Show and Tell - June 12, 2008
Meeting Location: HobbyTown USA, Petaluma
Meeting Time: 7:00pm
Theme: Your Favorite Model
Pictures by Greg Reynolds
Commentary by Greg Reynolds
Theme winner, "Your Favorite Model". The 1/32 Combat Models vacuform A-6E Intruder by John Boes. Details below.
Club Announcements (by John Admire, President):
• Club Elections will be held at our next meeting on July 10th. If you are interested in running for one of the officers positions--Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President or President--please attend the next board meeting on June 26th or contact us as soon as possible.
• On June 18, 2008 the Pacific Coast Air Museum will host speaker Charley Taylor, a naval aviator who served 25 years on active duty. He will speak about the A-6 Intruder and its combat role in Vietnam, the 1980s, and opertion Desert Storm. For more information please visit the PCAM website.
• On June 21, 2008, the first Build Day will be held at Hobbytown in Petaluma. Charlie Dailey of the Wine Country Modelers, Steve Elliot of HobbyTown USA, and Doug Dropeskey of IPMS Santa Rosa invite you to Build Day, a chance for modelers of all stripes to get together, build models, swap war stories, and perhaps learn a thing or two. Build Day will take place at HobbyTown USA in Petaluma, CA on Saturday, June 21, from 10am to 6pm. Show up whenever you like and build as long as you want. Models and tools are not provided, so please bring something to work on (models, figures, game mini, diorama bases, etc.) and whatever tools you may require. HobbyTown will provide tables, chairs, and a large, well lit work space. Work on anything you like, check out what other people are building, and enjoy the hobby with friends.
• On July 27, 2008, IPMS/Dragon Lady presents its annual contest in Yuba City, California. Please see the events calendar for more information. • On August 2, 2008, we will host our annual picnic at Spring Lake, Lower Jack Rabbit picnic area (the same location used last year). We will have a sign up sheet at the July meeting to get a head count.
Meeting:
There were no new faces this month, but we were delighted to see members Rees Gwillim and Dale Bohling attend after long absences. We hope they will make it a regular habit.
Bob Nidds, the Marin County Fair Creatures and Models competition manager, also joined us and reminded us of this upcoming event. Please see the events calendar for more information.
Tom Berto made another virtual appearance, sending in a couple photos of his latest project.
"Here is my Hurricane, built from the Hasegawa kit which I won at the raffle in Fresno two years ago. As has become my norm, this is a presentation kit. In this case, not to the pilot (which would be Douglas Bader), but to Joan Mott, who help build Hurricanes in WWII. Her son works here at Agilent, which is how we met.
Joan was pressed into service at the age of 21 and ordered to work at the Hawker factory at Kingston on Thames. Her job at the factory was to drill holes, less than 1/16" in diameter, in a long copper pipe that was attached the engine. She said that it was very common to break drills, and they'd say a prayer of thanks every time they finished a hole without breaking a drill. Her husband was RAF, and survived the war, but she knew three pilots who didn't, one a Pathfinder. She told me that seeing the kit brought out an immediate rush of very intense recollections and emotions about the war, some good and some bad. She was very grateful for it and I'm very happy to have done the work. She happily signed my paperback copy of "Fly for Your Life" - right under Tuck's signature.
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The meeting featured a slide show of pictures taken by Chris Zanella at the 2008 Shizuoka Hobby Show in Tokyo, held last month. The Shizuoka show is held in five locations and features 100 model manufacturers, displays by 154 model clubs and hundreds of individuals. This may be the largest model show in the world. Chris took over 1500 photos, only a FEW of which were shown. You may view the rest on our website, soon.
