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iModeler Awards – June

Once again it's time for a review of the last month's highlights at iModeler. In many respects June was a record month averaging five(!) new articles every day and 15 comments per article. A large part of this activity was related to the [...]

Got the Imodeler Award!

I am very proud and happy to receive the "Award of the May." And surely, this is a great honor for me. Thanks to Martin and imodeler for this gift that is my favorite ship. I am so happy to have a chance to build a beautiful [...]

Announcing the “Year of the Cat” Group Build

”Year of the Cat” Traditionally, the Chinese have a calendar year that is named after some sort of animal. This year is the “Year of the Rooster”. So what do you think about this? The year of the “Cat”... Anything would go [...]

Scout 4 is Late!

Finally, here is my take on an Aichi E13A floatplane better known as a Jake, and ‘Scout 4’, that catapulted from the Japanese cruiser Tone, during The Battle of Midway, on the morning of June 4th 1942, and much like its reasonably [...]

iModeler May Awards

Once again it is time for our monthly retrospective - a look back at some of the notable articles added to iModeler during the month of May. 95 new entries were posted to the headlines during the period, prompting no fewer than 1020 [...]

Midway Group Build recap…

Greetings everyone ! It has been a little over a week since our reveals were completed from our Midway Group Build. The turn out was more than spectacular and exceeded my expectations by a long shot. I never dreamed that it would have [...]

i Modeler presents Battle of Midway Group Build 75th Anniversary 2017

First I want to thank Martin and his team for this amazing site to share our love of creating miniatures of armor, aviation, ships, figures, automobiles, sci fi and other subjects of interest. Also Louis Gardner, the moderator of the [...]

Midway Group Build to be revealed between June 3rd and June 7th

There are now only a few days left until our Midway Group Build reveals… Dear Group Build contributors, please start posting your models between June 3rd and June 7th in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway. I [...]

My iModeler Best in Show prize arrived…I’m so happy!!!

I want to thank Martin and the rest of the judging team for picking my Hobby Boss Ka-29 "Helix-B" as the February award winner; I am still surprised that my model won. Martin provided me with a list of kits to choose from, from [...]

IPMS Race City May Meeting

Another great club meeting yesterday. 13 members attended with some outstanding show and tell models on display. We reviewed the excellent IPMS Region 12 contest held in Denver, NC several week ago which by the way the Race City club won [...]