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Retro rocket clusters falling apart while drilling out, nothing a little modeling can’t overcome ..read more

I road-tripped to the 2024 Armor Modeling and Preservation Society international show in South Bend, Indiana on 11-13 April with Tim Holland, ‘El Presidente’ of the Southern Maryland Model Club and co-host of The Model Geeks Podcast, who graciously drove each way. I met Tim outside of Washington DC really early in the morning and we drove like the wind across five states to arrive at dinner time on Thursday. We talked enjoyably about models and related world problems for the nine or so hour drive. Tim and I saw a lot of great models, bought a lot of modeling stuff that we probably didn’t need ..read more

Subassemblies all lined upErmagerd! Mold release gunk spotted in the wild! Mold release does exist, but modelers’ booger hooks are the greater threat to fine model finishes. (Hat tips to Will Pattison and Andrew White ..read more

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Whole bunch of repetitive seam removal on unglamorous parts ..read more

Plus a li’l base ..read more

Hard not to notice that the model paint landscape is in the midst of a big ol’ wave of change. Again. The previous wave of change was marked by the passage of Floquil, PollyS, Pactra, Modelmaster, and a big chunk of the Testors square bottle line over the past decade or so. Although the disappearance of these brands–all owned by the Rustoleum parent company and discontinued for corporate bean-counting and not hobby-murdering reasons–is reliably cited as a sign of the impending Death of the Hobby, the Golden Age of Modeling seems to keep yielding even more paint choices than ever before. The b ..read more

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The multiple kit madness continues… Tank greeblies aren’t even trying ..read more