ModelGeek's Podcast

What’s Crack-a-Lack’n Modelgeeks! Welcome to Episode 126 of The Modelgeeks Podcast!  In this episode, the Modelgeeks give the usual run down on what's going on in their respective model worlds.  Nemo shares with the listeners that he will be featured on an upcoming MH-53E release from Furball-Aero design!  He also talks about the Red Pill 1/32 F-4B that finally landed in Southern Maryland.  May be the only one in Maryland! 

The Geeks run through the listener email and give a little insight to the LCS program (hint: it is funny!) The listeners share that the Spitfire episode by El Presidentè was a “cracker” of an episode! (see what we did there) lol.  We received a ton of pics focused on your finished builds and uploaded them to the Modelgeeks website.  Keep ‘em coming!  Nemo also gives a tip on how to successfully apply 1Man Army masks and how to produce excellent results. 

The topic for the Episode is “Are you a Builder or Collector?"   The geeks ask the question and give their thoughts on what they think and what it means to be either one.  The geeks give some pretty good explanations on which side of the coin you fall on and to keep it fun, no fence riding and you have to pick one or the other. 

The Pro Geek for the Episode and the winner of the Hypersonic Models NF-104A conversion is: Jay Howard!  The Beginner Geek for the episode, and the recipient of a Detail and Scale title of your choice is: Jared Jamieson!

Congratulations to our lucky winners and if you want to have a chance at the drawing, check out Pateron and sign up at either the Pro Geek or the Beginner Geek level to be eligible!

You can interact with us through social media, Facebook, Instagram, and email:  [email protected] 

Be sure to check out our website: www.modelgeekspodcast.com.

Make sure you check out our  community on Facebook, The ModelGeeks Model Shack

We also want to thank each of our sponsors for their support. We are very lucky to have their support. When you have the time, pay a visit to their web sites, and have a look at their fine products.

Sponsors:

Detail and Scale
Furball Aero-Design
Tamiya USA

Bases by Bill

LionHeart Hobby

Hypersonic Models

Matters of Scale

Kotare Models

Squadron
 
Also, if you're interested in the model shows, click the link below!
IPMS USA Events Page

We are very fortunate to be able to join the scale modeling podcast community and are in the company of several other really GREAT podcasts. Hopefully, someday we’ll earn our wings and be able to keep up with those guys!  Please check them all out at Scale Model Podcasts.

Blogs:
The Kit Box
Sprue Pie with Frets
Model Airplane Maker

We can’t thank our listeners and sponsors enough, thank you guys!  Be sure to keep the emails and gallery pics coming!  Now get to the bench and build something!  Take care everyone, out from the Geeks, Later! 

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Greetings my fellow ModelGeeks, and welcome to the MGPC Episode 125!  Nemo hosts this episode, with a full house.  We chat about the latest and greatest in everyone's model world and get caught up with what's happening in the hobby.  

The mail bag was full again with over 10 emails, which is awesome!  We really appreciate the emails and love hearing from you all.  Also, thanks again for the listener gallery submissions.  Please keep the emails and gallery pics coming and we can't wait to see your work, discuss them on the podcast, and present them on our website.

For the main topic, we talk about how our "Modeling Lens" has evolved and changed.  As youngsters building models, we all built as much as we could and didn't pay attention to accuracy, properly thinned paint, PSI, or weathering, etc.. we just built, and loved every minute of it.   Compare that with how we view modeling almost 40 years later, and there are some significant changes in how we view the hobby.  It's a great topic and we hope you all give it a listen.

Please feel free to interact with us through social media, Facebook, Instagram, and email:  [email protected]

Be sure to check out our website: www.modelgeekspodcast.com.

Make sure you check out our new group / community on Facebook, The ModelGeeks Model Shack

We also want to thank each of our sponsors for their support. We are very lucky to have their support. When you have the time, pay a visit to their web sites, and have a look at their fine products.

• Detail and Scale
• Furball Aero-Design
• Tamiya USA
• Bases by Bill
• LionHeart Hobby
• Hypersonic Models
• Matters of Scale
• Kotare Models
• Squadron

 
Also, if you're interested in the model shows, click the link below!
IPMS USA Events Page

We are very fortunate to be able to join the scale modeling podcast community and are in the company of several other really GREAT podcasts. Hopefully, someday we’ll earn our wings and be able to keep up with those guys!  Please check them all out at Scale Model Podcasts.

