Mighty mini motoring at the Glenmoor Gathering

While the cars on the show field at the Glenmoor Gathering last year (including the Avanti sedan prototypes and Powel Crosley’s Duesenberg) presented quite a spectacular sight, so did many of the miniatures gathered under one of the tents just off the show field. I managed to slide a photo of Fiore DiBernardo’s 39-percent-scale 1939 […]

Robert Reder, Monogram Models co-founder, dies

The model-building hobby has lost another of its forefathers. Robert Reder, co-creator of Monogram Models, has died. He was 93. Starting in 1935, Reder was a designer and draftsman at Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co. in Chicago. During World War II, he worked with the Navy to develop a national program for building identification […]