Eighteen people met for lunch at Nora's last
Saturday and fifteen people attended the Tuesday meeting. There's no
zoom next Tuesday, as the in-person meeting is Friday, 12/15/23 at the
Community Center in
Brooklyn. Expect to be busy. We'll have the Legends theme contest, the
2023 award ceremony and (if you bring 'em) holiday desserts. Details are
in the newsletter, which is in the mail.
Lou reports Hobby Boss' 1/48 Pz-4 F2 and
Tamiya's 1/48 British 2T 4x2 ambulance are available and many new kits
are on the way. Don liked the new video from Fine Scale Modeler
featuring an inexpensive air
brush (he's a big fan of cheap airbrushes).
In progress and completed work included:
Hawker Hurricane ( Vaughn's hairspray horror story), Charlie Brown in
Halloween costume (Kevin's latest clay sculpture), PT-19A, two FW-190s,
two A-37B Dragonflies,
Pz-38t, tank crew figures (reworked), F-4C, Napolean Bonaparte and '53
Ford Coca-Cola pickup. Acquisitions included: Terminator 2 Hunter Killer
Tank, Iwata airbrush and JJ-7 trainer.
Gil showed us how to mount a utility blade on
hobby knife handle, creating a tool for bending photoetch and for
scraping. He's looking for other uses and feedback. Two tips from Don,
(1) nail polish racks
are a practical and inexpensive way to store paint bottles (2) flatten
the point on the lead of a mechanical pencil and use it to represent
rivets/fasteners.
Before discussing the featured topic, we
talked about weathering by the hairspray method and by the salt method,
mottling paint with sponges and what others think when we tell them we
build models. Then we
got around to the featured topic, watercolor pencils. Few people knew
about them, fewer have used them. Gil has and he felt he had more
control with chalk or pan pastels. Kevin and Mark have
used watercolor pencils at least once.
Next meeting is Friday 12/15/23 at the
Community Center. No invites needed. Doors open around 6pm, meeting
starts around 7:30pm. Hope to see you there.
~Russ
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