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Glenn Miller band’s first radio broadcast

(link) On Tuesday, June 14, 1938, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra opened at the Paradise Restaurant at 1619 Broadway in New York City for two weeks. They shared the bill with Freddie Fisher’s Schnicklefritzers. Their first broadcast was [...]

One more Miller radio broadcast

(link) Glenn Miller on the NBC Blue Network, 1939:

Some more music to model by

(link) Another interesting radio recording of Glenn Miller. Pre-War - New Year's 1940. (Playing at the Cafe Rouge of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City - "Pennsylvania-6-5000" was the phone number) I had the good fortune to [...]

Top Three Best Movies Ever.

The ‘iModeler at the Movies’ Group Build has already been a greater success than I could have hoped. Inspired by Aleksander I have added this adjunct; what are your top three movies - ever? My hopes are that we can inspire some more [...]

More music to model by

Glenn Miller and the American Band of the Allied Supreme Command broadcast of July 23, 1944, guest singer British star Anne Shelton. (link)

March prize has come… at last!

Hi all. First of all, I want to give a very very very big thanks to Martin and all iModeler stuff for think that my model was good enough for a prize. Then, I stayed on shock when see the list of available kits to choice. How [...]

Model of the month August’18 (SE.5a)

Hello, iModelers! My award kit for August has arrived yesterday. A big thanks to the jury and iModeler team for selecting my model. Many of the models in August were excellent, and to become a winner in such competition, makes me proud [...]

Video: KV-2 1/72 TrumpeterTank Model

Best olive drab match for Revell colours?

Does anyone know which Revell colour would be a good match for the greenish shade of olive drab? I want to have my first US aircraft with a similar camouflage to those seen on other models. I´ve checked some websites with conversion [...]

Columbia Law Professor’s Wisdom Applies Perfectly to Scale Modeling

In Praise of Mediocrity I couldn't have said it better myself: (link) (link)