School's out, time to travel. Gil is hosting a cook out at his place in
Connecticut on Saturday, 7/30/22. If you'd like to attend, contact Gil
directly so he can get a headcount. Details to follow. Closer to home,
there's a lunch meeting at Wheelers, 1705 Sheepshead
Bay Rd, Brooklyn, (accessible by Q train) on Saturday, 7/23/22. Details
to follow. A field trip to the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden
City LI is under consideration.
Fifteen people attended the meeting. Not much in the way of new stuff.
Trumpeter has an upgraded BTR-80 in 1/35, Squadron has two aircraft
books. For in- progress and completed work, we saw: 3 D printed Scorpion
figure (Julio made the print), Comanche conversion
(man, Vaughn really knows his subject), Sherman M-4 A3, Arsenal VG-36,
Blackburn Bucaneer, RF-4 Phantom (Hellenic Air Force markings), Bf-109,
Ork Wazbom Blastajet and, just to annoy someone, a "World War Toons"
Panther. Acquisitions included: M-50 Bounder,
F-80 C, Mig-15 and Aerosan RF8 GAZ. Mark shared photos from the Empire
State Aerosciences Museum, near Schenectady NY. Mr. K told us about the
one-day model show in Havelock NC on 7/2/22. Swivel blades were this
week's tool. Good for cutting curved patterns
for masks or working with stencils. Available in different sizes from
different manufacturers. We talked about homemade and purpose-built
tools to apply superglue and we learned that if you have to fill seams
with spackle, use the lightweight
stuff. The featured topic was workspace organization. Funny thing,
everyone said they were disorganized and followed it up by talking about
paint racks they built, containers and trays they found to hold
tools/parts (including baseball card protectors to hold
photoetch tools), wheeled carts with drawers and shelves, repurposed
tool boxes, cardboard USPS boxes, portable storage cases and various
iterations of "part catching" aprons. Yeah, real disorganized.
The next
meeting is 7/5/22 at 7:30. Invites to follow.
Have a safe 4th of July.
~Russ
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