Thirteen people attended. Armorcon is this Friday and Saturday, the 4th and 5th at the Wyndham Southbury, 1284 Strongtown Rd, Southbury, CT. The Gundam themed group build is Saturday, the 12th, at BrookLAN, 339 Troutman St in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley Show is Saturday, the 26th, at the Elks Club Hall, 29 Overocker Rd, in Poughkeepsie.
The holiday lunch will be Saturday, 12/14/24 at Dinosaur BBQ, 640 Union St in Brooklyn. Price, $40.00 per person. Cash bar available. Menu will be posted shortly. If you plan to attend, let Jeff or Chuck know in advance. You can pay in advance, too.
Kevin reminded us articles for the Bulletin are always welcome.
Russ asked for advice on attaching a new regulator to an old airbrush compressor.
IPMS Canada member Mark told us Tamiya spray paint will be banned in Canada. What have you heard? Mark also told us he's trying to arrange a visit to the Dutchess County Airport to see the D-Day C47 residing there.
In-progress and completed work included: Wildcat (Mark is weathering it with a marbelizing technique), Subaru Impreza, Stinson Reliant (Vaughn was impressed by the old AMT kit), F-22, Warhammer Ork truck, Toon Ship Titanic, RF-4 Phantom, P-47 (Erasmo's first airbrushed natural metal finish), B-17, Willy Ley Orbital Rocket (Kevin is finding it hard to "build like an 11-year-old"), F-8 Crusader, SR-71 Blackbird (Frank is building the old kit, even though he has the new one, too) and Ho-Ri2. Acquisitions included: British Interplanetary Society Lunar Lander and SMB2 Super Mystere Sa'ar.
The topic was opening sealed paint jars. We heard about tools like nutcrackers, pliers, commercially available adjustable openers like the Gilhoolie and we heard about techniques, like wrapping the cap and jar with rubber bands to improve grip, running bottles under hot tap water, inverting bottles and putting thinner in the space between the bottle and the cap. We heard about best practices, like keeping your hands low, rather than high, while trying to unscrew a cap, opening and closing bottles from time to time, cleaning the necks and wrapping them with Teflon tape before storing them upside down. We also heard about bad practices, like gripping the cap AND the bottle with pliers and not being careful when using acetone. Several people said that the caps on plastic dripper bottles don't seem to get stuck, unlike caps on glass jars. Did we miss your favorite tip? Just write it down and hit reply all.
The next meeting is Tuesday, 10/8/24 at 7:30pm. Invites to follow. Hope to see you there, or at Armorcon, or both.
~Russ
