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We are offering all our customers a chance to win a £100 gift certificate!  What do I need to do to win? Simple! Just place an order during December (over £25) and you will be automatically entered. You must be subscribed to our mailing list. You can have an extra free entry by sharing on facebook!    Good Luck     All purchases made through our web store over the value of £25 during the month of December 2016 will be automatically entered into our prize draw to win a £100 gift certificate.  Entrants must be subscribed to our mailing...

We’re very pleased to have been allowed to share Richard Carrick’s lovely 1/18th scale Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless, modelled in French markings for service in Indochina in 1947. In real life, these aircraft were approaching the end of their service lives and were heavily weathered.     Richard spent almost two years on this model, starting with the Merit International SBD-3/4 kit but with extensive remodeling and modifications both to add details and to post-date the aircraft to an SBD-5. These modifications were scratch built and included making a new windscreen, flaps and dive brakes and their actuating mechanisms, a new...

New additions to our Colourcoats Air range to fill gaps in our US aircraft range are available now! All accurately matched to FS/ANA standards.   ACUS36 - FS27875 Insignia White for post war hi-viz era US Navy aircraft:   ACUS37 - ANA601 Insignia White for WW2 "tricolor" scheme undersides:   ACUS38 - FS35237 Gray Blue / Medium Gray used on low-viz schemes and by modern Luftwaffe   ACUS39 - ANA605 Insignia Blue for WW2 era US Navy national markings   ACUS40 - FS36320 Dark Ghost Gray / Dark Compass Gray for modern US Airforce and Navy camouflage schemes   ACUS41 - FS36170...

   We will be posting during the holiday season. Please ensure you leave enough time for your parcel to arrive by checking the Royal Mail link below for the last posting dates for all non-paint orders. International orders have much longer recommended latest posting dates. Please see the link and look under "International Standard/International Tracked & Signature". Royal Mails Latest Recommend Posting Dates   Parcelforce (for any paint orders) recommend posting by Monday 18th December however we do find that sometimes deliveries can take an extra day so we recommend ordering by midday on Friday 15th December to ensure delivery before...

We are now implementing a minimum order quantity for our Colourcoats paint. We will only be processing orders of 6 tins or more, although what this brings is a much lower postage cost. Our new rates are as below. If you do place an order of less than 6 tins, we will automatically cancel and refund your payment method. If you wish to purchase less than 6 tins, a surcharge will apply. Please contact us to order directly should you wish to do this. We appreciate our customers and we work to continually provide an excellent service with particular effort towards...