Hi, Atlantis is an American kit company that specialises in re-issuing vintage kits (mainly from the 1950s and 1960s), by the likes of Auro...

Woodsy, Here is another nostalgia trip for me, the WIAD B1060 Lagerhalle (Warehouse), a German HO scale model building kit I first built in ...

The Monkees was a US TV comedy series about a struggling music group, made up of four young men, and pretty obviously modelled on The Beatle...

Hi Woodsy You once asked me about flash – the surplus material that you sometimes find around the edges of plastic or metal parts. There may...

Hello Moonbasers, do you like Gashapon figures? Those carefully detailed Japanese figures come inside plastic balls and can build up to quit...

When I was a little kid, I was fascinated by model displays in Museums... I always thought it would be the best job in the world. Sadly eve...

Hi, Just finished this old AMT model kit of the Surak, the long range shuttlecraft that delivers Spock from Vulcan to the Enterprise, which ...

Hi Woodsy, The latest fair in Auckland was very successful for me, with a good haul of kits, die-casts, and books. This fair will be moving ...

Hello Woodsy, You wanted a story about the model Japanese village I was building for a TVC (television commercial)... First, the build remin...

Hi Woodsy The Convair XFY-1 Pogo was a US Navy experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing fighter of the 1950s. It was powered by a single A...

H i Woodsy          On my most recent visit to a model shop, I spotted two of the new AIP (Adventures in Plastic)/Aoshima Thunderbirds...