New (!) Ampersand Books

We have managed to get a stock of two of the really great Ampersand Modelers Guides.

A Modelers Guide to the Tiger Tank and
A Modelers Guide to Jagdpanzer.

Both of these books contain a wealth of photos of the real thing plus articles on modeling them using a wide range of base kits. These are a great resource for the serious modeller.plus, they have been out of print for a long while so we are very pleased to have obtained supplies of new copies.

The item codes for these books are - Tiger - MMIR1 £20.00 and Jagdpanzer - MMIR2 £19.99.
David

Aircraft kits for Xmas and a change to the web site

New Arrivals
Manf. Item Scale Price Code
Classic Airframe Martin B-57B (Canberra) 1:48 £39.95 CF4130
Hasegawa F-14B Tomcat 'VF-213 Black Lions Last Cruise' 1:72 £18.99 HA00811
Pavla Models Grumman J2F-5 Duck. DecalsUS and Argentina 1:72 £21.70 PAV72056
Roden Sopwith F.1 Camel two seat trainer 1:72 £6.99 ROD72054
Revell B-25J Mitchell 1:48 £19.99 RV4520
Hasegawa F-14D Tomcat VF-31 Tomcatters 1:72 £19.99 ha00831
Special Hobby Fairey Albacore Mk.I. 1:48 £30.50 SH48045
Special Hobby F2A-2 Buffalo Yellow Wing 1:72 £11.25 SH72133
Trumpeter Fairey Gannet T Mk.2 1:72 £12.99 TU01630
Trumpeter Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat late version 1:32 £29.99 TU02225
Trumpeter Wellington Mk.III 1:48 £50.01 TU02823
Zvezda Junkers Ju 88G6 1:72 £11.50 ZVE7269

Changes to the Web Site
We have made a big change to the way that we present categories in the shop web site.
We used to have to create a list of items to go into each category. This was supposed to be done weekly but sometimes got missed when we were processing the weeks orders. As some of you know, on a Friday we are often in the shop until 9pm processing new stock and mail orders. The new system generates the categories automatically. The new items are picked up automatically at 3am every morning when the internet site refreshes its search information.

The other change affects the way we present the new arrivals. We previously had to generate a list of new items for the web site and hope that you find them. Now, when you enter the shop site, you see a list of all of the different categories of items such as Aircraft, Armour, etc. You will notice that there is a new category placed at the head of the table of categories. This category is labelled 'Latest Arrivals'. Click on this and you will see a list of further categories that contain all of the new arrivals.

This change will enable you to see very quickly what is new.

Let me know at david@sbxmodelshop.co.uk what you think of the new facilities.

Aircraft kits for Xmas and a change to the web site

New arrivals this week
Manf. Item Scale Price Code
Classic Airframe Martin B-57B (Canberra) 1:48 £39.95 CF4130
Hasegawa F-14B Tomcat 'VF-213 Black Lions Last Cruise' 1:72 £18.99 HA00811
Pavla Models Grumman J2F-5 Duck. DecalsUS and Argentina 1:72 £21.70 PAV72056
Roden Sopwith F.1 Camel two seat trainer 1:72 £6.99 ROD72054
Revell B-25J Mitchell 1:48 £19.99 RV4520
Hasegawa F-14D Tomcat VF-31 Tomcatters 1:72 £19.99 ha00831
Special Hobby Fairey Albacore Mk.I. 1:48 £30.50 SH48045
Special Hobby F2A-2 Buffalo Yellow Wing 1:72 £11.25 SH72133
Trumpeter Fairey Gannet T Mk.2 1:72 £12.99 TU01630
Trumpeter Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat late version 1:32 £29.99 TU02225
Trumpeter Wellington Mk.III 1:48 £50.01 TU02823
Zvezda Junkers Ju 88G6 1:72 £11.50 ZVE7269

Changes to the Web Site
We have made a big change to the way that we present categories in the shop web site.
We used to have to create a ist of items to go into each category. This was supposed to be done weekly but sometimes got missed when we were processing the weeks orders. As some of you know, on a Friday, we are often in the shop until 9pm processing new stock and mail orders. The new system generates the categories automatically. The new items are picked up automatically at 3am when the internet site refreshes its search information.

