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4/13 Still having problems integrating the new USPS APIs into the Store, but the work-around I installed last month has kept it functional. Life is crazy here (first week of a new quarter, a crush of projects at my other gig, brakes on my truck and my spine went out on the same weekend, etc, etc, etc) so please be patient. I am answering eMails, DMs and orders as fast as I can. 4/3 April's wallpaper is based on Robert Stimpson's scratch-built 1/72 Macross Armored Factory, built from matboard, styrene and masking tape and populated with kitbashed and scratchbuilt vehicles and figures. 3/8 Well, the good news is, I know what's wrong with the Store (why it can't provide shipping rates). Bad news is, I'm still working on a fix. It's always something ... 3/2March's wallpaper is based on Suyata Models' 1/700 Mutsu from something called "Space Rengo Kentai". 2/6Network card on the 10-year old SSM computer crapped out last weekend, but we're back in business now. 2/2February's wallpaper is based Matthew Olsen's 1/48 Magellan Venus Probe scratch built from plastic sheet, rod and strip. 1/3 January's wallpaper is based on Keith Karn's version of the Lost in Space 'Robot' that Will Robinson rebuilt after the crash, using the top part of the "classic" B-9 and the bottom of the movie Robot. 12/1 Mike Walston's Harkonnen Ornithopter from the David Lynch's 1984 Dune (a hard-to-find-these-days Revell kit) is the subject of this month's wallpaper. 11/5 I should probably announce that November's wallpaper, based on Paul Kohler's K-7 vignette based on classic kits has been posted. 10/16 The first half of this month has seen a bot swarm block my access to the site, plus two emergency room visits and a surgery in our household. Finally, though, I can get back to the computer and finish what I started two Fridays ago. Man, I need to go build a model.... 10/2 Mike Walston kitbashed a 1/2500 'McQuarrie-prise' and scrachbuilt an asteroid base around it. Pretty impressive calendar for this month! 9/2 A pair of New UN Spacy VF-171 Nightmares (Macross Frontier) down in the weeds. Based on the Wave 1/72 kits. By the bye - Starship Modeler is 29 years old today. That's like forever in internet years... 8/3 August's wallpaper is based on another of Scott Scariot's award-winning, 3D printed models, a Breen Cruiser. 7/15 Oh, for heaven's sake: once again, I posted the images but not the supporting webpages. My ADHD is getting worse, I swear. 7/3 July's wallpaper is based on Scott Scariot's 3D printed Cardassian freighter Groumall. 6/10 Wonderfest is such a rush every year - plus a month beforehand preparing and a month after putting the shop back together. With a full-time job getting in the way of both, too. I had the images done by the 4th, but finding the time to do the rest .... well, anyway. Craig Dowell brings some crazy cool stuff to Wonderfest every year. This one is at least 4' long IRL: Number 8. 5/1 May's wallpaper is based on the 1/48 Blue Moon Rebel B-Wing. 4/2 April's wallpaper is based on Scott 'Trekmanscott' Scariot's Cardassian Galor, from the AMT kit. 3/2Mike Walston kitbashed a Monogram "Star Trek: Voyager" Kazon model into a Heechee ship from Frederik Pohl's novel, "Gateway." And that's March's wallpaper.