Over the weekend of May 25 and 26, 2024, the Illawarra Plastic Modellers Association (IPMA) held their annual scale model competition at the Illawarra Sports Centre in Berkely, a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales. 

We have been attending this show for a number of years now, and once again, we made the 10 hour drive to attend the show both as a trader and an entrant into the competition. 

Customising 1:64 scale model cars can be a quick, fun project to do. You can go full on and make modifications like adding 3d printed wheels for example, or you can just go with a simple repaint to give the car a new lease of life.  In this tutorial, I'll show how easy it is to do a quick repaint of a 1:64 car that will only take you an hour to complete at most, this time using a Zuru Metal Machines car that I purchased from our local KMart store for a couple of dollars.  First thing is to...

At the recent ScaleACT show back in November 2023, I caught up with David Forsyth of new local model company, Hobartville Hobbies.  David has been creating some fantastic 3d prints of some very niche, but much sought after aircraft kits such as the RAAF Fairey IIID.  At the show, David set up a trade table with some of his kits for sale along with some painted builds of his products, all painted in our Premium Acrylic Lacquers.  Also on display were some new aftermarket parts :  The Hobartville Hobbies kits look fantastic and are extremely well designed and detailed. The...

Over in Puerto Rico, our friends from the Gunpla Builders Puerto Rico (GBPR) recently had a build day and get together to launch their first GBPR Airbrush Workshop.  We have been both sponsors and friends of the GBPR since their inception in 2018, and we were more than happy to send over some sample products for Arnaldo, Miguel and the members to use on the day to show off the power of SMS paints when used to paint Gunpla.  There were also hands on demonstrations on how to airbrush including how to airbrush with SMS paints.  And there were even a...