SCALE MODEL NEWS

  IF THIS ROCKET LOOKS LIKE a German V-2 rocket, that’s because it is – sort of. The Chinese Dong Feng 1 ( East Wind  1) ground-to-ground missile was based on the Soviet SS-2  Sibling  missile, which itself was a lengthened V-2. Mat Irvine:  This Bronco Models kit is not brand new, being first issued in 2019, but it has only recently come to my attention. It is a relatively simple kit, moulded in two runners, one in light grey for the missile, the other dark grey for the classic V-2 launch pad. On the side of the box it claims to be ‘No Glue, No Paint, Quick Build’, but although the rocket halves, engine nozzle and even the fins can be ‘snapped’ together, smaller parts, especially those for the pad, still have to be glued together. In addition, although the two grey colours could avoid painting, some more appropriate shades are a better bet. Main assembly is indeed fairly simple, but the launch pad has a number of very small and very fine parts, especially where...

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ATLANTIS MODELS CONTINUES to reissue kits from the past with this 1:25 scale Revell Mooneyes Dragster. However, it’s not quite the original Revell model. Although Atlantis has all the parts required, Revell never issued the kit in exactly this form. Mat Irvine:  The model indeed depicts the famed Mooneyes dragster, built by Dean Moon in 1961, but what Revell issued at the time was a Double Car Kit, where you could build two complete kits from the one box. This box contained the so-called sanitary bucket ‘T’ (a hot rod based on a Ford Model T) and a Mooneyes dragster. Revell never issued Mooneyes by itself, though the individual runners were issued separately in various parts boxes, you could assemble enough components to build Mooneyes individually.  This time round, Atlantis have rectified the situation by supplying half a dozen of the separate runners in one box, with brand-new box art. One runner has the engine parts, another the wheels, others the chassis and body pan...