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Bernie Brooks , March 13th, 2021 10:08 Roy Wilkinson talks to Bernie Brooks about his serialised "non-nonfiction" book Dark Lustre, the path of most resistance, the predatory capitalism of modelmaking, and more "Ive got a few visual prompts here," announces Roy Wilkinson. "Its going to be a multimedia extravaganza," he says as he waves a brochure in front of his webcam. Weve been chatting about museums and museum funding for the better part of a half hour – the pamphlet in his hand relates to...

Sunderland illustrator with autism praised by Boris Johnson for creating charity aviation book Jack Berry, 14, has exercised his passion for planes by compiling his lockdown drawings into a book Get the latest Sunderland news and updates delivered straight to your inbox Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsle...

Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation as Cyril Joly’s classic account Take These Men. In such inhospitable conditions, this was armoured warfare of a particularly difficult and dangerous kind. From 1940 to 1943 battles raged back and forth as one side or the other gained the upper hand, only to lose it again. Often the obsolescent British armour was outnumbered by the Italians or outgunned by Rommel’s Afrika Ko...

PARIS – He hunches at the dining room table, putting the finishing touches on his miniature World War II tank. Deep in concentration, he keeps h ...

BBC News Published image copyrightRod Kirkpatrick/F Stop Press image captionBefore it can fly again, each part of the four-engine plane needs to be stripped-down and checked It might just be the largest aircraft model kit in the world, but needs no small tubes of glue and is not a toy. Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centres Lancaster bomber - known as Just Jane - is three years into a 10-year restoration project to get it airborne. This year, the rear fuselage has been stripped down, and its pa...

Advertisement Looking like the largest Airfix model you could possibly imagine, parts of a World War Two Lancaster bomber are laid-out in a hangar waiting to be assembled. But this is not a toy.  The pieces of wing, fuselage, bombs, machine guns and propeller blades are all real. The famous aircraft is three years into a ten-year restoration at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre in East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, which will see it return to the skies to add to the two remaining bombers which...

Submitting... The Hawker Hunter XF509, which started out with 54 Squadron in 1957, came to Hull in 2005 where it was fixed on a pole outside the former Humbrol factory on Hedon Road, once famous for making Airfix model kits. The dining car was built in 1967 by Wegmann in Kassel, Germany, for use as a British military train between Braunschweig and Berlin Charlottenburg. Auctioneer Andew Baitson said the restaurant car would make a "great bar or cafe/bistro". He said "It has a fully equipped kit...

Top 10 weird and wonderful F1 car launches Date published: February 14 2021 It’s that time of year again, we’re counting down the never-ending days until Formula 1 returns… but at least we have the upcoming car launches to look forward to… As we wait to see what stunning machines the teams unveil for their 2021 campaign, we’re taking a look back at some of the most weird and wonderful car launches throughout F1’s history. Starting with… Honda – 2007 A car launch is an F1 team�...

What has led to the huge variety of model cars? Let’s take a quick tour through the history of diminutive automobiles.

The old-school pastimes of making scale models and playing with miniature trains are making a comeback as a form of plastic therapy against the pandemic blues.