Eleven people attended the meeting, the last of 2022. Available for the New Year: Hasegawa's 1/200 Air Force One VC-25A and 1/72 Osprey CVM-22B, US Navy. Also, watch for Academy's 1/48 A-10 C and several large-scale, die cast, James Bond vehicles from Agora.
In house and completed work included: Lysander (ask Vaughn how a missing propeller blade got him thinking of buying another kit and building an accurate fuselage), Frankenstein Monster (Mobius kit with aftermarket head), 1/18 X - Wing fighter, Ferrari 250 GTO, RF-4 and 3D printed female biker on Fat Boy motorcycle. There were two end-of-year acquisitions, F-4 B and F-4 G Phantoms (guess who got 'em). This week's tool was another NWSL product, The Riveter. The attachment for NWSL's Sensi-press (last week's tool) is a calibrated advancing table for embossing rivets.
Surprisingly, to me at least, cold weather doesn't seem to be as problematic to model building as hot weather. Sure, Parafilm is temperature sensitive, acrylic paints have to be protected from freezing and vent windows can let in the cold but these can all be worked around. Use a coffee mug warmer to warm spray paint cans rather than immersing in warm water (ask Joe about water drops on a fresh paint job). Use a hair dryer to dry paint in a cold work area. Get a cheap thermometer for your work area. We had enough time to discuss some other topics briefly, the Pasche H-1 airbrush, how different brands of paint spray differently, touching up sprayed paint with brushed paint, thinning acrylic paint with acrylic ink, craft store thinner medium, painting freehand v using masks, remembering Frank Tripoli and other early BPMS members and their contributions to the Club and, of course, what's your dream model. I expect we'll see many of these as featured topics in 2023. Join us and see for yourself. The next meeting is 1/3/23 at 7:30 pm. Invites to follow. And if you're going to Times Square on New Years' Eve, wear your BPMS shirt. We'll be watching.
~Russ
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