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Corona Virus Cancellation of SMA Meetings

As everyone in the SMA is aware of at this time, the SMA Meetings for May have been cancelled. It is hoped that the current situation improves in the next few months and that we will be able to conduct our ship modeling club meetings once again. The Mayflower Group meetings have also been cancelled for the same reason. Your editor has made an effort to contact some of the SMA members asking for information on the progress of their ship modeling efforts, with only a few responses indicated here. If any other SMA club member wishes to let his fellow modelers know what progress he/she is making on their current project, please let your editor know by furnishing him with the information.

Bob Zmuda

Bob is working on a 1:700 scale trumpeter waterline model shown in the photo to the left. It is very small but that appears to be the type of model that Bob prefers. He originally wanted to purchase a model of the USS Texas but Brookhurst Hobbies did not have that model, so he bought the USS New York instead due to the fact that he wanted to help the hobby shop out.

The USS New York was first in the ‘New York’ class of US Navy battleships, laid down at Brooklyn shipyard in 1911, launched in 1912, commissioned in 1914 and was the first ship to be equipped with 14-inch guns. In 1917 USS New York was assigned to British waters and assisted the British Grand Fleet, being mainly responsible for blockade and escort missions. After the World War I she returned to training and participated in various problem-solving exercises, being modernized in 1926. Until , the US had maintained neutrality in WW II with USS New York on Atlantic neutral patrols. After the US declared war on Japan, USS New York operated in North Africa (Operation ‘Torch”) and spent time protecting the North Atlantic and Mediterranean convoys. In 1945 USS New York transferred to the Pacific Fleet and participated in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. During the battle USS New York received minor damage in a attack. After the war USS New York took part in Operation ‘Magic Carpet’, the repatriation of US military Personnel from overseas theaters of war. In 1946 USS New York

2 was used in Operation ‘Crossroads’ as a target for atomic tests, remaining afloat but was eventually sunk in 1948 following use in target practice by other navy ships and aircraft. Bob’s plastic model warship consists of many tiny plastic parts. There is a tiny little searchlight (see photos below) and an AA gun that is actually made of four pieces.

Bob Penikas

Bob is at it again with his latest completed paper model project. It is the Mondorfer Motor Yacht Apollo, which is a free paper download from: https://www.kallboys.de/mondorfer- bastelboegen\. Bob writes: The model has 197 parts and is in 1:40 scale. Its stand is a kithara, in Greek mythology; the God Apollo is often represented with this instrument. The model parts are printed on 110-card stock. The photos below show some of the building process. The photo to the left shows the model as completed with the kithara stand. The next two photos below show the kithara stand being simultaneously cut out and the reinforced deck by laminating stiff card and allowing it to dry weighted down overnight.

3 The next set of photos show first the hull being sprayed with Krylon shaky can acrylic clear gloss and allowed to dry overnight and a very interesting (as well as a great idea) of Bob sitting, with his apron upon his lap to catch small parts that may drop from his workbench into his lap instead of on the floor (or elsewhere). If they do fall on the floor or into space, they do tend to ‘disappear’.

James Ingersoll

Jim sent me the photo below indicting that he had just finished his rigging class and wanted to know what I thought of it. He said he was ready to move on to another modeling skill. On further inquiry, he did let me know that a friend of his back in Boston, who teaches rigging of models, brought this picture in to show his class. Then he told them they should never complain about rigging ever again because he could have had them work on something like the model shown in the photo. He sent the picture to Jim for inspiration. Jim thinks he got the picture out of a “Blue Jacket Article”?

Thanks for the photo, Jim. It really had me going for a moment. I wonder what they called all the sails – not to mention the fact that it could not have worked (at least I think it could not have worked!!)

