Commentary on current events or industry news
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
