132: Show and Tell/In Progress

The theme for the April meeting was "Double Secret Amnesty", which was any finished build that had been lingering in your build pile for a long time.  There was one theme build, five completed builds, and three in progress builds.  In addition, Scott Samo gave a very informative demonstration on how he airbrushes his models.

Theme build

 Cessna 152
By Joe Hegedus
1:48 Minicraft
Interior detailed with belts, throttle, and control lock.  Exterior was converted from the Cessna 150 Aerobat configuration to a 152 by deleting the overhead windows, moving the landing light from the wing to the nose, modifying the cowl for the new landing light and inlet, changing the exhaust, and adding the drooped wingtips.  The markings were printed on inkjet paper, and represent the airplane that Joe soloed in on 31 Dec 1981.

Completed Builds:

Dracula and Victim
By Mike Colvin
1:8 Moebius
Built OOB

Boeing P-26 Peashooter
By Nate Swift
1:72 Revell of Germany
Nate refurbished an earlier build with Starfighter Decals and invisible thread for rigging. The markings depict a unit based at Selfridge AAF, MI.

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 "Yellow Peril"
By Joe Hegedus
1:72 Esoteric
Scratchbuilt cockpit and landing gear.

Boeing 787 "Simpsons"
By Brent Leidig
1:200 Hasegawa
Decals are from Skyline in 1:144.

Northrop YF-23
By Brent Leidig
1:48 Hobbyboss
Caracal Decals and Aries ACES II ejection seat.










In Progress Builds:

A6M5 Zero
By Mike Colvin
1:32 Minicraft/Hasegawa
OOB

Grumman F-14A Tomcat
By Gerry Whiteside
1:48 Hasegawa
Will be finished in markings for VF-102 Diamondbacks ca. 1992

"Custer's last stand" Diorama
By John Bray
54mm, various manufacturers
Jelly Beans not to scale.

Embarrassed builders:

The Shropshire Model Show 2014 - RAF Museum Cosford

Again this year I went to the RAF Museum at Cosford (not far from Telford) where IPMS UK held another show.  Technically called "The Shropshire Model Show" it's one of the larger (equivalent to an IPMS USA Regional in size) and again this year there both great models to see and more subjects for the aerophile.

"Guilty as charged, sir!" in that I generally photographed aircraft models, but there are a few other subjects in here.  What follows are those that really caught my eye.

I still haven't seen Doc's S-Boat, but there were three here!

72nd scale...

Something to do with that bomber resupply set released last year.

A real world subject is the only existing Do17Z-2, serial number 1160, plucked from the Thames estuary last year.  Photos and more are here.

Okay, the ONLY way to display a Lightning!

144th scale display.

144th...

Another in itty-bitty scale.

A Morris Minor "woody".  Built post-war into the early '70's, you can get these today for about $15k, rebuilt and modernized with recent electrics (for reliability and to pass the MOT standards).

German air-to-air missile from 1943/44.  The caption says they stopped producing it because of guidance issues.  Imagine the 8th AF losses if it had worked...

A German SAM.  Also stopped in 1944 due to reliability.

An air-to-surface missile in front of the V-2.

Thanks for looking...

131: In Progress/Show and Tell

March's meeting theme was "Experimental" - any subject done as an experiment, research, or proof of concept.

Experimental theme builds:

 

Northrup YF-23 by Brent Leidig

1/48 Hobbyboss

When complete, it will have an aftermarket seat and Caracal Decals

XB-42 and XB-43 by Jim Rotramel

1/72 Anigrand

OOB except for some decals, including homemade wing walk stripes

Bell X-1 by Andrew White

1/32 Revell

OOB

F6F-3 Drone by Mike Colvin

1/48 Arii

Aftermarket decals representing a USN drone used in early atomic testing.

Non-theme builds:

Flak 88, Landing Craft and Halftrack by Austin Whiteside

Megabloks

P-12E by Joe Hegedus

1/32 Hasegawa

OOB with 0.015" wire for rigging.  Markings are from Starfighter Decals representing a unit from Maxwell AB c.1937

N2S-3 Stearman by Joe Hegedus

1/48 Revell (New mold)

0.015" wire for rigging, 0.020" wire for pitot tube, 24 gauge wire for fuel lines.

KV1 Ehkranami by Dan Yakel

1/35 Trumpeter

Royal Model PE, Aluminum Barrel, Fruilmodel tracks with brass pins, scale metal chain.  Weathered with burnt umber and black acrylics and Mig Pigments Russian Earth and Black Soot.

F/A-18D Hornet by Jim Rotramel

1/72 Academy

AAQ-28, GBU-38, and AGM-65 from Hasegawa weapons kits.

Beech T-6A Texan II by Andrew White

1/48 Ibex

Decals from Two Bobs.

F-16N "Top Gun" by Brent Leidig

1/48 Tamiya

Royal Resin nose, Master pitot tube and AOA probe. The pilot is a combination of PJ Products and kit parts.  Decals are by Fightertown Decals.  The base is a 3 wire frame from Michaels which also contains the batteries for the landing lights and instrument panel lights.

In Progress builds:

Nakajima A6M2-K Rufe by Steve Workman

1/72 Johan

Cockpit is a combination of scratchbuilt details and parts from a Hasegawa Zero.  PE seatbelts, scratchbuilt cowling scoop.  Hasegawa propeller

"Where Custer and his men fought...and died! June 25, 1876" by John Bray

Figures are a combination of 1/32 and 1/30 (54mm and 60mm) by Black Hawk, King & Country, Toy Soldiers of San Diego, Andrea, B&M, and Monarch Minatures in metal, resin, and plastic.  There will be more than 70 figures in the completed diorama.

Imperial AT-AT by Dan Yakel

AMT rebox of ERTL kit.

Building OOB.

Unidentified Builds: