As mentioned this week on HobbyKing News much of our content is centred around Mental Health Awareness, and how to cope with anxiety and depression.

Yesterday, October 10, was World Mental Health Day and as we’ve previously emphasised the biggest step in raising awareness for mental illness is to start a conversation (read the full article here).

Today, October 10, is World Mental Health Day - a global event surrounding the issues with mental health education, awareness, and advocacy.

If you’ve read my previous articles you’ll know I'm a fan of airbrushes for painting models but it’s not always practical for various reasons, which is why I might suggest using a brush.

Building turnouts or points for a model railway is actually very common and easy to do. There are many reasons that you might want to build a set of points. Not only is it considerably cheaper to build your own but there is tremendous satisfaction when the points are completed and your rolling stock runs through smoothly.

So you may have noticed that on Friday HobbyKing mysteriously went down for a few hours and all that was left was a cryptic note posted to social media channels.

Micro drift hovercrafts are tipped to be 'the next big thing' in the hobby community. So enthusiastic are the followers of this hobby that the first-ever micro drift hovercraft championship has been announced.

As you may have heard the war on hobby flyers is on, as the major corporations such as Google, Amazon and the Commercial Drone Alliance (which includes ford motor company, CNN and many more) have called to repeal a law known as Section 336.

As HobbyKing News has previously reported, drones have been used to benefit society in a number of ways.

Many major drone operators, including those who are part of the Commercial Drone Alliance (not be mistaken for the Alliance for Drone Innovation) have called for a repeal of Section 336.