Show and Tell (select a picture to view at full size):
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Randy Bumgardner started off by showing us several new models. The 1/24 scale P-47D by Vintage Fighter Series (VFS) is their second kit and is a marked improvement over their earlier P-40B/C. It has better fit and finer surface detailing. A great decal sheet offers markings for six aircraft, two each of USAAF, RAF and Free French. Note it's "Jug-normous" size, next to Randy's 1/48 P-47. I'm sure we will see a full review on Large Scale Planes soon. |
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Randy is also working on Pacific Coast Models 1/32 Spitfire IXc. This features generous cockpit detail, alternate exhaust stacks and markings for six aircraft. The kit virtually snaps together and requires little filler. The only noticeable flaw is that the wing is a hybrid of the c and e versions, but nothing that can't be corrected with sandpaper. |
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Hasegawa's 1/32 P-40E follows the same engineering of their excellent 1/48 scale kit. It is apparent from the part breakdown, that we can expect other variants to be released. And lastly, Randy brought in his Tamiya 1/48 scale P-47D in progress. This is being finished as Lowell Brueland "Wee Speck". Randy started this one for the display we did at the 354th Fighter Ace's Reunion last year. |
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Next up was John Boes. He showed us "His Favorite Model", a 1/32 scale Combat Models vacuform A-6E Intruder. John built this many years ago. It features LED lighting, scratchbuilt interior, radar bay and hundreds of other details. Working with a Combat Models kit is essentially scratchbuilding, period. WINNER: THEME AWARD |
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John also brought in his completed 1/24 scale 1911 Marmon "Wasp". We have seen the progress of this scratch Indianapolis racer over the last several meeting. |
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Tom Young's 1/72 Lear 60 was made by "Long Prosper Enterprises" of Taiwan. It is offered as an unassembled display model. One of the most challenging aspects of finishing it was the decals for the belly which are provided as individual decal stripes. |
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Dave Hansen offered us two Corsairs. He has put a lot of work into correcting the undercarriage of the 1/48 Hasegawa F4U-2. He is building the 1/72 Tamyia kit as the little known Brewster F3A Corsair in markings of an El Toro training squadron. |
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Rees Gwillim returned after a long absence to show us his "in progress" Airfix 1/24 scale Wallace & Gromit Anti-Pesto Van. With his usual mania, Rees has not only installed LEDs in for ALL the lights (including the interior dome light!) they work when you operate the correct lever or knob. Operating the turn signal lever turns on the blinkers, pressing the brake pedal turns on the brake lights, etc. He has watched the movie a hundred times and is scratchbuilding all the tools. The hedge trimmers work (cutting paper, not hedges!) and the binoculars have lenses. Truly amazing. |
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Rees also showed us his 1/12 scale Atomic City Mercury Capsule. Rees built this as Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7. He reports that the kit is basically accurate. The interior detail is essentially correct, but simplified. Every capsule was different, especially the interiors which contained differening experiments and instruments. Rees spent more time on research than building. He only found three photos that showed the little known painted "crack" in the Liberty Bell. |
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Jack Riggar brought in one of his "favorite models. Years ago, he combined the Tamiya 1/35 German 2cm Flakvierling 38 and the Italeri KFZ 15 Horsch to make this truck mounted quad flak gun. The limber was made from leftover Flakvierling parts. In addition to repositioning the Tamiya figures, Jack drilled out and rebuilt the teeth and lips of some of them to show open mouths. " This is from years ago and is one of Jacks first airbrushed models. He used the good old Pactra Authentic colors. |
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Charlie Daily displayed two beautiful vehicles. The first he described as a "glue bomb" that he rescued from a friend's collection. It had a surf board glued to the window as well as B-17 chin turret, a bow & arrow as other miscellaneous weapons. Charlie's first step was to pop it in the freezer to weaken all the glue joints. This enabled him to snap it apart with minimal (additional) damage. Then, with many trips to the spares box, he rebuilt it as this beach mobile. Charlie's other offering was an AMT 72 GMC Stepside, which he lowered and added the wood grained bed liner. |
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Dale Bohling also resurface after a long absence. He showed us the progress he has made on the 1/48 Eduard P-39. Keep pluggin' Dale! |
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