27th January 2026: Tamiya 50th anniversary RC announcements now live - pre-order Porsche, XLT Ranger, Mini Cooper and loads of BMWs now!

11th January 2026: New items have started to arrive, this week sees new HPI releases, new Model Car Group releases and Hornby's various range announcements!

19th December 2025: HPI may have completely messed up our December deliveries by using a useless pallet company who couldn't organise a pint in Wetherspoons, but they have managed to express to us a box of Nano BMW models - search NANO BMW - you probably will want one!

15th December 2025: Shhhh.... we have a load of Hornby's "website exclusive" Smokey Joe train set. All brand new, good value at £74.95.

11th December 2025: Did you have a Vauxhall Cavalier? Model Car Group now offer both Mk2 and Mk3 Cavaliers in their 1:18 range. Multiple colours in stock today.

9th December 2025: New releases from Carrera, Airfix, Academy and so on now in stock!

4th December 2025: Large delivery of Ravensburger jigsaws has landed. 1:18 Scale Mk3 Vauxhall Cavalier diecast models are now out. FTX has released their 1:10 premium model styled after the MK2 Ford Escort rally car.

3rd December 2025: New from Model Car Group - 1:18 scale models of the Mk3 Vauxhall Cavalier in right hand drive with UK plates. Search MCG Cavalier.

2nd December 2025: New FTX "Mk2 Escort" MK2RS RC Car now in stock. Very high spec, very familiar bodywork. Very limited numbers - only a small number have arrived from this first batch!

26th November 2025: New today - CC01501 Corgi Thunderbirds FAB Collection - Thunderbird 5, which has never been modelled by Corgi before. Also new in from Tamiya - Tamiya 58750 Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO TT-02 RC Kit.

25th November 2025: New - two colours, Volantex RC Trainstar Stunt 500mm Brushless Ready To Fly 4-Ch RC Plane with Flight Stabilisation. New Scalextric Police Volvo 850 Estate - probably the best car they've made in years.

24th November 2025: New - Airfix A17003 Messerschmitt Bf109G-5/6 1:24 Large Scale Model Kit. Non catalogue release, excellent detail.

21st November 2025: Fresh special offer - PD Racing 1:16 scale rc cars (Search PD 16 Ready) - now 4 cars. Original RRP £99.99, our price was £84.99. Now £62.95 and excellent value as a result.

20th November 2025: Now arrived: Oor Wullie Routemaster (all pre-sold), Southend Routemaster (limited stocks) - both fresh from EFE.

13th November 2025: Recent new arrivals: Venture18 - more cars from HPI. More stock of the Tamiya Mini. Painted Tamiya Mini available to pre-order. New Scalextric cars - Captain Scarlett SPV and Volvo Estate. New RC Boat - Tiptide Turbojet. Loads of RC toys for the younger drivers in the Double Eagle range. New Airfix, Academy, Tamiya, Italeri plastic kits. Ford Sierra Scalextric set. Also we have received on average 1 pallet of stock a day every day for the last 3 weeks, there is so much choice we have not had time to update this page until now!

13th October 2025: Suppliers are doing their Black Friday offers early this year. We are supposed to hold them for the end of November, but that is not our way. A selection of Hornby items, some Scalextric track packs, Scalextric sets, Hornby locos plus of course last week's Tamiya Special Price items.

12th October 2025: Now taking pre-orders on EFE Alexander Y Type models.

8th October 2025: Killerbody Venus Lancia Delta - this is a nice high grade 2WD chassis with a super detailed body in ready to run format. Usual good support due to coming through the same supplier as FTX etc.

7th October 2025: Tamiya RC special offers have arrived. Search TAMIYA SPECIAL PRICE to see what we have left.

30th September 2025: Now taking pre-orders on Scalextric Chrome Fab 1 - item number C4579A.

29th September 2025: New in stock - new Playtrains Steam train set from Hornby. Unlike previous years, this is now USB rechargeable so no more AAs needed.

24th September 2025: This month's Carrera slot car delivery has arrived, number of nice models to grace your track.

23rd September 2025: Now taking orders on the next batch of Tamiya RC announcements - highlight is the Mercedes 190 which is on the TT02 for the first time.

18th September 2025: 1:18 scale Vauxhall Nova joins the Cavalier released last month. Hornby have added non sound versions of the bluetooth decoders and also a enhanced bass speaker for their sound chips.

8th September 2025: New in today - prepainted body version of the Tamiya Audi 90 Quattro - ideal for those who want to build a RC kit but do not have the confidence to paint it.

5th September 2025: Now taking orders on the newly announced Corgi September to January range.

4th September 2025: New FMS ready to fly aircraft in stock - large scale trainer (called Ranger) and an large scale F4U.

22nd August 2025: Pre-Orders - policy change. From 1st September, all pre-orders for more than two pieces of the same item will require full pre-payment. This only affects less than 2% of our pre-order customers but is necessary to make our pre-order services viable for the 98%. This will be a retrospective change and affected customers will be contacted before 1st September to confirm.

21st August 2025: EFE Titan models now in stock. We are also taking orders on the next releases from EFE - the Oor Wullie bus and twin pack of Clydeside 2000.

28th July 2025: Unusually, our delivery costs have fallen recently - so we have reduced our free postage rate to £35 - so spend just £35 for free UK economy P&P. Applies to all new orders until at least November 2025.

25th July 2025: Corgi have announced 4 new aircraft for late Autumn release. These are all certificated limited editions.

17th July 2025: New in - wide selection of new Airfix models plus two very good (limited run) 1:18 Vauxhall Cavalier MK2 models.

11th July 2025: Large aircraft kits from Hong Kong Models have arrived along with some new release Academy models.

1st July 2025: Volantex 500mm Brushless Corsair now in stock, this is the sister plane to the 500mm Mustang that came out late last year and features a 7.4v 2S battery and brushless motor for higher performance.