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Telford kit news – Airfix 1/72 Phantom preview

in time for Christmas, Airfix will be releasing the Phantom FG.1 in 72nd scale. The built-up kit shows not only the typical extended front landing gear used for carrier operations, but also a bunch of stencils and a nicely detailed cockpit.

Starting Telford

The weather is bad, the queues seemingly looonger than ever... (indeed the line was huge this morning!). Let the show begin... New to me is the fact that as iModeler is a company now, we’re here for the first time with official media [...]

Reporting Live from Scale Modelworld 2017

The IPMS UK Scale Modelworld 2017 in Telford is on this weekend. Watch the iModeler headlines today for comprehensive coverage from the event. We have also set up a dedicates Scale Modelworld Channel to let you bookmark or share a link to [...]

Telford, here we come….

It's time for the 2017 edition of Scale Modelworld, The IPMS UK championship traditionally held in Telford, Shropshire. For the duration of the event, Telford will become the centre of the known modeling universe... The iModeler party will [...]

Scale Model Challenge 2017 Veldhoven The Netherlands.

Dear Modelers, Especially for our oversea modelers, two links to this magnificent event. One in pictures, the other one leads you to some YouTube films. (Part 1-2-3) Look at for instance all the lighting arrangements on the competitors [...]

Year of the Cat Group build updates:

It has been a while since this Group Build was started, back in mid June if memory serves me. It will end in sometime in mid February of 2018 (or thereabouts)... This GB has been very well received. We have had numerous models [...]

Anniversary of Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805

Thirty seconds of serious firepower as would be seen from enemy ship more than two centuries ago. Pretty impressive. (link)

iModeler Awards – September

Once again it's time for the editorial review of the last month's highlights. 107 new entries were posted to the Headlines in September, prompting no less than 1752 comments and 23444 individual article views. All Headline contributions [...]

OMG! Airfix announces 1/48 Blenheim IF for 2018!

(link) To further ensure scale modelling immortality for this magnificent aircraft, we are excited to bring Workbench readers the exclusive news that a newly tooled example of the Bristol Blenheim Mk.IF will be taking its place in our ever [...]

Battle of Kasserine Pass/Tunisia Campaign Build Group Call

From February 19-25, 1943, the Allies fought their Axis foes in the Battle of Kasserine Pass. It was the first major land action by the American ground forces in the European Theatre of Operations (Operation Torch, early November, 1942, [...]