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
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 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!
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
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
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
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
The details are: three kits one AMT Escalade EXT combined with two Revell Escalade kits. The EXT had its rear three quarter cut off just at the C pillar, this was then grafted to the shortened rear end of the first Escalade. The first join and putty work of this can be seen in the first round of photos.
The chassis of the EXT was also sectioned and grafted to the chassis of Escalade #1 for the chassis seen in the first round of pictures. The interior of said Escalade needed to be shortened and reshaped to fit around the bed/box assembly of the EXT it was now joined to.
The tailgate is a combination of Silverado 1500 and Escalade rear hatch skin joined and puttied to shape, while the rear bumper is unmodified EXT. Just another Frankenstein monster from my workbench.
-Ross
Good day gents. I visited one of our sponsors on Friday-Frontline Hobby Store in Staunton. It was good seeing Christian and seeing how his shop is doing very well. His shelves are full of good stuff-minus the two kits I got!
Please stop in a visit Christian as he is one of strongest benefactors. I am happy to carpool or caravan with anyone who wants to go!
-Chris
Hi guys, as I mentioned at the last meeting I was working on a 6×6 car. This is my progress so far and should come out pretty neat when it is done. I will send some more updates as I come along.
-Ross
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