We've been attending the NSW Scale Model Show for a few years now, and once again we made the trip up to Wollongong to attend the show put on by our friends from the Illawarra Plastic Models Association (IPMA), this year held on the weekend of May 17th and 18th, 2025.  After leaving early on the Friday morning and navigating traffic issues in Melbourne, the run up the Hume Freeway was good. I stopped into the usual spots along the way to take a break such as Holbrook where you can see the HMAS Otway submarine on display.  And also...

Our paints are used on a multitude of things, not just scale models, with one popular use being for customising fishing lures. Our bright colours such as our Fluros, Colour Shifts and Pearls are all great for painting lures with as the bright, sparkly colours catch the light in the water and attract the attention of fish who take a bite and get hooked.  Our range has become that popular in the lure painting world, that the team from the Regional Victorian Fishing Expo reached out to us an invited us to trade at the 2025 Expo that was to...

It had been a while since I last built a Ma.K kit so I took on the challenge of building the 1/35 scale Melusine from Hasegawa - a compact yet detailed power suit that's packed with character. For this build, I wanted to deploy some ‘traditional’ Ma.K building and painting techniques for which I go over in this blog post.

This year has been a super busy year for us with travel for shows. We’ve been to Melbourne for Model Expo, Wollongong for the NSW Model Show, Brisbane for QMHE and Adelaide for the SA Model Expo, plus a few others in between. For the final show of the year, I travelled up to Canberra for the annual ACT Scale Model Society’s ScaleACT model show. We’ve been attending ScaleACT since 2018 and it is always a pleasure to head up to our nation’s capital. With the Ute loaded up with stock and entries for the competition, I left home at...

Candy colours are created using a type of painting technique using a clear colour paint applied over a metallic base. Whilst generally used on car models, they can be used on a variety of other subjects such as Gundam. How the effect works is that the Clear Colour itself is a transparent paint that has no solid pigmentation to it. They are coloured using tint dyes which will retain the clear transparency whilst keeping a strong, vibrant colour. In this tutorial, I'll show how easy it is to create an effective Candy effect on a model car.  For this tutorial, we will be demonstrating...