4 Clare Hess

Clare, a good friend from the Hyde Pier model group in San Francisco, sent me two Japanese models he is working on. Clare writes: The first is the Niigata Honryousen, which is a 1:10 scale scratch built model of a river boat from Niigata prefecture in Japan. The boat was used for fishing and occasionally as a workboat for hauling gravel. The model is based on one built in the fall of 2019 by boat builder Douglas Brooks and Nina Noah under the direction of Japanese boat builder Nakaichi Nakagawa. The model was commissioned by Douglas Brooks as a special fundraising gift for one of the project donors.

The boat has a very simple design, and is of a type often referred to locally as an Itaawawe (ee-tah-a-wah-say), which simply means, “plank joined”, referring to a boat built with a simple plank bow and plank transom. Its primary construction consists of only 5 planks, a beam, and blocks fit into the bow and stern. This particular boat also has a seat or platform at the stern composed of 3 removable planks.

The model is very simple, but the lack of frames, particularly with such a log and narrow hull, made it a challenge to put it all together evenly and without twists.

The model was completed in March of this year and was sent to its new owner who has it nicely displayed in his home.

The second model that Clare sent me information on is the Kitamaebune, A Woody Joe kit in 1/72 scale using Hinoki, Japanese cypress. Clare writes: The Kitamaebune is a Japanese coastal transport that was used to carry goods between Japan’s northern ports and Osaka, traveling up and down the western coast of Japan on the Japan Sea. These ships didn’t just carry cargo, they bought and sold goods along their travels, buying where a product was considered cheap and selling where they could for a profit. Contrast this with coastal transports called Higaki kaisen, which were large ships that carried cargo the much

5 shorter distance between Osaka and Edo (Tokyo) on the calmer Pacific coast, making numerous trips throughout the year.

While higake kaisen were owned by trade guilds, the kitamaebune were privately owned. Ordinary people and sailors who signed aboard a kitamaebune could work hard to rise through the ranks and save enough money to one day buy their own ship, with the most successful ship owners eventually having several ships. In this way, the kitamaebune offered the dream that anyone could become rich.

Kitamaebune are also responsible for the spread of local culture throughout Japan, including the widespread popularity of foods, music and dance.

The model is currently under construction, but close to completion. It is based on the kit from Woody Joe. Construction is mostly straight for the kit, but I replaced the copper details in the kit with vinyl details that I designed on computer and cut using a Cameo 3 machine, which works much like an old-style computer plotter, but uses a knife blade instead of pens. It serves much like a poor man’s laser cutter.

The reason I replaced the copper is that on a visit to Japan in 2016, I had a chance to visit a replica ship that was built on the island of Sado on the Japan Sea coast of Niigata prefecture. The ship, called the Hakusanmaru, had numerous copper coverings, and the kit parts represented just a fraction of them. I considered trying to use actual copper, but it made sense to simulate the copper instead, and mass produce the details with the aid of a computer. Because of the large difference between the appearance of the kit-provided copper and copper-brown vinyl, I had to remake all the parts in vinyl.

To round out the model, I decided to add a small workboat called a tenmasen, which was often carried on the deck of a ship. This was built based on drawings by French officer Armand Paris around 1860 and published in the book Souvenirs de Marine. I also added a small mast at the bow, called a yahobashira, and am planning on making my own sails for the model, rather than use the one provided in the kit.

The model is near completion. Once the sails are done, the yards and sails can be mounted and the small amount of rigging should complete the model.

6 Richard Keyes

Richard, my friend in Australia, sent me a photo of his latest ship modeling effort, based on an Amati kit of a Chinese Pirate Junk. I have built the kit model myself and I am sure others have also. Richard built the model between bouts of coffee with his fellow volunteers at the Sydney Maritime Museum; taking 14 months of very off again, on again work, spending about 1 ½ to t hours a week on it. This is not the first time he has built the model and he added a few items to the kit model to make it different from the other models he had built. He added bulwarks and a cross beam (fish davit anchor) to the fore deck and eliminated some of the small side decks aft. On the main sail he painted a Yin-Yang symbol. The plan in the kit for rigging was rejected in favor of proper rigging sourced from the internet, adding a 19th century pirate pendant which is also from the internet. Because there are so many different variations of the basic Junk style, no alterations are likely to be wrong. Richard said it was not his best work but it is an attractive display model that is what his wife Kietha likes about it.

