Imagine for a moment a young man, maybe in his late teens or possibly a bit older, sitting in a lawn chair beside a grassy field, basking in the sunshine of a late Spring day. Maybe he’s looking at the shapes the clouds make, or thinking of a special girl he’s just met, or trying without much success to take a nap amidst the chatter and horseplay of his friends nearby. Now imagine that a telep …

The thing about Irony is that so few people get it. Ray Wiley Hubbard said that and it’s one of those universal truths that touches every corner of life, and can even be found in the world of plastic modeling. Take, for example, the Meng Fokker Dr.I triplane in 1/32nd scale. It’s a dandy kit, a superb replica of one of the most iconic military airplanes ever designed and flown. It’s also a kit tha …

It’s been a long time coming, this one; decades, to be precise. The late and heavily lamented Monogram Models did a B-25H/J kit back in the mid-70s and issued it as three separate variants of the basic airframe. The primordial glass-nose bomber, the 8-gun strafer, and the 75mm cannon-armed versions of the Mitchell were all released to an eagerly awaiting public and were, for a great many years, th …

Piper L-4 42-7827 ca. 1941, NARA PhotographThey’ve come a long way, those guys in the Czech Republic. After many years of soft tooling and difficult-to-build plastic models they’ve finally managed to hit the big time, at least for the most part. Everybody knows the story, and everybody knows Eduard to be the poster child for the success of those companies, but there are others in the game too. On …

Several months ago the folks at Eduard stated their intention to issue new, state-of-the-art kits of most of the primary fighter aircraft of the Second World War. The announcement was roundly received as a good thing by the scale modeling community at large since a great many of the presently available kits are years, and in many cases decades, old, and in sore need of replacement. We've alre …