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Six people attended. One left early, one came late so we had five people
in each session. Vaughn was the moderator; Frank C took care of posting
on line searches to the chat. Thanks a lot, guys.
No Tuesday Zoom next week, the in-person meeting is Friday, the 20th at
the Community Center. It's Picnic night and the Long Live the King
theme contest. Picnic night may have replaced BBQ night, but it still
costs money, $15.00. Jeff will be collecting.
The contest sponsors are encouraging those who won't be in Brooklyn on
the 20th to send a photo of their King related build by the 15th for
display at the contest.
Lou is anticipating the availability of Tamiya's 1/72 F-35C, 1/35 M-36 and Valentine.
Vaughn shared photos from last week's Warbird Weekend at the Connecticut Air and Space Center.
We saw Kevin's scratch-built Miner (not minor) from Galaxy Quest, Russ's
King Tiger, Frank's A-4 Skyhawk and Vaughn's Ju-88 and F-104 pilot
modification.
Acquisitions included: Space 1999 Hawk, Thunderbird 2 and Witch Lair.
Although the featured topic was modeling disasters, attendance as so low that we had time to discuss multiple topics.
Disasters: Some are the manufacture's fault - when the assembly
sequence is critical but the instructions don't show you the sequence
and some are self-inflicted -we didn't pay enough attention to the
instructions to recognize differences in similar
parts, airbrushing when it's humid, cutting out vacuform canopies,
paint smears, glue marks, mishandled broken parts. Lessons learned, a
fogged clear flat coat can be corrected by over spraying with a clear
gloss coat and, when dry, re apply the clear flat.
December theme contest: What not so obvious sources qualify, HG
Wells stories like The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, First Men in the
Moon or something from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or from the
1939 or 1976 movie The Shape of Things to
Come? And don't forget the 1985 movie, Lifeforce.
Trends in the hobby: larger scale kits, fewer military models, more Gundam, fewer re issues
Aircraft histories: F-107, A-4
Saving old decals: Testor's decal Bonder Spray, Micro Scale Liquid Decal Film
On line resources: Scotts Model Workshop
The next meeting is Friday, 6/20/25 at the Community Center. Doors open
at 5 PM. Picnic night, Long Live the King contest and visitors from out
of state, what more could anyone want? Hope to see you there.
~Russ
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