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Camouflage Schemes & Colours

         MODEL COLOURS; Naval, Aviation, Military and Paint Formulae     with Colourcoats references     An A-Z of NAVAL COLOURS     USS ARIZONA     1930s to Early 1941   All vertical surfaces...
Thursday 1st January 1970
 
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NOVEMBER 2014 NEWS

                        If it's November, that must mean it's time for Scale Model World at Telford, scheduled for November 8-9 this year. Be sure to stop by the WEM stand to say hello! Dave and Frankie should be in uniform as usual.
Sunday 2nd November 2014
 
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OCTOBER 2014 NEWS

                        This month's masthead photo is HMS Scorpion , and we're pleased to announce that Peter Hall has completed the master patterns for our 1/350 scale HMS Scorpion and HMS Vigilant kits. These have been waiting in the wings for some time now...
Wednesday 1st October 2014
 
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AUGUST 2014

  This month's masthead photo is a teaser having to do with the next WEM PE set that Peter Hall is working on. Shown is a part from a Trumpeter ship kit, overlaid with a black line showing the correct outline of the platform. And below is the image of the replacement part that will be in the PE set (...
Friday 1st August 2014
 
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JULY 2014

                    This month's masthead photo is the CANT Z.501, a WW2 Italian flying boat. The Z.502 Gabbiano (Gull) was a high-wing, central-hull flying boat with 2 outboard floats under the wings, and was powered by a single engine installed in a nacelle in the center of the wing.
Monday 7th July 2014
 
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JUNE 2014

                    This month's masthead photo is the new 1/350 scale kit of HMS Roberts, now available. And we have even better news to go with that: Peter Hall has completed the design of PE 35177, specifically designed for the kit: The set will be available next month...
Thursday 5th June 2014
 
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MAY 2014

This month's masthead photo is a repeat from a few months back. HMS Portchester Castle was a Castle-class corvette launched on 21 June 1943 at Swan Hunter shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne. She was the only RN ship to be named after Portchester Castle in Hampshire.
Friday 2nd May 2014
 
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APRIL 2014

This month's masthead photo should offer a clue as to what we have Peter "Mad Pete" Hall working on at present. He's presently well into--and tearing his hair out over--PE sets for the 1/72 scale Victor.           Because of the manner in which this kit has been produced...
Friday 4th April 2014
 
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MARCH 2014

This month's masthead photo is HK Models' new big new 1/32 Gloster Meteor F.4 kit. The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter & the Allies' first operational jet aircraft.  The Meteor's evolution was heavily reliant on its ground-breaking turbojet engines, advanced by Sir Frank Whittle & his company, Power Jets Ltd.
Wednesday 5th March 2014
 
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FEBRUARY 2014

This month's masthead photo is HMS Gorleston, a Banff-class escort sloop. She was one of ten U.S. Coast Guard Lake-class cutters--the entire class--transferred to the Royal Navy in 1941 under the provisions of Lend-Lease. The ships were better sea-boats than the more well-known 4-stack destroyers transferred under Lend-Lease...
Tuesday 4th February 2014
 
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JANUARY 2014

It's the start of a new year (and in 12 months we'll be asking again where the heck it went!). Snow is falling here in West Virginia and we're headed for some seriously cold weather. But that aside, the whole WEM team would like to wish a Happy New Year to everyone. Outside it may be snowing...
Thursday 2nd January 2014
 
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NOVEMBER 2013 NEWS

          If it's November, that means it must be time for Scale Model World at Telford! This year's event will be held on 9 & 10 November. If you have never attended, you've missed one of the world's great model shows: vendors, SIG displays, demonstrations, competitions...
Friday 1st November 2013
 
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OCTOBER 2013 NEWS

          How could our masthead image for October be anything but HMS Befast? The new Trumpeter 1/350 kit is in hand and is the talk of the town. Peter Hall is hard at work on our PE 35172 for this kit, and we're aiming for a release in time for Telford.
Tuesday 1st October 2013
 
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SEPTEMBER 2013 NEWS

          Our masthead image for September is HMS Scorpion (G72). We now have our 1/700 kit of her in production, priced at £33.50 including VAT. You can place your order for kit K 762 here! And with the 1/700 version in production, can our 1/350 kit (K 3576) be far behind?
Tuesday 3rd September 2013
 
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AUGUST 2013 NEWS

          Our masthead photo for August is the big new 1/32 scale B-17G from HK Models, priced at £269.10 including VAT. Everything about this kit is big: Wingspan 989mm, Length 707mm, authentic surface detail includes more than 800,000 rivets, highly detailed turbo engines, detailed cockpit...
Thursday 1st August 2013
 


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JULY 2013 NEWS

          Our masthead photo for July is HMS Glamorgan, which just happens to be the subject of the latest 1/350 scale release from Peter Hall's Atlantic Models, priced at £209.99 including VAT. It's shipping now and going fast, so order now to avoid missing out!
Tuesday 2nd July 2013
 
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MAY 2013 NEWS

          Something a little different for this month's masthead photo. We're adding a new line of kits from F4 Models: flight deck tractors in 1/48 and 1/72 scales and for various navies. Now you can add a bit of visual interest to your naval aircraft, or build a flight deck diorama.
Wednesday 1st May 2013
 
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APRIL 2013 NEWS

          This month's masthead pic is HMS Hadleigh Castle, commissioned in 1943 as one of the 53 Castle-class corvettes built as an improvement on the Flower-class corvettes, by shipyards to small to build River-class frigates. We'll let you ponder why we might be displaying this photo.
Friday 5th April 2013