBbxIgetI/AAAAAAABOl0/JyyLoou5Oto/s1600/Verlinden%2B2799.JPG)

Title: Re: Verlinden
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on October 02, 2014, 10:31:43 PM

Quote from: GTX_Admin on October 02, 2014, 09:10:13 AM

Interesting new addition:  1/35 Flame Thrower Turret for M113:

([url]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qN33Ce85HTs/VBnBbxIgetI/AAAAAAABOl0/JyyLoou5Oto/s1600/Verlinden%2B2799.JPG[/url])

Nothing new about that turret.  It has been available for almost twenty years by now.  Comes in a box with a Cadillac-Gage turret with 2 X 0.30" Browning machine gun barrels.  The flame turret could also be built with a pair of machine guns instead of the flame tube and machine gun.  Pretty much identical to what you find in the Academy M113 ACAV kits.

Title: Re: Verlinden
Post by: raafif on October 03, 2014, 05:41:32 AM

gave up on Verlinden decades ago ... everything was under-scale (massive shrinkage) & didn't fit ... also gave up on Eduard's PE for armour kits - very little was actually usable as it was too thin for scale.

Title: Re: Verlinden
Post by: The Big Gimper on September 16, 2016, 08:01:13 AM

Read on Sprues News (http://spruenews.blogspot.ca/2016/09/sad-news-out-of-verlinden.html) today.

Sad News Out of Verlinden

It seems that Verlinden Production has shuttered their doors, and Mr. Verlinden has retired.  It was not that long ago that the Verlinden Web site shut down, with remaining stock to be available through Dragon Hobbies Ebay Store.  Well looks like now the warehouse has been cleared out, and I have heard a rumor that the molds and masters have been destroyed, but cannot confirm that.

Title: Re: Verlinden
Post by: KiwiZac on September 20, 2016, 05:35:08 AM

No rumour: there are photos on Facebook of rubber moulds being cleared out and tossed into a garbage truck.

Title: Re: Verlinden
Post by: taiidantomcat on September 20, 2016, 11:10:19 AM

Wow.

End of an Era.

also I can feel the prices on ebay skyrocketing now...

Title: Re: Verlinden
Post by: KiwiZac on September 21, 2016, 06:45:48 AM

That was my first reaction.

Title: Re: Verlinden
Post by: GTX_Admin on May 01, 2022, 02:15:25 AM

Greg Coooper from The Scale Model Graveyard out of Denison, Texas has legally purchased the entire resin products lines of Verlinden Productions and Warriors Scale Models.
Both lines are in the process of getting back into slow production and distribution. It will take some time to sort out the entire tractor trailer full of masters and stock that was purchased.