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Polish craft company TopGun Model (https://www.facebook.com/TopGunModel) is to release 1/48th resin kits of the PZL M28 Skytruck/Bryza incl. the USAF/AFSOC, Air Force Special Operations Command, C-145A (http://www.coopersmodels.com/catalog/item/8631793/9768029.htm)! Source & pictures: https://www.facebook.com/TopGunModel/photos_stream https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.596334350486143.1073741855.334545143331733&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.596332857152959.1073741854.334545143331733&type=3 V.P.

Another 1/72nd Prop&Jet resin project is reported in progress: the Beriev Be-4 (KOR-2) Source: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.567544956667169.1073741843.475396205882045&type=1 V.P.

Hi mates, I've been seduced by the dark side. The side that won't be stuck by conventional styrene adhesives. The side that seduces you with the addictive aroma of toxic dust. The side that shocks you more than the price for a litre of petrol. You know the side I speak of - resin modelling! Hot on the heels of my resin Grumman Jaguar from the Swinging Winging Group Build, I've decided to pull another resin kit out of the stash for this one. It's the 1:72 CMR take on the Supermarine Scimitar F.1. In addition to the basic kit, I also spent my child's remaining college fund on the folding wing set. The CMR kits include everything you ever needed in a model kit - resin, etch, several different marking schemes (eight in this case), extensive payloads, vacuform canopies, masks - heck, everything except plastic! The instruction sheet runs 18 pages, and there are several more pages of both colour and B&W detail photos. Here are the raw materials: If I counted correctly, there are 197 resin and etch parts in the main kit, and another 31 in the folding wing set. Not included is any kind of ocular assist device to enable you to see some of the small parts, especially when you're an old man like me! So that is where we're starting, no actual work has occurred yet. I have no clue what scheme I'll choose, but since they're all EDSG over white, I suspect that's how I'll being painting the model! I do fancy the yellow and black checkerboards of 803 Squadron, but then the stylised Scimitar from 807 Squadron seems strangely appropriate for a, well, Scimitar. But these are accompanied by gold leaf nose numbers that I think would look better on something where Graham Hill was the pilot. We'll see, I've been known to bounce back and forth between schemes, only deciding when I'm ready to start the stickers! Since I spent the money for the wing fold set, I'm sure I'll use it. But to be honest, the lines are so clean on the Scimitar it's almost a shame to interrupt the wings by folding them. Ah, fickle modeller! Cheers, Bill

Aeropoxy 1/48th UTVA-75 resin kit seem to be in progress now Source: http://aeropoxy.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/new-aeropoxy-releases-2014/ UTVA 75 -1/48 scale Yugoslav AF & Aero Club primary trainer. V.P.

Ardpol from Poland (http://www.ardpolmodels.com.pl/index-en.php) is to release a 1/72nd PZL I-22 Iryda resin kit in 2015 - ref.? Source: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmodelwork.pl%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D66%26t%3D46781&edit-text= V.P.

A guy from Germany started his business recently: Check out DF Helo Stuff His range includes HEMS, SAR and Law Enforcement currently with a German focus. Later on, the range will be expanded also with international subjects as he told me. Resin goodies are also planned for the future. For the most recent updates, klick "like " at DF Helo Stuff on Facebook English version is coming up!

Scale resin has released 1/72nd Slingsby Skylark 3B & 3F glider resin kits - ref.7202 & 7203. Source: http://www.cmrmodels.eu/slingsby-skylark-3b Source: http://www.cmrmodels.eu/slingsby-skylark-3f V.P.

Scale resin has just released a 1/72nd Slingsby T.53 Phoenix glider resin kit - ref.7201. Source: http://www.cmrmodels.eu/slingsby-t53-phoenix V.P.

Dekno has released a 1/72nd Boeing Model 200 Monomail resin kit - ref. GA720400 Sources: http://www.master194.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=85299 http://www.deknomodels.com/Seleccio.asp V.P.