The baseboard will be given a proper coat of varnish when I am freed from captivity and can go to the hardware store again. (Australia is also in the throws of restraint due to the Corona Virus pandemic.) Above is Richards Chinese Pirate Junk model along with another photo below of the same model I built, which resides in my daughter Olivia’s home. You can see the difference between Richards scratch built model (using parts for the Amati kit) and my model that is basically kit. Your editor’s model was built using the items supplied by the kit with brass pedestals (not from the kit) and a marble base, encased in a ship model case made by myself in a wood working shop based on cases made by Lloyd Warner. The top of the case was taken off for the photo. The sails were hand made using drafting linen – also not supplied in the kit.

7 Michel Mantin

FUSO

On 10 April 1941, FUSO was assigned to the 2nd Division of the 1st Fleet. When the war started for Japan on 8 December, the division, reinforced by the battleships Nagato and Mutsu and the light carrier Hosho, sortied from Hashirajima to the Bonin Islands as distant support for the 1st Air Fleet attacking Pearl Harbor, and returned six days later. On 21 February 1942, the ship returned to the shipyard at Kure to replace her gun barrels, departing on 25 February. Together with the rest of the 2nd Battleship Division, she pursued but did not catch the American carrier force that had launched the Doolittle Raid on 18 April 1942.

Fuso and the rest of the 2nd Battleship Division set sail on 28 May 1942 with the Aleutian Support Group at the same time that most of the Imperial Fleet began an attack on Midway Island (Operation MI). Commanded by Vice-Admiral Shiro Tadasu, the division was composed of Japan’s four oldest battleships, including Fuso, accompanied by two light cruisers, 12 destroyers and two oilers. Official records do not show the division as part of the larger Midway operation, known as Operation AL; they were to accompany the fleet under Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, but were only to provide support to the Aleutian task force if needed.

On 14 June, Fuso returned to Yokosuka and arrived back at Hashirajima on 24 June. In an effort to replace the aircraft carriers lost at the Battle of Midway, the navy made plans to convert the two Fuso-class ships to hybrid battleship-carriers, but the two Ise-class battleships were chosen instead. The ship was assigned to the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy at Etajima, Hiroshima, for use as a training ship between 15 November 1942 and 15 January 1943. Captain Keizo Komura assumed command on 5 December, and was relieved by Captain Nobumichi Tsuruoka. On 1 June the next year. Seven days later, Fuso rescued 353 survivors from Mutsu when that ship exploded at Hashirajima.

Between 18 and 24 July 1943, the ship was at Kure drydock for fitting of radar and additional 25 mm AA guns. Fuso sailed from the Inland Sea on 18 August for Truk Naval Base, carrying supplies and arrived five days later. The Japanese had intercepted American radio traffic that suggested an attack on Wake Island and on 17 October, Fuso and the bulk of the 1st Fleet sailed for Eniwetok to be in a position to intercept any such attack. The fleet arrived on the 19th, departed four days later and arrived back at Truk on 26 October.

On 1 February 1944, Fuso departed Truk with Nagato to avoid an American air raid, and arrived at Palau on 4 February. They left on 16 February to escape another air raid.

8 The ships arrived on 21 February at Lingga Island and Fuso was employed there as a training ship. A week later, Captain Masami Ban relieved Tsuruoka. The ship was refitted at Singapore between 13 and 27 April and returned to Lingga. She was transferred to Tawi- Tawi on 11 May and provided cover for the convoy that failed to reinforce Biak Island at the end of the month. Fuso transferred to Tarakan Island off Borneo to refuel in early July before returning to Japan and escaping an attack by the submarine Promfret. In early August at Kure, she was refitted with additional radars and light AA guns. Fuso and her sister ship were transferred to Battleship Division 2 of the 2nd Fleet on 10 September and Fuso became the flagship of the division under the command of Vice-Admiral Shoji Nishimura on 23 September. They departed Kure on 23 September for Lingga, escaping an attack by the submarine Plaice the next day, and arrived on 4 October, where Nishimura transferred his flag to Yamashiro. The ships then transferred to Brunei to refuel in preparation for Operation Sho-Go, the attempt to destroy the American fleet conducting the invasion of Leyte.

