Our On-Going Mission...: Starship Modeler's Resource Site was conceived and designed in September, 1996 with one thing in mind: building science fiction and factual space models. Five years later, Starship Modeler™ is still all about building science fiction and factual space models.

We figured that if folks wanted to look at flashy eye candy they could go to any one of a million other sites ... so you'll find very little in the way of animated gifs, fancy icons, Java and other forms of non contentent-enhancing material here. We put a lot of thought into making the layout easy to read and easy to follow, taking the extra steps necessary to document what was done to build a better model. We've also done our best to make the site easy to navigate, with intuitive (and functional!) links to internal and external pages. The site is written for Netscape 3.0 and higher, though we do try to make sure it will also look right in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. AOL's version of MSIE makes the images look muddy .... but AOL browsers have always done that.

Fonts We use Arial font throughout, except where we don't. This comes standard with most Windows machines, but if you don't have it, you can download it below thanks to Kevin Atkins. For certain headings, we use the Haettenschweiler font, which you can also get - and thanks to Keith Brenton, you can get it for the Mac as well. Please note, if you have another browser, such as WebTV, you're pretty much out of luck for these at the moment.

Special Note About Printing Our Pages: Many of these pages include different color fonts and tables with background colors and light-colored text. When printing these pages to hardcopy, you will find that the light-colored text doesn't always print well. There's nothing we can do about that, as this is how the all browsers currently work. Microsft IE (3.0 and higher) users will automatically get the text printed in black; Netscape users may not. To correct this, click on the 'File' menu item at the top left of your Netscape screen. Then click on 'Page setup', which will bring a pop-up box to the screen. Simply check the 'Black Text' box, and all text, regardless of color, will print.

Submission Guidelines: Got something you want to contribute? We're always on the lookout for new material. All material on the site is covered under the copyright of Starship Modeler™ to protect us and our contributors. We do retain reproduction rights to images for promotional purposes, only. Authors retain the copyright to all their images and text, and may distribute them elsewhere, as they see fit. Contributors get prominent billing and have the option of including a link to their e-mail address and home page (if they have one). We can't pay for material (just maintaining this site is expensive enough!). We're in this for the love of SF modeling, just as you are. We may edit submissions, though this is done only to correct any existing grammatical problems. We regard the substance of the article as sacred. If we require substantial changes, we'll either ask the author to tweak the work - or we'll get the author's permission to make changes, if that's what they want.

We'll take input from any source (just about) - even a simple e-mail is fine. However, it really helps if you follow these guidelines: (click here).

Don't have a scanner or digital camera? No worries - drop us a note and we'll work something out.

Unless we specifically ask to reprint a given article or pictures, Starship Modeler only accepts previously unpublished material. If you are submitting an article to us, please do not submit it elsewhere at the same time. We print almost everything we get, so if we've left any question in your mind as to whether or not a work is accepted, just ask us.

Just who are the selfless souls who bring this site to life?