Yes I know it’s a bit early to start planning but....... This GB is non-lethal and won’t make you see pink dancing elephants ......well maybe! This GB is for all those people who like to build models that are not primarily injected moulded! There were a lot of disappointed people from the resin and VacForm groups that were very disappointed either or both of these GB’s didn’t get up. This time it’s going to be different!! This build will be open to ALL forms of alternate modelling; resin, VacForm, Wood, even paper if you want. Let’s just see what’s out there and show it to the rest of the world. Actually any form of material can and will be allowed except injection moulding (minor parts will be allowed). Let’s all get together and show the rest of the modelling world (probably +90%) that there is an alternative to the standard, and yes amazing models can be produced from these other mediums. So start digging out that really weird model you’ve got hiding in the attic, any subject matter you like and start planning for a truly amazing and different GB. I don't know what the plans are for deciding the 2015 GB's but such a big as this could be we may as well start the wheels in motion. ok this is the lastest upto date list....welcome to everyone so far, we've got the 30 minimum....now if we can just get the votes in the end!! 1, trickyrich - host 2, Jörgen Stendahl 3, tomprobet - co-host Vacform 4, jb65rams 5, Pin - co-host Resin 6, Mish 7, Envo Matrix 8, Sleeper Service 9, Andy C 10, TrojanThunder 11, Jessica 12, Black Knight 13, Procopius 14, Shar2 15, Kev67 16, Will Vale 17, Sgt. Squarehead 18, Arniec 19, chockhead 20, CliffB 21, English Electric 22, Mottlemaster 23, Moggy 24, Radleigh 25, hgbn 26, AndrewE 27, Graham77 28, Ray S 29, Jockney 30, mackem01 31. kwaterous 32, stevehed 33, johnd 34, Caerbannog 35, Giorgio N 36, Jinxman 37, Lawnguylander 38, Jherek 39, ADRoberts 40, Tomjw 41, badger 42, atvd1020 43, whitestar12chris 44, Murdo 45, Ali62 46, Ray S 47, Troy Smith 48,

Russian usually well-informed homepage scalemodels.ru reports that Czech company HpH is working on a 1/48th Il-28 Beagle kit. Watch this space for further developments. http://www.hphmodels.cz/index.php/en/shop-2/produkty-hph-models/modely-v-meritku-1-48/iljusin-il-28-in-scale-1-48-detail V.P.

Source: http://www.hphmodels.cz/index.php/en/news/item/349-a-puzzle-no-2 My guess: a DH Sea Hornet Mk.21 considering they've already a 1/32nd DH.103 Hornet in their catalogue (http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234951265-dehavilland-dh-103-hornet-132-hph/ and here http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234912212-132-de-havilland-dh103-hornet-by-hph-released/) V.P.

Aeropoxy is working on a 1/48th Sukhoï Su-49 trainer resin kit. Source: http://aeropoxy.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/new-aeropoxy-releases-2014/ Sukhoi SU-49 , 1/48 scale Russian primary trainer project V.P.

Just made a start on this kit, I did intend to build one for the group build but I ran out of time! The kit looks very nice and looks like it will be a lot less work than the C-17! The main problem with this kit is that despite what it says on the box, it's not a K.2! It is a mix of K.2 and C.1K. Although this kit will be built as a C.1K (XR808), I will point out along the way, the alterations needed for each version and the corrections needed for both. It never ceases to amaze me how Anigrand managed to cram such large aircraft kits into relatively tiny boxes! The kit appears to be based on the A A P Lloyd drawings and matches them very closely...... ..until you get to the nose and cockpit section! The resin is quite thick and very well moulded with only a couple of small air bubbles to fill on my example. There are large locating lugs that will aid positioning and strengthen the joints. The following is a correction needed for both versions. I made a start on the cockpit, it's not too difficult to correct, the outline looks accurate and only requiring a couple of cuts and a small amount of filling and filing. The section above the cut line was removed and raised to match the plans. The cockpit interior acted as a support for the upper section and aided the filling of the resulting gap in the nose section. With the upper nose section raised, the cockpit windows are now at the correct height but the line is wrong. To get the window line right and the roof outline correct, I removed the shaded areas The result is a much better outline and cockpit window position. The fuselage has been positioned off the drawing to compare with the outline. With the exception of extra detail work, as it stands, the fuselage is now correct for a K.2 More to follow tomorrow!

Anigrand is to release a 1/72nd Miles M.30 X-Minor resin kit in November 2014 Source: http://www.anigrand.com/AA2123_M-30.htm V.P.

