Retro Resin now has the Banana Splits Banana Buggy from the Saturday Morning TV Show. It features the figures of Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky. How cool is that?

It includes an added bench for them to sit on, and a decal sheet.

Even the box is in full color !

Altered States has re-released their resin Top Fuel Hydro boat kit. This is in 1/24 scale, so it's perfect for the car / truck modeling crowd. There really is no other kit like this out there in the market. The closest thing ever made to this in plastic (a much older version of a race boat) would be the old Testor's Budweiser boat.

This is a modern version of the top fule boats you see drag racing on fresh water across the country. Altered States has left the engine part up to you, meaning you can use any engine combination you want to. Anything goes !

Check out www.dragboats.com to see the various possibilities for this model build. Bad to the bone !

Kenny over at Bandit Resins has just come out with a 1966 Chevy Nova Sedan, fresh from the mold. As usual, it's very crisp and clean. Very little prep work if any is needed. Check it out.

Shoot him an email for details.

Fantastic Plastics has released their new kit, the "Phoenix" from the Star Trek series movie Star Trek: First Contact. It scales out about 1:144, and is made from Resin (Solid Cast). It consists of 13 individual pieces. A display stand is also available separately.

The kit was patterned by Alfred Wong.

I think a lot of people have been waiting for a kit of this ship. Although neither Monogram or AMT took a chance and did one, Fantastic Plastics has stepped up and brought us a good example to add to our collections.

I don't usually mention much about paper models. Subjects are everywhere, from Nasa spaceships, cars, airplanes, to houses, and these interesting printable guitars.

Kind of neat. I'm thinking that by scaling the print up and down, they might look good with a model car, or even a scale figure.

Revell Germany had an online model contest this year. They now have pictures of the winners posted. I am pretty sure the kits had to be a Revell product. It's a variety of subjects.

The top winner was an F4 Phantom aircraft kit, done as a cutaway. Quite impressive, and a lot of work I am sure.

All the models are very well done. Be sure and check them out.

There's building big, and then there's ...well..building REALLY BIG. How about 1:6? How about a model / replica that is so big, it fills up your drive way?

Peter says he likes to build railguns. Seems he built some smaller examples, but decided 1:16 just wasn't going to do it, he could go bigger. So, 4+ months later, and a lot of wood and fabricating, he's created this 1"6 example here. Wow !

Luckily he can break it down for storage and moving, but assembled together, it's quite impressive.

The Moebius Models "The Voyager" kit is out. As mentioned in a previous news clip, this is based on the animation show "Fantastic Voyage", rather than the live action movie (with Raquel Welch). Still, it's faithful to the original Aurora offering.

Pretty cool. :-)