General Considerations. Stamps Some packaging materials, such as those plastic sacks/bags dont provide a good surface for stamps to adhere to. This can mean you, or the post office can apply a stamp, and it...
First things first, what you are buying in any LiPo battery is a controlled explosion in a wrapper. Sounds over the top? well take a look at google video with the search "Lipo Battery Fire" or go direct to...
This is a guide to painting toy soldiers offering some quick tips gained from over ten years of painting figures myself. Whilst mainly focussing on 1/72 and 1/32 plastic figures much of this information will...
I hear people regularly saying how walkera heli's are such poor quality and shouldn t be bought. I have bought several Walkera Helis among others and here is my advise to anyone interested in getting into...
I have recently noticed a number of unscrupulous sellers offering Games Workshop Warhammer (4th Edition) Chaos Dwarf Miniatures – the ones with the tall (and some would say silly) hats for staggering prices....
This is intended to assist those interested in buying the toy trainsets made by Tomy which also include their Tomica car range when used in conjunction with the road and rail tracks. There are basically two...
I've just bought a "Big german tank" from H F trade (Hamburg) and thought I'd share my experiences with you. The tank itself (a Panther BTW) was an absolute bargain (£26). Despite the location on the listing...
The HoneyBee CP2 is a nice little helicopter and although they are checked before leaving the factory, sometimes it isn't set up correctly out of the box, so here's the sum total of my knowledge having got...
This guide is a short edited extract from MAINSTEAM MODELS "The Complete guide to Miniature Steam" which is now available via my website, on CDROM or Internet download. It is written with the beginner in mind...
I wrote my first guide on buying 1/16 scale tanks over a year ago and so much has changed I've decided to write a second guide summarising what is currently on the market as of August 2007: Tamiya's: These are...