December 2025
December 2025 Newsletter
The end of 2025 is already here and once again it is time for our Winter newsletter. Here’s a summary of the year, and news of what’s to come in 2026. It has been a year of surprises and sadness, with the cancer diagnosis early in the year of our designer Dave Love and his subsequent [...]
Sold out 1250 scale ship models from CN Collectables,
We have a wide range of several hundred model ships, aircraft and dockside models and these vary in their popularity and sales. We have created this page to let you know which models we have sold out in order to inform and also to hear from you which models you would like us to make again. [...]
Sold Out Series 3 Modern Triang Minic Items
Here is our Sold Out list of Triang Minic Series 3 items. If you are looking for an item we suggest you buy the first one you find so long as the price is not a silly one. Triang stopped production in 2014. We were the largest buyer of Triang which is why we still have [...]
MODEL WORLD LIVE SHOW AT NEC APRIL 25 and 26 IN 2026
CN Collectables is pleased to be having two tables at this huge show along with MT Miniatures and offering scale ships, aircraft and other collectable models from our past. MODEL WORLD LIVE will feature over 190 stands bringing together the very best in modelling including brand-new features for the third year of this premiere modelling exhibition. [...]
September 2025
My tribute to Dave Love.
MY TRIBUTE TO DAVE LOVE Dave was an engineer, artist, sculptor, designer, inventor and producer of hundreds of ships, aircraft, spaceships, and dockyards. He founded the Mountford Company in about 2002, sold it on to MT Miniatures and this was then sold to CN Collectables which led to us working on so many projects such as [...]
August 2025
Type 23 extended life models in 1200 scale, Triang Series 4. Summary.
We have made a very limited number of our Triang type 23 frigates in life extended mode in order to cover the complete fleet. This includes the three frigates sold to Chile which have also been life extended. The models are in the Triang style but made of white metal and the masts too, and made [...]
Photos of Devonport Dockyard kits completed from Richard.
Thanks to Richard for the photos of the complete set of our Devonport Dockyard kits. They serve as a glorious tribute to the skills and imagination of Dave Love who sadly died this July 2025.
July 2025
July 2025 newsletter Summer Holidays
Here is a quick newsletter to remind you of events and our holiday dates in the summer. On Sunday 27th July we shall be at the Lincoln Ship Show, run by Tim Hudson. It is from 10.30am to 1.30pm at the Dunholm Village Hall, LN2 3SU, same as last year. There's a Wellow Show on Saturday [...]
Mini ship shows and toy fairs in 2025,
Here are some of the planned dates of mini ship shows for 2025. We shall be attending as many as we can and there's a note if we wont be there. July Sunday 27th at Dunholm Village Hall, nr Lincoln organised by Tim Hudson. LN2 3SU 10.30-1pm Saturday 2nd August Wellow show at which we alas [...]
June 2025
Navy news June 2025.
1 to1 SHIP NEWS June 2025 This month has seen the sad departure of HMS Bristol from Portsmouth. The only type 82 destroyer built and the last ship which served in the Falklands. Towed away to the ultimate fate of the scrapyard. A great looking ship which suddenly became obsolescent along with the carrier design CVA [...]
June 2025 Newsletter – Birthday Sale
Hello to all and we hope that you are keeping well. This month our website is 9 years old, so this is our Birthday newsletter with a Birthday Sale of a variety of items. We have been busy listing many used ships in 1200 and 1250 scales and have many more to list as we process [...]
April 2025
April 2025 Newsletter
We thought we haven’t sent a newsletter yet this year of 2025 so here it is! In January we received new production runs of some of our most popular ship models, the Zumwalt, Type 31 frigate and the four Type 26s. We also received our final Stealth Ships Set 4 which is impressive and the ships [...]