This came in the other day, quite by accident, and not much of a cautionary tale as most collectors have 'been there' at least once!...

A new page has gone up looking at the Hong Kong 25mm'ish Romans (Trojans?) from Giant and their ilk. it's at the top of the page, or...

Blog follower Kostas from Greece kindly sent me a load of stuff to help with the Airfix Blog, and that is slowly being introduced or used ov...

Well, I've finally committed myself to the ultimate madness, I'm putting my archive on-line. I've spent the last week or two pre...

Quick box-ticker from the Winter photo-session. With everyone doing the dreaded '88, it was a nice touch for Nitto to provide a model o...

Saving the best 'till last! Actually my favourite is the large fir tree, but I don't have one! When I was sorting them out a few yea...

Another excuse to shift a few pictures from the lap-top! The old 40mm standard of the 19th century, which has held-on by dint of the model r...

I don't know which came first, and haven't checked which of the two ran when, but the 'Willow Trees' had an illustration tha...

I've so much for a 'News, Views' post that I'm going to hold back the links for another day, although I've been sitting ...

Capturing the look of the real tree quite effectively, the Scots Pine gives a bit of height to a war games table, and with no low branches c...

Comparison between an American hard plastic (polystyrene) original and a soft plastic (polyethylene) Hong Kong generated copy. Neither gives...

Britains did do a green 'standard' beach, but it was sold as a 'silver birch'! Basically this is the silver birch, with red-...

Another Box-ticker really, large scale (120mm figure?) farm tractor from (or marked) Rosedale . Actually an 'imprint' of and the par...

Continuing with the Britains trees, we look at the cleverest. The construction of the poplar tree is very ingenious, bears little relationsh...

Yes! Back to figural edibles! Picked these up in a conveniace store in Basingrad the other day, but don't know how widespread they are. ...