I’d read that this kit was due for release so I was delighted to wander into Hearns Hobbies one day and find one on the shelves. What did not please me was the price, near enough to that of a kit twice or three times the size. But since I wanted to make a…

At last Hobby Boss has got around to releasing models of French fighters in their range of cheap, quick to make kits. There’s a limit to how many Bf109s and Spitfires you can make, after all, so it’s about time they did the Dewoitine 520 and Morane Saulnier 406 fighters. I can’t wait for their…

The B-52 is probably one of the most important and impressive aeroplanes ever made and it will probably remain in service for near enough to a century after its first flights. Its roots lie in the beginnings of the Cold War in 1948 when plans for the next generation of heavy bombers to replace the…

I reckon there are two reasons for making the Mach 2 Martin P6M-2, but in this case there were three. One reason is because the P6M was a fantastic looking aeroplane. The second is because making a Mach 2 kit is like mountain climbing – mountains are a challenge and climbing them is a test…

It seems that the Red Navy wanted desperately to have aircraft carriers in its fleet but had to be content, at first, with a compromise, the Kiev class medium sized carriers in which only the rear half of the ship was flight deck. This was, of course, not very useful for traditional naval aeroplanes. If…

The Interesting Modelling Company made me make this. There I was with not a care in the world (well, no more than usual) taking in the latest you tube of the Interesting Modelling Company while working away on one of those A.330 models that I’m going to finish one of these days, but feeling a…

There can’t be too many people who have not flown in a Boeing 747. I’ve flown in them halfway around the world and on the short Melbourne-Sydney hop during the peak holiday season. If you’ve ever had the experience of flying cattle car in one of these you’ll know it’s not great fun – especially…

Before we go any further you need to decide that you really want to do this. It’s not that the conversion is particularly difficult, it’s because you will have to acquire two kits to do the job, a Revell Boeing 747-100 and a Revell Boeing 747-400. Neither are available in your local hobby shop at…

A.340-300 (June 2003) The origins of the Airbus A.340 lie in the decision made in 1970 to form Airbus Industrie, a multinational European effort to design and construct a high capacity twin-jet transport in competition to United States manufacturers and to serve the route characteristics of many European airlines. The original A.300 laid the foundation…