Constanza Kit (http://www.scalemates.com/companies/company.php?id=2587) has just released a 1/72nd Ryan L17 Navion (Washington Air National Guard) resin kit. ref.CON807208 - Ryan L17 Navion (Washington Air National Guard) Source: http://www.aviationmegastore.com/ryan-l17-navion-washington-air-national-guard-con807208-constanza-kits-con807208-scale-modelling/product/?shopid=LM5437f81d922e6648aeb9de84a9&action=prodinfo&parent_id=212&art=125440 Decals sets ref.807208 Source: http://conmowo.com/produkt/ryan-north-american-navion/ ref.807209 Source: http://conmowo.com/produkt/ryan-navion/ V.P.

Constanza Kit (http://www.scalemates.com/companies/company.php?id=2587) has just released 1/72nd Slingsby T-67M/T-3A Firefly Mk.II resin kits. ref.CON807206 - Slingsby T-67M Firefly Mk.II Source: http://www.aviationmegastore.com/slingsby-t67m-firefly-mkii--con807206-constanza-kits-con807206-netherlands-military/product/?shopid=LM5437f81d922e6648aeb9de84a9&action=prodinfo&parent_id=212&art=125437 ref.CON807207 - Slingsby T67M-260 Firefly T-3A (USAF) Source: http://www.aviationmegastore.com/slingsby-t67m-260-firefly-t-3a-usaf-con807207-constanza-kits-con807207-scale-modelling/product/?shopid=LM5437f81d922e6648aeb9de84a9&action=prodinfo&parent_id=212&art=125439 V.P.

Icaerodesign (http://lcaerodesign.com/ & http://lcaerodesign.com/ocart/index.php?route=common/home ) is to release a 1/32nd Extra 330SC "Hawks Of Romania" resin kit - ref. 32001. Source: http://www.coopersmodels.com/catalog/item/8905513/10077021.htm V.P.

New SEM Model (http://www.semmodel.altervista.org/) resin kit will be a 1/72nd Fiat CANSA F.C.12 - ref.72005 Fiat CANSA F.C.12 Wikipédia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_CANSA_F.C.12 Source: http://www.semmodel.altervista.org/novita.html V.P.

