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iModeler September Awards

Time for another iModeler retrospective, looking back at our collective activity in September. The month brought a total of 90 new headline articles and 1166 comments. It is worth noting that we also passed the 5,000 articles threshold, a [...]

Camouflage & Markings – Curtiss P-36 Mohawk in RAF Service

Let's round off our Curtiss *hawk series with a prequel - a few P-36 Mohawks in the RAF service. With profiles by Rick Kent (used by permission) accompanied by text and research by Joe Baugher. - Ed. Considerable interest in the Hawk had [...]

Camouflage & Markings – Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk

Here's another selection of the color schemes carried by the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk during its extensive service career. All artwork has been kindly contributed by Mr Rick Kent. In 1939, Curtiss-Writght went about developing a [...]

iModeler August Awards

It's high time again for our monthly iModeler retrospective... this time looking back at our August entries. For the readers of iModeler, August was a great month. 140 new articles were added to the headlines during the period, prompting [...]

The Big Move

I'm writing these words during my morning commute, after a busy night and a just completed transfer of iModeler to its new hosting center. After weeks of planning, rehearsal, long evenings at the computer, checking an rechecking - we have [...]

Camouflage & Markings – Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk in British & Commonwealth service

The arrival of long-awaited new tool P-40B kits from Bronco and Airfix will likely spin renewed interest in the type. The attached collection of profiles demonstrates units and camouflages representative of the Tomahawk's service with the [...]

iModeler July Awards

I hope you'd agree that with the outpour of new model presentations that we enjoy these days, iModeler remains a premium source of modeling inspiration. Let's hold on to that feeling by looking back at some of the notable additions in [...]

Camouflage & Markings – McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

Celebrating the outcome of a recent Phantom II Group build, here are a few profiles of the aircraft drawn by Mr. Rick Kent (used with permission of the author). The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was originally envisioned as a big, [...]

Announcing June iModeler Awards

It's time for the June retrospective at iModeler - a look back at some of the last month's notable postings. June brought 62 new headline articles that prompted no fewer than 1000 comments. As per our tradition, we are awarding the Best [...]

Camouflage & Markings – Boulton Paul Defiant

Considered by some to be elegant, dismissed by others as one of the ugliest monoplane fighters of all time... the Defiant was a British two-seater built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter", literally designed around a [...]