ITALERI DETAIL SET FOR TANK-BUSTER FANS

The A-10 Thunderbolt II is a firm favourite with both its pilots and the scale model fraternity. There are A-10 kits aplenty...

APOLLO MOON LANDING ANNIVERSARY COMING SOON

We’re only a few weeks away from the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing on July 23, 1969, so if you’re up for making...

CORGI AVIATION ARCHIVE: TSR-2 NOW ON PRE-ORDER

Airfix has scored a success with its Limited Edition 1:48 scale BAC TSR-2 strike bomber kit, and now it’s Corgi’s turn,...

VIRGIN SPACESHIPTWO ROCKET MOTOR TEST-FIRING

Virgin Galactic spaceline’s ambitions took another small step with the test firing of SpaceShipTwo’s hybrid rocket motor...

TAKE A TRIP TO YOUTUBE TO SEE THE HORNBY HOBBIES CHANNEL

There’s a good spot on the internet for 00 gauge rail fans, and for Hornby enthusiasts in particular. Hornby Hobbies now...

ASTON-MARTIN TO RACE IN FORMULA 1

There’s winning news for Aston-Martin fans today - the company is planning to enter Formula One (F1) racing from 2012. It’s...

FAB FIVE: EXOTIC AURORA KITS

Aurora kits represented a goldmine of exotica in years gone by. While other companies were giving us familiar (even then)...

SECRET AEROSPACE PROJECTS OF THE US NAVY

The cover of this book by Jared A. Zichek gives the game away immediately - mouthwateringly fantastic blue-sky projects...

THE USS JOHN F. KENNEDY AIRCRAFT CARRIER, LAUNCHED 42 YEARS AGO TODAY

On May 27 1967, Jackie and Caroline Kennedy christened the new carrier, some four years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination...

RAMPAGING ROBOTS FROM TERMINATOR: SALVATION

It seems to be sci-fi week at SMN, after a viewing of the latest blockbuster in the Terminator movie series. Accompanying...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OF YESTERDAY STAR WARS! 32 YEARS OLD AND STILL COUNTING...

Wow! It was May 25 1977 when the first Star Wars movie hit the cinema. The mighty roar and seemingly endless length of an...

MIGHTY MODELS FROM THE MOC ZONE

The neat acronym MOC - My Own Creation - is used by LEGO builders to describe their efforts. And there’s a thriving MOC...

1:35 SCHNELLBOOT IS THE BIGGEST PLASTIC KIT IN THE WORLD, SAYS ITALERI

The general enormousness of this metre-long kit makes SMN disinclined to argue with that claim! And it certainly leaves...

FREE CARD MODELS TO DOWNLOAD FROM FIDDLERS GREEN

Fiddlers Green is a card-modelling outfit that produces a wide range of models to build, including many aircraft. Some of...

IRON MAN KITS FROM MOEBIUS MODELS

There are quite a few collectibles around for Iron Man, of Marvel comic and recent movie renown, but kits are not so common....

MODELZONE WEEKEND SALE

There’s a nice little gift from the UK model retain chain Modelzone, in the form of a 10% discount on all Radio Control...

PRESENTATION PARADE

It’s a perennial problem for modellers - what to do with those kits and collectibles once they are bought and built. For...

ROBOT PLANE: 1:72 SCALE PREDATOR FROM ITALERI

SMN featured the Italian Piaggio Ape earlier this week, and now it’s time for a robot, in the form of Italeri’s RQ-1B Predator....

DRAGON KITS: ORANGE BOXES MEAN VALUE

MAINIt’s good to see kit makers makers lending the model world a helping hand in these difficult economic times. And with...

GENIUS IDEA! TAMIYA METAL CREW FIGURES

Aaah... it’s the brain-flash that says, “Why didn’t we think of that before?”. The Tamiya 1:48 BAe Hawk Mk66 comes in Swiss...

FLYING COLORS 3: SUPERB BOOK BY SHIGEO KOIKE, A MASTER OF KIT BOX ART

Even if you’re not familiar with the name, you’ve almost certainly seen Shigeo Koike’s work before, as his superb art has...

TAMIYA BRITISH LIGHT UTILITY VEHICLE

This is a neat addition to Tamiya’s range of 1:48 military vehicles, and will make a useful addition to any diorama featuring...

POSTMAN PAT NANO CAR

Maybe this is not a ‘model’, at least in SMN’s normal terms of reference, but it’s so weirdly cool that it earns a space...

TESTORS 1:43 SCALE HELICOPTER TRIO

Scale has long been a bone of contention for this exactoid modeller. The world of diecast vehicles exists largely at railway...