"2 for 1" - Get 2 planes for the price of 1
DG Flugzeugbau - New marketing strategy:
Can you imagine this?
When you order an LS8 from us today, will we build this for you but in the end you will get two planes.
You don't believe this ? I also don't believe this, in any case - not quite.
The solution to this puzzle lies with the company Revell, the world's largest producer of plastic scale models of planes, boats etc. The product manager Volker Vahle approached us, asking if we would be interested that one of our planes would be used in their product line as a scale model.
We, of course, supported this idea and the result was a very detailed scale model kit of a LS8.
And because we did not charge a license fee, Revell will provide for each new LS8 customer (also each new DG-808C customer) one of their LS8 models. So, after all "Two for One".
And here the first pictures of the finished models at the presentation by Mr. Vahle to Holger Back, who will (if we get him small enough) possibly fly with it in the next world championships.
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The model is really beautiful, the proportions are correct, the details are fabulous from the instrument panel to the airbrake and landing gear lever.
The kit should be in the shops before Christmas 2006. So, if you are looking for a present for an enthusiastic glider pilot, this is it.
There is already one other sailplane kit on the market made by Revell, the ASK21. So, you can start building your own fleet.
- friedel weber - 
Dear Mr Weber,
I read your article about the Revell Modell of the LS8, as always with great interest as a regular visitor of your very well designed website.
When I looked at the picture more closely, I was very surprised ! This is "our" LS8 of the gliding Club Tulln (www.sfctulln.at) How did it happen, that Revell of all the planes selected
this one ?
But I have two comments to the model:
1. The "real" TW has red stripes on the winglets, and looks, because of this, even better than the model. Probably Revell could be advised about this. (See the attached picture).
2. The model presented to you is in one detail not completely realistic. I don't believe that the real TW was ever flown (possibly once to try it) with the 15 m wing tips. Our plane is
always assembled with the 18 m wing tips. I cannot imagine that it would be different with the other LS8-18 versions.
In any case, it is a good thing that this exceptional plane now also exists in a model kit.
Yesterday, Sunday, I was 1 1/4 hour in the air with it, and it was, as always, an exceptional pleasure.
Alexander Wilkie
(Photographer Robert Tobler; Pilot Leo Strnad)
