Category: Kit Previews

Drew Hatch has a new toy! He shares with us his first impressions of Kinetic’s 1/32 scale F-86F-30. The F-86 Sabre is probably best known as the ‘Mig Alley’ Killer. Streaking into North Korea to shoot down the Mig 15 in dogfights. The F-86 was a combination of lessons learned from some other early fighter designs and technology from captured

Though I try to give my favorite local hobby shop, Hayes Hobby House, the bulk of my business, I do drop into Hobby Lobby from time to time and see what’s on their shelves. Especially when they have one of their 40% off coupons sitting in my inbox. I’d been keeping my eye on one particular kit- Accurate Miniatures 1/48

Between rides at Disneyland, meeting with fellow modelers, and, oh yeah… attending the 2007 IPMS/USA National Convention, Drew Hatch managed to squeeze in the time to get Eduard’s newly released 1/48 Bf 110E in his Anaheim visit. Having rested a bit on his return home, he provides us with a great preview of the kit. Eduards newest jaw dropper is

To say I’ve been eagerly awaiting the resurrected Airfix’s Spitfire Mk. I is an understatement. From posting previews from other sites, to linking to Brett Green’s build of the kit, I’ve been staying on top of news regarding the kit. The one thing I was missing? The kit! The fact that I didn’t have the kit was sort of self-imposed.

My family and I were visiting Myrtle Beach, South Carolina this weekend, and were shopping at one of it’s many outlet centers. Well, they were shopping. I was passing time until we went to lunch. I stopped in K-Bee Toys, knowing that occasionally, on the rarest of circumstances, they had some models. I found a shelf along one side of

I always enjoyed visiting my grandmother as a child? She always had plenty of great food, and she never asked me to do any chores. And every visit, she’d give me five dollars, to with whatever I wanted. I’d always go to the local Kmart. For five dollars, I could get a couple of kits, some bottles of paint, and

I’ve been on an Anigrand Craftworks mailing list for a while, and though I’d never ordered from them, I did admire their willingness to produce some very unusual subjects in aviation history. I’d actually written about them a couple of times already, since they’re not one of the manufacturers you hear much about. After receiving one of their recent newsletters,

One of the things I’ve noticed since getting back into the model building hobby is that most of the people that seem to be building models now are adults. 25 years ago when I was a teen, most of the guys I knew built models. Now, the teens who build models seem to be the exception. No wonder though, as

Though it’s been 20+ years since I built an Airfix kit, the news of their apparent demise kicked off some nostalgia to build some Airfix kits. Much to the delight of my credit card company, I’m single-handedly trying to resurrect Airfix. Just this week I bought the 5 plane, 1/72 70th Anniversary Spitfire kit, a Spitfire 1/48 Mk V/Seafire Mk

I’ve not even finished the cockpit on my Accurate Miniatures P-51A, but when I saw the old Revell/Monogram P-40B last night at WalMart for less than $8.00….. well, you know what happened. I picked it up. I’ts an old kit, the molds are probably 20 to30 years old. Though it has raised panel lines and rivets, they aren’t too bad.