03/12 Twelve new Gallery entries have been posted.

Many thanks to Thomas Lentell for his very generous donation to the Starship Modeler Operating Fund.

03/10 Voting for the contest starts tonight.

We're continuing to fix minor issues with the Store. It works a little bit differently now, and I have found that the first time or two I changed something, I had to close my browser (Firefox 3.6x), restart it and re-log in. If you're having troubles, try that first. If you're still having issues, then drop me a line and we'll work through them.

03/09 I missed an entry to the contest - it is posted tonight. New plan: voting will begin tomorrow - presuming there are no more errors or missed entries I have to correct.

If you see a problem, or your entry is not posted, PLEASE eMAIL ME!

We have been working hard on upgrading the Store today (and by "we" I mean "Linda"). The front end should look much the same to customers, though there are some cool new features you'll see. Everything should be up and running again shortly.

03/09 The last three Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight. Voting will begin tomorrow - presuming there are no errors or missed entries I have to correct.

If you see a problem, or your entry is not posted, PLEASE eMAIL ME!

On a side note, the entire .com site - which includes these pages as well as the Store - have been moved to a new server. It may take up to 24 hours for everyone to see the move, though.

03/08 Six more Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight. Just a handfull left to post. I had intended to have everything done on Friday ... and then our dog died. Kinds threw everything off. My new plan: finish posting entries tomorrow and start voting on Wednesday.

By the way, there are dozens of new items in the Store.

03/04 Ten more Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight. Less than a dozen to go!

03/03 Ten more Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight. I have something like 18 left to go.

Ahem. I was flooded with contest entries over the weekend. And by flooded, I mean my inbox was curled up in a corner, shaking and crying and begging for mercy - and not getting any. For a while there it sounded like a pachinko parlor in my office, the eMails were coming so fast and furious (my eMail program makes a little 'ding' noise everytime a new one comes in). OK, nothing new there - that happens at the deadline for every contest. But at the same time, and ever since, I have been flooded with calls and eMails from people wanting to know why their entries have not been posted. And that's on top of all the orders for the new 1/1000 scale Refit Enterprise....

Have a heart, people!* The StarshipModeler Staff in this case is just me, John Lester (aka OneZero). It takes me a non-trivial amount of time to format the pictures and text accompanying each entry (and that's even for those people who provide everything requested in exactly the format requested, spell-checked and grammar-proofed). And I do have a full time job, a family, and other committments (like church council, which went for four hours tonight....) taking me away from formatting entries.

I will post all entries I've received just as fast as I can - hopefully by the end of this week (so, March 5th or 6th). I will provide a couple of days for anyone I've missed - in the off-chance that I've missed someone - to grab me by the ear, shake me around a bit, and correct my errors. Once everyone who entered is satisfied that their entry is posted, then and only then will voting commence.

This is not new. This is the way it's always worked in all 18 previous contests. I guess there are just a lot of people who never entered before, though ....

03/02 That all said .... and it's technically not the 2nd anymore either .... ten more Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight.

FYI: Moebius' new 1/32 Viper Mk 2 should be here next week. Hasegawa's Falke with the Excimer Laser should be here this week.

03/01 Six more scratchbuilt Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight.

PLEASE NOTE: I have downloaded the flood of entries that came in over the weekend but I obviously have not posted them all yet (I guess it was not the weekend to have a stomach bug ...) If there was a problem with your entry I sent an eMail requesting new files (or whatever was needed.) If you did not hear from me - PLEASE let me get everything posted before you bombard me with questions about whether I received your entry. Odds are, I did.

02/25 Two more scratchbuilt Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight.

Not the most relaxed day here .... the 1/1000 refits are in and flying off the shelves. We made four trips to the post office today - plus a run for moxes from U-Line. And the site was down ... twice. Thank you, Microsoft. But it's over, at least....

02/23 Eight more Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight.

There are many more contest entries in my eMail queue - please be patient, I will get to them all!

The Polar Lights 1/1000 Refit should be here tomorrow. We'll be sending out preorder payment notices - so stay tuned to your eMails if you preordered!

02/19 Five more Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight.

02/18 Twelve new Gallery entries have been posted.

02/17 Still on a Romulan and 2500 scale theme here. Tonight, Tim Utton builds Odyssey Slipway's new 1/2500 Romulan Nova Z-1 Battleship.

Over on the boards, there's been an outbreak of 3-wheeled 'racers' based on airplane fuselages. Junk Tank Rock's Viper inspired Maschinen Krueger's Gluhkafer and moffeaton's Salt Flats Racer. You can follow their build progress in the On The Bench forum. Before those came Chris Binnett's 3 Wheel Racer (it's this month's SSM Calendar image too) and DaveVan's Too Much Cough Medicine. Good stuff!

02/16 Jeffrey Griffin continues touting the virtues of 2500 scale goodness with a look tonight at Gizmotron's 1/2500 TOS Romulan Bird of Prey.

It was another busy day in the Store, with FedEX, UPS and the post office dropping off box after box of wholesome modeling goodness. Pegasus' Chemical Plant and Power Plant kits are back in stock, as are Wave's new MaK SAFS. Plus lots of other stuff (Fine Molds, Hasegawa, Aztek Dummy - the list goes on).

02/15 Quite a bit of Hobby News posted tonight.

