ScaleModel.NET
International List of Scale Model Related Web Sites
The ultimate web resource for Scale, R/C, and Railroad modelers.
Site Description & History
The International List of Scale Model Related Web Sites (or ScaleModel.NET in short), was established on 3/6/1996. The goal of this site is to keep and maintain an international based list of all the web sites which are truly related to Scale Models. To minimize the maintenance efforts while keeping the list complete and grow, the concept of Sharesite is introduced. Which means that the contents of this site are intended to be freely shared with modelers from around the world.
The sites included in the list are categorized according to their contents or major interest, the list now contains 40 categories covering almost every aspects of scale, R/C, and railroad models. However, as the list grow, it is found that there are many sites can fall into several categories, and some special interest groups (SIG) are difficult to be categorized appropriately. To avoid misleading and to let the visitors quickly find what they are really looking for, a comprehensive search program for the database of the list is developed and launched in 1997. This program allows users to search keywords or phrase in any combination of the fields of the database. In addition, it allows recursive keyword search to narrow down the search result. A "key resource" feature and a "popularity" property were added to the program later in 1998 to let the user to locate the most useful and/or popular sites quickly.
In addition to the normal retail and mail order hobby shops, eBay is a fascinating place to find bargains on all kinds of scale modeling items, especially vintage/antique model kits. This site has joined eBay's affiliate program through Commission Junction since as early as 2001, and now being a member of the eBay Partner Network (EPN). To help modelers to locate the best deals more easily, the Advanced eBay Item Finder is launched on September, 2009. This application is developed based on the latest advances and search technologies supplied by the eBay Application Programming Interface (API), and has passed the eBay Compatible Application Check process on January 27, 2010 to ensure users with strong eBay experience and the most efficient use of the implemented API calls.
At the beginning of 1999, to celebrate the third anniversary, the site obtained itself an easy to remember domain name, that's right, ScaleModel.NET! Hopefully, you will tell your modeling fellows this name and bring them here, and this site will lead you folks dig deep into the amazing world of scale modeling.
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Featured Text -- The page for ScaleModel.net offers great information on their website for scale model enthusiasts. Beyond being a (pardon the pun) model WikiPage (complete with some great photos of scale models), the history and site description for ScaleModel.net make this a very interesting website. Kept and maintained as an international list of websites related to scale models, ScaleModel.net provides an approach to maintaining their list that is much in line with some of TheWikiWay philosophies, allowing modelers from around the world to add their website to the list, online and free. The contents of the ScaleModel.net website are then intended to be freely shared by everyone. The success of this approach has allowed for the ScaleModel.net resource to contain over 7,800 sites listed, with an impressive 15,000 page views per day.