Commanded by Rear Admiral Masami Ban, Fuso left Brunei at 15:30 on 22 October 1944 as part of Nishimura’s Southern Force, heading east into the Sulu Sea and then northeast into the Mindanao Sea. Intending to join Vice-Admiral Takeo Kurita’s force in Leyte Gulf, the force passed west on Mindanao Island into Surigao Strait, where it met a large (American) force of battleships and cruisers lying in wait. The Battle of Surigao Strait became the southernmost action in the .

At 09:08 on 24 October, Fuso, Yamashiro and heavy cruiser Mogami spotted a group of 27 plans, including Grumman TBF Avenger bombers and Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive-bombers escorted by Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters from the carrier Enterprise. A bomb from one of them destroyed the catapult and both floatplanes. Another bomb hit the ship near Turret No. 2 and penetrated the decks, killing everyone in No. 1 secondary battery; the ship began to list 2 degrees to starboard. Early the next morning, Fuso opened fire around 01:05 after a shape was spotted off the port bow; it turned out to be Mogami; Fuso’s fire killed three sailors in that ship’s sick bay.

One or two torpedoes, possibly fired by the destroyer USS Melvin, hit Fuso amidships on the starboard side at 03:09 on the 25th; she listed to starboard, slowed down, and fell out of formation. Some Japanese and American eyewitnesses later claimed Fuso broke in half and that both halves remained afloat and burning for an hour, but they specifically mentioned only the size of the fire on the water and not any details of the ship. Historian John Toland agreed in 1970 that Fuso had broken in two, but according to historian Anthony Tully in 2009: [Survivors’ accounts] and the USS Hutchins report are describing a sinking and event at odds with the conventional record – one that seems far removed from the spectacle of the invariably alleged huge magazine explosion and blossom of light at 0338 that supposedly blew the battleship in half!...Fuso was torpedoed, and as a result of progressive flooding, upended and capsized within forty minutes.

Fuso sank between 03:38 and 03:50, releasing a large quantity of oil, which ignited on the surface as she went down; only a few dozen men survived the rapid sinking and subsequent oil fire. There is evidence that some of these were rescued by the destroyer Asagumo, which was itself sunk a short time later; it is also possible that some who escaped

9 the sinking reached Leyte only to be killed by Filipinos, as is known to have happened to survivors from other Japanese warships sunk in the Battle of Surigao Strait. Ten crewmembers are known to have survived, all of whom returned to Japan. The total number of casualties is estimated at 1,620 sailors. Fuso was removed from the navy list on 31 August 1945.

RV Petrel discovered the wreck of Fuso in late 2017. The ship lies upside down in 607 ft of water and is mostly in one piece, with the bow broken and angled away from the main hull. The pagoda mast was found to have snapped off when the ship sank and is subsequently lying some distance from the hull. (Wikipedia).

Michel has been working on his scratch built model in 1/100 scale of the Fuso and doing a magnificent job on it. For those who receive the Neptunia magazine from France, there are a number of articles on Michel’s build in No’s 279,280, 283, 295, 287 and 297. There will also be an article on his Fuso in a future Nautical Research Journal.

Details on the construction of the model can be found in the Anatomy of the Ship series The Battleship Fuso by Janusz Skulski. There is a plastic kit of the model (which may no longer be available) in 1:350 scale by Fujimi which is in the possession of your editor (who has always been fascinated by the pagoda superstructure) who hopes to build it one day soon.

