74cb75bab2243992e98fab5156007185827084cf97936f24c0c66a651388df90.jpg

Listeners: We want to hear from you! CLICK HERE to leave us a message about anything in any of our episodes, or to pose a question you’d like to hear us address, and we’ll air it in an upcoming episode. (We’ve extended the time from the initial 60 seconds, but please focus your comments so we can run them in full without editing. Thanks!)

October 20, 2022

Episode 28: Greg Cihlar

October 20, 2022/ Jim DeRogatis

In this episode, Barry and Jim talk with Chicago-area modeler Greg Cihlar, a consistently gold-medal maker of striking dioramas and vignettes in the historical world (World War II a specialty) who’s also branched out to do some stunning work in the fantasy realm. The owner of a small home-remodeling company by day, Greg is amazingly prolific at his work bench by night, and as a member of Generation X, he brings some interesting perspectives to both the future of the hobby and its history. (Greg became close with Francois Verlinden as well as Shep Paine, contributing to the last armor modeling book that Jim edited after Shep’s death.) As always, after their chat, your hosts pick some of their favorite pieces by Greg and discuss what they love about them.