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March Meeting of IPMS Race City Modelers

Yesterday we had the March meeting of the IPMS race City Modelers the Mooresville, NC Hobby Town USA. We had a great discussion on the tools we all use to remove small parts from plastic sprue and photo etch metal. The second topic was on [...]

iModeler January’s award

It is finally here! It was my 2nd winning award at iModeler and complet surprise for me, so you can imagine how happy still I am. Although the delivery was not easy this time, the price finaly got the right address and I am very proud to [...]

iModeler Awards – February

It's high time to reveal the results of of our February retrospective. I'm sure that most of our readers will be well familiar with our long-standing tradition of awarding a prize among all articles of the month. Time to look back at our [...]

My New Workbench

After 20 years, finally I have a new workbench, expect to create new models in this place

Midway Group Build Updates

We have had this Group Build going for a little over two weeks now. The response has been very positive. In June, between the 4th and the 7th of this year, we will be upon the 75th Anniversary of this significant historical event. [...]

75th Anniversary of the “Battle of Midway” Group build started…

It's official! Everyone is invited! I received enough interest to go ahead and start the Midway build. I wanted to give us all a good amount of time needed for our selections, research, and building, so I started it about 5 months ahead [...]

IPMS Race City Modelers January Meeting

First meeting of 2017 for the Race City crowd and it was a good one! There was 18 members and about 22 models. We had a discussions about what tool we use to remove small parts from sprue and different paints. Show and tell was fantastic. [...]

Southern California’s Top Gun! Petersen Automotive Museum presents Valley Con 2017

Petersen Automotive Museum presents VALLEY CON 2017. Two floors of modeling fun. Our contest on the ground floor and our vendors on the second floor all indoors, and admission to the Museum gets you into the contest with up to ten model [...]

Water Wings group build

Happy New Year, everyone! This is just a friendly reminder that the Water Wings group build, dedicated to seaplanes and flying boats of all types, is still going strong. Deadline is March 1st, so you still have a few months to get those [...]

2016, A year in review

Well I was able to complete 4 of the 12 subjects in 2016, though I was also able to start 10 of the 12. With 4 new projects on the bench with 3 older projects still on going. Even one unplanned build was completed. So all in all it was [...]