Welcome to Episode 160 of The Scale Model Podcast Sponsored by CultTVMan and Sean’s Custom Model Tools

Hosts

Stuart

Terry

Geoff

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Check out our What We Like page for lists of what we like.

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LATEST NEWS

We had great responses in our thread about what everyone is reading.

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LATEST HOBBY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Special Hobby & CMK kits for June

MENG Model's new Panzerhaubitze 2000 in 72nd scale

Clear Prop! Upcoming Kit: 1/48 F4B-4

MiniArt's new 35th scale "Garage Workshop Set #2" 

U.S.A.F. B-21 Raider from Model Collect in 1/72

Meng's 48th scale F-4E/2020 Terminator Fighter (Turkish Air Force)

The Mandalorian's N-1 Starfighter 1/48 from Bandai Q1 26

What’s new at Scalemates.com

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WHAT’S ON THE BENCH

Stuart - Finished a tiny model of a Gelvades Class Battle Carrier from Star Blazers 2199. Started 1 of two Bandai Cosmo Typhoon Fighters. These are very tiny, 1/200, but I love the look of them.

Geoff - continuing on the Heller 1/72 Douglas DC-6B in fictitious water bomber markings for my brother’s growing fleet.

Terry - Working on Fade To Black’s 1/10 Hammerhead Shark, finally. Assembly and filling. Painting a couple Reaper dragons, a forest dragon and a magma dragon. Still in airbrush stage now, but will be in brush painting before too much longer. Mechs are still in assembly, slow going is fine for these.

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WHAT WE ARE READING

Stuart - The Notebook by Roland Allen

Geoff - The Body by Bill Bryson

Terry - no change, still reading Ed Yong’s I Contain Multitudes and some light novels.

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SPONSOR AD #2

Seans Custom Model Tools

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THINGS WE’VE SEEN

Luke’s X-Wing filming model from The Empire Strikes Back is up for auction. - $175,000 opening bid.

Back in 2023 another X-Wing filming model from Star Wars sold for over 3 million.

Rubin Obervatory releases 1st images. - Images are recorded by a 3.2-gigapixel charge-coupled device imaging (CCD) camera, the largest digital camera ever constructed.

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THE LAST WORD

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