I've been browsing through Classic Plastic, the modelling reference book and drooling over the surfing kits like Hawks There's a fe...

Auckland has just had its first fair of 2025, and I got some great bargains. Not many die-casts this time, but I did get some really nice ki...

Woodsy, I've decided to let go of my IMAI model kit of the Captain Scarlet Maximum Security Vehicle. It's the 1997 reissue, new and ...

Hello, Attached a couple of photos of an empty box for an Atlas space rocket, which I bagged from a Finnish auction site Tori.fi.  After pu...

Hello Woodsy, my Missus has been getting up to all sorts of hijinks... As Cliff Richard sang "I met a girl and she told me she loved me...

This has to be one of the oddest names for a lunar surface vehicle I've seen, the Space Squirt! By Sterling Models, I can't see NASA...

Monogram Models was one of the Big Three US kit companies, and had begun making wooden ship kits in 1945, quickly expanding in to aircraft a...

Hi Woodsy Max from Max's Models has just put out a new company history video on ITC Model Craft, the Hobby Division of the Ideal Toy Cor...

  Check out this gorgeous British Pathe clip of trade modellers making a huge model plane in 1959. Cor! What do you think?

I mentioned this Atlantis set, M6871, some time ago. It is a re-issue of an old Monogram U.S. Space Missiles set from the 1960s, which itse...

Not sure if this is too far off-topic for the blog, but I wanted to share this latest model with you. It’s an HO scale repair shed from Pola...

Hi Woodsy! Here is my latest model build, the brand-new Atlantis reissue of the 1959 Monogram Willy Ley Orbital Rocket. I had this one as a ...

The last Auckland toy fair of 2024 was held recently, and here is my report on the kits. Not too many vintage models this time, but I did ge...

Hi Woodsy.  My restoration of the Kitmaster Fireball XL5 is nearly complete.  The decals are reproduction ones , the observation dome is the...

With plastic horse kits like the Aurora Black Fury blogged this week,  I have noticed something while looking in to these - although Aurora,...

The Aurora Black Fury All Plastic Assembly Kit came up this year, so I thought it was time for a quick look at all the different versions. B...