The other change affects the way we present the new arrivals. We previously had to generate a list of new items for the web site and hope that yu fund them. Now, when you enter the shop site, you see a list of all of the different categories of items such as Aircraft, Armour, etc. You will notice that there is a new category placed at the head of the table of categories. This category is labelled 'Latest Arrivals'. Click on this and you will see a list of further categories that contain all of the new arrivals.

This change will enable you to see very quickly what is new.

Let me know at david@sbxmodelshop.co.uk what you think of the new facilities.

Trumpeter New stuff and other things

We have the new Trumpeter Gannet T-2 and Wellington Mk III arriving tomorrow although I think we have sold out of the Wellingtons before they even arrive.

We have managed to restock our lead wire in the small sizes so we again have 0.2mm, 0.3mm and 0.4mm sizes in plenty.

We are restocking on the Andrea FAQ for Figure Painting and we have the new Dog Tag 1/48th scale figure sets coming in. I will post some pictures of them when they arrive. Coming with them are the last 6 issues of Military Miniatures. If you saw either the Nashorn or the Kubelwagen editions we had recently then you will know these are worth snapping up.

Paul Casson has managed to find me a stock of the fantastic book - Modeler's Guide to the Tiger Tank - A complete and comprehensive guide to modelling the Tiger I and Tiger II in 1/35th scale By Patrick A. Stansell and published by Ampersand. This has been out of print for some time so to get hold of new copies is great and at £20 its a bargain.

Tomorrow, we also have the Classic Airframes B-57 in 1/48th, another 1/72nd Buffalo and Lockheed Lodestar, plus a restock of the new MPM FR9 Meteor. Not quite a classic set of releases but interesting none the less.

Don't forget we have the Revell Gato and there is a new book about the Gato coming in before the end of the week as well. We will probably do a discounted offer on the pair. Watch this space.

I have sorted out most of the categorisaion on the web site and also fixed the irritating error when coming back from PayPal. You should now see a thank you page and get an automated e-mail.I am currently (in between selling and ordering) working on a much more sophisticated search engine. The backbone work is done - just need the time to get it onto the web pages. Maybe I can do this next Monday and Tuesday as I seem to have wangled a couple of days holiday! Check out its current state at

SBX Model Shop Log In Page

David

Fw190 A-5 and other new things

We couldn't get any more A-8s but the new A-5 has arrived. We took delivery of 15 of those on Friday. We also had some of the new Revell Gato submarine - now that is a large box!

Good news for Fleet Air Arm fans - the next Trumpeter Gannet has arrived. This one is the T2.

For all of you figure modellers, the Andrea FAQ for figure painting is now in stock. I have to be careful here because one of these is an Xmas present for me so I can't even open them to see what they are like. Those who have looked are very impressed. We have also take delivery of more Wolf and Hornet figures in 1/35th plus additional Hornet heads so the range is growing.

Iwata airbrushes and compressors continue to sell at an astounding rate. If you have ever put off using your air brush, now is the time to switch to Iwata. I promise you, airbrushing will be a thing of pleasure once you make the change. A top cup Eclipse is £115 and the special deal for the Eclipse and a Sprint compressor is £291.99 - saving you £23 on the price of the airbrush.

We are still struggling a bit with the web site as the categorisation seems to be a bit confused but we are working on it.

Lastly, don't forget my personal modelling Blog at


http://gentlescalemodelling.blogspot.com/

LifeColor full range

Having loved LifeColor paints myself I am really pleased that we are now able to get the whole range. I put the rack up today so we now have 160 colours, primers, thinners, etc., plus all of the new camouflage packs - German WWII Tanks 1/2, Luftwaffe 1/2, NATO and Italian WWII Armour plus the Tensechrom weathering filters - which are really great.

All 15 of the Fw190 A8 sold out within 4 days. We are speaking to Germany on Monday and hoping that we can get the new 5 - if ot, we will try and get some more A8. Maybe we will get both!

Wolf 1/35th military figures, Hecker & Goros 1/48th metal figures (which are fatastic) and Hornet Heads are the latest figure sets to arrive. Wolf seem to be difficult to keep in stock so check with us if you want any. There have been no new kits since the big Dragn release of last week. except for an injection moulded 1/144th Vickers Viscount in Eagle Airways markings.