Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 01:54 PM UTC
MENG Model and AK Interactive have announced the beginning of a professional cooperation between the companies. Here's the press release.
MENG & AK-INTERACTIVE Become Professional Partners

MENG and AK-INTERACTIVE are proud to announce to the scale model world the beginning of a professional cooperation between the both companies. The knowledge and technical experience of two of the best brands in the scale model industry will join together to develop and launch new products.

This long-term cooperation results in uniting the strengths of two of the main companies in the market, the goal is offering modelers around the world the best of the two, great and accurate models and the best products for their assembling, painting and weathering.

We are absolutely sure that the products resulting of this cooperation between MENG and AK-INTERACTIVE will be ideal in order to achieve the ultimate goal that drives both companies: This is helping modelers around the world to make their dreams in scale come true.
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Well this could be interesting.
JAN 20, 2016 - 06:15 PM
Not sure what they have in mind, but I'm game to learn more.
JAN 20, 2016 - 08:00 PM
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship", quote from bogart in casablanca....
JAN 20, 2016 - 08:16 PM
" . . [T]he goal is offering modelers around the world the best of the two, great and accurate models and the best products for their assembling, painting and weathering." So . . . like Testors and Humbrol/Heller did thirty years ago. Earth-shattering news. The sky's the limit with this deal. Before you write, simply being un-enthused is not the same as being negative and not every announcement warrants shouts of joy. This one looks to have about as much novelty, utility, and appeal to modelers as a company announcing that they found a new supplier to provide their kit boxes. KL
JAN 20, 2016 - 09:35 PM
Well, now there will be brand-loyal paint to put through that new Meng airbrush...
JAN 20, 2016 - 09:57 PM
Perhaps a pre-cursor to an outright take-over. I'm guessing Meng is part of something larger than itself.
JAN 21, 2016 - 05:20 AM
Well...personally, I think AK is saturating the market with too way too many pigments, filters, washes, lighteners, what have you, to the point of redundancy...!
JAN 21, 2016 - 05:53 AM
Well in the Trumpeter German Fennek kit, for example, the paint call outs are by AMMO- so for a start we'll probably see Meng paint call outs by AK. Matthew mentioned their airbrush and the paint for that, plus there will probably be re-boxings of Meng kits with AK paints and perhaps guides included. I also don't think AK is saturating any market- they are competing against other manufacturers such as Mig Pigments, True Earth, AMMO, Vallejo, Life Color to name only a select few. I use stuff by different brands- including AK and I think their stuff is great- I think its a pretty shrewd move to partner up with a brand such as Meng too. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of the partnership.
JAN 21, 2016 - 04:13 PM
I'm not crazy about call-outs for hard-to-get paints, but Tamiya usually only calls out their own paints, sooooo.
JAN 21, 2016 - 09:02 PM
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