News: Revell 1/72 Haunebu pulled from stores

I was quite happy when Revell.de announced their version of the Haunebu from Wave. But when I tried to buy one today I was unpleasantly surprised. My local shop had sold all of their Haunebu's, and every store that had it in stock also seemed to have sold out. So I did a little more …

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Review: ARMA: Cold War Assault

ARMA: Cold War Assault has had a rocky past, initially released by publisher Codemasters and developed by Bohemia Interactive under the name of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis the two companies had a falling out and each went on their separate ways by the time Operation Flashpoint 2 was being developed. Codemasters went ahead and …

Review: TeKaMo 1/72 Luchtwachttoren

  So now for something completely different. And about as Dutch as wooden shoes, windmills and cheese if not a little less well-known even in the Netherlands. Luchtwachttoren is Dutch for Air Watch Tower, and these towers were part of the Korps Luchtwacht Dienst (KLD) or Air Watch Corps in English. The KLD had built …

News: Revell 1/72 Dornier-Stra Haunebu II Flying Saucer

Earlier this year I was happy to announce that Revell had planned a release of a Haunebu kit in 1/72 scale. The even better news is: It is released! With kit number 03903 it is now available for sale. I'm hoping to pick up one for review soonish. What I can tell from the pictures …

Review: 1/72 First to Fight Bofors 40 mm Polska Armata

The Polish Wrzesień 1939 series is a war game series by the Polish company First to Fight and is centered around the events of September 1939 German invasion of Poland and features all kinds of interesting Polish and early German hardware that you don't often see. And that is a shame because the Polish Campaign …

Review: 5 Second Fix

5 SecondFix is one of those 'As seen on TV' products, but I had never heard of it before I picked one of these up at a local shop during a sale. For a few Euros it seemed promising. The packaging promised easy and clean glueing. I went into the shop for superglue, so why …

News: Revell rumors

A new rumor in the Revell Drama Series has popped up this week. As of last Friday, the bankrupt owner of both companies, Hobbico, is sold to a German investor named Blitz 18-313 according to an article on scaleautomag.com. But yesterday Revell released a press release on the situation: “Revell GmbH starts strengthened into future …