1:35 SCALE TACOM V-2 KIT: FINISHED AT LAST!

HERE IS PART THREE OF BUILDING this highly complex triple-kit from Hong Kong-based Takom.

ROCK ’N’ ROLL ERA RACER: 1:25 SCALE FORD ANGLIA DRAG COUPE FROM REVELL

 

THE 1:25 SCALE REVELL ANGLIA DRAG COUPE is a neatly presented blast from the past, for the kit goes back many years.

INCOMING: CLASSIC 'LOST IN SPACE' SCI-FI SERIES REBOOT FROM NETFLIX

LOVERS OF THE OLD 'LOST IN SPACE' TV SERIES have something new to watch. It's the upcoming reboot, due to premiere online in ten episodes from Netflix on April 13, 2018.

SUPERB RED BARON FOKKER TRIPLANE STOP-MOTION VIDEO

HERE'S A BEAUTIFULLY MADE Fokker Triplane, made by Tom Grigat, a master of building scale models, and of creating stop-motion mini-movies that show how they are assembled.

1:24 SCALE ZZ TOP ELIMINATOR FORD COUPE FROM REVELL

ROCK BAND ZZ TOP MEETS the world of scale models with this 1:24 scale kit release from Revell.

FROM RAGNAROK INTERCEPTOR TO STAR WARS ROBOTS: A SALUTE TO TOM WEST, THE KIT KING

TOM WEST IS A FAMILIAR NAME to many movers and shakers of the US model kit industry, though he is less well known to the general public.

RADIO CONTROL SCHOOL BUS WITH THE TAMIYA KING YELLOW

THIS NIFTY TAKE on a radio control theme from Tamiya offers a bright yellow school bus, riding high on a six-wheel chassis.

SINGAPORE MODEL COMPETITION

FROG KITS OF THE BRITISH ships HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales were recently modelled by entrants for a competition held in Singapore.

NAVAL MODELS FROM SINGAPORE

WE'VE BEEN SENT SOME attractive model competition entries from Hobby Bounties in Singapore.

BUILDING THE SPACESHIP 'DISCOVERY' FROM 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

 

A TOTAL OF MORE THAN 500 PARTS distinguishes this 1:144 scale Moebius kit. The subject is the Discovery, spacecraft star of the classic science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

ANOTHER MODELLFAN ACCOLADE - THIS TIME FOR THE TAMIYA 1:48 SCALE MESSERSCHMITT Bf109 G-6

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO TAMIYA for collecting a ModellFan Model of the Year 2018 Award for the 1:48 scale Messerschmitt Bf109 G-6.

DID HEAVY METAL INSPIRE ELON MUSK'S TESLA IN SPACE?

ANYONE WHO SAW the SpaceX Falcon Heavy lift off on February 6, 2018, must have enjoyed the sight of Elon Musk's old Tesla Roadster in orbit, complete with its Starman passenger.

AIRFIX SUPERMARINE WALRUS WINS TOP 2018 MODEL AWARD

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO AIRFIX for collecting the Model of the Year 2018 award from the respected German magazine, ModellFan.

GARBAGE MUSIC BAND IN THE BACK OF A 1:24 SCALE MONOGRAM CUSTOM TRUCK KIT

THIS 1:24 SCALE GARBAGE TRUCK KIT FROM MONOGRAM is a custom design that only ever existed as a model kit, never being built as a full-size machine. 

RICHARD PETTY'S PLYMOUTH BELVEDERE DAYTONA 500 WINNER

A CLASSIC NASCAR RACER FROM 1964 is released by AMT.

1:32 SCALE BUCHER Bu 131D BIPLANE FROM ICM OF UKRAINE

THE BUCHER BU 131D JUNGMANN IS ANOTHER LARGE SCALE kit of an aircraft dating from the mid-1930s. It would sit nicely next to the recently-released Polikarpov I-16 to the same scale.

SCIENCE-FACT OUTPERFORMS SCIENCE-FICTION, AS FALCON HEAVY BLASTS INTO DEEP SPACE

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL AT SPACEX for successfully launching the Falcon Heavy rocket on its first test flight. And seeing those two Falcon boosters make a near-simultaneous landing after their mission was amazing.

STAR WARS MODEL FANS HEADS-UP: TRAILER FOR 'SOLO' SHOWS NEW SPACESHIP DESIGNS

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY LOOKS LIKE A MUST-SEE movie this summer. And for sci-fi model makers, it'll be another cornucopia filled with fantasy techno to keep us busy nights.

'PACIFIC RIM UPRISING' OPENS DOOR FOR SCI-FI SCENES USING BANDAI JAEGER ROBOTS

ROBOT LOVERS REJOICE because Pacific Rim Uprising, the second movie in the monsters from the deep franchise is due for release soon.

EXPLORER 1: THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL UNITED STATES SATELLITE, LAUNCHED INTO SPACE 60 YEARS AGO

THE US LAUNCHED ITS FIRST successful artificial satellite, Explorer 1, on January 31, 1958. By February 1, it was in orbit, becoming the third satellite, after the Soviet Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2.