Roys Rants

The modelling public is gobsmacked by our new direction, but fear not, we have not turned our back on WWII subjects. Helloooooo modellers. W...

Large, well printed photos, like this one of Lt. Robert Thoman posing proudly on his P-47D-22 "Ma Cherie", most never published be...

Haven't had your fill of my BS? And by that, I mean, of course, Barracuda Studios. I was a guest on Gerald Voigt's show a few weeks ...

One of my favorite shots from the book. A reminder that these highly trained fighter-bomber pilots were, at their core, just young men who l...

The first book in the Flightline series, featuring the unique and decidedly brutish de Havilland Sea Vixen, was released in November of 2010...

A shot of an actual hardbound edition of the new book, sitting on my kitchen table, which, for once, is not covered in piles of Barracuda St...

We now carry the new ADH book on building the Tamiya 1/32nd Mustang! Hi there, fellow modelers. I am back from the UK Nationals and working ...

I am sitting in my cousin Juliet's living room, near Banbury and not too far from Telford, recovering from the show. I slept nearly elev...

Hi Guys, It has been business as usual here at Barracuda Studios since my last post. Read: busy as heck. Just have a few minutes to bang out...

A sneak peak of the final cover art of the book. The Red, Yellow and Blue segments represent the colors of the 3 squadrons that make up the ...

Here's an image showing the port sidewall of the new Tamiya P-51D, tricked out with our new Mustang cockpit stencils. Click on the abov...

The much anticipated Tamiya P-51D Mustang kit in 1/32nd scale has been released, and the jury is in! And the verdict is: Tamiya found Guilty...

Finescale Modeler bigwig Paul Boyer built all three P-47s in 1/72nd scale from BarracudaCals BC72002. We love this kind of submission. It...

Hi Guys, Just a quick blog entry in response to a number of questions I have gotten recently regarding the status of BarracudaCast set numbe...

"Every now and then I know its kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well" is a line from a classic Johnny Winter song f...

My good friend Mike Grzebien and I preparing for the clock to strike "Beer Thirty" in the lobby of the Holiday Inn in Telford. We ...