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Featured Discussion: What's the oldest kit you started but have yet to finish?
Twelve people attended. The next in-person meeting is Friday, 8/21/26. It's the 3rd quarterly contest and it's Pizza night.
To promote the club, Bobby and Gordon have designed a cutting mat with a BPMS QR code, for group build give aways or raffle donations. Thanks, guys.
Lou reports Italeri's 1/35 VTLM Lince and Tiger 1 E are available.
To the club members attending the IPMS Nationals next week - the Bulletin will appreciate your comments and pictures. Thanks in advance.
Asked about glazing mediums, Kevin explained they were somewhere between a paint (stays put) and a wash (runs to low spots). They're good for building up color. Several companies make them. And Kevin was pleased to learn Starbond superglue accelerator comes in a pump bottle. The elongated nozzle produces a mist, rather than a spray, allowing more control.
Vaughn's Eurocopter Tiger is finished, but his S-64 Skycrane has a long way to go, thanks in part to the need to paint the engines and the other externally mounted components separately, then attach them to the painted fuselage. But it's a labor of love, so...
We saw Lee's X-29 cockpit (3rd time's the charm), Kevin's Frederick Frankenstein bust (from Young Frankenstein) and Chinese food take out container (a paper card model for Star, from The Lost Boys), Gil's Munster Koach semi-trailer conversion and Frank C's vintage 1/144 Otaki F-111, which built up surprisingly well.
Jimmy was disappointed when his latest acquisition, Zimi's 1/35 ACV-P, arrived in a wet, beat-up box, but he was impressed to see metal gun barrels directly attached to the plastic on the sprue.
The featured tool was a reamer. Designed for aligning holes in metal parts, they also work on resin. They come in various sizes, in Metric or English units. Gil finds the 5mm, 1/4" and 5/16" sizes particularly useful. If you don't have a reamer, Bobby remembered his father's trick of chucking a needle file into a drill.
Twelve people attended. The next in-person meeting is Friday, 8/21/26. It's the 3rd quarterly contest and it's Pizza night.
To promote the club, Bobby and Gordon have designed a cutting mat with a BPMS QR code, for group build give aways or raffle donations. Thanks, guys.
Lou reports Italeri's 1/35 VTLM Lince and Tiger 1 E are available.
To the club members attending the IPMS Nationals next week - the Bulletin will appreciate your comments and pictures. Thanks in advance.
Asked about glazing mediums, Kevin explained they were somewhere between a paint (stays put) and a wash (runs to low spots). They're good for building up color. Several companies make them. And Kevin was pleased to learn Starbond superglue accelerator comes in a pump bottle. The elongated nozzle produces a mist, rather than a spray, allowing more control.
Vaughn's Eurocopter Tiger is finished, but his S-64 Skycrane has a long way to go, thanks in part to the need to paint the engines and the other externally mounted components separately, then attach them to the painted fuselage. But it's a labor of love, so...
We saw Lee's X-29 cockpit (3rd time's the charm), Kevin's Frederick Frankenstein bust (from Young Frankenstein) and Chinese food take out container (a paper card model for Star, from The Lost Boys), Gil's Munster Koach semi-trailer conversion and Frank C's vintage 1/144 Otaki F-111, which built up surprisingly well.
Jimmy was disappointed when his latest acquisition, Zimi's 1/35 ACV-P, arrived in a wet, beat-up box, but he was impressed to see metal gun barrels directly attached to the plastic on the sprue.
The featured tool was a reamer. Designed for aligning holes in metal parts, they also work on resin. They come in various sizes, in Metric or English units. Gil finds the 5mm, 1/4" and 5/16" sizes particularly useful. If you don't have a reamer, Bobby remembered his father's trick of chucking a needle file into a drill.
Simon thanked Gil for introducing him to the Ultrasonic Cutter (not to be confused with the Ultrasonic Chef's Knife). Bobby had another useful item, albeit at the other end of the budget spectrum, a silicone parts tray. Available at Hobby Lobby or Harbor Freight or online.
Why do some models take so long to finish? We get bored. We get frustrated. We get distracted. We sell the model to someone else, try to buy it back, find out they sold it, and we track it down (no guarantee we'll build it, though). We relocate temporarily and when we get back, it's not there.
Getting more specific, Lou recalled the 1/48 Matchbox Skyraider AD 5 he started and hasn't finished yet. Simon hasn't finished the XFY-1 Pogo he started 20 years ago, and he showed it to us at the meeting. Gil has a similar story for a Battlestar Galactica/Star Wars kit bash project begun in 1982. Russ doesn't remember when he put his reissued Lindberg Space Base on the shelf of doom. Frank C remembered the Italeri SR-71 and the Eduard Mig-21 that never made it off the bench. Michael C never started his VEB Plasticart Tu-144 from 1976 but now that he has ICM's Tu-144, he may build it for comparison purposes.
The next meeting is Tuesday, 8/4/26, at 7:30 pm. Invites to follow. Hope to see you there.
~Russ
