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Hi, my name is Martin; I am the orginal inventor of iModeler, and proud webmaster of this site.
If you want to know more about me, please read: Editor’s Story: How iModeler came to be.

Time for Scale Modelworld!

The weather is dreadful, the traffic is jammed, the lines are long - time for Scale Modelworld 2015! Watch this space for live reports from the show during the day 🙂 (link)

What iModeler is all aboutin 2 minutes flat (video)

We think that iModeler is a cooler type of hobby community, but how does one explain its qualities in a concise manner? Well, how about a video - we have prepared a short explainer clip for iModeler. Our new visitors are now able to view [...]

Going to Scale Modelworld?

The weekend of 7-8 November will see modelers from all over the world gather in Telford for the annual IPMS Scale Modelworld. The event is now only days away. I will have a pleasure of joining it, looking forward to be a part of the [...]

R.I.P. Douglas Carrick

I was just informed by a friend that Douglas Carrick, the accomplished draughtsman, aviation artist and historian who's airplane drawings served generations of modelers worldwide, passed away last week, aged 85. Doug was a legendary figure [...]

iModeler September Awards

Once again it is time for our monthly retrospective - a look at some of the notable additions to iModeler during September. 84 new articles were posted to the site's headlines during the period, prompting 1143 comments. As per our [...]

Adversaries

Yesterday was a fair Autumn day at home, posing a good occasion to rig up an outdoor studio for model shooting. Not least to photograph my recently finished 1/48 scale Tamiya Dewoitine D.520 on which I'd been working for the larger part of [...]

Images of the Battle of Britain… (part 2)

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. On this day in 1940, the Luftwaffe embarked on their largest bombing attack yet, forcing the engagement of the entirety of the RAF in defence of London and the South East, which [...]

Images of the Battle of Britain… (part 1)

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. On this day in 1940, the Luftwaffe embarked on their largest bombing attack yet, forcing the engagement of the entirety of the RAF in defence of London and the South East, which [...]

iModeler August Awards

Dear all, it's high time for our monthly iModeler retrospective, this time looking back at our August entries. 122 articles were added to the headlines by 54 authors, prompting no fewer than 1842 comments. That's equivalent to 16 comments [...]

Airfix 1/72 Gloster Gladiator stop-motion build

(link) Found on Youtube today is this animated build of Airfix 1/72 Gloster Gladiator by Tom Grigat. Don't ask me how the video was done - I have no idea, but it sure is beautiful!