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Thank You All!

I want to say thank you for the April 2015 iModeler Award again! The 1/48 Eduard Good Morning Danang edition F-4 arrived yesterday to my doorstep. Lot s of goodies inside for the notorius AMS modeller 🙂 Thank You again to All of You!

Departing for Moson

The annual Moson Model Show will be taking place this weekend and I will be soon packing my camera bag for a flight to Vienna and a quick dash to the location on Sunday. I've been to the Moson Show three times recently and each time found [...]

Today is National Medal of Honor Day in the U.S.

Here are the citations for the Medal of Honor of people I have known or been fortunate to write about (I am currently writing about the Chosin campaign, which covers most of the USMC MoH citations, who were people I was privileged to meet [...]

Thank you Imodeler for my February award

just like to thank Imodeler for voting my model of the Vickers vanguard for the February best in show, as you can see I choose the Revell 1/72 A400M Grizzly, the kit arrived safely and hopefully it will adorn my work bench in the near [...]

My Prize kit arrived !

Big Thanks to the folks at Imodeler. My prize kit from ”Best in Show December award” arrived just a few days ago. This is 1/48 Tarangus SAAB J37 Viggen. I will start this one ASAP , after my current builds. Thanks a lot for this [...]

Alex Vraciu, RIP

Alex Vraciu departed the ship earlier today, at age 96. He was the ranking surviving American Ace of World War II at the time of his death. I had the good fortune of meeting Alex a few times at AFAA events. I would have to rank him as one [...]

So I was asked what I was up to.....

Bob sent a message to see how I was. Well have had some challenges with some family health problems, all of which are on the mend, but it kept me busy being a good nurse and all. In and around that I worked on my new basement man cave, [...]

Product news – 1/48 Henschel Hs 123 from GasPatch Models

Founded in 2011, Gaspatch Models have already brought new quality in the area of 1/48 biplane modeling, first by introducing a novel rigging system (with cast functional anchoring points and turnbuckles in 1/48 and 1/32 scale), then with [...]

Meet your new modeling self

Almost two years ago I had a privilege of posting the very first article at iModeler and have been closely watching the development of this community ever since. I cannot tell you how excited I am about all the wonderful submissions to the [...]

5 Significant New Releases from Eduard for 2014

The hands-down biggest news from Eduard for 2014 will be an entirely new-tool 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 Gustav. The company has been showing the first completed sprue of the new mould at the Nuremberg Toy fair, but the final release [...]