Please note that Linden Hill Imports will be closed for the holidays from Friday, December 22 through Friday, January 4. We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our customers Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a peaceful & healthy 2019.

After a quiet half year we're hoping to be able to ramp up investment in new projects in 2019. More news next year, fingers crossed...

Due to an international business trip, no orders will be dispatched between Friday, July 20 and Monday, August 6, 2018. Any orders received during this time will be packaged and dispatched on or soonest after Tuesday, August 7. Any E-Mail and Voicemail correspondence received during this period will be answered after August 7. Thank you for your patience!

We've posted added a number of new individual bottles and six-packs to both our main catalog and the 'New Arrivals' section. 

So, these two new kits showed up today at Schloss von Linden Hill. If you've already built the RBT variant, you'll be familiar with parts breakdown of both new releases. I have not yet had the chance to inspect the PD fighter variant in depth but have noted that some of the minor details we feared might have been forgotten (based on the artwork on the box) have indeed been included. 

The RBF box includes a new two-part nose section. I've already built an RBF variant after converting ICM's RBT nose section but am keen to build another one out of the box. Here's the new nose section.

Although the RBF nose has an accurate shape to it, I am disappointed to see that one of the five radio transparent sensor panels (the underside one) has been omitted. You can clearly see it at the bottom center of the photo below (photo: Popsuevich archive via Linden Hill Ltd.)

Clearly this omission is not the end of the world and can be fixed with some judicious scribing and masking. Nevertheless I  have to ask myself why ICM would go to the trouble of molding a new RBF nose and then overlook something like this.

Finally, if you're looking for some interesting new markings for the MiG-25RBF, Linden Hill Decals will be offering you a very rare Azeri bird later this year. Stay tuned for more details soon.

In Aleksandr's latest vlog post, he discusses an unidentified color shade discovered on the wreckage of a Luftwaffe Bf-110 shot down near Rzhev (Tver' Region) in 1942.

We just received a large restock from Begemot, including the new 1/72 scale Yak-130 set for the Zvezda kit. New listings can be found in 'New Arrivals'.

These should be popular...

Today we're listing a lot of new acrylic and lacquer six-packs in the AKAN range. The new lacquer sets cover everything from Soviet Naval Aviation since 1945 to the latest VKS camouflage scheme for the Su-35S, Su-30SM, Su-27SM and Yak-130. As ever with AKAN, all colors were researched at the source, either in state archives or, for the modern aircraft, based on official Russian MoD color swatches. No other paint manufacturer undertakes this level of research of Russian aircraft schemes!

​We're also listing a number of new sets for Russian aircraft in Iranian service and VVS Su-17s.