The Creative Explorer

Well, after 2 weeks still no reply from Modelcarsmag nor a magazine. Just send them a reminder.

Looks well executed

I was given a set of pictures of the upcoming release of the 1/24 BMW 320I. Not sure if been posted here yet, but here you go.

Following up question; After how long should I consider that my e-mail has not been processed? It has been a week now and no answer as per today. By no means I am in a hurry, but do would like to receive my copy :-)

Question, after how long should I consider my magazine to be missing? I know that being in The Netherlands takes (a lot) longer, but shouldn't I have received it by now? I see that Sweden received it more than a month ago.

Thank you!

This was a project that was put together and then slumbered. Until there was a groupbuild from the Dutch IPMS chapter and I went a different direction with it. Normally I build shiny vehicles, not muddy, rusty or with a diorama. But at some point it hit me, the HY-van had to be a chicken coop, so a diorama had to be made as well. I wasn't expected it, but I actually had fun. Normally I can't be focussed enough for the final detailling and leave it at that, but now I kept going and even painting the 80 chickens wasn't that bad. Overall it was a fun project and even though I took it serious with all the different techniques, I also had to hide a few jokes in :-). I just had to haha. The kit is from Heller and is not bad at all, the molded in glass is an annoyance, but so be it, it worked for this project. . . . . . . . . . . . .

I was looking for a video of the 2025 Shizuoka modelshow and found a video that I partially watched in 2024. What I liked from that video were a couple of Japanese Bosozoku cars in Egg-plane style. It reminded me somewhat of those Neko Works cars, but these are more modelkits than those Neko Works. I have been trying to see if they are available from somewhere, but I am affraid these might be a stock-modelkit and some labour-intensive scratchwork to get them in these proportions. I hope that I am wrong, because I really dig them and want to get some, they seem fun, wild projects to do.

I was at a Belgian modelshow last weekend and ran accros the 205 from Heller.

In the preview catalogue, it is announced as a new-tooled 1:24 kit. So, no 1/12th unfortunately

No, there isn't any.

I saw this picture on the Facebook page of Italeri. Is this a hint of what is coming up? The Stratos is a new 1/12 release after their 1/12 Delta. So, might be this a new 1/12 announcement for next year? I would hope so! It would be awesome and I personally would get me a few.