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Hi, my name is Martin; I am the orginal inventor of iModeler, and proud webmaster of this site.
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iModeler January Awards

With a bit of delay due to recent technical troubles... Here are the winners of the iModeler Contest in January, a month that brought us 80 new articles, prompting over 920 users' comments. As per our usual procedure, we are awarding the [...]

5 Significant New Releases from Eduard for 2014

The hands-down biggest news from Eduard for 2014 will be an entirely new-tool 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 Gustav. The company has been showing the first completed sprue of the new mould at the Nuremberg Toy fair, but the final release [...]

16 Exciting New Kits from Airfix for 2014

Is the "new" Airfix heading into its best year yet? Here is the list of company's new kit releases for 2014. The choice of many subjects is clearly influenced by the forthcoming 70th anniversary of D-Day, but even without that [...]

Alan Wolfson – Master of Diorama Building

What's that giant quarter doing in the New York subway station? Actually, the entire scene is a diorama, or "miniature urban sculpture" created by Alan Wolfson. Alan Wolfson specializes in modeling urban environments. Complete [...]

Enter An Alternate Reality With These Fantasy Racing Airplanes

We'd all know that old aircraft are awesome. They’re full of interesting shapes, texture, detail. Moreover, nothing looks better than an old fighter in a colorful paint scheme! UK-based digital avaiation artist Bill Clavework took this [...]

iModeler December Awards

Time to announce the official results of our final monthly roundup in 2013. 82 new articles and 1035 comments were added to iModeler during December. As per our usual procedure, we are awarding the iModeler Best in Show title to the entry [...]

Happy Holidays!

To all our members old and new, visitors, contributors, monthly winners, judges, programmers, supporters of iModeler - Happy Holidays! Wishing you a healthy and prosperous New Year 2014. This is also an opportunity for your @editor to take [...]

iModeler Review: Hobby Boss 1/48 F-84F Thunderstreak

The Thunderstreak was a swept-wing development of the F-84 created with the hope of bringing the type's performance to the level of its main competitor, the F-86 Sabre. In the event it emerged as an almost entirely new airframe having only [...]

iModeler November Awards

Time to announce the results of our November (1st Anniversary) Contest. 117 new articles and 1230 comments were posted at iModeler during November, and the level of workmanship on display was indeed as good as it gets. As usual, we are [...]

Building Tamiya's 1/350 Battleship Yamato

Here's an inspirational 5-min video showing the construction of Tamiya's new 1/350 battleship Yamato, expertly built and finished by Mr. Guilherme D. Santos from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. (link)