The extensive research that Michel has done on the ship along with his engineering skill has resulted in what will be one of the best models of the Fuso, since he has indicated to me that the internal “plumbing” of the engineering spaces had to be “reworked” to make things operable. The first photo below shows the very early stage of construction, while the second photo shows the opening on the starboard side, which will contain the propulsion system, along with a few of the upper structures including the pagoda forward with two sets of 14” guns and other details. There are many more photos to enjoy of the ship under construction in the magazines referenced above. Below these two photos are more pictures of the ships details under construction.

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Darryl Webb

Darryl sent in a photo of himself and his latest project, a Mantua model of 1:17 scale of a French Naval Cannon da 36 circa 1750. He purchased the kit in 1978 and built her in 2020, probably during the current Corona Virus pandemic. He did note that advice was needed in making the deck, gun carriage and brass look older with ‘ocean wear’.

He also made the comment that, for the newer members of the SMA, it would be good to have a picture of the modeler along with his model so that he could readily identify the individual modeler. Good comments and nice work.

James Ingersoll +

Jim indicated that he now has plenty of time to work on his mackerel seine net fishing schooner Smuggler. He is fitting the upper mast ironwork up on the trestletrees and above. Jim finished fitting the throat halyard staple to the iron plate mounted on the trestle trees on the fore and main masts. He next plans to invent a way to make both look like they’re actually bolted through the plates for a touch of realism.

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Jim sent a couple of pictures also, the first being the mackerel net and cork floats on the stern of the vessel, next is the throat halyard staple and plate and third he shows the ironwork instructions. Great work! Jim did ask what a “FID” was and I subsequently sent him a reply showing him what it was – boy, he sure is making a beautiful model with all the little details. It will be great to see it in person when the SMA regular meetings again take place.

Chris Carl

Chris again sent me the latest on his efforts with the HMS Bellona, a Corel kit model with a lot of modifications. He went through the remaining instructions looking for blocks to add before starting to do the rigging. He found about 30 additional blocks. Then he decided to work on the remaining guns, mounting the half guns and gun port covers (see photos). He is currently working on the anchors.

Chris is also going to work on the sails for the ship, using a set of sails made for the HMS Victory and cutting them to size, covering the cuts in the folds of the furled sails. I hope that works for him. See all the wonderful photos below showing the continuing efforts on the model.

He is now waiting for the sails to arrive which he ordered from Czechia – with the current Corona Virus pandemic situation in the world today, it may take awhile! Obviously, none of the spars can be installed until the sails arrive, so he is doing what he can with “fill-

12 in” work until the do. Your editor thanks Chris for continuing to supply information on the work he is doing for the SMA Newsletter.

13 There is an additional item that Chris sent me referring to a set of sails he ordered for his model of the HMS Bellona. They were originally for the HMS Victory, but upon receipt by Chris they fit his spars perfectly (see the photo below). Good job Chris!

Don Dressel

Don is continuing work on his scratch model of the HMS Roebuck. He first thought to install his rudder with a fully operational rudder with the associated rudder irons, steering tiller with gooseneck, sweep, double wheel and the necessary rope, tackle, and blocks. With some advice from Tony Devroude and other ship modelers, more thought was given to this idea. It soon became apparent that the installation of the rudder with its rudder irons would preclude the simultaneous installation of the tiller. Since the double

14 steering wheel would be on the deck above and the rope controlling the tiller (and thus the rudder) would be very difficult to install (the tiller cannot be installed until after the rudder is installed, which means that the rudder could not be “dismounted” from the tiller irons without first removing the tiller, which could not be done if it was already rigged. The associated deck beams would also be involved. Thus, all items will be installed (with the exception of the necessary rope and tackle) and the rudder and tiller would not be operational.

The first step in the process was to make the rudder out of boxwood. The tiller was also made (pear) and installed on the rudder. The tiller had to be removable until after the rudder and rudder irons were installed along with the sweep. The rudder irons were made from brass using silver solder and a blowtorch. Brass strip was used along with brass tubing, which was soldered to the brass strip (see photo). The brass was then “blackened” using Birchwood Casey. The brass was first “cleaned” using a product called Tarn- X (the process being done while gloves were worn), then a “rag” was soaked in Birchwood Casey and rubbed over the brass until it became “black”. Soaking the brass in too much “brass blacken agent” will not work. In the photo above you also see the upper deck beams, which have to be installed after the rudder, tiller and sweep are installed.

