Construction review Pt III: Meng TS-027 1/35 Leopard 2A7 German Main Battle Tank

Andrew Moore has already shown us his 35^th scale Leopard 2A7 German Main Battle Tank kit from MENG models in an insightful In-box review & construction Pt II – See today in his “Big Cat Diaries,” as he completes the build before painting & weathering it all up…

A new Luchs & new crew from Classy Hobby in 1/16th scale

Classy Hobby’s three products in the 1/16^th scale line to go along with the original boxing of the Luchs Light Reconnaissance Tank & WWII German 20L Jerry Can & 200L Fuel Drum Set in the same scale. Two new figures & a  4th Division Luchs in today's preview...

Starting small scale - Bronco’s DFS glider incoming – but not in the scale you were expecting.

Bronco Models new 72^nd scale kit of the DFS230B-1 Light Assault Glider IS however still pretty detailed for that scale, and as you will see in our preview there is lots to like about this new small scale glider…

Diopark’s new Merc has seen better days and lesser loads…

Diopark has just announced their new Mercedes-Benz W123 in 35^th scale – this time, it is included with all of the bare necessities in tow – Let’s have a look at this kit, and see what’s new in this boxing our preview…

New kit from Max Factory/ Plamax “Cherno Alpha” Jaeger in 350th scale

We really liked the throwback robot/ monster movie “Pacific Rim” in 2013. We were pretty interested that Max Factory are now making plastic models of the massive mecha Jaegers from the film. We will see the “Gypsy Gipsy Danger,” but right now the subject of their first release in this series the soviet themed “Cherno Alpha.” Let’s have a look at what is coming our way to kick some Kaiju a..

Construction review Pt.II: Meng's 1/35 Leopard 2A7 German Main Battle Tank

Andrew Moore has already shown us his 35^th scale Leopard 2A7 German Main Battle Tank kit from MENG models in an insightful Inbox review – He has already built the kit up, so look today in the first of his “Big Cat Diaries” as he walks us through how it comes together…

Masterbox’s early war German soldiers are about to pick a fight...

Masterbox has announced their three kits that are expected for September this year. We have already had a look at the Cowgirl & Indian women in 24^th scale, this is the latest though, featuring some early WWII Germans on the attack…

Read n’ review Abrams Squad No#15 in all it’s Moden warfare Bi-monthly-ness

Good times when there are things to do and books to be read at TMN. We spent some time reading the latest Abrams Squad (No#15) from Pla Editions and we thought it was only fair to tell you what we thought about this latest edition in today’s review.

Painting & Weathering Takom's 35th scale Type 69-II Iraqi Medium Tank

Clayton has been hard at it building, painting and weathering his 35^th scale Takom t-69 type ii Chinese tank. He has finished this one as a famous “desert Storm” survivor that some of you might have seen at the museum. See how it all turned out in Pt.III of today’s review…

Read N’ Reviewed: "Metallics" Learning series Vol I & II from AK Interactive

When I first saw these books from AK Interactive’s “Learning Range” I was very interested in them. Natural metal is one of the hardest things to reproduce with paint, powders and foil, so I thought reading them couldn’t do any harm. Let’s look at them both in a combined review to see if they polish our knowledge…

Construction Review: Sturmgeschütz III Ausf E (Sd. Kfz 142)

Recently Paul got to grips with the new Bronco Models kit of the Sturmgeschütz III Ausf E (Sd. Kfz 142) in 35^th scale. He gave us his first impressions in an inbox review, but the best review is a build – so today he put the kit together before he paints it in the next episode. Let’s see how it all went together in Part II…

F2H-2/2P Banshee from Kittyhawk in 1/48th, both fighter & now recon test kits built up...

We have seen the fighter version in the flesh - now we get to see the recon longer nosed McDonnell F2H-2/2P Banshee from Kittyhawk in 48th scale. In making the Kittyhawk Banshee they have had some help from the guys at Detail and scale to get the plans just right – let’s have a look at what is in store for us...

The Shining Red Star - MENG’s upgraded Tiger M to be released…

 MENG’s latest tiger has not tracked, and it isn’t a “King” tiger – it’s actually the 35th scale Russian GAZ 233115 “Tiger-M” SpN SPV model kit. It has all of the features of the upgraded Humvee counterpart – let’s have a look and see what is in store.

Heavenly and hellish scenes in the new figures from Stalingrad Miniatures.

