2018 NEW KIT INCOMING: 1:48 SCALE BRISTOL BLENHEIM

THE  NEW-TOOL BRISTOL BLENHEIM FROM AIRFIX looks like it will be a must-build kit for 1:48 scale air fans. The Blenheim is under development for release in 2018, and should be another winner for this long-established kit company.

GMC DESERTER OFF-ROAD PICKUP TO 1:25 SCALE FROM MPC

Mat Irvine: The 1:25 scale Deserter is a reissue of an earlier MPC kit from the mid-1980s. To give the pickup its full title, it’s a GMC Rounded-Line K-2500 Wideside, equipped with the Sierra Grande package.

FUTURISTIC CUSTOM PICKUP TRUCK: 1:25 SCALE AMT DODGE DEORA

THE DODGE DEORA is an original concept from the 1960s, available now as a 1:25 scale AMT kit reissue.

LEGO STAR WARS MILLENNIUM FALCON TIME-LAPSE BUILD

THIS IS LEGO-AND-A-HALF or maybe a galaxy-and-a-half for Star Wars fans.

MOONLANDER: SPACE EXPLORATION THE WAY IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

WITH THE LATEST PLANS OF ELON MUSK HITTING THE HEADLINES it seems a good moment to revisit what I have dubbed 'factual futuristic' spacecraft, designs that seemed a good idea at the time, but which were never built.

COLD WAR DEFENDER: BOEING BOMARC MISSILE FROM REVELL

THE BOEING IM-99 BOMARC ground-to-air missile makes a welcome return with this Revell kit.

VICTORY FOR VIC TORRY: FLYING SAUCER FROM ATLANTIS MODELS

THE VIC TORRY FLYING SAUCER is the latest in the Atlantis Models five-inch saucer range, and comes with the usual accompaniment of a flashing LED.

FORD CLUB COUPE 'GAS MAN' RACER IN 1:25 SCALE

THIS RETRO DELUXE KIT IS A reissue of one of AMT’s very first Trophy Series kits, retaining the classic ‘three-in-one’ build options.

CASSINI SPACE PROBE'S FINAL PLUNGE TO A FIERY END

 

ONE OF THE LONGEST-SERVING and most adventurous space probes met a fiery end today, when it plunged into the atmosphere of the ringed gas-giant planet, Saturn.

BATBOAT IN BLACK: 1:25 SCALE FROM AMT

THE ROUND 2 COMPANY continues to delve into the tooling of its kit company acquisitions, in this case, AMT. So here is another in the Batman series, the Batboat, produced in 1:25 scale. 

1:24 SCALE McLAREN 570S SUPERCAR KIT FROM REVELL

THIS FULLY DETAILED 1:24 SCALE MCLAREN 570S kit from Revell is a new-tool production, definitely not a reissue of the Aoshima release, the only other available kit to a similar scale.

INCOMING: CITROEN TYPE H STREET FOOD VAN

TO MOST OF US it's a French street food van, but the Japanese Ebbro company reckons the Citroen Type H is a Mobile Kitchen. Either description is fine, as our recent look at the Ebbro Crepe Mobile version shows that the basic kit is really worth building.

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.