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Yay! My “Major Award” arrived today….

by Bill Koppos on April 19, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 9 ≡

My prize package from the March contest has come in. And a beauty it is. 4 Tamiya 1/48 models is a good thing, but these are even packaged pretty as a boxed set. I opened it very carefully to peruse the contents, now I have the urge to go [...]

March Random Winner

by AL HOFFMAN on April 14, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 6 ≡

Thanks to the person with the magic fingers who pulled my name from the hat. This is the Eduard Fw190D11 1/48th Weekend Edition. It is a well molded kit with decals & stencils for one aircraft. As per the Weekend theme there is no [...]

A little video I made on YouTube!

by Billy Smith on April 11, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 3 ≡

So I thought I should post this on here considering this website is based for models 😀 (link) Remember to watch in HD for the best quality I can provide you 😀

Meet our March winners

by Editor on April 4, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 9 ≡

Here is a brief summary of our March activity, a month that brought no fewer than 160 new articles and 1037 comments at iModeler. It is my pleasure today to announce the winning entries in our monthly contest. iModeler Best in Show - [...]

Just to prove I do build.....

by Rob Anderson on March 22, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 6 ≡

My man cave was too clean so here it is with the Dragon 1/350th Livermore kit in progress. I plan on building it as the USS Wilkes performing convoy and ASW work in the Atlantic. Also the first shelf set up with models on it, and my [...]

Ready to start building again!

by Rob Anderson on March 19, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 9 ≡

Well after a move up the coast, trauma from incompetent movers, lots of work the smaller West Seattle man cave (Man cubby?) is ready to build in. Flipped a coin between the USS Livermore and the great 109 kit I won here last month, and as [...]

1/72 Hasegawa SP-5B Marlin

by Tom Cleaver on March 17, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 12 ≡

This model is special to me, because I actually flew in the real one several times "back in the day." "Seashell-5" (her call sign) was with VP-40 for most of her career. I most particularly remember the most [...]

Winner!

by Rob Anderson on March 12, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 8 ≡

My kit from the February drawing arrived today and it is great. Believe it or not I can't remember the last time I built a 109, maybe as a kid? What a great week, finished my probationary period in my post-Navy job and got my white hard [...]

After seeing Traas's immaculate workbench in the article below....

by Bill Koppos on March 11, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 13 ≡

Just figure I would throw mine in for comparison...hmmmmm. No I'm not proud of it. Also included are a couple of views from my climate controlled painting area, which explains my propensity for one-color armor building during the [...]

The Prize…

by Stan Traas on March 11, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 5 ≡

Received the February model contest prize on Friday (sorry it took a couple of days to clear the horror that is my workbench when finishing a build). 😉 Many thanks to everyone at iModeler for the honor and a very cool prize!