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This year is already gone, we in the southern hemisphere are already deep into our winter with plenty of new projects in the pipeline.

Book No 7. This new publication should see the light of day in the near future with plenty of interesting new articles, lets not let the cat out of the bag at this stage. Book 1 has now sold-out and will most probably become a collector’s item. For those who do not have a copy – sorry you may never get one, as we do not have any plans to reprint as technology has passed by this volume of the series of the book.

Decals We are in advanced planning stages for some decals of 6 SA Armoured Division in Italy 44/45 subjects mostly armour and softskined vehicles in both 35 and 72 scale. These are currently in the pipeline (finances allowing), they are to be a joint venture with Starmer’s Armour in the UK and should be printed by Fantasy Printshop. They should be of a high quality and a first as I do not know of any armour/softskined vehicle decals ever being printed for specifically the nuts and bolts guys.

Website Update. This is our first update and we have made some changes, which we hope will make the site more interesting. We will be adding some short research articles from time to time that are not suitable for book printing, so keep coming back and checking. We also have a Webshots photo album at:

http://news.webshots.com/album/181012271UcuRkt

It has a number of interesting photo’s and some research material, kindly visit it on a regular basis as we try and update it on a two weekly basis.

Regards

William

From my side I do apologize for the slow pace that the books are being completed at. Due to an promoted appointment at my work, as well as being on the National Executive Committee of the Air Line Pilots’ Association of South Africa, I am unfortunately not able to dedicate as much time to the research and writing of articles as previously. This unfortunately means that the books are appearing at a slow pace, but once the economy and work pressure improve, I will hopefully have some more time on hand and the process can be speeded up again.

As William has indicated, we have a few nice articles and ideas lined up for future editions. We are also again considering the idea of printing the various articles as stand alone publications in future, as this will mean a more steady flow of printing instead of having to wait until a few articles are ready. That will have the implications that the books will be thinner, but hopefully also more economically viable to print and therefore more affordable to you as our valued customers.

If you, as the customer, have any request for a poster of a specific type of aircraft or a specific aircraft by serial number, please feel free to contact us. We are in the process of updating a number of posters and are also at present spending some time on completing posters of the new equipment that has of late been delivered to the SAAF.

We would again like to appeal to anybody who has any photographs or information at home that you think might be of use to us in the preparation of new articles, or even updating of some older articles to please contact us. We always try and obtain as much information and pictures as possible of any subject, when writing the articles, as this is the best way to achieve the required accuracy that we have set ourselves as goal from the beginning.

Regards

Piet

Version 2: Sep 2009