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OCTOBER 2014 NEWSThis 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... |
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| read more » | Wednesday 1st October 2014 | |
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SEPTEMBER 2014This month's masthead photo is HMS VIgilant, and we're pleased to announce that as soon as he has finished the instructions for our forthcoming 1/350 scale HMS Portchester Castle kit... |
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| read more » | Tuesday 2nd September 2014 | |
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AUGUST 2014This 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 (... |
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| read more » | Friday 1st August 2014 | |
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JUNE 2014This 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... |
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| read more » | Thursday 5th June 2014 | |
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MAY 2014This 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. |
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| read more » | Friday 2nd May 2014 | |
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FEBRUARY 2014This 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... |
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| read more » | Tuesday 4th February 2014 | |
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JANUARY 2014It'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... |
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| read more » | Thursday 2nd January 2014 | |
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DECEMBER 2013December is upon us (where DID the year go?), and with Christmas just around the corner, it's time to remind everyone to get your orders to us in a timely manner if you want delivery by Christmas--particularly our overseas customers. Our resident elf Peter... |
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| read more » | Monday 2nd December 2013 | |
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NOVEMBER 2013 NEWSIf 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... |
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| read more » | Friday 1st November 2013 | |
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OCTOBER 2013 NEWSHow 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. |
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| read more » | Tuesday 1st October 2013 | |
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MAY 2013 NEWSSomething 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. |
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| read more » | Wednesday 1st May 2013 | |
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APRIL 2013 NEWSThis 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. |
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| read more » | Friday 5th April 2013 | |