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About the site
This page was started in late 1996 (probably October or November, I can't really remember!) as a road map to the best SF Modeling
material on the internet. I had been trying to locate the legendary Paul Newitt, author of the Starfleet Assembly Manuals in the late seventies. I couldn't locate Paul, but I found a few good
sites about models -- places like Troy Dowen's Page [now gone] and Roger Sorensen's Page. So I linked to them. At first there were two pages, one devoted to the Aurora Monsters and one that eventually evolved into the contents page. From there the site grew. I was contacted by a few guys like Jeff Griffin and William McCullars . Soon people were asking me questions I could not answer,
so I started the SF Modeling Digest to contact the experts out there.
After one yeear, in Dec 1997, I obtained the CultTVman
domain, and we topped 30,000 visitors. In Jan of 1999 we topped 90,000. Now there are about 1300 subscribers to the Retro Rockets SF Modeling Digest. That is a lot of modelers. On a daily basis, that translates to between 1200 and 2000 visitors each day, checking out 4 or 5 pages a piece. As of Feb 2006, there are over 2000 pages of material here. On Feb 14, 1999, the counter on the entry page turned over 100,000. In July of 1999 we hit 150,000 In March of 2000 we hit 200,000. 300,000 came in Sept 2000. In January 2002, we had over 600,000 oin the counter. In January 2003, we crossed the 1,000,000 mark on the counter. We passed 2 million in 2005.
My thanks to all those that have helped make CultTVman's SF Modeling a success!
Steve Iverson
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