Moebius Models has pulled out all the stops, and released it's all new Seaview submarine kit. Oh yeah, it's big. Well worth the wait !

This baby is clean and finely molded. At around 39-inches long, you'll be looking around the house to park this larger than life kit. The best thing is, Moebius went the extra mile, and the kit includes the underside landing bay, with doors, and a separate Flying Submarine and Diving Bell.

Even more, the kit includes a detail interior of the forward bridge! Excellent work Moebius !

Click here for more pictures of the wonderful kit.

I came across this mention online, it's pretty cool. Normally a public sculpture is an ugly piece of crap welded together by someone with an eye stigmatism and a blow-torch. But this statue art makes a great tribute to the writer H.G Wells, and his Martian Tripod ships.

When I was a youngster of say, 9 or 10, and discovering the world of science fiction, War of the Worlds was one of my favorite books (along with the Time Machine, and several Jules Verne books). Another one that comes to mind is The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek. A good book if your young kids like Dinosaurs. Another one for some reason was The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. I actually still have a copy of that one ! I also remember a series of Danny Dunn books. The Time Traveling Ben Franklin one being my favorite. How cool would it be to travel in time to meet Benjamin Franklin? All of these were the sparks that led me down the Scifi path as it were. LOL

Later in my high school days I read sci-fi books, primarily paperbacks, almost endlessly. Many good ones I still remember today at 46. Books such as Macroscope by Piers Anthony. I remember reading that book at lunch in the cafeteria at school because I simply could not put it down! It was a monster to read through.

I used to read a bunch of cheaper double printed books in my high school days (1970's), meaning, it had two covers. One way was printed where you read the story, then flipped the book around, and read another. They were printed back to back. Two stories to a book. I remember one where the characters of the book were stars, running around the cosmos. At first glance, this seems nonsense, but if you imagine a million years as being a mere second in time, the scifi science itself seemed plausible enough to wrap a story around it. Wish I could remember the name of that book.....

I rarely have time to read fiction nowadays with daily life. My last readings were all of the Harry Potter books. ( LOL! Honestly, can you read just one?). I still have 30 or 40 scifi paperback books, primarily Star Trek ones. (I should dump those on eBay :-).

I hope kids today still read fiction. Whatever their interest, it can be a real spark to something that will stay with you the rest of your life.

Fujmi is releasing some new kits. This list was compiled by a board member at Model Cars Magazine, and I am re posting it here. I personally will be looking for a couple of the older Ferraris, but also the RX7.

All are 1/24 except where noted:

• Ferrari Dino 246GT Deluxe Kit - the Real Sports Car Dino with photoetched parts and metal foil transfers.
• Ferrari F430 Challenge "Sharkmouth"
• Ferrari 288GTO Deluxe Kit - the Enthusiast Model kit with photoetched parts and metal foil transfers.
• 1/20 Ferrari 126C2 San Marino 1982 - has special Cartograf-printed decals.
• Ferrari F430 Scuderia
• Ferrari F355 "World Tour".
• 2007 VW Golf GTI Deluxe Kit - has photoetched parts and metal foil transfers.
• 1971 Nissan 240ZG.
• 1975 Mazda Savanna Rx-3 Racing Version.
• 1964 Prince Skyline 2000GT (Type S54).

I have added a new feature to Rocketfin. I have always recieved a lot of emails from people looking for a particular model kit, usually made in resin.

It's not always easy finding something online, for a number of reasons. Most small one man companies do not have the time or skill to work on a website, so they do what they can when they can, with little funds. (Resin products are HAND MADE one at a time, so you can imagine how time consuming and labor intensive that is).

This usually creates a situation where the code is so bad, not even Google can spider the site well. (which means, it shows up 225,000 pages deep in a search).

Anyway, I have just as hard a time finding a resin product online as you do. But to help me find stuff, and visitors who may email me, I decided what us modelers really needed was a database we could serach instantly.

Enter the Rocketfin RESIN CAR AND TRUCK RESIN SEARCH.

For now, it just has 1:20 to 1:25 scale resin cars and trucks, currently around 1250+ as of this writing, and more are being added. If it becomes popular, and I get some feedback on it, I will expand it into other areas, such as Scifi, Aircraft, Figures, etc.

It's very flexible, and will search many ways. Just type in your favorite car make (Ford), or a year (1963), or use a work like "Woody", and it will instantly give you a list of products in the database.

Each entry has a picture of the product, and if it's still in production, information on where to buy them. I built this FOR MODELERS, AND BY MODELERS. If you have information on a resin car or truck in your collection, let me know, and let's add it online for the communuity. :-)

This is interesting from Hobby Search. It's an Aoshime 1/24 scale Head Light Flasher Unit.

Looks like a cool idea. Especially considering everything you need comes with the kit except batteries.

Appleseed

Batmobile Owner's Manual

Aircraft of World War II