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Type of Site: Studio
Address: 
www.modelflats.com
Price: 
$24.95/month* ($99.90/three months if you want the HD video)
Date of Review: 
January, 2006
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

(Note: As of April 2007 this site stopped updating and was being maintained only as an archive. In other words, it's a dead site. Conduct yourself accordingly.-Eds.)

APRIL 2006 RE-VISIT

Model Flats has a new design. It looks nice and it's a bit easier to browse. You can choose from a selection of background colours. The pic size is a bit bigger (large = "up to" 1152x864). That's all good. But otherwise it's the same site.

So there's really no reason to change our score, which was just average. Look, this is a pretty good site. It's got a lot of content (33,000 pics and 126 movies when we dropped in this time), daily updates, and some cute Russian girls. But all of the things we didn't like about it before still apply. The large-format picture size is just average, especially for the erotic photography niche where large usually means something around 4000 pixels now. And the video quality is below average (320x240 and 500 kb/s) with a regular membership.

Yes, you can join at a higher rate and get the HD video. But it's a bit of an up-sell deal because you can't just pay a bit more per month to get it. You have to join for three months, for $100. Again, for sites of this kind that's out of line. You can join Met Art, a similar but superior site with far more content for $99.00 a year (and, by the way, we suggest you do). Or you can join MC Nudes and get all the HD video you want for the price of a normal membership.

So our bottom line is the same. This is a slightly less pretentious version of the standard nude-model site, with lots of solid quality content, but it's still just an average value for this niche.

JANUARY 2006 REVIEW

We have to give these guys credit for one thing right off the top. Yes, this is another softcore nude photography site with lots of Eastern European babes  BUT . . . at least it doesn't have that magazine-style layout that all of the other softcore nude photography sites with lots of Eastern European babes have. Not that there's anything wrong with that layout (which probably started with MET Art), but fuck are we ever getting sick of it.

Instead of the magazine concept what we have here by way of premise is the idea that certain flats (apartments) in Moscow are being rented out to some of these models and this is where they are photographed. This premise is the basis for how the site organizes its content, with the photo sections identified by where (that is, in which flat) they were shot. This leads to a rather confusing navigation scheme. Browsing by "flat" leads to pretty random results, except when the flat is specifically associated with a certain type of content (like Galitsin's Flat, or the Movie Flat). There are descriptions of each of the flats, but these aren't always helpful. We also have to put "flat" in quotation marks because it's not always a flat we're talking about. Indeed, the Cyprus Flat consists of pictures taken of the models during a trip to the island of Cyprus. Making navigation even trickier is the fact that there are no quick links from a set featuring a certain model to other sets featuring her, and no search function at all. For our money, your best bet is probably to just go through the model index and forget about the Flats Archive, but that might not be as much fun. And, the usual literary lapses aside, this is an entertainingly designed and written site.

Leaving matters like these, let's get down to business. Yes, this is a softcore artistic nude teen site with lots of pics and movies. There's a counter on the tour that gives you up-to-date stats, which were 36,828 pics and 147 movies when we visited. The pics come in two sizes, lo and hires, but we thought both were undersized at 321x480 and 578x864. Especially for this niche you've probably come to expect much larger photos than this. They are also a bit more direct and amateur-looking than the artistic nude photography sites, if that's more the look you want. 

The site itself has a clean, if somewhat confusing interface, and an excellent up-front tour. So what else is there to say? What sets this site apart from all the others like it. Just a few things:

(1) A greater emphasis on girl-girl action. No, it's not a hardcore site so don't be thinking you're going to be seeing any nasty lez stuff. But you will see a lot of galleries and movies featuring two girls "playing" together.

(2) These girls are skinny. Our personal preference is for a few more curves. Sure there are some girls here with a few extra pounds in the right places (like Polina), but overall the Model Flats type is pretty thin. We noticed that Galitsin does some of the photography (they update with a set by him every Thursday, and currently boast "dozens of hundreds" of his pictures, whatever that means), which didn't surprise us given his predilection for underweight angels. So if that's the way you like them . . .

(3) Also like Galitsin's site is the two-tier membership they have. With your base membership you get everything except the ability to download the HD videos. This means you get a choice of two video formats: .wmv 320x240 (500 kb/s playback) and .mov 240x180. The HD videos are mpegs at 720x526 with a bit rate of up to 4000 kb/s. To kick your membership up to the next level will cost you an extra $5 a month. Whether you think it's right that they're charging you extra to get it (you can get even better video from MC Nudes for less) is another question. As it is the videos are just OK at the basic level, but they letterbox the actual image a bit so it's even smaller than it sounds. And they have this awful electro-pop music soundtrack overlaying everything that's no treat either. Of course since the girls are all Russian you're not going to hear them say much anyway, but even natural sound is better than canned music, at least to our ears.

This is a pretty good site. It has lots of content, daily updates, and it's an interesting premise. If you like Russian amateurs but aren't into the artsy presentation and professional models you see in some of the magazine-style sites you might find this more to your taste. But on the downside we thought the pic size needed a major upgrade and the video was just passable. There's still room in these flats for improvement.

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