May 2017 New Product Rundown From Fine Scale Modeler In the 110th episode of the NPRD, Elizabeth Nash and Aaron Skinner take a look at: Moebius’ 1/32 scale Proteus Hasegawa’s 1/72 scale Kawanishi H8K2 “Emily” Meng’s 1/35 scale King Tiger Wingnut Wings’ 1/32 scale Sopwith Camel
For those who are interested, Pontos 1/200 Hood Battlecruiser Detail set back in stock over at Freetime Hobbies website. I’ve ordered mine! Have you?
Demos Demos…we want them. The Huzzah Hobbies guys want them—especially since a lot of these skills are transferable. And we want to do them—there are a lot of tips and techniques all of us have accumulated over the years. We had one in the works for this month, but some home issues overcame our first…
NoVa IPMS Model Classic and Kitty Hawk/Panda Well…our friends at NoVa IPMS had a great turnout this year for Model Classic—the best I can remember for years. The tables were full of models and the halls were full of vendors. And there were some truly outstanding models on display—friends of Piper Hobby will certainly remember…
Shizuoka! Here are some of the big news out of the upcoming Shizuoka show. Liberally poached from HLJ.com. For the BMW fans in the group (that would be me), Hasegawa is releasing a 1/32 BMW 2002tii…and the destroyer Yugumo in Midway fit in 1/700. Fine Molds is releasing a number of Japanese armored vehicles—both WW…
Academy just announced a brand new mold F-15E Strike Eagle in 1/72. This goes along with Great Wall Hobby’s announcement of a 1/72 Strike Eagle. Huzzah! Trumpeter announced releases of the SA-10 TEL and the SA-13 SAM vehicle in 1/35. They also announced the M1A1 Abrams in 1/16—and Sprue Brothers already has the 1/16…
It’s official…Revell USA will be bringing the big (two feet long) Zvezda Imperial Star Destroyer to the States this year. That’s very good news for the Star Wars modelers. Also for the science fiction modelers…initially I was skeptical because of the date, but on 31 March Moebius announced at a show in Anaheim that they…
Spring is coming, and that means it is time for the Model Classic. It will be on Saturday, April 29th, at Fairfax High School (like always), and the theme this year is the 70th Anniversary of the United States Air Force. The web address is: http://www.novaipms.org/html/mc12.html. This year, Joe Lortie and Glen Coleman will…
The folks who are starting up a new aviation museum in Frederick, Maryland—the Ensign Dean R. VanKirk Aviation Heritage Museum—were an awful lot of help to Donna as she was shutting down. A lot of the shelves, some of the built models, and some cabinetry will be used there to display artifacts in the museum. …
Donna closed the store for good, with everything cleaned out, on the morning of Monday, 3 April. Even the Hobby sign is down. Best wishes to Donna as she moves up to Pennsylvania, and thanks to her and Bill for everything.