Commentary on current events or industry news
Sad to learn that Dave Schemel passed on December 1, from complications of Covid-19. I'd lost track of him, then we re-established contact last year, but I hadn't heard anything from him since last summer. Great guy, great modeler, a [...]
Hello, I'm P38J's (Bob) son Bob Jr. I regret to say you've lost one fine modeler, as my father has passed on from this life. I know he would frequent this site for ideas/inspiration from all of you and maybe strut his stuff from time to [...]
Hello! I would like to present a new model - the model of the American airfield tractor M2 Cletrac. The model is made of polyurethane resin, 134 parts, decal for 8 options, brass mesh, cable. The model is made as convenient as possible for [...]
Eduard has released overtrees of the Spitfire Ia both early and late. Saw them advertised at Kitlinx for $22.99 - get 'em while they're hot!
Just saw an announcement that Lloyd Jones passed away over this past weekend.
If you don't think you know who he was, if you ever used a Scale-Master Decal, you knew Lloyd, who designed and created all that series. Those decals are so [...]
Just heard the news that Bill Koster has passed. A man who influenced all of us, whether you ever made one of his conversions or models or not.
The nicest guy to ever deal with in the hobby. He always had time for everybody.
I hate you [...]
Just heard that Tom Doll has made his last rolling takeoff from the flight deck, headed west.
Tom was an amazing writer, a real lover of naval aviation (go google him at Amazon and see all the books he wrote that you've read at one time or [...]
I'm sad to have to announce that aviation history pioneer Eric Hammel passed away yesterday from complications brought on by Parkinson's.
I have two reactions: 1) I sure do wish it hadn't happened. 2) for a guy as physically and [...]
Update 15.08.2020: (link)
FROM THE AUTHOR:
From time to time we have on iM an history overwiev, so I decided to share some part of my country history.
The battle of Warsaw known as the the Miracle of the Vistula is classyfied as 18-th The [...]
For those interested, Kitlinx announced recently that they were buying kit collections. They just announced in their latest newsletter a whole lot of limited-run Hasegawa 1/48 Fw-190s of various sub-types and markings, and 109s the same. [...]
