Hi everyone - just wanted to let you all know that as per my forum posts, I'm off to Nuremberg tomorrow for the Toy Fair! 

I'll be blogging about all the great stuff I find there over the next four days, and you can find all the posts by clicking on the Nuremberg Toy Fair 2010 tag that this

This is a small section of BATTLE SCENE PRODUCTIONS first Promotional Diorama for a company named, COLLECTORS SHOWCASE.

The World War Two Era German figures and vehicles are all made in 1:30 scale and are limited editions. I made the background buildings and smoke. I colored the smoke but then

The London Toy Fair is on this week - it's a little smaller than usual, but some interesting things nonetheless. (For those who are kicking themselves for missing a chance to pick up some antique toys, don't worry - it's a bit of a misleading name as this isn't a swapmeet, it's the annual UK trade

Mold-Making Tutorial

Ingredients

Here is a list of items required to make a mold using this tutorial:

1.) 7-ounce transparent plastic cups (x3)
2.) Glue of your choice (Elmer's, Krazy Glue, GOOP or even wood

This JSC UFO model has been built by our seven year old son. We helped him a bit of course :)
We had o lot of fun doing this during our Christmas Holidays. This is first model which our boy assembled. Now he is looking for another one to make, but sadly, holidays have finished and school started

Doesn't this always happen?! For two months preceding Christmas, everyone is always asking you what you want as a present and you can't think of ANYTHING, then, no sooner is the season over than you see the PERFECT thing you'd love to have gotten them to buy you!

For example, courtesy of jalopnik

Having a passion for construction equipment started when I was very young. Looking at construction places to watch draglines, scrapers, dozers, loaders and dump trucks. I could spend hours just to watch them. I got in 1975 a training for service engineer for a Dutch Bobcat dealer and from that

You will find that this Corgi Toys 1967  Catalog has some very interesting and highly detailed models in them. So lets start with the first page:

The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cars are the easiest to collect and the easiest to restore as well. Repro and original parts are readily available,

A rare early 20th Century tin plate pedal car in the form of an aeroplane. As the pedals turn, so does the propeller (the mechanism still works). The item sold for