HMS Portchester Castle White Ensign Models 1/350 History The Castle-class corvettes were an updated version of the much more numerous Flower-class corvettes of the Royal Navy, and started appearing during late 1943. They were equipped with radar as well as ASDIC. The Admiralty had decided to cease Flower-class construction in favour of the larger River-class frigates as the Flower-class had originally been intended for coastal escort work and were not entirely satisfactory for Atlantic convoy service. In particular, they were slow, poorly armed, and rolled badly in rough seas which quickly exhausted their crews. However, many shipyards were not large enough to build frigates. The Castle-class was designed to be built on small slipways for about half the overall effort of a Loch-class frigate. The Loch-class frigate was similar to a River, but built using the system of prefabrication. The appearance of Castle-class corvettes was much like the later "long forecastle" variant of the Flowers and they were a little larger (around 1,200 tons about 200 tons more than the Flowers, and 40 ft (12 m) longer). The most obvious visual difference was the lattice mainmast instead of the pole version fitted to the Flowers. There was also a squarer cut look to the stern although it was still essentially a cruiser spoon type; this difference was only visible from abaft the beam. The armament was similar except that the depth charge fitment had been replaced by one Squid anti-submarine mortar, with Hadleigh Castle receiving the first production Squid mounting. The propulsion machinery was identical to the Flowers, and experienced officers felt that they were seriously under powered, having a tendency to turn into the wind despite everything the helmsman could do. The fact that Squid attacks required a fairly low speed (compared to depth charge attacks) only made matters worse. Most of the Castle-class corvettes had been discarded by the end of the 1950s, but a few survived a little longer as weather ships. The last Castle was the Uruguayan training ship Montevideo, originally HMS Rising Castle, which was scrapped in 1975. Most were operated by the Royal Navy, but twelve were transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy before completion and one to the Royal Norwegian Navy. Three Castles were sunk through enemy action, and Castles participated in the sinking of seven U-boats. HMS Portchester Castle named after the castle that stands at the entrance to Fareham Creek was laid down on 17th March 1943 at the Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson yards at Wallsend on Tyne. Launched on 21st June 1943 and completed on 8th October 1943. One of the fastest builds of her class. Portchester Castle was one of the first of the Castle class corvettes to be commissioned, and she completed her trials and work up by the end of December 1943. It isnt clear what the ship was doing during January 1944, but in February she was allocated to the B7 Escort Group on Trans Atlantic Ocean convoy duty. She remained with that group until April, when she was transferred to the B4 Escort Group, escorting convoys to Gibraltar. Later in the year there were enough Castle Class corvettes available to make up single class escort groups that would provide anti submarine patrols and convoy escorts in the Western Approaches and around the coasts of the UK. HMS Portchester Castle sank U-484 near Tory Island. This was the first occasion that a submarine had been sunk entirely by a ship using squid mortar unit. Two months later she and other members of her escort group sank the U-1200 off Cape Clear. The ship was taken in hand by the dockyard for a lengthy refit from January until the 1st of May 1945 and saw no further action. Later, in June 1945 she was transferred to the West African Command where she performed Air Sea Rescue duties until October. During her time in West Africa she was involved with the sinking of the Edinburgh Castle that had been used as an accommodation ship in Freetown. To avoid the cost of returning the ship to the UK she was towed out to sea and sunk using gunfire and depth charges. From there HMS Portchester Castle moved to Gibraltar to perform similar duties until early 1946 where she was withdrawn from service and laid up in Harwich. In April 1951, HMS Portchester Castle was brought out of reserve and re-commissioned for service in the 2nd training squadron based at Portland. While there she took on one of her most famed roles as the fictional frigate HMS Saltash Castle in the film the Cruel Sea. She continued to show her pennant number F362 during the filming, which was done at Portland and the English Channel. She was again withdrawn from service in June 1956 and laid up until 1958, when she was sold for scrap. She resisted to the last, breaking away from her tow from the tug Brigadier on the night of 15th-16th May, but having re-established the tow HMS Portchester Castle arrived at Troon on 17th May 1958 for breaking. The Model Moulded in their customary cream resin, the kit comes in White Ensign Models standard sturdy top opening cardboard box, with the kit details and colour drawing of her starboard side. The hull comes in two parts allowing the kit to be modelled either waterline or full hull, and measures out at 220mm or just under 83/4. There are a number of moulding pips on the undersides of each part with need to be sanded down so that they fit snugly. There doesn't appear to any shrinkage between the two parts, but a little filler may be required around the waterline. As usual there are no apparent air bubbles or other faults on these parts. Be careful of the sides of the rear hull along the quarterdeck, the mouldings are very fine and easily broken from the upper hull. Fortunately they should be easily repairable. The rest of the resin parts make up the lower main superstructure, bridge, AA gun platform, funnel, 4 gun shield, anchor windlass and the three ships boats. All these parts are crisply moulded, but as can be seen with the boats there is some flash that will need to be removed, but its very thin so shouldnt take too long to