The burgundy Qatar titles catch your eye first. Then come the long grey-and-white fuselage, the dark outline around the cockpit windows and the curved wingtips. Viewed together, they give our Qatar Airways A350-1000 model a clean, understated presence on the...

Look along the side of our ORCA model and the aircraft begins to suggest a different kind of journey. Small orcas swim across the fuselage. The passenger windows become a trail of bubbles, and pale lines curl through the black...

At Christmas in 2025, Tom, a 20-year-old from the UK, received a Chihuahua named Boss from his mum. The little dog had a personality that more than lived up to his name. He became the inspiration for our Tiny Boss...

When I first started collecting aircraft models, I thought they were simply something to put on a shelf. Buy a model, find some space, and that was it. But after seeing how other collectors displayed theirs, I realised the display...

Buying gifts for someone who loves aviation sounds easy at first. You think, "They like planes, so I’ll just get something with an aircraft on it." That was exactly what I thought as well. Then I quickly realised that aviation...

When I first got into aircraft models, I thought it was pretty much the same as buying any other display piece — if I liked it, I bought it. Before long, I had several different aircraft sitting on my desk,...