A personal blogsite of Wayne Hui for the art form of scale modelling.
Builder: Ricky Wong. Build Date: April 2018. Academy released this 1:35 MH-60S Knighthawk kit back around 2014. It was the first and, still at the time of writing, the only available kit of this Navy helicopter in this scale. Refer to Cybermodeler for a detailed review of this kit. Ricky has been building this kit... Continue Reading →
Build Date: Start Feb 13, 2018. The Chinese military confirmed that it took delivery of four Su-35 in late 2017. In anticipation of this, Kitty Hawk issued an update to their Su-35E kit in October which has decals specifically for the PLA's Su-35. The kit comes in nine part trees with four of the trees... Continue Reading →
Build Date: Start Jan 24, 2018. Col. Robin Olds, 433 FS, Satan's Angels, Ubon, Thailand, 1967. This is a kit my best friend, Ricky, gave me. Thank you, Ricky! I'd try my best to do this kit justice. For this model, I will be replicate Col. Robin Olds' personal aircraft as shown above. This Tamiya 1:32... Continue Reading →
Build Date: September 10, 2017, Finished Jan 22, 2018. A-6E of VA-115 (Eagles), Atsugi Naval Air Station, 1996. I saw the movie, Flight of the Intruder, in 1991 and I was immediately hooked on the A-6. Yeah, it was a cheesy movie with over the top lines but the real history underlining the movie is... Continue Reading →
Build Date: Nov. 12 Start, Finished Dec 10, 2017 The full build article for this model can be found in the April 2018 edition of the Tamiya Model Magazine International (TMMI) Issue 270. I received this new kit from Raymond of Kinetic/Lucky Model while I was in Hong Kong in November 2017. I am... Continue Reading →
Location: Unit 1, 3rd Floor, Cheong Ming Building, 80-86 Argyle St (entrance off Hak Po St), Mongkok. Hobby Easy is another successful online model shop in Hong Kong. Early 2017, they established a store front in Mongkok to sell their products direct to locals. The store is called Fat Frog Scale Model. Location is as shown... Continue Reading →
Location: Hommachi, Osaka. The last noteworthy scale model shop I visited in Osaka is Hobby Land located in Hommachi District. Take the Midosuji Subway Line to Hommachi Station, get out at Exit 17, turn right and walk two blocks, then turn right again. The store is as shown on the map below. Very easy to find. ... Continue Reading →
Location: Akihabara District, Tokyo, and Nipponbashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka. While in Tokyo and Osaka, I visited Volks, a chain of large hobby shops in Japan. Volks is a large hobby shop spanning six floors of a building, same in both Tokyo and in Osaka, with each floor dedicated to a category of hobby such as Gundam, sexy... Continue Reading →
Location: Minato, Shinbashi, Tokyo I happened to visit Tokyo recently and naturally I had to visit some of the scale model hobby shops in that city. In this blog posting, I shall take you on a pictorial tour of the shop with me. Note that I emphasis 'scale model' when I talk about hobby shops... Continue Reading →
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