KITS of the YEAR '23 annual review 

I love your rants...they are so kind. :)

Building the Mini Art P-47 now. It really is fantastic, especially if you assemble the cowl on its own without using the supporting frames around the engine. Treat all the locating tabs as potential enemies, trim them off, and you will be ok.

Compliments of the season to you, Peter. 🥂

ZK !!90 WHAT A KIT THANKS pete....

A great video, I have really enjoyed your content in 2023 and lets look forward to a great and peaceful 2024, keep up the great work in your own unique style, looking forward to seeing what you do this year, chat soon.

You are quite a humorous chap. Lol. 👍👍

happy new year peter great work 2023 cant wait 2024

Had to thumbs up just for the cheers and Champaign to start to show. Well done.

Hi Peter, and happy new year to you. I totally agree with your pick of the kit of the year, it looks fantastic. Cheers mate.

My first comment! Been lurking in the shadows and thoroughly enjoying your channel. Thanks for all the time and work that you put in, as well as your honesty in your evaluations. Have a fantastic New Year.

Happy New Year.. Thank You for your channel.

Lots of love and a happy new year to my favorite Bond villain of the scale modeling world!

very much enjoyed the video - I used to upload World of Tanks videos for you tube - far less work than yours , and still a lot of work - and time waiting for an upload . So understand the hard work involved - have a Happy New Year 2024 - thank you

Thanks for sharing, Peter. Wonderful show! Good wishes to all your subscribers for 2024!

Happy New Year Peter, and of course the winner is French Champagne ... ;-)

Great review of your favourite kits for 2023👍

Well done Peter,another excellent wrap up. All the best for 2024 and happy modelling.........and yes I watched to the end !!

Great show, very entertaining content through 2023. Very best wishes to you and the wife for 2024🎉

Excellent video as always. Nice to see your passion for the hobby

Thanks for all the great broadcasts of 2023 Peter. Happy new year and all the best for 2024. Cheers!

Looking forward to this one. Always a good finish to the year with Peter and the ' Kits of the Year Show '..👍👍

All the best for the new year Pete. looking forward to watching your vids in the new year. as a newbie to the hobby i am finding them useful insights into the backgrounds of the manufactures and pros and cons of them cheers!

Thanks for all your hard work Peter, much appreciated. Looking forward to 2024, Happy New Year.

I’m in the states, at least you have kit manufacturers to fuss at. 😂

Happy new year to you and your family Peter and best wishes for 2024 Love the videos, thank you so much!

Thanks again for another year of superb videos Peter - this was another one I thoroughly enjoyed. All the best for 2024 and hope I can continue to support the channel 👍 Thanks, Chris

Happy New Year Peter great show

Happy new year Peter. I have really enjoyed your content and style of presentation. Keep up the great work in 2024.

Happy New Year to you and the misses, Peter!

I only started subscribing about 6 months ago Peter, but have much enjoyed your videos. Well considered, thought provoking and always fair. Your point about value is one that can be easily missed in the feeding frenzy of kit buying. I look forward to your uploads next year and my best wishes for a happy and successful one.

Happy New Year to you and your family Peter. I've really enjoyed this year's output so keep up the sterling work.

As always an enjoyable mix of opinions, facts and humour! Very best wishes to you and yours for 2024.

Peter, thank you so much for all of your videos this year. I've had a very difficult year health wise, but always greatly look forward to each of your videos as it is always like visiting a good friend! Some really wonderful kits coming out in the New Year. I'm especially impressed with the new releases from ICM. They really seem like they're trying to do everything right and they're doing a terrific job especially under the circumstances that they're operating under.

Hope you have a great new year Peter, really enjoyed the video, some surprises in the top 10 too which is always nice to see!

Congratulations Peter on your RU-vid achievements this year. I wish you continued success in the new year and many hours of happiness at your bench. Collect, build and above all else have fun! Oh yeah thanks for validating my recent acquirement of the ZM Fw 190 A-4 😊👍

Peter + looking forward to your build of the mosquito that is a beautiful kit chears

Thanks again Peter have a very happy new year. Please keep up the reviews and builds and the rants what a great show of honesty when it comes to the reviews have a good one

Great summary Peter, never change, you bring in very valuable opinions and expertise regarding kits and manufacturers, and thank you for that! Have a wonderful New Year and all the best for yourself and your subscribers!

