It's been a few months since the last fantastic Kancali release, and it has been worth the wait. Kancali continue to amaze with their range of diorama accessories!

As most of your are aware, IPMS Ottawa is hosting CAPCON 2005 and the Canadian Tamiya-Con (Open to Canadian Residents only. See our website for complete details.)

Czech-Republic based PlusModel, most noticably known for their series of Mercedes G4's, have just announced their latest batch of diorama and accessory releases.

Once again the Verlinden releases (including forthcoming releases) can be summed up in a single news report - and I think that in itself says it all...

It's been a couple of months since Korean firm Legend Productions announced any new releases - they are now back announcing a new release per series.

Many members may have heard the name ICM whispered in the hallowed virtual halls and passage ways of Armorama.com. Herewith follows a brief background on the Ukrainian company and a roundup of their 2005 new releases to date.

In this the third and final of the 'advance' stoies about Osprey Publishing's future releaes for July to September, the attention turns to Naval and Aviation titles...

Get 10% off all Osprey Publishing Men-at-Arms titles until 10 July 2005!

The latest release from Monroe Perdu is an extremely versatile kit "The Sunken Road". This kit builds into a vignette to depict almost anywhere in the world you can think of. A rutted lane in Normandy, a washed out trek in North Africa, a wagon path in Italy, or a carved trail in the jungle of Vietnam are all possibilities with this kit.

Hobby 37 is a Spanish producer of diorama accesories in 1/35th scale. They have recently announced a number of interesting new releases, which we present here...

Time was, that when posting news of Verlinden's future releases, it was necessary, to do a series of reports covering each of the areas. Sadly, this no longer seems to be the case...

The Czech company PlusModel have just announced two new releases in 1/35th scale....

Lucky Models, the Hong Kong based online retailer, is celebrating their second anniversary today, June 6th, and are offering buyers a choice of several online specials.

We announced recently that Meteor Productions had joined the ranks of dealers carrying Colourcoat Paint in the U.S., but that they were only stocking our warship colours....

A few months ago, I ran the story that Airfix were going to be re-releasing many of their more 'sought-after' items, in particular, the MULTI-POSE 1/32nd scale figure sets. Now comes confirmation about the release dates...

A few months ago, I noticed on the news pages of P.M.M.S., details of a new company, from Brazil, by the name of Warhammer Productions who we are now going to introduce here, in the news pages of Armorama...

Here is a book that is sure to please our Sci-Fi/Fantasy group, and may even turn the heads of others interested in painting figures.

We are pleased to announce another US vendor now stocking Colourcoats paints and other WEM products:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Kancali Custom Modeling would like to announce a
major website update, and the release of several new products for the month of
May.
Kancali has upgraded their website capability, added more product in use photos,
and revamped the ordering page. We have added credit card payment options in addition to Paypal. And we now ship UPS which includes delivery tracking and insurance.

Verlinden Productions have announced their latest diorama releases in 1/35th scale...

Once again, Osprey Publishing is releasing another batch of books, whichin the old cliché, will have something for everyone....

The following new releases can be expected from Eduard in May 2005. The release date is tabled for 1 May 2005.

Armorama is approaching a milestone mark in it's evolution. The server has processed over 1,400,000,000 individual requests (hits) for April already. This will exceed the highest traffic level recorded in January (ussually a seasonally busy time), and bust the 1.5 billion mark almost certainly. A request is a unique file or image that is requested by a remote host or user.

This year (2005) Osprey is bringing back almost all of it's Out of Print titles. February 2005 saw the arrival of the first batch of previously unavailable titles, and a second batch will be available from April 10, 2005.

Verlinden Productions have announced three new diorama sets for release in May 2005...

The following new releases "expected" for April 2005 have been listed on Eduard's website. No pictures are available yet, but watch this space/

Monroe Perdu finally has limited quantities of it's latest and largest kit, MPD-031 Northern Italian Church. If you were able to attend the recent SCAHMS show, you saw the painted test shot and the first few kits for sale. The kit is imposing, measuring 13" tall and 13" square on the base.

For those unaware of their existence, Monroe Perdu Studios produce an extraordinary range of Diorama sets in 1:35th/1:32nd scale...

The company has announced a series of new sets, each more original than the last...

