PROTEUS SUBMARINE DIVES IN FROM FANTASTIC VOYAGE

CERTAIN SUBJECTS just cry out to be made as model kits, and sometimes you wonder why it takes so long. This is certainly the case with the Proteus, submarine star of the 1966 science-fiction movie Fantastic Voyage.

FLIPPING PANCAKES WITH THE 1:24 SCALE CITROEN TYPE H VAN FROM EBBRO

MODEL KITS OF THE CLASSIC Citroen H-Type van have been a bit like waiting for the proverbial bus. You wait ages when nothing appears, then several turn up at once, or in this case two Citroen Type H panel vans.

LITTLE GREY FERGIE TRACTOR FROM HELLER

THE SURPRISE is not that Heller features a piece of farm machinery - Ertl has been specialising in such for years - but that this French company has released an archetypal British tractor.

I WANT TO BELIEVE: FLYING SAUCER UFO FROM ATLANTIS MODELS

I WANT TO BELIEVE is another release in the Atlantis Models range of 5-inch flying saucers.

OWENS DELUXE CRUISER RETRO-STYLE BOAT KIT

 

THIS IS A COMPANION KIT to the Lindberg Century Coronado, as featured in SMN a few months ago.

PRETTY IN PURPLE: CLASSIC DC-9 JETLINER KIT FROM ATLANTIS MODELS

 

THIS IS A REISSUE OF an original Aurora model that first appeared in 1965. It’s a very simple kit, with none of the options you might find on more modern equivalents, so there are no poseable flaps, opening engine covers or similar, but frankly that makes for a far more robust model. The box-art reproduces a classic painting by illustrator John Amendola.

FANTASTIC PHANTOM FROM AIRFIX

THE AIRFIX 1:72 SCALE PHANTOM II KIT is an excellent example of the improvements that computers have brought to the model building scene.