Blogs:
The Kit Box
Sprue Pie with Frets
Model Airplane Maker 

Well, that's it for this episode.  Thanks again for all your support and we hope to see you all this year.  Just remember, be excellent to each other, and get out there and build something!  Take care everyone, out from the Geeks!

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Welcome to Episode 124 of The Modelgeeks Podcast! 

After a small bit of banter, we share what is on our bench and what we have picked up lately.  We then cover Mail Call (keep the cards & letters coming folks!).  Don’t forget Listener Spotlight.  

For our Patreon Giveaway, courtesy of LionHeart Hobby we have the X Scale 1/144 P-3C Orion kit #144007 along with Caracal’s newly minted  sheet #144024.

Our main topic is “Spitfires, Part 1a”.  El Prez opened up his references and leads a modeler’s discussion of the Prototype and Mk I Spitfire.  If you’d like to follow along with his notes you can download them here.

We would like to thank all our listeners out there for the continued support you have given the show. We hope to see you out and about as we hit the show circuit. If you happen to see us at a show come on over and say hello, we may even put you in front of the mic!

If you can't make it to the shows then you can still interact with us through social media, Facebook, Instagram, and of course email at: [email protected] 

Also remember to surf over to the Geeks homepage at https://modelgeekspodcast.com.  Take a look at the Listener Gallery, and if you’d like to see your work there, send us your photos to [email protected].  File size and quantity is not an issue for us, but may be an issue for your email provider.  Feel free to send us a link to a sharing service if you use one, but please ensure the link expires at least 7 days after you send it.  We need a few days to get them published.  

Make sure you check out our group / community on Facebook:

The ModelGeeks Model Shack

Get on there and feel free to share your work! We want to see what’s on your bench.

We also want to thank each of our sponsors for their support. We are very lucky to have them. When you have the time, pay a visit to their web sites, and have a look at their fine products.

Please visit our Sponsors and see what new items they have:

Furball Aero-Design

Detail & Scale

Tamiya USA

Bases By Bill

Hypersonic Models

LionHeart Hobby

Matters of Scale

Kotare Models

Squadron

We are very fortunate to be able to join the scale modeling podcast community and are in the company of several other really GREAT podcasts. Hopefully, someday we’ll earn our wings and be able to keep up with those guys!  Please check them all out at https://modelpodcasts.com.  It’s a consortium website created by Stuart Clark of the Scale Model Podcast.

Blogs:

The Kit Box 

Sprue Pie with Frets 

Matters of Scale

Model Airplane Maker 

Inch High Guy

Scale Model Projects

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Model Geeks Podcast

Welcome to Episode 123 of The Modelgeeks Podcast!  

In this episode The Geeks are talking model clubs! Why have them? Do you belong to one? What makes a “good” one? How can you start one? Stand by, take a listen, and we’ll get you the answers!

We recently attended IPMS Northern Virginia’s (https://www.novaipms.org/) annual contest and show, “The Model Classic”. We’ll talk about the cool models we saw on display, and we also caught up with Mr. Ben Pluth who was in town to present one of the special awards, the “Walt Champlin Best Cold War U.S. Aircraft Memorial Award”.

We also had the opportunity to talk to Mr. John Figueroa, Convention Chairman for the 2026 IPMS USA National Convention, happening Aug 5th – 8th, 2026. John and Mr. Tony Faust sat down and gave us an update on how all the pieces are coming together to make 2026 another IPMS Nationals to remember. 

Mr. Faust also hosts the Odin & Aesop Military History Podcast, well worth a listen! Be careful, you may learn something!

Mentioned in the Episode:
IPMS USA National Convention

 Odin & Aesop Military History Podcast
 
Share your work with us and the rest of the scale modeling community through our web page, or through our Facebook community page. We love seeing other people’s work. Who knows who you may inspire through your latest masterpiece!

Modelgeeks web page:

Model Geeks Podcast

Facebook community:

 The ModelGeeks Model Shack

 …and of course you can email us at:

 [email protected]

We also want to thank each of our sponsors for their support. We are very lucky to have their support. When you have the time, pay a visit to their web sites, and have a look at their fine products.

