Prodigious paper modellers UKPM and pdmccool are our Joint Members of the Month for April.

Since joining last month, they have helped bring more of the fantastic world of high-detail paper modelling to Toy Collector, moderating our new forums for paper vehicle kits and paper plane kits and blogging about how to assemble the fantastic kits that are gaining in popularity. It's always exciting when a new form of modelling appears and starts to take off and we're lucky to have these two to guide us on this one! Thanks, guys!

Thanks to everyone who entered all the competitions, we had some great entries and here are the winners!

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Mellow60s is our Member of the Month for March. He holds the record for making the most use of the most Toy Collector features in the fastest time, filling out all the details on his profile, blogging prolifically, creating a gallery and filling it with great pics of his collection of rubber toys, posting in the Want Ads, adding a Yellow Pages listing AND contributing to ToyPedia all within his first week on the site!

Well done, Mellow60s and we look forward to seeing much more of your fantastic collection!

jclevering is our Member of the Month for February, thanks to his hugely prolific blogging - he has a total of 26 blog posts, putting him just three posts behind our leading blogger, previous Member of the Month modelcarfreak!

So far, he's blogged about everything from DAF cars to Abrex Skodas to the Paris-Dakar Rally and the European Car of the Year in miniature, complete with some great unusual pictures. We look forward to hopefully seeing much more from him in the coming year.

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Thanks again to all our members who either entered the competitions or judged the entries.‚   Congratulations to our November - December and Q4 '08 Winners!

We're going to be revamping the competitions very shortly, so stay tuned!

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RVRevo has only been a ToyCollector member for 12 days, but has already been so active in the forums - with no less than 43 posts and counting - that he's made the fastest ever transition to Senior Boarder!

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As well as posting a wonderful array of different diecasts in our cars section, he's also been posting away in the Props, Costumes & Weapons forum with some of his fantastic collection of original Xena: Warrior Princess items.

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Keep up the good work, RVRevo!

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The Europe/US thing is still at 5:4, as RVRevo is in New Zealand!

ModelCarFreak has been a huge contributor to the site, and is currently our Top Blogger, with 29 posts to his name (beating his nearest competitor by 11!) He has also been very active in the forums and has uploaded some great galleries of fantastic, unusual models. He's also been most helpful in supplying information to other members and contributing info to the pre-launch ToyPedia!

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Thanks, ModelCarFreak & keep up the good work!

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And, of course, this puts Europe up on the US 5:4...

Sfmatchbox has been very helpful in shaping Toypedia; besides advice he has contributed to it by doing a lot of work to our Hongwell section (should come to life later this month) and is now working with us on an even bigger challenge:‚   Matchbox!

This also mean that Europe is equalising in our Member of the Month competition as it now stands 4:4!

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One of our members just told me that he is going again to either Afghanistan or Iraq and that he therefore will come less frequently to the site.‚   While Toy Collector is strictly non-political we do support all our troups in the war theatres.‚   We are proud of you as members risking your life for a good cause, wish you to succeed in the mission to give these countries peace and look forward to welcoming you back safely.

LaToya
(for the whole team)

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Thanks again for all members that either entered the competitions or judged the entries.‚   Congratulations to our October Winners!

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Diecastduck has only recently joined the site but since started his blog, became a forum moderator, created his own gallery, volunteered to built Toypedia and helped pointing out the many flaws the site still has...‚   So in short he has quickly established himself as a player.‚   Thanks and keep it up!

The only downside is that Europe is now down again (3:4) against North America in the Member of the Month competition...

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Thanks for all members that either entered the competitions or judged the entries.‚   Congratulations to our September Winners!

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DickieSIA has been a great member from the very start of the site and has always been there with help and introductions.  He moderates the Aviation Forum and has recently started writing a nice blog.  LaToya would make almost any exception for him, including changing his member name... 

This Award was selected by a moderator committee.‚   The winners are...

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Stangfreak is a new member this month but has made quite an impression in the car forum, check out his listings.  His modelling and dioramas have an exquisity quality to them.

This is now the 3rd Month for the North Americans...