Featured Discussion: What have you built outside of your usual interest? Did you enjoy it?
Seventeen people attended. There were two
updates from the in-person meeting. Kevin collected enough money to
sponsor two awards at the upcoming IPMS Nationals, Open Top Axis AFV and
Aircraft Diorama (thanks,
guys) and Chuck recommend a hobby shop (hobbyoutlet.net) in Cresco, PA. The owner is Clayton Colefield, 570 594 1466. Call before you go.
Lou reports Academy's 1/144 KC 135 R and
three Border 1/35 tanks, Leopard 2A6 (Ukraine), Merkava 2D and early
Tiger 1 are now available.
Ready for a road trip? Mark says the
Philadelphia Navy Yard has a drydock tour of the USS New Jersey. Mr. K
told us the Cherry Point Air Show is May 11&12.
Closer to home,
Julio arranged a modeler's meet-up
for May 25th at Pier 57.
In-progress and completed work included: S-67
Blackhawk (Vaughn explained how the S-67 Blackhawk and the UH-60 Black
Hawk got their names), Mi 4, Puckish vignette, Sherman Jumbo, D-day
bunker diorama (with
a twist?), Me-410, 77 Ford van, 97 Ford F-150, P-36, SdKfz 251/1,
Stummel, Phantom (Hellenic AF), F-104 (Belgian AF) and Schwimmwagen.
Acquisitions included: XXXG-OOWO- Wing Gundam and F-18 (with aftermarket
decals from CAM).
Old and new tips were thrown around during
the meeting- Tamiya air brush thinner will glue styrene, tree branches
can be made by coating a wire armature with matte medium and sawdust,
highlighting the ID letter on each sprue is
helpful when building kits with many sprues, soak resin parts overnight
in Dawn dish washing liquid before assembly and don't put Alclad clear
over Tamiya.
The topic was building outside your comfort
zone. Comfort zones could be categories (armor, aircraft, etc), media
(resin, vacuform, paper) or static v moving (think railroad layouts).
Most of us have tried
and liked building outside our cz (unless there's a lot of road
wheels). It seems like a lot of car models went into storage once it
came time to paint.
The next meeting is Tuesday, 4/30/24 at 7:30 pm. Invites to follow. Hope to see you there.
~Russ
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