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iModeler September Awards

Time for another iModeler retrospective, looking back at our collective activity in September. The month brought a total of 90 new headline articles and 1166 comments. It is worth noting that we also passed the 5,000 articles threshold, a [...]

IPMS Race City Modelers October Meeting

Here is some pictures from our October meeting at Hobby Town USA in Mooresville, NC. Show and tell was a little sparse this month but what was there I think was pretty dang good. The store owner said he is going to have another plastic [...]

IPMS Race City Modelers September Meeting

The IPMS Race City Modelers had their September meeting this past Sunday. There was a wide variety of models for show and tell reflecting the diversified interests of our membership.

iModeler August Awards

It's high time again for our monthly iModeler retrospective... this time looking back at our August entries. For the readers of iModeler, August was a great month. 140 new articles were added to the headlines during the period, prompting [...]

The Big Move

I'm writing these words during my morning commute, after a busy night and a just completed transfer of iModeler to its new hosting center. After weeks of planning, rehearsal, long evenings at the computer, checking an rechecking - we have [...]

RIP Ed Maloney, 1928-2016

My friend Ed Maloney died yesterday afternoon of complications from heart problems. Very few people can say that they changed things single-handedly, but Ed Maloney did. As everyone at every air museum around the world I have ever spoken [...]

Imodeler helps build model airplanes in Russia

I am pleased. I received the prize for the Best in Show victory in May with my model of Grigorovich M-5: (link) The prize I selected is the set of microtubues. These microtubes are essential for rigging in my models. With Imodeler.com I [...]

Two Oldies Join Forces

Italeri came out with the Opel Maultier years ago and along with the older Tamiya FLAK 2 cm Quad I brought them together in my multitudes of vehicles. Neither kit is of the high quality found in today's kits but there is enjoyment in [...]

iModeler July Awards

I hope you'd agree that with the outpour of new model presentations that we enjoy these days, iModeler remains a premium source of modeling inspiration. Let's hold on to that feeling by looking back at some of the notable additions in [...]

Very Happy Winner!!

As the lucky winner for June I was fortunate to receive the 1/32 scale Kitty Hawk OV 10 A/C. Many thanks to all the staff here for voting for my Adler kit and of all of you out there who posted such wonderful and encouraging comments, I [...]