Sponsors:

Furball Aero-Design

Tamiya USA

Detail & Scale

LionHeart Hobby

Bases By Bill

Hypersonic Models

Matters Of Scale

Kotare Models

Squadron
 

If you're a wicked ModelGeek go check out the following links!

IPMS USA Events Page

AMPS

Butch O'Hare Modeling Club

The Interesting Modeling Company

We are very fortunate to be able to join the scale modeling podcast community and are in the company of several other really GREAT podcasts. Hopefully, someday we’ll earn our wings and be able to keep up with those guys!  Please check them all out at Scale Model Podcasts.

 Blogs:

The Kit Box

Sprue Pie with Frets

Model Airplane Maker

Support the show

Support the show

Model Geeks Podcast

What’s Crack-a-Lack’n Modelgeeks! Welcome to Episode 122 of The Modelgeeks Podcast!
 
 In this episode, the Modelgeeks give the usual run down on what is going on in their respective model worlds.  The Geeks run through the listener email. Frilldo completed the Privateer and it even made it out to the Model Classic in Fairfax Va. If you were curious about getting into 3-D printing then this episode is for you.  Listen as Frilldo and El Presidente’ give their journey as they started dabbling in 3-D printing. Frilldo and El Presidente’ tell the geeks the pros and cons of both resin and FDM printers 

The Geeks run through the listener email and discuss their favorite listener gallery submissions. We can’t thank our listeners and sponsors enough, thank you guys! Be sure to keep the emails and gallery pics coming ! Out from the Geeks, Later! You can still interact with us through social media, Facebook, Instagram, and email:  [email protected]

EP 122 PATRON Winners:

ProGeek: Jada Whitaker (Airfix 1/144 Artemis rocket")

Beginner/Novice: Jared Nuss (D&S book of your choice)

Be sure to check out our website: www.modelgeekspodcast.com.
 

 Make sure you check out our new group / community on Facebook, The ModelGeeks Model Shack

Jeremy Moore’s club page: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=lehigh%20valley%20scale%20modelers

We also want to thank each of our sponsors for their support. We are very lucky to have their support. When you have the time, pay a visit to their web sites, and have a look at their fine products.

Sponsors:

Detail and Scale
Furball Aero-Design
Tamiya USA

Bases by Bill

LionHeart Hobby

Hypersonic Models

Matters of Scale

Kotare Models

Squadron
 
Also, if you're interested in the model shows, click the link below!
IPMS USA Events Page

We are very fortunate to be able to join the scale modeling podcast community and are in the company of several other really GREAT podcasts. Hopefully, someday we’ll earn our wings and be able to keep up with those guys!  Please check them all out at Scale Model Podcasts.

Blogs:
The Kit Box
Sprue Pie with Frets
Model Airplane Maker

Support the show

Model Geeks Podcast

Greetings my fellow ModelGeeks, and welcome to the MGPC Episode 121!  Nemo is your HAC for this episode, with a full house!  We chat about the latest and greatest in everyone's model world and get caught up with what's happening in the hobby.  

The mail bag was overflowing with over 20 emails, which is amazing!  We really appreciate the emails and love hearing from you all.  Also, thanks again for the listener gallery submissions.  Please keep the emails and gallery pics coming and we can't wait to see your work, discuss them on the podcast, and present them on our website.

For the main topic, we discuss the basics of mixing, applying, and removing washes.  We have to thank Nemo for the topic, since he goofed up using the Red Cap Ronsonol which stripped the Gunze Aqueous and Tamiya acrylic paint.  Rudy and LionHeart to the rescue!!  We discuss different types of washes, including our preferred methods of mixing, applying, and removing them.  It's a great topic so we hope you all give it a listen.

Please feel free to interact with us through social media, Facebook, Instagram, and email:  [email protected]

Be sure to check out our website: www.modelgeekspodcast.com.

Make sure you check out our new group / community on Facebook, The ModelGeeks Model Shack

We also want to thank each of our sponsors for their support. We are very lucky to have their support. When you have the time, pay a visit to their web sites, and have a look at their fine products.

• Detail and Scale
• Furball Aero-Design
• Tamiya USA
• Bases by Bill
• LionHeart Hobby
• Hypersonic Models
• Matters of Scale
• Kotare Models
• Squadron

 
Also, if you're interested in the model shows, click the link below!
IPMS USA Events Page

We are very fortunate to be able to join the scale modeling podcast community and are in the company of several other really GREAT podcasts. Hopefully, someday we’ll earn our wings and be able to keep up with those guys!  Please check them all out at Scale Model Podcasts.