PS I liked your top ten countdown and I think it wasn't a bad list

Very healthy, & a happy new year.

Enjoyed the round up of 2023 looking forward to seeing next year's offerings. Definitely ICM . I have the wehmacht radio trucks (kitDS3509)for the coming year and the sdkfz250. Great value for money. Anyway I digress. All the best for 2024 and looking forward to more reviews.

Happy New Year Mr Oxley and all the best to you in 2024 🙏🥂🎉🎈🎊

Happy New Year from Australia . Love your work . Cheers !!

Your show is smashing, fab and funny

Happy New Year Peter Yeah I`M 64 going on 65 lol

Cheers from USA, nice work!

You are right enough Peter, the F-35 kits are absolutely wonderful! I built the A last year and hopefully will get the B done this year. I wonder if the C variant will regain the top spot next year?! 🤔 Thank you for all your fantastic output in 2023 Peter, your videos are a joy to watch. All the very best for 2024!

Happy New Year 🎉

Cheers Peter, happy New Year to you

Brilliant video happy new year peter🤪

Great to have discovered your channel after getting back into modelling. Made the mistake of putting on a cracker hat on a boiling hot Aussie chistmas day and the dye leaked and stained my head LMAO

Always an outstanding video and presentation

Hi again Pete if I was to build a Phantom I think it would be a Meng kit....

Will be good 👍.

Great video, hope to get my FW190 next week. I was one of the new subscribers this year and enjoying your content! Happy new year and see you in 2024!

Happy New year to all my fellow glue sniffers may everyone enjoy a year of gluing small parts to your fingers lol Cheers

I'll definitely be doing the Meng Phantom in the new year. It looks superb. Have a happy new year everyone!

I really enjoyed this combo top ten model countdown and end of 2023 video. And my wife and I will be enjoying a Californian champagne this coming 2024. I never knew that England produced champagne

Cheers from NZ for all the great vids throughout the year. I haven't been into modelling for quite a while,0 but your vids are slowly getting me around to starting again, though Wargaming are just too good at keeping me into World of Tanks 🙄. Anyway, enjoy the "champagne", currently I'm on Sheppard & Neame's Bishops Finger Ale, getting ready for the family BBQ tomorrow.

Happy New Year!

The into gave me flashbacks to watching Macros or Robotech in Canada as a young lad lol

Great video and Happy New Year to you Peter! Your content adds great value to the hobby. I hope Tamiya bring us something else than an F-35 C this year! I usually get myself the new tamiya release for Christmas but these last two years I have been disapointed by the subject choice and passed. I'm hoping for a 1/32 Fw-190 Dora or a new tooled F-15 in 1/48 from Mister T in 2024

A bit surprised that you didn’t mention the Zoukei-Mura Bf109G-14. Enjoyed the video, thank you.

Well l have absolutely enjoyed my first year subscribing to your channel, so l got it wrong with the 1st and 2nd even though l got the FW 190 and yes it's a great kit, l'm itching to start it l think it will be later in the year when my skills have improved but what year that is the question but it's one of those kits you just love to own, shocked 😲by Airfix what on earth are they thinking of anyway have a great new year and all the best for 2024 for you and your family 👍

Hi Peter. I'm one of your December subscribers. I've really enjoyed your videos this month and I'm sure I'll enjoy future episodes too. Keep doing what you're doing sir. P.S. It looks like we share the same taste in shirts.

Another great video Peter, congrats on your channel which is quickly becoming one of my favorite modelling channels! I love the "real-time" nature of the videos, your upbeat sense of humor, and the sensible assessments of the kits. Now, why did the Airfix Fairey Gannett not make the list? I can't wait to get my mitts on that most beautiful fugly plane... Happy New Year!

Great video and Happy New Year Peter. I generally agreed with your rankings and your rationale behind them. The only one of these I have is the Academy A-10C and I was very impressed. Was I disappointed the cannon wasn't visible? A little but I can live with it. And for whatever it's worth, my #1 kit of the year of the 53 I purchased is Polar Lights 1:350 Klingon Kronos 1 Battlecruiser. Cheers and an Uber after the champagne 😉

Absolutely love your content! Always entertaining!!

