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The future is hard to predict. Regardless of whether you’re reading a crystal ball or tea leaves, determining what comes next has never been easy. This is very true in the automotive world, where predicting what will sell tomorrow has proven to be do-or-die since day one. Some companies get it just right, but others […]
It is hard to believe, but as of May 7, 2024, I have had my 1980 Turbo Trans Am, Faust, for exactly 25 years. It’s been a great time, but there’ve also been some hiccups. Still, given his age, Faust has behaved astonishingly well, and is a continuing source of joy and pride for me. […]
While some look forward to fishing season, or deer season, I look forward to Sprue season! I know, I know, cool models are always in season, but the arrival of HeritageCon in Hamilton, Ontario come the end of March always provides a real kickoff to the modelling year. This year, the Vendors’ Room was as […]
While project aircraft are something I have a soft spot for, and I do love a good What-If (Whif), I have to admit that I was taken a bit aback by this little guy! This completely mythical heavy fighter came straight out of someone’s imagination, yet is being offered as a fully injection moulded kit, […]
As you know from my previously posted California Sunshine Update 1, MPC’s take on the wildly modified Datsun pickup is not an easy kit to make work. It isn’t what it says it is, and it doesn’t really want to be anything else. So, is the kit a total disaster? Honestly, no, it isn’t. Well, […]
Contrary to how things sometimes seem, I do, indeed, still like to work on models. Sure, I love buying them (I mean, who reading this doesn’t?) and reviewing things out of the box, but there’s nothing quite like the thrill of gluing, sanding and painting a kit you’ve been itching to get into. Unfortunately for […]
While Ralph Kramden’s unofficial (and considerably politically incorrect) lunar progam might not have yielded any tangible results, the challenge made by President Kennedy to the US Space Program certainly did. The Apollo program did what no spacecraft before or since (as of 2023) has managed; it carried astronauts out of Earth’s gravity-well to the surface […]
One nice thing about living in the future is that we can view the past with 20/20 hindsight. This gives us the ability to more clearly and fairly judge successes and failures based on their merits, taking the situation of the times into account. Or, it lets us point and laugh and some things that […]
Even though there are some 1/24 planes, the generally accepted “upper limit” on scale aircraft has long been recognized as 1/32. This is nothing new; back in the early 1970s, model makers started experimenting with that scale. however, as time went on the smaller scales took back their lost ground and it wasn’t until more […]
Back when the car first started to gain popularity, when they were just one step out of the “motor buggy swamp”, so to speak, there was a dizzying array of different topologies and different propulsion methods to choose from. Sure, there was the internal combustion engine, but there were electrics too. You could say that […]
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