Their original name was Italaerei, then changed it into Italeri, some years ago I feared that their next name could have becomed Germaneri.*
Massimo
* That's very humorous, that is. Got me laughing over my cornflakes.
Well, John and Massimo --whilst having me breakfast, I had a poke around at the WW1 modellers group site (have you looked at some of the work there? Some of the larger scale aircraft/engines/dioramas are works of art in themselves. Incredible) *And* they have a mailing list...hmm. It's all self-contained and self-sufficient, a marvellous resource indeed, as Mr. Matt Bittner will attest to.
So we here have this excellent forum (and the other VVS one) and it's well-publicised enough, and from what I see in the uppermost sub-forum here we're about to get a face-lift of some kind and available in more than one language. It'll be good. But we can do more, as suggested. Send out some reviews to the other a/c modelling sites just to let 'em know that there was life before the MiG 15. Let folk spend a few euros on examples they might never have heard of before -it has to be good -more exposure to the wares of ICM, Amodel and who-have-you, as well.
As for link exchanges -sure, why not? We shouldn't overlook any other 'niche' category (ww2 french aviation and so forth) but the japanese aircraft site and Italian a/c equivalent are sure candidates (let's hope Italeri do more over the years ahead). Seeing as this is somewhat of an expensive hobby, greater *choice* and more variety for people unaware of ww2 aircraft that don't feature heavily in western history books would be both fun and productive, I believe.
Edit: Giving up cornflakes. Compels me to type long posts. : /