Whether you are just entering the hobby or re-acquainting yourself with it, this book provides simple step-by-step advice on how to get started on a build regardless of whether it is a ship, tank, aircraft or spaceship along with guidance on tools and equipment. The wealth of handy tips on basic modelling techniques includes eliminating seams, ......

In this fast-changing modern world, nothing stays the way it is for long and this particularly applies to model railways which rely so completely on basic low voltage electronics. This is often the aspect of the hobby that is most daunting and off-putting both for experienced modellers and those new to the pursuit. One of the best guides to ......

Continuing the Single Vehicle series from Mushroom Model Publications - a new range of booklets for military modellers featuring original colour profiles, photographic details and scale plans in 1/35 scale, plus drawings from military technical manuals for individual single variant military vehicles. This forth title covers the single variant ......

Modelling plans in 1/32. 1/48, 1/72 and 1/144 scale of the G-6 variant of the famous Me Bf 109 German fighter aircraft of World War II, featuring eight A3 size scale plans.

The British battleship HMS “Vanguard” was built in the years 1941–1946 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank. It was quite an unusual ship due to the fact that it was built as the largest and also the last of the British battleships, and armed with artillery towers stored since 1925, taken from the cruisers HMS “Courageous” and HMS ......

After the end of World War Two, Europes air forces were keen to rebuild their air forces with jet aircraft. With little to choose from, the Gloster Meteor was the prime candidate and hundreds were sold over many years. Further afield in the Middle East, Meteors were sold to Egypt, Israel and Syria. In far off South America, Argentina, Brazil ......

This latest photo album in the ""Camera On"" series covers in photographic detail the wartime usage of the Henschel Hs 126 aircraft. The Henschel Hs 126 was a German two-seater reconnaissance and observation aircraft during World War II. The pilot was seated in a protected cockpit under the parasol wing and the gunner in an open rear cockpit. ......

This new book in the popular Polish Wings series describes and illustrates in unparalleled detail the supersonic MiG-21MF jet fighter in service with the Polish Air Force. Nearly 60 countries in four continents have flown the MiG-21 since 1959, and it still serves many nations six decades after its maiden flight. It made aviation records and ......

The FACA programme (Future Fighter and Attack Aircraft) was once the largest investment in armaments made in Spain. When choosing the F-18 of McDonnell Douglas (today Boeing), the Air Force has had since 1986 - for the first time in its history - one of the most advanced fighter planes ever designed, with very wide possibilities for adapting ......

The MiG-3 fighter plane, like the history of the creation of the Mikoyan and Gurevich design bureau, is relatively well known to anyone interested in the history of Soviet aviation. Many books and articles have been published about this machine, but information about the circumstances of the birth of the project and the conditions of its ......

The book presents a description of work on a model Ju 88 A-4. The author shows step by step each element of the modelling workshop. 80 colour photographs, 35 archival photographs, 24 renders, 4 colour profiles, masking foil.

In the late 1890s the Russian Empire sought to strengthen its presence in the Far East, China and Korea. Faced with a growing threat posed by the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Russians saw an urgent build-up of their naval forces in the region as an utmost priority. On February 20, 1898 Emperor Nicholas II approved a supplementary shipbuilding ......

In 1937, Dornier obtained a patent for a plane with two engines in the fuselage, driving the pull and push propellers. The design was marked P.59, and its concepts were refined in 1939 in the P.59-05 variant, after which the design was put in a drawer. This type of plane was not needed at the time. Nevertheless, limited experimental work was ......

This beautifully illustrated book is intended to assist the Spitfire modeller in understanding the physical shape and associated mechanical changes that applied to each of the many Marks of Spitfire produced - from the pre-Second World War, two-bladed, fixed-pitch propeller variants to the post-war contra-rotating six-bladed propeller versions ......

Aleksander Siewierski, originally from Georgia, was in the United States in 1917 and was there when the revolution in Russia broke out. As Alexander Seversky, he founded the Seversky Aero Corporation. Alexander Kartvelli (also a Georgian) became his main designer. Unfortunately, financial problems led to firing Seversky, and his company changed ......

Junkers Ju 188 - German bomber during World War II, successor of the Ju 88) was flown in January 1943. In February 1943, production lines launched three Ju 188E-0 planes powered by BMW 801ML engines. The first seven serial Ju 188E-1s received the BMW 801C-2 engines. Airplanes powered by Junkers Jumo in-line engines were to be marked A, B, C and ......

The French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau" is one of the largest and most powerful ships that served the Marine Nationale. Her keel was laid in November 1955 at the Brest Arsenal Ch. Atlantique in St. Nazaire, and she was launched two years later - on December 21st, 1957. Together with the twin "Foch", it was built on the basis of a project ......

Although the German Me 163 Komet rocket fighter was created as a remedy for the mass air raids of the Allied air force on Germany, its origins date back to 1938. Alexander Lippisch then began work at the DFS factory on a tailless rocket-propelled aircraft, designated as DFS 194. At the beginnings of 1939 the project was handed over to the ......

HMS Invincible was the lead ship of a class of British light aircraft carriers built between 1973 and 1985, originally designed as "through-deck cruisers" (TDC). This set them apart from conventional helicopter-carrying ships of the time, which typically featured a flight deck in the aft section of the vessel. Invincible-class carriers were the ......

Messerschmitt Me 210 - German heavy fighter. Work on the design began in late 1930s with a goal of creating a versatile aircraft, equally capable as a fighter, dive bomber or a reconnaissance platform. The machine was an all-metal, low-wing monoplane, featuring twin vertical stabilizers. Full-scale production of the Me 210 was launched in 1941. ......

1:18 Scale Shell V-Power Racing Team Ford Mustang GT - 2019 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 Winner - #17 Drivers: Scott McLaughlin / Alex Premat

Limited Edition Number: To be announced. (Model will include numbered Certificate of Authenticity)

Product Specifications: Die-cast model ......

Scale plans for aero modellers in 1/72 scale of the Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter aircraft, featuring twelve A3 size scale plans of the different versions.

Relive the golden age of drag racing through this exhaustive volume covering the best drag racing model kits of the era.

Model expert Tim Boyd, author of Collecting Muscle Car Model Kits, turned his attention to the fantastic drag racing model kits available from the late 1950s through today. Some racing model kits ......

40+ pages of technical information, 20+ pages of walk-around images and technical diagrams, 5+ pages of camouflage and markings, 25+ pages of model builds and modelling information, 200+ photographs including wartime images. Color side views and four-views by Richard J. Caruana. 3D isometric views of all variants by Wojciech Sankowski. ......