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Just completed our annual show and it was a fantastic one! Over 400 models on the tables and over 50 vendors tables loaded with new and legacy model kits. Some great sponsorships from many renowned kit model supply companies. Next years [...]
Christmas in April! There on the front porch was a big box from Prague, with the Kool Kitz from Eduard: the 1/72 Bf-109F double kit, and the Bf-109G-2, all beautiful. The 1/48 FM-1 (the first kit I ever managed to convince them to do) with [...]
Clear Prop will officially announce the release of a 1/48 F-86A at the Moson Model Show this coming weekend. From design information made public,the kit will ultimately be released in multiple versions.
OH HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY DAY!
Clear Prop [...]
A week ago, on Monday 1st April, Tom Cleaver @tcinla posted a news article announcing that the last living survivor of the USS Arizona had sadly passed, Mr Lou Conter, an undoubted hero, reached the grand age of 102.
As iModeler is an [...]
Lou Conter, the last living survivor on board the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, has died. He was 102. He had been in hospice for the past four weeks. Conter died Monday morning while surrounded by family [...]
Just a short promo - our show is April 20th in Tulsa. If you are a fellow iModeler, I'd love to meet you! Here's the website with details: www.route66modelexpo.com.
By the way - we've sold 50 vendor tables - a great time to add to the [...]
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For ICM's just released B-26B Marauder. It certainly has a higher parts count than the Monogram kit as it looks like the whole kitchen sink was thrown into the tail detail wise. Individual guns in each side blister? And those [...]
The latest email from Squadron shows the Magic Factory F4U-1A/F4U-2 Corsair kit available for $69.99 - that's competitive price-wise with the Tamiya Corsairs, with more detail offered. There was a point where @#$#@#@! Stevens International [...]
