Commentary on current events or industry news
Modelers will enjoy this new promotional video by Singapore Airlines. It endorses paper card modeling, and incredibly, all of the shown elements seem to be a part of a complete 1/20 scale paper Airbus A380 model comissioned by the company. [...]
For winning the random draw for the last month I received the Airfix Spitfire Mk Vb. Here is the box up on my Spitfire shelf in the study. The molding is excellent and the instructions appear to be CAD generated. Now I need to move the [...]
Besides our succesful coverage of Scale Modelworld in Telford, November marked another milestone - the 3rd anniversary of iModeler. Wow! Incidentally, at the same time we have also passed another symbolic threshold - 4,000 headline [...]
In Telford, Zvezda had been showing their just-released 1/48 scale Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber. It's a long-overlooked subject, and the kit is certainly looking good on the sprues!
Here's a forthcoming 1/72 scale Meng Convair F-106 Delta Dart Interceptor, apparently an almost production-ready kit.
In Telford, Kinetic has been showing their forthcoming kit releases. These include, among other items, a 1/24 scale P-47D Razorback. There were also seemingly almost complete sets of sprues for 1/48 Super Etendard and a Sukhoi Su-33 [...]
In Telford, Zoukei-Mura had their forthcoming 1/32 scale Dornier Do 335 on display, and it sure looked like a very impressive kit!
A surprising news from the same company is the forthcoming 1/48 scale... F-4J Phantom. The depicted model is [...]
Gaspatch Models' second 1/48 kit will be the Henschel Hs 123. The company has been showing an advanced prototype of the kit, which according to the company is only months away from release.
What do you think - I'd say OMG!
Airfix surprised today with an incredible array of new and projected kits at their Telford stand. There's really too much to describe here, so we'd rather let the pictures speak for themselves. Looking forward to everyone's comments... [...]
The weather is dreadful, the traffic is jammed, the lines are long - time for Scale Modelworld 2015!
Watch this space for live reports from the show during the day 🙂
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