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IPMS Race City Modelers May Meeting

We had another successful club meeting this past Sunday at the Mooresville, NC Hobbytown USA. A lot of great models for show and tell. We had several discussions on the type of glues we each like to use and what we use to strip paint from [...]

Historic Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth (2)

As there seems to have been reasonable interest in my previous posting, I've added a second and final tranche of images, from both HMS Victory and HMS Warrior, with a selection from the museum areas themselves, as described previously.

Historic Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth

In keeping with a current project (wooden ship model HM Bomb Vessel Granado), for inspiration I visited the famous Historic Naval Dockyard and Museums at Portsmouth. The best known exhibit is HMS Victory (yes, THAT one). I include here [...]

iModeler Yearbook 2015 – Celebrating diversity (video)

Time to do a final editorial roundup of the year 2015, celebrating the diversity of another amazing 12 months at iModeler. This 3-minute video rewind presents but a small selection from over 1,200 modeling projects posted by iModeler [...]

Building Airfix 1:72 Fokker EII (late) Eindecker

Here's a rather charming little video promoting the new-tool Airfix 1:72 Fokker EII (late) Eindecker; produced by Tom Grigat (link)

2015 A year in Review/Preview

Well it is over, It is the last day of 2015, 31 December. A year that I would say has been an eventful one more so than others. Less than 5 miles away we were hit by terrorism less than a month ago. As modelers we focus on our hobby [...]

Happy Prize Winner

Delighted with my unexpected yet very welcome random draw prize. Will go on modelling projects pile and will display once completed. Thank you I Modeller!

iModeler November Awards

November marked a surge of World-class modeling here at iModeler. Not only because of our coverage of the 2015 Scale Modelworld, but because of all the other fantastic contributions to the Headlines. In total, November brought us 128 new [...]

No detail is too small (video)

Modelers will enjoy this new promotional video by Singapore Airlines. It endorses paper card modeling, and incredibly, all of the shown elements seem to be a part of a complete 1/20 scale paper Airbus A380 model comissioned by the company. [...]

Just arrived, new Airfix Spitfire Mk Vb

For winning the random draw for the last month I received the Airfix Spitfire Mk Vb. Here is the box up on my Spitfire shelf in the study. The molding is excellent and the instructions appear to be CAD generated. Now I need to move the [...]