Show and Tell - March 8, 2007
Meeting Location: HobbyTown USA, Petaluma
Meeting Time: 7:00pm
Theme: "No Man's Land"
Pictures by Doug Dropeskey
Commentary by Doug Dropeskey
Edited by Doug Dropeskey
Club Announcements (by John Admire, Acting President):
• IPMS Santa Rosa and IPMS Mount Diablo will hold their next Hobby Expo on February 9, 2008.
• There are still openings available for the Littlefield Tank Museum field trip scheduled for April 28, 2007. The signup cost is $5.00, the proceeds to be distributed amongst drivers for gas.
• A field trip is being organized to visit the restored Nike Missile Battery on the Marin Headlands.
• The board selected Doug Dropeskey to serve as the IPMS Santa Rosa website administrator. The website administrator will occupy a new position on the board.
Club Activities:
• Greg Reynolds addressed the group with an exhaustive list of new models announced for release in the coming year.
Show and Tell (select a picture to view at full size):
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• Ed brought in two super-deformed miniture Gundams. • Ken Lawrence brough in an upgraded Dragon Panther D tank in 1/35 scale. Though not the premium edition kit, Ken added Friulmodel tracks, an Aber gun barrel, and markings from Archer Dry Transfers. According to Ken, the model went together fairly well with occasional forcing required. He affixed the periscopes using clear canopy cement and warns that the spare track links do not fit the provided brackets. Ken owns Pacific Coast Models located in Santa Rosa, CA. |
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• Wesley brought in a very well constructed model of Darth Vader's TIE Fighter. According to Starship Modeler, the ship scales out to 1/32. • Mike Winters recently completed this 1/35 South East Asian Elephant by Verlinden. The children from the kit apparently fell off at some point earlier in the day. Mike made the elephant's hair using twine and painted her with Tamiya acrylics. Starting with a layer of desert yellow, he added pink spots, then brown and black oils, and finally rubbed off some of the final coat after a few hours. The twine and string for the tail was affixed using white glue. He finished with a matt clearcoat over the entire subject and applied Future to the eyes. WINNER: THEME AWARD • Mike also brought in this 1/35 bike, from the Tamiya kit German Soldiers with Bicycles. He augmented the model with Aber photo-etch parts. |
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• Mike Winters also brought in this 1/35 scale model, again from the Tamiya bicycle kit with photo-etch from Aber. • John Admire displayed his 1/72 scale TIE Fighter from Fine Molds and confirmed the excellent engineering and fit of the kit. • Tom Young brought in this diorama featuring figures and horses from a soft plastic kit by Orion. The kit includes 12 unique figures and 4 unique horses. In order to create more horse poses, Tom was forced to mix and match horse parts. The model was built on comission and depicts the Red 1st Cavalry Dubanov. Tom owns Model-Aire International located in Corte Madera, CA. |
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• Tom Young also brought in this 1/72 scale diorama featuring a G-11 glider (difficult to build), Gaz-AA truck by Military Wheels (very detailed out of the box), officer figure by Atlantic, Preisler horses, and a wagon coverted from the IMEX Covered Wagon set. The reins were created by running typing paper through white glue diluted with water. • Randy Bumgardener brought in the next two kits, a 1/48 scale P-51B by Tamiya and a 1/32 scale Macchi Folgore by Pacific Coast Models. The Mustang, destined to wear markings from the 354th Fighter Group, represents his first attempt at a Tamiya kit. He used Alcad primer, shot at 30-35psi, as the basecoat for a natural metal finish. • Randy continues to labor over the Macchi, which now wears a coat of paint and gloss overcoat. The camouflage was added freehand using an Iwata airbrush with a 0.2mm nozzle. He notes that the spinner backplate is too small for the nose. |
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• An unknown person brought in these two models by 21st Century Toys. • John Boes built this 1/32 scale Brewster Buffalo, flown at the Battle of Midway. John adds a tremendous amount of engine and internal detail, as shown in the second picture. |
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• John Boes also brought in this all resin, 1/32 scale Supermarine Sea Fury by Fisher. He used a special jig to get the five-bladed prop correctly alighned. • Zac displayed this 1/24 (or 1/25) scale Enzo Ferrari by Revell (or Tamiya). He has been working on the model for about 18 months. The body was brush painted, and Zac still needs to add the windshield and windows. Rees Gwillim built this very detailed Caterpillar D8-H bulldozer by AMT, carried atop a lowboy trailer. The kit was issued in the mid 1970s. He rebuilt the controls, grills, and roll cage from scratch. |
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• Rees also brought in this White Freight Liner, shown from two angles. Revell makes the Great Dane Tractor, which Rees augmented with after market parts by Italeri, scratch built break lines, scratch built connectors, and MV Lights. He used Alcad primer on the tractor and trailer, coated with bare metal foil where appropriate. Rees finished off with custom Papst decals made using Testors Pro-Decal program. • Rees continued his display with this 10 series pickup truck. He stripped all the chrome and scratch built many upgrades, converting it to a real working vehicle. |
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Rees built this very nice dump truck by kit bashing together parts from many models. He also added scratch built break lights. Rees finishes his display with this Peterbuilt tractor, hauling the lowboy and bulldozer shown above. He scratch built the D-rings and used ship modeling turnbuckles to secure the load. |
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