Rusty Old Rubbish

The annual London Toy Fair takes place in January and is traditionally the venue for Oxford Diecast's announcement of new models for the...

A Happy New Year and Happy New Decade to all my readers. As has become customary, I'm starting 2020 with a review of Corgi's recentl...

Yesterday I was disappointed to find out that Oxford Diecast's supposedly OO scale Citroen H van was in fact HO and far too small to fit...

What scale is Oxford Diecast's Citroen H van supposed to be? Here's a brief word of warning to my model-making friends - don't...

It should come as no surprise that as soon as Oxford Diecast released their model of the Austin Maxi I embarked on a repaint to represent my...

Oxford Diecast 76MX001 - 1/76 scale Austin Maxi in Tara Green Regular readers may remember that almost a year ago I expressed my delight ...

A Happy New Year to all my readers. It's become traditional at this time of year to review Corgi's newly-announced bus models so 201...

It's been far too long since my last blog as I've been very busy and going through some tough times at work. There has been some ver...

I've been meaning to write this for several weeks now but the announcement coincided with my busiest period at work and life has just go...

I hope my readers had a good Christmas and got the gifts they wanted. I'm a difficult person to buy for so the majority of my presents w...

Bringing the Hornby Sierra up to scratch I haven't written about model vehicles on this blog for some time, so here's the story o...

It's the beginning of a new year and a good time to look at what may be in store for 1/76 scale model bus collectors such as myself in t...

Atlas Editions 'Greatest Show on Earth' series review   I have previously written about Atlas Editions, so you should be familia...

A tale of three four Transits... It's the curse of modelmakers. You have a great idea to make something unique that isn't availa...

Today's post focuses on a company with the strangest business practices I have ever encountered. You may have heard of Atlas Editions as...

As a new year is almost upon us and it's a time for making resolutions and fresh starts, I have a terrible sin to confess. Well okay, it...

Having previously described the worst model kit I have ever had the misfortune to encounter, here to redress the balance is a fine example ...

BW Models kit BW324, Reynolds Boughton RB44 fire appliance in 1/76 scale (now Mid Devon Models MDM026) The model vehicle industry in the ...

Nowadays modellers really are spoiled by the choice and quality of the kits available to them. Professional resin casting is reaching ever-h...

...or 'Two Wrights definitely make a wrong' Model bus collectors can't have failed to notice that the recently-introduced Bor...