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Dear readers,

We hope that you had great Christmas holidays and a good start into this year. We wish you a happy, healthy and successful 2012! Our resolution for 2012 is to have the next volume of Captured Eagles ready before the end of this year :-)

Best regards,
Roger Gaemperle

If you want to give our book or decal sheet to one of your family members, friends or colleagues as a Christmas gift, that is the opportunity to buy them! You don't have to pay for shipping (for orders up to 2 kilograms; a combo package is less than 1 kilogram) independent from where you live. Santa Claus brings you your present right to your door.

If you want us to send the products directly to the presentee, no problem. Just add a comment and indicate the corresponding address in the checkout process. If you wish, we will also add a small label onto the envolope (size 60x30mm; 2.36x1.33 inch) with a text of your choice (max. 80 characters). You could e.g. write "A present from Santa Claus" or "Your Christmas present" etc. An example is shown at the top.

Rowan Baylis of AeroScale has just published a review of both book and decal sheets "Captured Eagles Vol. I" (click here to get to the review ). Both book and decals achieved a KitMaker Network-Rating of 95%!

There are also some new preview pictures of the book and decal sheets. Don´t miss it.

You can find them here:

FALKEEINS BLOG
http://falkeeins.blogspot.com/2011/09/captured-eagles-roger-s-gaemperles.html

CYBERMODELER
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/ref/vep/book_vep_captured.shtml
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/decals/vep/decal_vep_captured1.shtml
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/decals/vep/decal_vep_captured1a.shtml

MODELING MADNESS
http://www.modelingmadness.com/scotts/books/vintageeagles/ve001.htm
http://www.modelingmadness.com/scotts/books/vintageeagles/ve001d.htm

We have decided to ship from Germany instead of from Switzerland, which means considerably lower shipping costs for you. As you probably know, the Swiss Franc´s value increased dramatically over the past months. This combined with an already expensive Swiss Postal Service resulted in very high shipping costs for our readers if we continued to ship from Switzerland. Therefore, we decided to ship from now on from Germany, even if that means for us that we have to transport our products to Germany first every week.

The first batch will be sent next Saturday. If you order before that, we can dispatch your book already on Saturday.

*** Accepting pre-orders now! Shipping starts at the beginning of September...***

We have been working hard on the completion of our first book ´Captured Eagles Vol. 1´and decal sheets that feature the four most attractive German WWII birds that are shown in the book.

Finally, as I write this, the book is being printed and will soon be ready for shipping (within 3 weeks from now). It is a limited edition and each copy is numbered by hand. It comprises 72 pages in large DIN A4 format (210 x 297mm; 8.27 x 11.69 inches) and contains more than 90 photos (incl. several color photos), 8 color profiles created by the renown aviation artist Simon Schatz and 3 color emblems. As far as the author is aware, all but three photos have never been published before and show such rare birds like the Fw 190 D-13, Fw 190 A-8 with a Reichsverteidigungsband, Me 262s, He 162s, erla-produced Bf 109 G-10, a high-speed reconnaissance Me 410 A-3, a Bf 109 K-4 in US markings and many more. A highlight are certainly the first known photos of a Ju 88 G-7.

Further volumes are planned and if you have unpublished photos that you would not mind to share with us, please contact us. Of course you will get full credit in the book and also a free copy of the book in which your photo(s) appear.

In order that modelers can see pictures of a completed model that features Vintage Eagle Publishing's VE001D decal sheets, Roland Forrer aka Supermario kindly built the Fw 190 A-8 of Jagdgeschwader 2. This is one of four possible subjects that can be built with out VE001D decal sheet, which include both wet and dry transfer decals of the four most attractive birds shown in our book 'Captured Eagle Vol. I'

Some photos of Roland's completed model can be found in our album section.

For a complete construction report please have a look at Roland's 'Work in Progress' report at Large Scale Planes. He also posted some large resolution photos of his completed model in the 'Ready for Inspection' section of Large Scale Planes.