135th Construction Battalion continues it's trend of roof items (last month we saw drains, pipes, and a chimney). This month we have more gutter and drains, but also a beautiful European Clock Dormer (CO0099). This large resin piece by Ben Jakobsen, includes a seperate clock face and a single resin part that has the clock hands ready to cut out.

These new items from Custom Dioramics are definately unique. They include a set of park benches, a donkey, an Orthodox Priest, and a public shower. All in 1:35 scale

In aother news story, the details of the new Toro Models figure releases can be seen. In this story, the focus shifts to dioramaproducts in 1/35th scale....

Eight new books will be published by Osprey Publishing next month. They cover a wide range of historical periods and amongst them the figure modeller, armor buff, diorama enthusiast or those interested in military histo, will find something to interest them...

New 1/72 scale line of resin buildings. Large line of 1/35 scale diorama products, and accessories.

One event dominating the hobby industry in February is Spielwarenmesse 2005. The largest annual toy and hobby fair in the world, the 56th Nuremberg Toy Fair gathers 2,700 toy and hobby item manufacturers representing over 62 countries. The show closes tomorrow, so the news are still coming in. Here a short summary of what we've heard so far.

One of the real nightmares for many diorama builders is the construction of trees. With this new release from Calibre 35, life just may become a little easier....

Once again, we can bring you advance notice of two new Diorama products from Verlinden Productions...

Once again Osprey Publishing, with its new releases, to use an often repeated phrase, has something for everyone . As there are only seven new releases this month, I have gone back to posting in one section....

In addition to the 135th Construction Battalion pieces, VLS has also released 2 additional diorama detail items this month through it's Custom Dioramics division. Both are the work of Ben Jakobsen.

135th CONSTRUCTION BATTALION, a VLS Creations Company, has released some interesting new building upgrades. They include a pillared balcony, a smoke stack (chimney), and 2 drain and plumbing fixtures sets. The creations are the work of Ben Jakobsen of Canada. Ben joined VLS in 2002 and has bee churning out good stuff like this since.

Ant Phillip Started an interesting post based on future RE-RELEASES from that most 'venerable' of manufacturers - AIRFIX.in the forums. Following his lead I found the release list on the Hannants website...

This is a news story which concerns ALL modellers, covering as it does, Military, Aviation, Car builders and Warship builders...

In my first news story of the new year, it seems appropriate to cover the new releses of a company which has influenced many modellers, sculptors and designers - Verlinden Productions. While many companies seem to have fallen by the wayside, Verlinden is still there, bringing out new releases on a monthly basis...

Following the terrible events over the weekend in S.E. Asia, the major relief agencies have launched an appeal for donations.

Some websites that can help you contibute are the following:

Red Cross & Red Crescent

OXFAM

Catholic Relief Services

American Red Cross

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

American Jewish World Service

Foster Parents Plan

Please Remember - all these sites are offering secure servers to make credit card donations...

We'll try and update with more websites as they become available...

Due to the sheer volume of releases from Verlinden Productions their new releases will now be seperated into their respective categories - Armor, Figures, Aviation and Dioramas. The latter is the subject of this news story...

The Australian company Firestorm Modelscontinues to produce some attractive (and Useful) material for the figure, diorama and armor modeller. These are the new releases for the Diorama modeller.

Toro models is a relatively new Spanish producer of figures and diorama accessories in 1/35th scale. Earlier this year, they released their first figure in 1/35th scale and followed it up with some attractive buildings in the same scale.

We're continuing to expand our line of Colourcoats enamels, and have received a number of new colours.

The biggest Russian model manufacturer Zvezda has released 3 new model kits! The first 2 releases are armor in 1/35th scale:

Once again, Tamiya has release it's new items in the modeling world. The release consist of 4 new kits and 7 limited release. 2 for Motorcycle Series and 5 for Military Miniatures Series.

Armorama.com recently passed the thirty-million mark for pages viewed on the site. This comes just short of the sites 3 year anniversary which will be on December 16th of this year. The success of the site is almost certainly due to the contributions of its members and staff who always seem to go out of their way to welcome and support the new members that are signing up daily.

Once again, Verlinden brings us its usual generous crop of new releases - once again covering figures, armor, aviation, ships and dioramas.

I must admit to be a little puzzled over these new releases - they are marked on the website as 'October' releases whereas in fact they are for December...