1:24 SCALE BMW i8 HYBRID-ELECTRIC CAR FROM REVELL

REVELL GERMANY HAS PRODUCED THE FIRST model kit of the BMW i8 hybrid petrol-electric car. The kit includes both drive motors and drivetrain in detail.

FULL VIDEO BUILD REVELL JAS-39C GRIPEN

THE SINGLE-ENGINE GRIPEN IS ONE OF our favourite combat jets, and has become a successful export for its Swedish manufacturer.

JAMES BOND LOTUS CAR-SUBMARINE TO 1:24 SCALE FROM FUJIMI

“TRY NOT TO DAMAGE IT, 007…” That famous phrase from ‘Q’ in James Bond movies applied in spades to the famed Aston Martin DB5. But it also related to another Bondmobile, the Lotus Esprit S1 that served double-duty as a submarine in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me.

EXCELLENT STOP-FRAME BIPLANE KIT BUILD VIDEO

HERE'S ANOTHER HYPNOTICALLY GOOD video showing an Airfix kit build. This time, it's the turn of the 1:72 scale Royal Aircraft Factory BE2c of World War I fame.

ROUND 2 BATMOBILE: ANTON FURST DESIGN RELEASED TO 1:25 SCALE

THE NEW MOVIE BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE is due for release on March 25, 2016. So Round 2 has taken the opportunity of reissuing the AMT Batmobile kit, as designed for the first Batman reboot of 1989.

MILITARY MODELS AT THE TANK MUSEUM, BOVINGTON

THE TANK MUSEUM, BOVINGTON, UK, houses a wide-ranging display of tanks and armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) with some 300 vehicles on show, making the collection a world leader. Among the many AFVs on view are the world's first tank, Little Willie, the deadly German Tiger, and the modern Challenger 2.

MODEL DEPICTS ENTIRE ENGLISH COTSWOLD VILLAGE TO 1:9 SCALE

EVEN IN THE HIGH-TECH 21ST CENTURY, THE QUAINT MODEL VILLAGE at Bourton-on-the-Water in the English Cotswolds is still a powerful magnet for tourists.

A PECULIAR EFFECT ON THE BBC - THE STORY OF BERNARD WILKIE, VISUAL EFFECTS GURU

A PECULIAR EFFECT ON THE BBC WAS WRITTEN BY the late Bernard Wilkie, a founder of the BBC Visual Effects (VFX) Department in 1954. The department started by making scale models for schools TV broadcasts.

EASY TO BUILD SNAP TITE REVELL 1:25 SCALE CHEVY CORVETTE

NOW AND AGAIN, IT’S GOOD to put a model together that doesn’t involve hundreds of parts, hours of painting, and a decal sheet the size of a small country.

BELATED GREETINGS VIDEO FROM AIRFIX RATES FIVE STARS

AIRFIX HAS RELEASED A FASCINATING TIME-LAPSE mini-movie for your delectation. The subject is the recent 1:72 scale Fokker E.II Eindecker, and very good it looks too.

RECALLING EARLY US SPACEFLIGHT WITH THE GLENCOE VANGUARD LAUNCH ROCKET

 

THIS MODEL IS BASED ON AN ORIGINAL ADAMS KIT that dates back to 1958, the year that the Vanguard rocket sent a small satellite into orbit.

MERCURY RISING FROM DOWN UNDER - SPACE CAPSULE KIT FROM AUSTRALIA

IT’S NOT OFTEN WE can welcome a brand-new kit company to the fold, especially one that is using injection styrene, so it’s a big hello to Horizon Models from Australia.

AMERICAN CAR FROM THE UKRAINE - FORD MODEL T TO 1:24 SCALE

VINTAGE AMERICANA FROM UKRAINIAN COMPANY ICM comes in the form of this neat 1911 Ford Model T four seater.

BACK TO THE PAST WITH THE MPC 'GENERAL' STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

 

ROUND 2 HAS REISSUED ONE OF MPC’s most comprehensive and unusual kits, the American-type 4-4-0 wood burning locomotive, named the General.

F-16 VERTICAL CLIMB OFF THE DECK: ZERO TO 15,000 FEET IN 45 SECONDS

WE LIKE FLIGHT AND FLYING so offer no excuses for showing this short-short movie clip, shot on a GoPro from the front seat of an F-16 Fighting Falcon combat jet.

INTER-WAR ERA JAPANESE AIR POWER TO 1:72 SCALE FROM HASEGAWA

IN THE YEARS BEFORE THE START OF WORLD WAR II the Type 95 biplane and Type 97 monoplane were combat types that were heavily involved in action.

A MIGHTY WIND FROM AMT - THREE STOOGES CURLY’S GASSER WILLYS COUPE

THIS IS THE SECOND AMT CAR KIT using the Three Stooges license originally acquired by Polar Lights. The first model featured a Ford Delivery truck. Now we have a Round 2 AMT 1:25 scale Willys Coupe drag car, configured as ‘Curly’s Gasser.’

NEW BOOK FOR A NEW YEAR: 'THE STORY OF REVELL KITS' BY JEAN-CHRISTOPHE CARBONEL

WELL KNOWN FRENCH modeller and historian Jean-Christophe Carbonel (aka ‘JC’) has completed The Story of Revell Kits, Volume 1 1950-1986 for the French specialist publisher, Histoire and Collections.

BBC DOCTOR WHO IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS - A 50-YEAR TREASURY OF ART AND DESIGN

IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED a book or gift token this Christmas, how about splurging it on this lavish coffee-table book? BBC Impossible Worlds - A 50-Year Treasury of Art and Design provides a colourful look at the artwork from BBC TV’s long running science fiction series, Doctor Who.

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND BEST WISHES FOR 2016

2016 LOOKS LIKE it's going to be a good year for scale model fans. Big companies and small, they all seem to have mouthwatering new kits waiting in the wings.