Its 70 years to the month when the Americans got their butt kicked at Pearl Harbor and they haven't looked back since. But can you name the only battleship not to be sunk at Pearl? Well, believe it or not but the USS Phoenix did indeed rise from the flames and was later purchased by the Argentinean navy and served for twenty years in the South Atlantic - yep, the General Belgrano no less! Mrs. Thatch sunk the 400 ton warship and earned 323 crosses on her bedstead, the Belgrano anchor no doubt nailed up over her gold plated toilet! All Cameron could muster was a shell case from munitions recently fired at Libya from a British frigate, the projectile bit merely ...  Read the complete review

Now this is the classic model! Everyone's first model has to be a Spitfire... it's the law! Well, and the fact that it's a skill level 1 model. The Spitfire is a nice, simple model. It's perfect for complete beginners. There aren't really any fiddly bits. The fiddliest bit is the cockpit, but even that isn't too testing. As it's a 1:72 scale model, the actual finished product will be about 12cm long and 15 cm wide. To be honest, there aren't that many parts to it. It's not the biggest model going, so none of the parts are that big, but given the fact that there aren't many parts it's perfect for begginers. As far as construction time goes, it won't take that ...  Read the complete review