In case you had the slightest doubt that modelers are crazy (:-) )
From the Daily Mail. 70 years to make all 484 warships that have served in the Royal Navy since 1945. Made with matchsticks!
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iModeler February Awards
Once again it is time for our monthly retrospective - a look back at some of the notable articles posted at this site during February. With 175 new articles, 2,027 comments and 47,000 individual article reads, this was a very good February [...]
iModeler Award – December
December award arrived safe and sound and is resting on the workbench, which is tidy as it can be and everything's at arms lenght!
A big shoutout and thanks to iModeler community!
Cheers, Olli
New Kit News: 1/48 Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle from Bobcat
After the success of their first kit (1/48 scale Yakovlev Yak-28P Firebar), the second kit release from Bobcat of China is another interesting Cold War subject, the 1/48 Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle.
The Il-28 was Soviet Union's first [...]
iModeler Award – November 18
Hello & Thanks for voting for my ISU.
It was a present for my friend, and he really likes it .. btw do you ever build any models for your friends, familys, cooworkers ...? I did a lot of them and when it is finished it warm twice 🙂 [...]
New kit news: Eduard to release a new-tool 1/48 P-51D Mustang in 2019
So it's confirmed. With the proverbial Tamiya shake-and-bake kit still to be considered a benchmark in kit engineering, challenged by recent new releases by Meng and Airfix... Eduard will be bringing us another 1/48 scale kit of the [...]
Paul Allen’s research vessel “Petrel” has found USS Hornet (CV-8)
17,500 feet down, with 140 of her crew still aboard. Lost at the Battle of Santa Cruz, the last US fleet carrier lost in combat.
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Also here is the first report:
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iModeler January Awards
Once again it is time for our monthly retrospective - a look back at some of the notable articles posted at this site during January. This was a month, our community added another 203 new articles to iModeler, prompting an impressive 2,655 [...]
New kit news – Revell 1/144 Antonov An-225 Mirya
Here's a new kit from Revell that only hit the store shelves this Christmas.
The Antonov An-225 Mriya is a super-heavy cargo aircraft that was designed by the Antonov Design Bureau during the 1980s. It ranks as the largest and heaviest [...]
Random Award
I was chosen as a random award winner for november for my entry with Caproni Ca.310 Libeccio, I'm grateful for the lovely model which I've chosen as a award; It is Airfix's Ju87B-1 STUKA in 1/48 scale which would be somehow strange to [...]
