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iModeler December Awards

Once again it is time for our monthly retrospective - a look back at some of the notable articles posted at this site during December. These days we are quite preoccupied with the forthcoming major upgrade to iModeler, so please pardon the [...]

R.I.P. John Young

Gemini III, Gemini X, Apollo X, Apollo XVI, STS1 & STS9. He was on the first manned Gemini mission, walked on the moon and the commander on the first Space Shuttle mission. In his more mortal duties he flew planes like the Cougar, the [...]

Plan of the Year 2018-Rather Ambitious Really

2017 ended with my most prolific building since my teen years. Days before airbrushes, detail sets and decals. You built what was in the box, very little scratch building and hoped it looked like the one you saw in a Scale Modeler [...]

Happy New Year 2018

I wish you all a happy New Year 2018, the next beautiful models in the collection. My collection has been enlarged by the MiG-29 1/72 scale model ... soon I will present the photos of this model ... Happy New Year !

Naval museum Valparaiso-Chile

Here I show some photographs of the naval museum of Valparaiso-Chile, with the largest model of Latin America, the battleship BB-01 Almirante Latorre, in scale 1/20, measuring almost 10 meters long, I hope you enjoy them. regards

A year in Review 2017-

This year by far was the most satisfying when it came to actually building and completing projects. Not only getting close to building what I had planned but a few more as well unplanned builds when GB's were announced. Such as the Midway [...]

History gets saved at the last minute

Was up at the LHS this afternoon reading "airplane porn mags" and found out that last year the second-oldest C-119 "flying boxcar" was up for sale as aluminum scrap, when the AF Museum discovered it was the [...]

iModeler Awards – November

Once again it's time for the editorial review of the last month's highlights. 202 new entries were posted to the Headlines in November, prompting no less than 2,684 comments and a record-breaking 122,674 individual article views. All [...]

HPH 1/48 Convair B-36 Peacemaker – preview

Further to the earlier post by by Josh Patterson, here are some photos of the HPH Models 1/48 scale B-36 kit as demonstrated in Telford in November. Hopefully this gives a good idea about the size of this mammoth kit, bat also the level of [...]

Cherish your Local Hobby Store

The internet has been a huge benefit to the modelling community IMHO, nevertheless it is always sad to see announcements like this one in tonight's Evening Standard. For those of us that live in North London does that now leave only [...]