I have Meng F102 and F106's to do i hope they're good.

Great video Peter. Nice to know I have four of your top ten kits. The Miniart P-47, the Arma Hobbies Hurricane, Academy A-10 and the Meng F-4G. I agree with you about Airfix and the Gannet. Not a big fan of the aircraft and it seems strange that Airfix would have chosen it. I can't imagine the popularity of the kit will be significant outside the UK. Happy New Year to you and best wishes for you and your channel in 2024!

Very fair Peter... 😃 I haven't built any of the newer ICM kits, though bI do intend to have a go at some of their new helicopter range - that's an area I'd had little interest in until this summer.....I'll get to it! 😉 I started the year (2023) with the Tamiya F-35A (with an aftermarket RAF Lakenheath decal set) and at the time it was the best kit that I've ever put together - the painting of certain areas was the only 'tricky' part. AS far as engineering goes, it's the best; it's almost Lego brick style in the way it fits together; even the small fiddly detail parts - of which, there are many! Fabulous! After that, I turned to an Italeri 1/48th F-15E Lakenheath edition kit....I was attracted by the Lakenheath schemes as I live near, and work on, RAF Lakenheath... Oh My God...What a PIG of a kit! Not two parts would fit properly!!! It was a shocker....the upper and lower fuselage halves are of different lengths and barely match up; the cockpit details barely fit, and the whole;e thing is a joke...I did however persevere and managed to bash it together, and from about 4 feet away it looks 'OK'.... 😂 I was building an Airfix Seaking 1/72 scale kit during the summer as who doesn't love a Sea king? Fond memories of them recovering the Apollo astronauts after the Moon flights in the early '70s! 😉 Anyway, as I was building that, Airfix suddenly announced their NEW 1/48 version!!!! It looked amazing, so I pre-ordered it immediately! Whilst waiting for the new Sea King, I started an ancient Revell (1959) HMS Victory which actually came out looking great! Bloody rigging drives you nuts, but I got there, and then finally started the 1/48 Sea King....... Just on the home straight now and have the rotor blades to finish....My God what an amazing kit this Sea King is! So beautifully detailed, and the fit of parts is 'almost' up there with the Tamiya F-35A - 'Almost' because there's there's a more complex structure build for the Sea King, and it does need a bit of clamping/holding to get the parts to fit firmly, but that's just normal modelling, right? 😉 So after all this long post (sorry!), for me, THE kit of the year is obviously the 1/48th Sea King, with the F-35A very close behind - I think the Sea King gets it because there's more actual 'modelling' involved and it looks fabulous (probably MY best finished model from over 50 years!)....Having said all that, I will without shadow of doubt be getting the new Tamiya F-35B... 😉 So yeah, congrats to Tamiya for a fabulous F-35, but BIG congrats to Airfix for the unexpected and seriously good Sea King kit! 👍 👍 🥳

Both ICM and Miniart have knocked the ball out of the park given the terrible situation they have worked under. They really deserve our support - buy kits from them to show that you care!!

like your list a lot, i have some of the Arma Hobby Hurricanes, but in 1/72...would like to get a Mk II D, but i really don´t like resin parts nor PE hehe

Happy new year.

Gannets a fine choice and looking forward to building that at some stage. Unfortunately the LMS got the kits but not the pricing from Airfix so they could not sell it to me. I have built a few in 1/72 and they always garner interest at the tables at our meetings. A Jag will be along some time soon. No panic. You should start building more TBH and reviewing those kits as some kits can look lovely in the box but are dogs to build. Nearly picked up the Kinetic Shar before exmas but every time I hear you voice saying Noooooooooooo. I Enjoy the Videos and Happy new year to you.

As for kits to build in 2024, I had already decided to go for ICM Ov-10 Bronco (firsti ICM kit), and then go from there. And then a wild Oxley reviewed the 'Goulash kanone' and blimey, this bugger has to hit my bench as well. Even though the looks of 'Fat Amy' is not my cup of tea, but I am a Tam-boy, so what will go wrong? Anyway, happy new year everone.

