Shows and more shows!
Brampton Model Show last weekend…
Great to see so many of you there and what a good day it was, on so many fronts… Lots of you stopped by the SMN stand to talk to members of the team. Sara, Les Venus and Mat Barron (Maritime Editor) and I we full on demonstrating SMN live and what our magazine has to offer. We had a great response from the show and so it’s onwards to Newark later this month and their excellent one-day show.
Come and say hello at the following shows…
Expo 2010, Notts. Sunday 17th October
Scale Modelworld 2010 13th-14th November
Something special is on the way
We’ll have the first build here in SMN, before any other scale model magazine!
Check this out…
www.zoukeimura.co.jp/en/products/sws02_ta152.html
And for you Armour modellers
For upload this week
Bill C’s extraordinary Panzer 35t will be finished and added to Finished Now. Bill’s ‘Masterclass’ is an awesome display of armour modelling at its best and the final images of the finished base setting are inspirational.
Andy argent has added some nice stowage to his already finished GWH Flak 43 – check it out this week.
Plenty to come here – in both 1:35 and 1:48 scales. Two definite BN’s coming soon are…
- HobbyBoss 1:48 Russian KV-1 Enkranami
- Tamiya 1:48 Crusader Mk.II (British Cruiser Tank Mk VI)
- Russian KMT-7 Mine-Roller 1:35
- AFV Club 1:35 Churchill Mk.III
And more BN goodies in the pipeline
Books, Books, Books…
Some great books to check out in your Book review area so watch this week as they go live.
Maritime matters
From reading many scale model mags you be forgiven for thinking the contributors are possessed with some kind of super-human qualities or an extraordinary run of good fortune. The fact is, neither of these things is remotely true! We all have bad days, off days, frustrations and accidents. Now, as the Editor of SMN you hope and sometimes look aloft for help and support to try to ensure that SMN brings you a range of models for all levels and abilities all of the time. From your feedback in the surveys I have had back, you are generally very happy with the Mag.
So what’s all that about? Well, Mat B. your Maritime Editor recently started a conversation that went something along the lines of… “Geoff, you know the Graf Spee? (Said hesitantly and rather sheepishly) You know the one…etc etc, well; to cut a long story short this is it:
Check out Build Now for Mat’s full explanation… sorry everyone, sometimes things don’t go according to plan!
Still, plenty more to come
Les’s stunning IJN battleship Yamato will be updated this week, more on the Elco MTB very soon, plus the conclusion of the Revell USS Wasp and more to come… watch this space.
Ok, that’s it for this week
More next week! Have a good one
Geoff
Geoff Coughlin, Editor SMN
