June 04, 2015

Build review: Francios's high water mark with the US Navy Medium Landing Ship from Revell

You won’t see many reviews of such large kits and furthermore fewer review builds of the Revell 1/144th scale U.S. Navy Medium Landing Ship, so what’s it really like? We are up for the challenge so François lent his considerable talents to this kit in today’s build review…

June 03, 2015

Clayton builds Bandai's AT-ST - "Don't Call Me Chicken!"

Ever since the new Star Wars AT-ST kit from Bandai came out Clayton has wanted to build it. We recently reviewed it here and now we hand the kit over to our man to see how it builds up – a few surprises were in store along the way…

June 02, 2015

Hasegawa’s new items for August are here already on the horizon…

Hasegawa’s new items for May have some variety. As well as the usual re- and limited editions there are some nice kits here. Let’s see what May will have in store for your LHS in our preview…

May 31, 2015

Brett builds a 200 year old Phantom: Part III The final approach..

Eduard’s Limited edition kit of the F-4N Phantom II “Bicentennial Phantom” is being built here on the news by our man Brett. 5 lovely decal choices, Brassin Parts and Fabric seatbelts all add to the nice Academy base kit. Let’s see how he put the weathering and final touches on his lovely build…

June Already? Several built up kits from Revell of Germany to show you what's new…

June’s new items from Revell feature some cold war jets with massive cans (afterburners), a few please seeking tourist transporters, a few choppers, engineers and a pocket sized panther. . Let’s see what Revell has in store this month in our preview…

May 28, 2015

MiniArt up-armours with their new dozer and we have pictures of the completed kit..

MiniArt’s new (don’t call them D7's) dozers are now bladed, with towing and angle bladed and now the next model sees the upgrade to armoured dozer for no extra price! See what’s new in MiniArt’s showroom as the kit’s release date nears…

Build review: 1/144 Takom's P1000 Landkreuzer Ratte & Maus –‘From little things, big things grow’

Takom have been really busy – they are getting very active in the model scene with lots of great unique releases. None more so than what our man Clayton has built in our review today.  A super looking kit of the P-1000 Landkreuzer or “Ratte” + 2 Maus tanks, both in the same box in 1/144th scale. For when going incredibly XXX large is still possible on a normal sized workbench. Let’s see what he thought of the kit…

May 27, 2015

Read'n reviewed: "Aces " 4 is now high over the Med...

The latest "Aces High" magazine from the AK Interactive publishing house is out. We got to read it today and though it would make a good review as these are popular with modellers of not just aircraft and figures too. Let’s have a look inside to see across the sea..