STARSKY AND HUTCH ‘STRIPED TOMATO’ FORD TORINO FROM REVELL

THE FAMED RED-AND-WHITE FORD TORINO from the 1970s cop-thriller TV series, Starsky and Hutch, is one car you would have thought would have been made as a kit years ago. There have been diecast and slot car versions, but it’s taken 40-odd years for a 1:25 scale kit to be released - and here it is.

WILL THE NEW REVELL AVRO SHACKLETON KIT BEAT THE UPCOMING AIRFIX MODEL?

DUE FOR RELEASE SHORTLY the 1:72 scale Revell Avro Shackleton MR2 looks ready to ignite a which-is-best competition with Airfix, whose own Shackleton to the same scale is due for release in August 2016.

HASEGAWA NAKAJIMA SKY-SPY FLOATPLANE TO 1:48 SCALE

THIS 1:48 SCALE HASEGAWA Nakajima E8N2 Type 95 reconnaissance seaplane (Dave) kit is a neatly engineered model of an aircraft that first flew in 1934.

DAWN OF THE SPACE RACE: 1:72 SCALE MERCURY-ATLAS SPACECRAFT FROM HORIZON MODELS

THIS 1:72 SCALE MERCURY-ATLAS CAPSULE-LAUNCHER KIT FOLLOWS ON from the first Horizon Models release, the 1:72 scale Mercury spacecraft. 

1:72 SCALE USAAF BOMBER RE-SUPPLY SET

HANDSOME BOX ART shows off this latest Airfix World War II set, due out soon. For diorama lovers, this collection of ground support vehicles and equipment will really set off a USAAF display.

BRITISH POST-WAR AIRLINER TAKES OFF

WE CAME ACROSS A NOSTALGIC VIDEO of the Vickers Viking airliner recently. The twin-engine machine was a development of the World War II Wellington bomber.

VIDEO BUILD: EDUARD 1:48 SCALE FOCKE WULF 190 A-8/R2

HERE'S A FASCINATING VIDEO showing a full build of a 1:48 sale Eduard Fw 190. There's certainly no shortage of TLC where this kit is concerned. 

CAR MODELS AND RADIO CONTROL TRUCKS AT AUTOMODELLISMO 6

ANOTHER SHOW FOR CAR MODEL FANS is being held on Sunday, May 15, 2016. The organizers say that Automodellismo is expanding, and will now also feature radio control and the Tamiya Truckin' display.

1:48 SCALE HAWKER HURRICANE Mk I WITH VOKES FILTER

THE RUGGED HAWKER HURRICANE was perhaps the most important fighter in the Royal Air Force at the start of World War II. And here is the Airfix 1:48 scale model of a tropicalized machine, as flown in 1941 from bases in Africa.

1:25 SCALE 1965 PLYMOUTH SATELLITE HARDTOP FROM MOEBIUS MODELS

THERE'S EXCELLENT NEWS FOR FANS of 1960s auto design with this new 1:25 Moebius kit of the 1965 Plymouth Satellite.

BIG 1:32 SCALE UH-72A LAKOTA US ARMY HELICOPTER FROM REVELL

THIS REVELL KIT REPRESENTS A UH-72A LAKOTA as flown by US forces. Built by Airbus Helicopters, the UH-72A is a light utility machine that is used widely by the US Army and Air National Guard.