It would be great if some of the things you recommended had links in your description. Maybe be an affiliate so you got a kickback and maybe shared some coupons from places that offered them to your subscribers. I really want to see your channel succeed. I am a collector who dearly misses the hobby shops of my youth. I am building my own hobby shop in my garage for my son so he can experience a hobby shop like atmosphere. Cheers!

What is best ICM kit that you have built?

thank you for the wonderful show. however the orange crown is unbecoming of a bond super evil Villain.

I wish ICM would use harder plastic, it is soft, and even Tamiya's extra thin dissolves it too soon. I await the time they produce jets through the years. AirFix should release a Jaguar jet, they were used in UK service, and many schemes.

Ohh, a mention in the Meng Phantom segment. 😃 Happy new year all.

Great channel Pete. How about a review of ICM's 1/32 Henschel HS-123 and a release date. Keep up the good work.

Speaking of problematic plastics, I'm currently building 2 Revell kits from the mid 70's, both made in England and both 1/32nd scale. The Spitfire Mk 1 is a slightly translucent beige/tan plastic which is extremely brittle and reacts badly to the SMS paints that I use. Not all of it reacts, but some of it goes quite lumpy. Many of the thin parts have broken, especially the mounts for the ailerons and rudder. The gaps between the wing roots and fuselage are massive. I wonder whether the wings have shrunk. The gap was up to 5mm and needed plastic glued inside the wings to give me something to support the putty. The Ju87B Stuka is a medium grey plastic which is actually quite nice. The only problem I'm having with it is the ejector pin marks in awkward places, especially right next to areas with lots of rivets. As all the rivets are raised, and there are lots of them, it is a real pain.But at least the wings are a good fit and will only require a very light fill to hide the joins.

fair comment on airfix and all manufactures. do you look at the price range when you take into account when choosing kits as budgets are getting tighter.

Really like your top ten choices. Very fair! Where did you rank Eduard's 109K-4? Probably not entirely new, but nevertheless excellent kit. So, where does your English "champagne" rank in top ten champagnes? And, next year, will you be trying a French "ale"? : )

NIKS MYSTERY BOX ON GARYS STUFF HERE, THE BEST INTRO I HAVE SEEN ALL YEAR. WELL DONE PETER AND HAPPY NEW YEAR IN ADVANCE TO EVERYONE

Hey Peter - Nice chatting with you during the Apollo 11 video from Steve. Do you have any experience with I Love Kit models?

Interesting video - I wonder if you could say what your 1/72 aircraft of the year is? You review a number even if I realise 1/48+ gives more "complete" models. Thanks!

Hi Peter I hope your new year is good and that your 2024 is as good as any. Just a point about Airfix that should be brought out in the open. Airfix never take money out of your account until the item is despatched and so the quote they shouldn't take your money before you get the product needs to be addressed. I understand that ICM is a prolific release kit company and they are doing extremely well under their present circumstances as you have stated But I also think Airfix have released a high number of kits that are top quality and this has not been brought in the open by your video. I am not an Airfix fanboy and have had issues in the past with Airfix myself but I think as a company and the quality of the product they are producing is moving in the right direction. I want to make a note as I think it's easy to put down things rather than build things up. I would like to see a video from you stating what you really like in modelling , there must be something about this hobby that keeps you coming back. I would love to see a video about your likes. I liked to see your builds you feature on this clip (Nice work)

Hkm 148 dambuster lanc upkeep bomb has wooden slats

Only reason I liked the Gannet is because I was on Ark Royal ours was the AEW ver.

Magic chemicals for Eduard decals is white spirit.

Great review Pete but why do you wear those black gloves ?

Trumpeter ship models may go together well but their design team seems to think US war ships have the hull of a garbage scow. I am talking about the USS Missouri specifically. I avoid Trumpeter now

Don't hold back on the champagne 😀

Twist the bottle, not the cork!

Airfix think there the man utd of model kits but they arnt performing well need to up there game peter

Skol

no buccaneer? also remember you gave the kinetic harrier 9/10 before building it

You only had your hat on for 14 minutes and about 7 seconds