Model Forum / General / Models / December 2006

An IPMSStockholm.org posting this week indicates that Heller has
addressed its financial problems and is up and running again.  I was
encouraged by reading this news but still had some doubts.

That is until yesterday.  I heard that Heller had released two new 1/72
kits of the EC-145 helicopter and put in a special order at the local
hobby shop.  This was over a month ago and after Heller had entered
administration.  I figured my chances of actually getting them were no
better than Brittney & KFed getting back together again.  But when I
visited the shop yesterday, the clerk said "Oh, your Heller helicopter
kits came in today".  I was shocked!  I ordered both the ADAC and
Securite Civile versions of the EC-145 thinking I'd be lucky if I got
one of them, but they both showed up.  Since the EC-145 is a brand new
Heller kit, this seems to confirm that Heller is indeed up and running
again.

As for the EC-145 kits, they compare well with the Revell 1/72 EC-145
ADAC kit.  Each has its strengths & weaknesses and the ultimate EC-145
could be built using parts from both kits.  The extra parts on the
Heller sprues hint at additional versions which indeed seem to be
scheduled - http://modelstories.free.fr/news/News07_HELR_P/index.html

It's good to see both that Heller and apparently Airfix have sorted out
their financial problems.

Martin