Blogs:
The Kit Box
Sprue Pie with Frets
Model Airplane Maker 

Well, that's it for this episode.  Thanks again for all your support and we hope to see you all this year.  Just remember, be excellent to each other, and get out there and build something!  Take care everyone, out from the Geeks!

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Model Geeks Podcast

Welcome to Episode 120 of The Modelgeeks Podcast!  

 In this episode we ask the simple question, “Is Modeling Fun??”. We often discuss the hobby in terms of it sounding like “work”, or that it is a chore, and leads to stress vice enjoyment. That’s not how it should be!

 El Presidenté is vacationing so, with guest host Rob Riviezzo (aka Rob Riv), of “The Modeling Insanity” podcast, we tackle that question and more. We’ll also cover what we all have happening in our “Model World”, what each of us has been up to at our benches, and other aspects of the hobby we all try to enjoy!
 
Share your work with us and the rest of the scale modeling community through our web page, or through our Facebook community page. We love seeing other people’s work. Who knows who you may inspire through your latest masterpiece!

Modelgeeks web page:

 Model Geeks Podcast

Facebook community:

 The ModelGeeks Model Shack

 …and of course you can email us at:

 [email protected]

We also want to thank each of our sponsors for their support. We are very lucky to have their support. When you have the time, pay a visit to their web sites, and have a look at their fine products.

Sponsors:

Furball Aero-Design

Tamiya USA

Detail & Scale

LionHeart Hobby

Bases By Bill

Hypersonic Models

Matters Of Scale

Kotare Models

Squadron
 

If you're a wicked ModelGeek go check out the following links!

IPMS USA Events Page

AMPS

Butch O'Hare Modeling Club

The Interesting Modeling Company

 We are very fortunate to be able to join the scale modeling podcast community and are in the company of several other really GREAT podcasts. Hopefully, someday we’ll earn our wings and be able to keep up with those guys!  Please check them all out at Scale Model Podcasts.

 Blogs:

The Kit Box

Sprue Pie with Frets

Model Airplane Maker
 
 
 

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Welcome to Episode 119 of The Modelgeeks Podcast!  We have a special guest tonight!

Jeremy Moore is joining us as a guest host and to help us with our model photography.

After a bit of banter, we share what is on our bench and what we have picked up lately.  After we mention our March Madness projects we cover Mail Call (keep the cards & letters coming folks!).  Don’t forget Listener Spotlight.  We then do a recap of the Old Dominion Open (Richmond IPMS) and then roll into a recap of future shows.  

Our Patreon Giveaway has expanded!  We have added a second giveaway for our non-Pro Geek patrons.  

Our main topic is “Photographing Scale Models” with Jeremy Moore.  Jeremy takes magazine quality photos of his models as can be seen on his web page and in the various modeling magazines his work where his work is published.  Even on the front cover!

We would like to thank all our listeners out there for the continued support you have given the show. We hope to see you out and about as we hit show circuit. If you happen to see us at a show come on over and say hello, we may even put you in front of the mic!

If you can't make it to the shows then you can still interact with us through social media, Facebook, Instagram, and of course email at:

[email protected] 

Also remember to surf over to the Geeks homepage at https://modelgeekspodcast.com.  Take a look at the Listener Gallery, and if you’d like your work there, send us your photos to [email protected].  File size and quantity is not an issue for us, but may be an issue for your email provider.  Feel free to send us a link to a sharing service if you use one, but please ensure the link expires at least 7 days after you send it.  We need a few days to get them published.  

Make sure you check out our group / community on Facebook:

The ModelGeeks Model Shack

Get on there and feel free to share your work! We want to see what’s on your bench.

We also want to thank each of our sponsors for their support. We are very lucky to have them. When you have the time, pay a visit to their web sites, and have a look at their fine products.

Please visit our Sponsors and see what new items they have:

Furball Aero-Design

Detail & Scale

Tamiya USA

Bases By Bill

Hypersonic Models

LionHeart Hobby

Matters of Scale

Kotare Models

We are very fortunate to be able to join the scale modeling podcast community and are in the company of several other really GREAT podcasts. Hopefully, someday we’ll earn our wings and be able to keep up with those guys!  Please check them all out at https://modelpodcasts.com.  It’s a consortium website created by Stuart Clark of the Scale Model Podcast.