Three new releases from Stalingrad Miniatures are rather off their usual direction but fantastic and fantastical in their conception. See the most natural and the most unnatural the human form has to offer with their latest releases…

In Boxed: Takom’s 35th scale ZSU-57-72 Soviet SPAAG + a special "How To" paint tutorial by a good friend...

In another one of their sure to be popular choices, Takom has released the ZSU-57-2 Soviet SPAAG in 35^th scale injection moulded plastic. We have already seen these on the market, and with Tamiya already having made this first years ago, and now Trumpeter jumping on the bandwagon and kitting everything everyone else has made we thought we would show you just what is in the box in this kit in our review. We also roped in Charlie Pritchett to show us how to paint this beast..

Pegaso’s new figures, some great work now available in three new sculpts

Pegaso has released a trio of new figures for August. A Pikeman in alarm, A dandy soldier of fashion – sorry I mean fortune, and a great hero of the Napoleonic era are now up for grabs in their latest items.

Construction Review: Modern Russian Tankman in 35th scale from Neucraft Miniatures

With the huge surge in Soviet and Modern Russian tanks now on the modeller’s radar, we need to populate these brutes. Neucraft has released a new 35^th scale modern Russian tanker (“A” – so hopefully more to come) – we have this first one here – so let’s have a look at what he is wearing and how the sculpt looks in the flesh/ resin…

Construction Review: MiniArt's 35th scale Tram Crew w/Passengers

To match the very good pair of trams (and several other civilian dio pieces) that MiniArt have developed we have the new crew & passenger set that matches these trams very well – well that is the pitch – let’s put the figures together to see how they look…

Read n’ Reviewed: Nuts & Bolts Volume 36: Bussing's Schwere Pz.Spahwagen Pt 2:

The eight wheeled Bussing's Schwere Pz.Spahwagen is an iconic vehicle of the German forces in WWII – especially in the early years where these seemed to be used in high numbers. Today Paul gets his hands on the copy of Nuts & Bolts new book that irons out pretty much all you need to know about these – let’s see what he thought about the book…

New item October 2016 preview from Hasegawa

Classic race cars, jets modern and a little older, WWII fighters and some anime favourites – Hasegawa again get the most out of their moulds with their new October releases. Let’s look at their releases in our preview...

A little Spit building hit - making the new 72nd Eduard spitfire Mk.IXc "late" version profi-PACK.

Francois was looking forward very much to the release of Eduard's new 72nd scale MkIX "late" spitfire release - So instead of just reviewing the kit he built one up instead - See how he completed it in this SBS "Step by Step" - ooh baby!

We look at Hobbyboss’ latest September 2016 kits in our new item preview...

Hobbyboss have four new releases for August - They are playing catch up with the MiG -31 & LWS while the Vickers & the Kosomolets tractor has a familiar feel as well - Let’s see the kits and sprues in the Hobbyboss preview…

Preview: Alpine Miniatures new 3rd Armored Division Tankers spearhead their way onto the shelves...

Third division vehicles seem to be popular with modellers, if only we had more tankers to fill them with – Well Alpine Miniatures has stepped into the breach with their new set of two figures sold separately or together replicating the 3^rd Armoured finest. See the options and the sculpts in our preview.

Construction Review: "German tank Crew at Rest" MiniArt’s new "Nazi Swine" W/ a pig with poor future prospects

Miniart wants us to “pig-out” on their new plastic kits, Snout’s the time to have a look at their new set before it trotters off into the sunset as we build the new 35th scale figure set "German tank Crew at Rest"

"Roger, roger!" Bandai’s new 1/12th scale Battle Droid & S.T.A.P hover bike Preview…

Star Wars fans are again being treated by Bandai with another 12^th scale new figure kit – this time of the early Battle Droid with the S.T.A.P hover bike – you can even replace the head with C3PO’s noggin – it looks like a great kit to us – check it out in our preview…

Italeri’s new items of August 2016: some very cool kits in here..

The new Italeri items for August – we often say we like the look of new releases – but every single one of these is a great modelling prospect for fans out there. From a hot French delta to an anniversary Hornet, a canvas covered delivery to two supercars and an equally super bike - See them, with sprues & decal choices in our preview…

It's a small world after all - according to Revell's August releases...

Revell of Germany’s new kits and pieces for August are here already – some smaller scale and pretty simple to make for beginners and the more advanced smaller scale magicians out there. We thought you would like to see what’s on offer yourselves in our preview…