Hackathon justin

This is pull request for work started on Hackathon, mainly improving Model class with new coding convention of ModelComponent (e.g. replacing the old property style with the new property style). This also deals with a bunch of issues: #95, #99, #100, #101, #102.
I had the (relatively uninformed) impression that Object's take care of copying their projects for you. How come we have to do this manually?