Just in to the Store is some new super-thin masking tape from Aizu. It's just like Tamiya tape, except in 1.0mm, 1.5mm and 2.5mm widths. I've used it already (masking a bootsripe on Dragon's USS The Sullivans) and I have to say it's some great stuff.

02/12 Twelve new Gallery entries have been posted.

02/10 Rich Dula takes a quick look at Pegasus Hobbies' NSEA Protector in tonight's update. I'm half-way through building this myself - and I have to say it's a treat.

02/09 Four more Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight.

Big restock from Japan in the Store

Many thanks to Gerald O'Brien and Michael Depaul for their very generous donations to the Starship Modeler Operating Fund.

02/05 A note from the StarshipModeler Store:

We will be raising prices on most of our plastic kits starting Feb. 15, 2010. We had hoped to avoid this, but the distributors and many manufacturers we buy from have been raising their prices. We've been trying to keep ours down, but we're going to have to raise some. So on February 15th, prices on most kits (not Pegasus, but most of the rest), will be raised anywhere from 3 - 10%.

This includes the not-yet-released 1/1000 Refit Enterprise from Polar Lights (which now looks like it will be released late in February/early March). The wholesale price on that was raised on Oct. 21st. We've tried to keep our price lower, but we also can't just give these away. If you want to cancel your pre-order, just go ahead and delete it from your pre-order list. (But if you check around, you'll see that we are still one of the best prices out there).

Raising prices is not something we want to do (especially in this economy!) but we have to in order to stay afloat. (So if there's something you've been eyeing, now might be the time to get it...)

Thanks for your understanding and your continued support.

02/04 Jeffrey Griffin is back with a look at Gizmotron's 1/2500 Early Bird of Prey (from Enterprise).

02/02 Twelve new Gallery entries have been posted.

02/01 Two more Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight.

We received a big restock today over in the Store - all sorts of goodies showed up at the door. Among them are what will probably be the last MMI products we can get (as MMI is going out of business).

Many thanks to James 'JustPlainJim' Knott for his very generous donation to the Starship Modeler Operating Fund.

01/29 Four more Just Glue It! contest entries are posted tonight.

01/26 Robb Merrill takes a look in the box at Hasegawa's 1/48 Macross YF-19. This really bodes well for the upcoming 1/48 VF-1J/S they've announced!

01/20 Five more Just Glue It! contest entries have been posted tonight.

01/19 Tonight I have a sneak peek at Moebius Models' upcoming Viper Mk2 kit.

The Pegasus Galaxy Quest kits arrived to day and are now available in the Store.

01/15 Twelve new Gallery entries have been posted.

01/13 Jim James takes a look at the new (in the US, anyway) Revell Republic Gunship from Clone Wars. This is the larger 1/72(ish) kit, not the mini "Pocket Kit" from a year ago.

There's a bunch of new items in the Store as well.

01/11 Two more Just Glue It! contest entries are in place tonight.

01/07 A dozen new Gallery entries have been posted.

UPS showed up with a bunch of restocks plus Revell USA Clone Wars kits and the brand-new Vulcan Shuttle (well, same plastic - mostly - as the late seventies release, but much better dcals and now it's got magnets). Pre-order notices went out tonight.

01/06 Dominic Handl returns with his take on building the Master Grade Strike Gundam tonight.

It's been a frantically busy week here. Pre-order notices on the next batch of Discoveries and Titovs have been sent. Our first batch of Revell (USA's) Star Wars 'Clone Wars' kits is in and should be posted to the Store soon. Newly arrived from Acreation is a photoetched brass detail set for the 1/1400 Enterprise-E. Also in stock now are the resin detailing sets for the Moebius Flying Sub. The Vulcan Shuttle kits from Round 2 have been shipped to us and should be here by the end of the week - presuming the snowstorms we're facing don't delay the trucks...

01/01 The year's first review is my look at building Wave's new SAFS Type II Snake Eye. Happy New Year, everyone!

Being that it's the first of the year, it seems fitting I should draw attention again to Linda's aerticle published one year ago - A Wife's Perspective on Modeling.

A programming note for the Store - USPS Priority, Express and international postal rates will go up (roughly six percent, but it varies by distance, weight and volume of the package) on Monday, 4 December. First class mail will not be affected.

12/31 For the last update of the year we have some real world weathering examples added thanks to Joe Brown.

12/29 Jeffrey Griffin has a look at Gizmotron Models' 1/2500 Movie Klingon Bird of Prey tonight.

12/23 Nine new galleries are up tonight - not everything I had intended to publish, but I'm falling asleep at the computer.

Everyone was making deliveries here today - lots of restocks in the Store plus new stuff: Hasegawa's Lunadiver Stingrays and Mobieus landing gear for the Flying Sub (looks like I still have toadd that.....), among other items.

12/22 Wow. What a week it's been! Christmas rush really caught me by surprise --- here I thought the recession still had everyone by the throat (and compared to 2005, it still does .... but compared to last year, I am super busy) Anyway, the first two Just Glue It! contest entries are in place tonight, and there's so much new in the Store I'll just point you to the front page there.

I need a nap....

12/09 Eleven new galleries are up tonight.

12/08 Dan Holmes previews Aoshima's 1/48 Airwolf tonight.

Many thanks to David Green for his very generous donation to the Starship Modeler Operating Fund.

12/04 Some hobby news posted and the next online contest announced tonight.

12/03 Twelve new galleries are up tonight.