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Gallerie 64bis is showing original art through the whole history of the French Heller kit company, from 1957 through to the present. The exhibition brings together some 60 original works by artists such as Michel Bez, Francis Bergèse, and Daniel Bechennec. These are little-known names outside their native country perhaps, but their skills are well worth a closer look - at the show if you can, or via the internet if you can’t. Either way, it’s good to see paintings free of the necessary commercial surroundings of titles and descriptive texts on the boxes.

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The world's largest model airport opened yesterday at the Miniatur Wunderland model rail attraction in Hamburg, Germany. Miniatur Wunderland is the world's largest H0 scale model rail landscape, and its airport has finally opened to operations, after six years of design and construction.

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Today’s the day, 75 years ago, when the Spitfire took to the skies on its maiden flight. The designer, RJ Mitchell, had already built up experience with high-speed aircraft through his Schneider Trophy seaplane racers, and for the Spitfire, Mitchell sketched a design with unusual elliptical wings that could be armed with no less than eight machine guns. There was a closed cockpit, with oxygen supply for the pilot at high altitude, and a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine that made it faster than any other British aircraft.

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2011 sees another fabulous range of new and re-released products for Airfix, covering a wide range of subjects and scales. Available in January, the new catalogue is bigger than every with over 70 NEW introductions, many of which are brand new tools.

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Simulating an emergency is important for first responders. It's also really expensive. So a group of about a dozen emergency responders in Clearwater Junction, Montana came up with an idea to simplify and scale down the training process.

They created a s

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The White Lake Formula 1 Ring is a slot car track, in a basement, built by someone with a lot of spare time. But check your bias at pit row, because this scale track is better than most real ones.

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In years of building and looking at dragster models, something that has generally detracted from the majority of them has been their front wheels. In recent years, the aftermarket has begun manufacturing photo-etched wire wheel kits. While these are a va

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Australian resin car models and bits.

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Described as a 'train enthusiast's paradise', this semi-detached house has gone on the market for £105,000 - complete with its very own 1,000ft railway in the back garden.

The extensive miniature display features passengers waiting on the platform and a

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This chopped '32 gluebomb body on stock Revell rails is going to need the rear Z'd, and we're going to do the front at the same time. The procedure is basically the same. It's usually a good idea to plan where your Z will start, and this one in front is g

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For more than 60 years master modeller Philip Warren has been painstakingly creating an armada of every Royal Navy warship afloat, in service or setting sail since the Second World War ... out of matchsticks and wooden matchboxes.

And without even knowin

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I built a little MG-TC some while ago now and an interest has been shown in the reproduction of the wire wheels.
rather than a long and involved tutorial what I've done is to put together a more concise "Pictorial".
The pic's are in a seqence and should m

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The October 1957 issue of a pocket-sized magazine called Custom Cars features a ten-page article entitled "The Secrets of Body Sectioning." The article was based on the work of Valley Custom, and included instructions for chopping ten iconic 1940s and ear

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With Apocalypse out, I decided I needed something BIG for my Orks. After all, superheavy vehicles are what Apocalypse is all about.

One of the gang over on The Waaagh! suggested the idea of using a Mr. Potato Head as a basis for making a Stompa. I just h

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