The first shipment from the USA by sea container has finally arrived!
This took a little longer than expected, but was also cheaper than expected. This enables us to lower our prices of the American model railway brands even further. See 'Import USA' below.
NOTE: Most products of this shipment have not been entered in our system yet.
Other arrivals include Faller new releases and Airfix, Italeri and MiniArt kit sets.
In Newsletter #25 I announced that I was considering organizing 'open homes', so customers could visit our office and browse some of our selection. I renamed these days to 'Open Office Days'. I want to emphasize that it will still be an office, not a traditional shop. The first days are picked. See 'Open Office Days' further in this newsletter.
More diecast models are expected this week.
Kiro
It has been a while since we received model railway supplies from America. Air freight just became too expensive to be able to offer fair prices.
Thanks to the increase in sales on our online web shop, we are now able to receive larger shipments in per sea container. It takes longer to arrive, but the costs are significant lower.
Lower costs means lower prices. This will hopefully be the start of many large shipments from the US.
As the priority of American products have been low until now, the website lists only a small fraction of the thousands products available from many American brands.
Many of the recently arrived American products are not yet on the website and must be entered, before they can be ordered. This will probably take about 10 days. Just in time before the first 'open office day'.
After the feedback from customers I divided our stock for the 'open office days' in three categories:
- Model Railway HO Scale
- Diecast Collectibles
- (Military) Kit Sets & Figures
At this stage the following days are chosen for open office days:
- 30 October & 1 November - Model Railway HO Scale
- 7 & 8 November - Diecast Collectibles
- 21 & 22 November - (Military) Kit Sets & Figures
The week before open office days I will give more details of what to expect during these days in newsletters.
After these 3 weekends I will decide how future open office days could look like. How often, what is displayed and what is not. In the future some items may be on permanent display during open office days, while other items no longer. After these three weekends I will also decide on which day open offices will be held in the future: On Saturdays or Sundays. Both days are unlikely.
I will create a special page on the website for the 'open office days'. It will state exactly when these days will be and what will be on display. At the moment some details can be found on the 'Shows and Events' page.
Several 1:35 scale kit sets from Italeri and Zvezda have arrived. Below are just 6 examples:
To visit the 1:35 scale page on our website click here.
Some backcatalogue kit sets from MiniArt arrived in stock last week. Below are just 8 examples:
For a list of all MiniArt kit sets in stock click here.
Part of the new MiniArt arrivals are new 2020 releases. Below are 8 examples:
For a list of all new MiniArt 2020 releases on our website click here.
Several airplane kit sets arrived in stock last week. Only 6 are shown below. The Airfix kits are all new 2020 releases:
For a list of all 1:72 scale aircrafts on our website click here.
Like Woodland Scenics, Walthers also has a range of assembled buildings. The ones below are currently available from our website.
Many of the Woodland Scenics ready made buildings will be available from our website in the coming days.
To visit the Walthers page on our website click here.
Faller had already released a container bridge crane a year go and this year they released a second one, which is now available from the Mini-Kiwiland Shop website. The newly released crane is a bit smaller, but also expandable to be a functioning model using the »Drive kit for Container bridge-crane«, Art. 180290. »Track extension for Container bridge-crane«, Art. 180291 available separately.
36 different HO scale containers were inside the sea-container shipment. 16 of those have been entered in our system. Below are 8 examples.
Walthers has a variety of typical American houses in its catalogue. Below are 6 examples of recently arrived kit sets:
To visit the Walthers page on our website click here.
Just a part has been entered in our system, but here are 8 examples of industrial Walthers kit sets that are already available from our website:
To visit the Walthers page on our website click here.
Only 8 arrived kit sets of shops are listed below. More are available from our website.
To visit the Walthers page on our website click here.
Below are some of the N scale kit sets that have arrived from the USA. More still need to be booked in our system.
For a list of the latest N scale arrivals click here.
Many Woodland Scenics that arrived last week still need to be listed on the website, but the paint products below are already available:
To visit the Woodland Scenics page on our website click here.
The Woodland Scenics talus bags come in different sizes of talus and in the colours buff and brown. Below are 4 examples of recent arrivals:
To visit the Woodland Scenics page on our website click here.
Woodland Scenics has a range of turf bags in its catalogue. Fine and Coarse and in different colours. Below are 6 examples of recent arrivals.
The shakers packages have not been entered in our system yet. This will be done the coming week.
To visit the Woodland Scenics page on our website click here.
