Hey gents. Working on a female middle ages knight. Here is her pennant flag being worked on. That was a bit of fun!
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Make it Take it Event
Good day gents, several of the chapter members plus a guest from the NOVA chapter participated in a 2 December make it take it event at Randolph Macon Academy in Front Royal. Chapter member Marcin organized the event and Randy, myself, and NOVA member Tim Bard helped out. NOVA gets a shout out for donating all the many kits for the event!
The students all seemed to have a good time and many kits were built in the 50 minute session – a pace that can put even Donovan and Ross under pressure to keep up with! The school allowed use of the cafeteria for the kids that showed. It was a good event and hopefully we launched the model hobby careers of several kids!
– Chris
The Latest from Scott
I just completed the 1/25 Revell level 5 Peterbilt 359 conventional tractor. It is quite the detailed kit with cab doors that open and close. I can say overall it’s a great kit with one flaw or exception. The tires that come with it are too skinny and super soft, they tend to compress on the finished model. Many builders have had this problem. I switched out the tires with some AMT truck tires and they look great.
The tractor is pretty much a box build with only a couple additions. Tires, aftermarket decals “Keep on trucking” made by Modeltruckin.com Jerry Reeter. The tool box on the rear of the sleeper was scratch built as the tool box comes as a flat piece of diamond plate with doors. Expanding it looks more realistic. The fuel tanks were wrapped using metal AC tape giving a more realistic metallic look. I added an Italeri light bar to the top of the tool box with emergency lights for an industrial look as well.
One struggle other builders may encounter is the door hinges. A bit tricky but easily solved.
Kit decals are quite nice as the stripes laid out cleanly.
– Scott
December Meeting Update
Good day all. By a 3:1 margin you voted for a potluck meeting for December! By email to me please send me what you are going to bring so I can manage the logistics of the dishes. If we cannot go too heavy into folks bringing deserts that would be good- bring your favorite dish! I will bring, for example Shepherd’s Pie!
Scot had a good idea for folks to bring a wrapped hobby item or kit and we do a blind pick of the gifts as well. That is a good idea!
– Chris
Update From Chris
Hi Gents. Here is the Chinese female warrior bust so far. Just about set to paint in the oriental-themed flower print on the blue blouse. Wish me luck—-I may need it!
Ross’ 48 Ford
Ross has completed another kit in record time. He provided some photos and details along the way but finished everything before I could post a single update! -Chad
From Ross: The chassis has been converted to independent suspension 65 Nova front and four link rear. The engine is an Ardun overhead valve converted flathead V8 (with supercharger!). Wheels and engine were sourced from Tx3DCustoms with thanks to Jeff Muir for telling me about them.
Here you can see the rear seat delete done in sheet styrene, front seats are Porsche 911. Finally the exhaust made with resin mufflers and solder, held together with E6000 glue.
Buttoned up and decals on. The exhaust ended up being solder, resin, and aluminum tube!
Saturday, November 11th
The new meeting venue was a smash hit with room enough to have Donovan show off his Royal Navy ship! Many thanks to Tom for getting us his Church to have this and future meetings at. Big improvement.
It was great meeting Joe and his son and meeting Marcin’s son too. Sniff sniff; fresh young blood!
As mentioned, if you are also a member of IPMS/USA please send me your IPMS number.
Two members bought the new club shirts. I have 10 left so please send me a email if you would like one or more of these shirts. Folks expressed an interest in another color and/or short sleeves. If I can get enough to support an order of grey shortsleeved polos I will do that order. Let me know or answer the survey at the bottom of the post.
An informal poll on what to do for our December meeting. We can 1) do a normal meeting; 2) have a potluck social meeting or 3) someone else’s neat idea meeting. Again let me know your ‘druthers.
Marcin is taking lead on youth engagement with his son’s school and possibly other organizations and he is going to create a FB version of our website and will look into some possible free advertising with the press in Front Royal.
We will do another sales table at the Richmond show. Please bring kits, tools, reference material to the December and January meeting as donations. These sales events are money makers for us so be generous!
-chris
Map to the Church for November’s Meeting
Tom has provided a map showing the location of the church where we’ll be meeting next weekend. See below. If anyone has any questions or concerns about where to meet just reach out to Chris or myself and we’ll get you squared away.
-Chad
Club Shirts
Good day gents, it’s time for a white sale! My wife had club shirts made as a surprise! Here is a photo of one of them. If you would like one, they are $20. I have 8 larges and 4 XLarges, but will order more and extra sizes once these sell out. They cost 16.66 each to make, so the club can make 3.34 off the sale of each shirt. I will bring them to the next meeting for interested buyers. The shirts are a cotton/poly blend and have our club and IPMS logo printed on them.
-chris
Beetle Gasser
No in progress pics of this one. Kit is a Japanese Union Model Co. kit I’m very on the fence about decals, on one hand it needs something, but on the other I don’t want to cover the paint work. What do you all think?
-Ross
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