Blogs:

The Kit Box 

Sprue Pie with Frets 

Matters of Scale

Support the show

Model Geeks Podcast

What’s Crack-a-Lack’n Modelgeeks! Welcome to Episode 118 of The Modelgeeks Podcast!
 
In this episode, the Geeks take a lap in the pattern and say what is the latest and greatest in their model worlds and even talk a snow storm story or two!  The Geeks give a show and contest rundown, and discuss the listener mail, including recent gallery submissions of modelers awesome work.  The Geeks then discuss some of the ways that they balance life and the hobby and how to get that "perfect" if there is one, balance between our daily commitments and the hobby we all love.  So sit back, grab your beverage of choice, or if you are headed to the ODO, put the Geeks on and enjoy the ride.  Also, if you join our Patreon at the Pro-Geek level, you are automatically entered into our drawing every episode where you can win an awesome prize courtesy of LionHeart Hobby and Detail and Scale!

Out from the Geeks!  Later everyone! You can still interact with us through social media, Facebook, Instagram, and email:  [email protected]

Be sure to check out our website: www.modelgeekspodcast.com.
 
 

 Make sure you check out our new group / community on Facebook, The ModelGeeks Model Shack

Jeremy Moore’s club page: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=lehigh%20valley%20scale%20modelers

We also want to thank each of our sponsors for their support. We are very lucky to have their support. When you have the time, pay a visit to their web sites, and have a look at their fine products.

Sponsors:

Detail and Scale
Furball Aero-Design
Tamiya USA
SprueBrothers

Bases by Bill

LionHeart Hobby

Hypersonic Models

Matters of Scale

Kotare Models
 
Also, if you're interested in the model shows, click the link below!
IPMS USA Events Page

We are very fortunate to be able to join the scale modeling podcast community and are in the company of several other really GREAT podcasts. Hopefully, someday we’ll earn our wings and be able to keep up with those guys!  Please check them all out at Scale Model Podcasts.

Blogs:
The Kit Box
Sprue Pie with Frets
Model Airplane Maker 

Support the show

Model Geeks Podcast

Hello, and welcome to the MGPC Episode 117!  In this episode, Nemo hosts the Geeks with a full house, including a special guest host, Mr. Rudy Cline from LionHeart Hobby.  We chat about the latest and greatest in everyone's model world and get caught up with what's happening in the hobby.  

The mail bag was full of awesome emails for this episode, so we run through the listener email and deep dive a few.  We also discuss our favorite listener gallery submissions.  Please keep the emails and gallery pics coming and we can't wait to see your work, discuss them on the podcast, and present them on our website.

For the main topic, we discuss trends in the hobby, especially the resurgence of the brick and mortar hobby shops.  Rudy shares his thoughts on the hobby shop boom and notes a few specific contributors.  We also discuss a few notable positive and negative trends in the hobby, with a focus on the positive side.  It's a great topic so we hope you all give it a listen.

Please feel free to interact with us through social media, Facebook, Instagram, and email:  [email protected]

Be sure to check out our website: www.modelgeekspodcast.com.

Make sure you check out our new group / community on Facebook, The ModelGeeks Model Shack

We also want to thank each of our sponsors for their support. We are very lucky to have their support. When you have the time, pay a visit to their web sites, and have a look at their fine products.

• Detail and Scale
• Furball Aero-Design
• Tamiya USA
• Bases by Bill
• LionHeart Hobby
• Hypersonic Models
• Matters of Scale
• Kotare Models

 
Also, if you're interested in the model shows, click the link below!
IPMS USA Events Page

We are very fortunate to be able to join the scale modeling podcast community and are in the company of several other really GREAT podcasts. Hopefully, someday we’ll earn our wings and be able to keep up with those guys!  Please check them all out at Scale Model Podcasts.

Blogs:
The Kit Box
Sprue Pie with Frets
Model Airplane Maker 

Well, that's it for this episode.  Thanks again for all your support and we hope to see you all this year.  Just remember, be excellent to each other, and get out there and build something!  Take care everyone, out from the Geeks!

Support the show

Model Geeks Podcast