Showing posts with label plastic kits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plastic kits. Show all posts
Monday, May 11, 2026

Key Model World haul

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  No surprise that my rucksack came back a little fuller from KMW, than it started with. I wasn't looking for projects, but when has tha...
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Monday, November 24, 2025

More plastic kits for the stash

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  Scale Model World was always going to be a spendy show. It's part of the fun, and my bank account was prepared. In the event, the bill...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Scale Model World 2025

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Plenty of inspiration at the IPMS modellers annual extravaganza. As every, it's a big show, that takes all day to go around, and that...
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

1980s Hornby garage in The Collector

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  Another classic kit in the latest issue of The Collector, the house magazine of the Hornby Collectors Club.  This is another reboxed kit f...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Airfix Mini

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This is to be a simple stick it togther job. Not a major project with lots of fiddling, just glue and basic paint. I bought the kit for hard...
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Sunday, November 17, 2024

IPMS 2024

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I visited the International Plastic Modelers Show at Telford on Sunday rather than Saturday this year. As ever, it was an excellent show, fo...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

(Non)Muscial TB4- Part 2

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  And there we are - done! I can finish projects! With the two halves of the body screwed together, presumably to allow access to the batter...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Musical TB4 - Part 1

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  Surely a musical Thunderbird 4 shouldn't morph into a major time-consuming project? After all, I only paid four quid for it, so the en...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Goodies from the IPMS show

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Now, it would be rude to go to a plastic kit show, and not come away with at least one box, wouldn't it?  Well, I wasn't rude. I als...
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Monday, November 27, 2023

IPMS 2023

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  "I've seen some photos, and it doesn't look that busy." said one of the great brains on Facebook. He was pretty quickly ...
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Thursday, August 31, 2023

Bond Bug body

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  The Bond body is a prettysimple afair. A top and a bottom, the later includes the wheel arches, slot together nicely. Handily, there's...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Bond Bug chassis

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  Starting with the chassis, the kit shows its age. The side rails are joined by four cross pieces, and it's all a bit floppy. My soluti...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Bond Bug

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  When the Bond Bug appeard in the Airfix Vintage Classics range, I was soooo pleased. It's a car that has always fascinated me, even th...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Saturday Film Club: James May builds a Pug

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Big bits, swift progress

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  Detailing the Bullodog isn't a slow process. Great big lumps of plastic clad the inner body shell. Part fit is excellet, so it's j...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Do NOT glue...

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      The Bulldog should, if built correctly, have working steering. This means there are quite a lot of parts that mustn't come into co...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Painting plastic bits

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  I've mentioned in the past my aversion to self-coloured plastic parts in kits. Mould them any colour you like, but I still prefer pain...
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Monday, January 16, 2023

Announcement excitement

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  After last week's Hornby group announcements, I'm sure you are all desperate to know which ones excited me the most. Well, even if...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

ARII Ghost box - painted and working

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  Here we go. Job done.  Painting the stonework was quite fun. I started with Humbrol 64, pale grey. Once tacky, some 147 was sponged on lig...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

ARII Ghost box - mechanical bits

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  Here's what makes the Ghost Box work. The mechanism clips and screws together easily enough. The builder needs to pay attention to the...
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