clean up. The majority of smaller parts are produced in white metal. Again they appear nicely done, but some require more cleaning up of flash than others. Those items still on their pouring sprue include the 4 gun, two twin Oerlikon mounts, four cowl vents, squid barrel cluster, squid mounting base, crows nest, searchlight, six Carley floats, the rudder and propeller. The etched fret is well up to the usual standard set by White Ensign. Along with a complete compliment of ships railings, inclined ladders, ships anchors, and the stock lengths of vertical ladders and anchor chain the sheet also provides the lattice mast assembly along with the mast top platform, mast top DF antenna, top mast pole base and top mast array. Then there are the Type 25/M aerial, Type 242 antenna, Type 277 aerial, single and twin Oerlikons, ESM antenna for a later fit, the funnel cap grille, yardarms, flare rocket launchers, superstructure side platforms, depth charge rails and rail frame, gun platform cross braces, radar lantern assembly. Carley float racks. For the single depth charge throwers there are loading davits, the throwers themselves, as well as items for the ships boats, including oars, davits, thwarts for the 27 whaler and the ships nameplates. Construction is relatively straightforward, particularly if you have some experience of working with resin, etched brass and white metal. If the model is to be made in full hull configuration, the its best to fit the two hull parts together at the beginning, this way any gaps or overhangs can be sorted out early. Once this is done the upper and lower hull, main deck and boot topping can be painted as it will be a lot easier to do it now rather than when the kit is complete, there is a nice coloured painting guide at the rear of the instructions. The forward superstructure, bridge, funnel and AA platform are fitted to the main deck. Once again it may be best to paint these items before fitting. From then on its building up the sub assemblies, such as the 4 gun, complete with gun shield and flare rocket launchers, the two twin 20mm Oerlikons, single Oerlikons with options for early or late positioning, the squid mortar assembly, and the folding of the two ships anchors. The 4 mount and the squid mount, along with the mortar bomb loading rails are then fitted into position with the 4 surrounded by railings. On the foredeck the anchor windlass is fitted with the anchors slid into their hawsepipes. The supplied anchor chain can then be cut to length and fitted between the two. The bridge antenna and platforms are now assembled and glued into place, along with the 20mm Oerlikons, searchlight, and the bridge inclined ladders. One of the more complex tasks is the folding of the octagonal radar lantern around the affixed roof before gluing to the base. Its a similar story with the lattice main mast, which once folded to shape is fitted out with the top platform, platform supports, pole mast bracket, platform railings, ensign gaff and the crows nest, which will require a small oblong of plasticard to be fitted just under the top platform for it to sit on. The pole mast, made from the length of brass rod provided, is fitted with the four piece yardarm near its base and the FH4 antenna to its top. The Type 242 array and Type 25M antenna are shaped then fitted just beneath the crows nest. The radar lantern assembly is then glued onto the top mast platform. If you are building the ship in a later fit then parts are included to allow this and include a differently shaped top mast platform, yardarm, top pole mast with DF aerial at its top, Type 277 radar and ESM aerial. Once the mast is complete it can be fitted into place at the rear of the bridge structure. If required the two loading booms can be fitted to the lower superstructure in either folded or extended poses. The funnel cap is now fitted as are the twin Oerlikons onto the previously fitted platform along with the PE antenna spreader. The davits for the ships boats are assembled and fitted to their positions on the main deck along with the boats themselves. The carley float racks can also be fitted now and the floats fitted to the racks. The depth charge throwers are now folded to shape and the depth charges, made up of lengths of styrene rod, (provided), glued onto the throwers. The single depth charge rail is folded to shape, as is the rail frame and filled with more depth charges from the styrene rod. The throwers and rail are now glued into position on the quarterdeck along with the thrower loading davits. The four vent cowls are now glued into place around the AA platform followed by the inclined ladders from the quarter deck to the main deck. The ships railings can now be attached and lastly, if the ship is full hull, the propeller and rudder are fitted. Conclusion This is another lovely kit form White Ensign, and one that really fills a gap in the maritime modellers collection. The added interest of being able to produce HMS Saltash Castle from The Cruel Sea gives the modeller another excuse to watch the film, (not that you should need one). The kit is certainly not for beginners, but even an intermediate modeller should be able, given care and time, to build a really good looking model. Unfortunately there are no decals with the kit, but they can quite easily be sourced. Very highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of John at

Source: http://www.hphmodels.cz/index.php?VypisKategorii=1&IdAktuality=325 Next 1/32nd HpH resin kit is a Lavoshkin La-7. V.P.

Anigrand is to release a 1/72nd Arado Ar.E.500 Twin-boom light bomber project resin kit - ref. Source: http://www.anigrand.com/future_releases.htm Source: http://www.luft46.com/duart/du500.jpg V.P.

Pro-Resin (Olimp) has just released a 1/72nd Curtiss P-5 Superhawk resin kit - ref.R72-025 Source: http://www.olimpmodels.com/catalog_3_5.html V.P.

Pro-Resin (Olimp) is to release a Short SC.1 resin kit - ref. R48-001 Source: http://www.olimpmodels.com/catalog_2.html V.P.

Pro-Resin (Olimp) is to release a Temco TT-1 Pinto resin kit - ref. R48-002 Source: http://www.olimpmodels.com/catalog_2.html V.P.