Latest Articles

Should your next airbrush compressor be oil-filled? An insight into what oil-filled compressors are really like to live with.

It's the Allies vs. Germany again, but this time in 1/35th scale figures. Is the imbalance really as bad as it seems?

No, not that F-word. I’m talking about FUN and its relevance or otherwise to scale modelling.

Explainers

If you’ve seen me mention Oil Paint Rendering or OPR and thought “oil paint what now?”, this explainer is for you.

A review of AK's guide to creating leather and canvas textures in scale. Is it advertorial or genuinely insightful?

If you want to finish IDF armour models with water-based weathering products, will this book help you?

Hate cleaning up hard-to-see seam lines on car bodywork in white plastic? This tip will make your task much easier.

The AFV Club Churchill AVRE Mk.IV in France, Aug '44, still wearing its chalked-on LST embarkation info.

Meng’s 2019 kit of the IDF’s Magach 6 Bet Gal Batash is an intriguing mash-up. Underneath the sloped armour and skirts is an M60A1.