Newsletter Club Officers: JSMCC Meets on the 3Rd Friday Each Month @ President John Stark (732) 364-5829 Herbertsville First Aid Bldg
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March 2015 Jersey Shore Model Car Club Newsletter Club Officers: JSMCC meets on the 3rd Friday each month @ President John Stark (732) 364-5829 Herbertsville First Aid Bldg. Vice Pres Dave Wood (908) 349-8785 500 Aurora Place Brick, NJ 08723 Secretary Bob Kern (732) 887-7454 From 7pm – 11pm Treasurer: Joe Milko (732) 363-2342 Sgt. at Arms: Keith Justice (732) 363-7044 NOTICE: This newsletter is the official publication of the Newsletter Staff: JSMCC. Any input from the membership is encouraged. Dave & Julie Wood (908) 349-8785 Please obtain permission prior to copying this newsletter. E-Mail [email protected] *** Next Meeting is March 20th, 2015 *** *** Next Meeting is March 20 , 2015 *** This month’s Theme: Stock Car Night Steve Rehberger picks up first place with his Jeep Pick Up!!! Club Webpage - http://www.jsmcc.org/ Club Forum: - http://jsmcc.proboards.com/index.cgi Page 1 Jersey Shore Model Car Club Newsletter keyboard and you have everything you need, Amazon, Goggle, Idle Thoughts by John Stark III e-bay, all the resource material, kits, paints, supplies, resin, photo etch, etc. are one click away. As easy as that makes it, we can't forget about our hobby stores that fed our addiction for all those years before the Internet. It’s nice to still hop in the car inter time in the Northeast means build time. Painting may and go to your friendly neighborhood hobby store, when you W be an issue for some of you, so you have to pick and need paint, glue, plastic, whatever, RIGHT NOW. You guys all choose the days to paint. I have my old Badger spray booth set know how many of our stores are no longer here, we have to up, so it’s a little easier for me in that respect. It doesn't make support them also, or they will disappear, and we really don't the job of painting any easier, but my wife doesn't have to deal need any more of them to disappear. Cold weather also allows with paint fumes in the dining room any more. I've been working me to catch up on all the magazines that I stock pile during the on a few kits, painted, screwed up, stripped, re-primered, warmer months. I can sit back, catch up on all modeling repaint, repeat if required. magazines that I didn't read when they came out. I have my Kindle, my Verizon pad that I can get the e magazines from, but I've done that process twice on a tribute Ford Mustang kit I'm I still like to have the hard copy in my hand. I can copy things working on, as well as a Corvair Racecar kit I'm playing with. I easier, I can put it in the files for future reference, I can give it to got the paint straightened out on the Mustang, then the someone else to enjoy, or I can toss it in the circular file. windshield decided it wanted to play also. While lightly sanding Magazines just like model kits seem to come and go, and they off the sprue attach point the windshield snapped in half. Dave are getting more expensive. There are a couple I subscribe to, Wood was kind enough to give me a spare that he had. While a few I pick up now and then, a few I have no interest in at all. I applying a drop of CA glue to hold it in place I watched in horror go onto a Barnes and Noble and see a good selection, some as the second windshield split in half. Thankfully after putting new publications, some established names and at time notice out an SOS email, Al Meske happened to have a spare also .I some are no longer on the shelves. Cold weather has also led a am very happy to say that one went in without a hitch. few of us club members to get together and go on road trips. We've done hobby shop trips, usually hitting 3 or 4 in a day, museum trips, or visiting other clubs. Just because we have some cold weather, ice, snow, or any combination of them, we can always find a way to spend the day and get something out of it, even a bad day at the building table, is a day spent building, if it went wrong, then you probably learned something, and that’s a good thing. BIG SIT - Ed Isnardi and I got together to take the trip out to Mainline Hobbies in the Plymouth Meeting Mall out in PA., for this year’s Big Sit. It was mentioned somewhere about the day that we wonder why it is called the Big Sit, when most of the attendees stand around the whole time, discussing everything under the sun. It is a great day to meet friend’s old and new, check out everyone's latest builds, works in progress, tips and techniques. Thanks to Bob Doebley and everyone else who put this thing together, and especially the guys at Mainline Hobby for having us. We also took the side trip out to visit Nicholas Smith Train and I used Gem Tac for that one case closed. Now I am only hoping Hobby out in Broomall PA. It seemed like this year they had all that the decals go on Okay. I was thinking that outside forces the same kits that everyone else has. This is not a bad thing, do not want to see this build completed. Heck if it was easy, but I have become accustomed to finding those rare pearls that everyone would be a trophy winner. That’s all part of our hobby, I love so much, the strange kits. I did pick up some sanding mess something up, learn something from it, make the sticks that I did not have and Ed picked up some paints that he corrections and try again. Then come to the meeting, tell needed, but that was it. everyone what happened, how you resolved it, hopefully someone else won't have the same issues. Or you then find out After a full day of models it was time to head back to New that someone went thru the same issues and then let you know Jersey and work on some of the stuff I have going on in the that you could have called them and they would have told you model room. First and foremost was installing the windshield in how to avoid the issues. That is what makes our meetings so the previously mentioned Mustang kit. special, our talks, seminars, exchange of ideas, and all the other fun things we do. Now we have Internet, iPhones, MEETING STUFF – Last month’s meeting had a great turnout message boards and all the other bits of technology that make for our first quarterly contest of 2015. We had 20 “As God our lives easier. How did we get by without all these things? I Intended” builds on the table, and they all looked fantastic. In remember having to order my kits thru Auto World magazine, looking at everything we had to vote on I knew it was going to our wait for Mom or Dad to take me to EJ Korvettes, Two Guys, be a very good night. The bummer of the whole thing is that out Meyers, or some other box store. Now a couple of stokes of the of the probably close to sixty (60) members in the room only 22 Club Webpage - http://www.jsmcc.org/ Club Forum: - http://jsmcc.proboards.com/index.cgi Page 2 Jersey Shore Model Car Club Newsletter of you took the time to vote, and out of those 22 I know that at Ed I was going to stop back in and see Frank at Jackson least 4 of those votes were by members, for their own kits on Hobby, to see how Frank and Mom are doing, and to see that display. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but truly the they got the Get Well Soon card you all signed. idea is to vote on the best theme build on the table, something that maybe you would be proud to have built, or displayed on Don't forget to visit the clubs Facebook page and “Like” us and your shelf. One vote for your own build is not going to get you a invite your facebook friends to like our page as well.. win, or rarely would it increase a lead in the point’s series. The better builds will get the most attention and votes, believe me I MoM - I spoke with Dave Wood on the message board Model of know, I enter these things myself, I'm proud of the things I build, the Month, I was under the impression that the quarterly contest but when you look down the table you see things that make you winner was automatically the MOM. This is not the case. If I had say WOW. paid a little more attention during the meetings, I would have heard Dave say that each month he would pick someone out to That is where your vote should be going, but you vote with your give him their five favorites, to be entered into the MOM heart sometime and not with your head. Everyone can improve, running. Once those five are posted, the members can then that is why we gather every month, and have seminars and include models that they would like to enter also.