Beyond The Sprues
General Category => Market Place => New Model Kit News/Reviews => Topic started by: kitnut617 on May 20, 2016, 06:29:11 PM
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I may be mistaken but I thought NKR was an Australian company?
Big Book definitely says Czech Zac, but I'll double check all the Addendums I have too when I get back from work later today. Company was started by Pavel Nahodii in 1990 but halted in 1999 because he has got an illness
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It might have started as Czech but was for its last few years Australian under Earl Martel
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Seems it has closed down in 2013 --
Did he buyout Pavel or is it a coincidence they have the same name.
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It might have started as Czech but was for its last few years Australian under Earl Martel
Actually, I believe Earl started out at the Australian agent for NKR and then branched out. I remember him as a master of packaging kits for minimal shipping cost.
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Thanks guys, the connection with Earl is what I had in my mind.
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Thanks guys, the connection with Earl is what I had in my mind.
The 'Big Book' was published in 2002, so anything after that would be in my Addendums I also bought, last one issued (#4) was 2007 then the author retired. There isn't anything in the Addendums that has a reference to Earl taking it over. Jeff Garrety of Rare-Plane Detective now has all of the copyrights to PAK-20 and has asked for ""new"" information to be passed on to him. Finding out that Earl took over NKR is just the sort of info that he's looking for, even though it seems Earl's store has closed down too.
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I don't know that Earl took it over, more that his store was the Australian distributor and he adopted the same name and shipped worldwide (I have NKR kits I bought from him, including the radial-engine variant of the CA-15 and a fully-armed Griffon-powered one).
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I have NKR kits I bought from him, including the radial-engine variant of the CA-15
What scale is/was that Evan? Any photos?
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Note address details on box:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/OTE1WDExODg=/z/xTsAAOSwZetXPE31/$_57.JPG)
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I have NKR kits I bought from him, including the radial-engine variant of the CA-15
What scale is/was that Evan? Any photos?
1/72 and I'd need to visit the remote southern stash to find it for photos.