A Most Dangerous Discovery - The Way Back Machine and Other Parts of the Internet

Back in the days of the early 2000's I was in academia, like others, searching the Internet with a passion. The WayBackMachine was in its basic inception and I used it for hours in "multi-disciplinary research! (ahem). Well it's way better now as there seems to be oodles more to find and quicker check it out for yourself (see below):  

Examples of searches ..

https://archive.org/details/Airfix_Magazine_1960-01/page/n17/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/airfixmagazine?&sort=-week&page=2

The generic WayBackEngine link: 

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine

https://archive.org/details/magazine_rack

And there is more to be found ... (note, the collections are not necessarily comprehensive - but nevertheless a brilliant time waste, er I mean research resource) ...

Dragon Magazine: 

https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/DragonMagazine095/page/n3/mode/2up?q=dragon+magazine

The General: 

https://archive.org/details/general_magazine

Military Modeller: 

https://archive.org/details/modelmilitarymagazine

The Space Gamer:

https://archive.org/details/space-gamer

Ares Magazine: 

https://archive.org/details/ares_magazine

https://archive.org/details/Ares_Issue_12_1982_Jan/page/n3/mode/2up?q=ares

White Dwarf:

https://archive.org/details/white-dwarf-023-uk-1981-02-03-36pag/mode/2up?q=white+dwarf+magazine

Meanwhile in another part of the Internet - Donald Featherstone's Magazines and Newsletters: 

https://fourcats.co.uk/mags/index.html

And finally - the way is was back when board games had printed Zines distributed by postal mail or hand:

https://archive.org/details/Diplomacy_World_19_-_Spring_1978/page/n1/mode/2up?q=wargamer

I advise you to set an hour timer on your mobile phone before you start clicking on the links - but it may already be too late by now.

Releases that I am looking forward to :)

I crave the delight of seeing kits that were available from the past (i.e youth) being re-released. Up-and-coming ones I have a particular eye for are:

• Ex-Matchbox Stuart/Honey tank by Revell (Linking back to the Plastic Warrior)
  

• Ex-Matchbox Hanomag 251 by Revell (Linking back to the Revell website which seems to suggest they have just released it)

I found a link to a Flicker collection of the origin Matchbox box art :)

The former will complete a Desert Rat tank troop (Command Decision company) in the desert for the Eighth Army and as the alternative version (bless Matchbox) as  a close-support/light tank (primarily for its many machine guns) for the US Marines in island clearing operations. A couple of kits of the latter Hanomag is needed to complete a Panzer Grenadier company, one of which will necessitate a bit of ingenuous modeling (well just sticking a 37mm AT gun on it, but that's ingenious enough for me).

• I seem to have missed the 1/72 Italeri (old Esci kit) for the Panther, the one they seem to be pushing is the fast snap together version :(

• Will Airfix release the 1/600 HMS Repulse again? :(
  

 Of interest I found this link to a PDF of the old Airfix Magazine ship articles including one on the Repulse.