Next was the installation of the sweep (see photo to the left). There is an excellent diagram of the steering sweep and gear in Jean Boudriot’s book The 74-Gun Ship, Volume II, figure 177. Protractors used on the plans of the ship helped locate the position of the sweep, which match the tiller and rudder location. In the photo showing the rudder and rudder irons there is also the upper deck beams, which are “thinner” then the other upper deck beams due to the fact that the tiller has to pass under them to the sweep.

Once this was done, Don turned to making his gun carriages for the upper deck (22) and forecastle (2), before he completed the installation of the rudder and tiller. This turned out to be more of a project than he thought it would. The cannon have yet to be installed on the gun carriages after they are blackened, upon which Don plans to install the tiller, rudder and beams above.

Don hopes that the next SMA meeting will take place soon

15 after the Corona Virus pandemic recedes. Some things are hard to explain in writing but easy in person.

Dave’s Workbench – Dave Yotter

First the disclaimers, this workbench has been evolving for more than 30 years and has survived numerous modifications, usually in discrete chunks. Also, I probably enjoy my tools, bench and the model shop itself as much as building models. I admit to being a tool junkie and the bench is never been as clean as you see it in the pictures. This bench started life as a “Swedish” woodworking bench. I liked that they were very solidly built and with all of the additions, it has proven to be a good choice and more refined then my first bench. This was based on 4X4 and 2X6 house construction lumber and a left-over laminate kitchen counter top. The stacks of bins at the back of the bench are mostly for hand tools, tweezers, scissors, pliers, small saws, clamps, files, scalpel blades and handles, soldering equipment, etc. Again, years’ worth of accumulation and a replacement for the machinist’s tool chest that was quickly overwhelmed. I started using Acro Bins years ago too and kept with them. They don’t get brittle over time and the translucent ones let in plenty of light. Stacks of the colored ones tend to turn into black holes. Mine are on a rack made from 1X2” lumber with a U-shaped wall shelving system track on top for the bins to clip onto. A rack wasn’t needed initially as the bins stack nicely but with me things tend to proliferate. The 4” wide bins now come in three lengths of approximately 5”, 7” and 10” so they can step back nicely as the pile grows and of course useful for different length tools. Acro makes lots of bins and boxes so check the descriptions closely to get the ones that will stack together. The bins on the back of the bench caused a lot of the space on top of the bench to disappear and so the next step was to build a working area on the front. It started out smaller, like the green area (a self-healing cutting mat) with the small tool trays, one on each side. The first version was on full extension drawer slides (to put stuff neatly away at night). That turned out to be wobbly in use and with all the tools and project stuff always stacked on top I couldn’t close it anyway. What you see now is a wider version with a flat area to sand parts (a piece of granite tile with sticky back sanding discs) on the left and a complex with dovetail mounts for my GRS bench mate tools (bench pin, small vice, soldering pad with third hands, tiny belt sander). These tools have been described in the newsletter previously and we can redo that if there is interest. Finishing out the bench is a mount for my Preac table saw. This started out as an under-desk computer keyboard tray. The tray was removed and the saw base attached to the very solid swivel and tuck-away mechanism. Brings it close to hand and can be moved out of the way if necessary (rarely happens). Photo’s of Dave’s bench and related areas are shown on the next page. Dave did not mention that the “bench” is in a loft area of his home on the second floor and has another work bench behind it that is full size, as well as other tools that he uses such as drill presses and thickness sanders along with a built in sawdust collector system. Cool! Note the hanging Foredom tool and the special light – a paint booth is also visible. So, this is not meant to be a tutorial but just an example of what a workbench can become. Many of the ideas presented here were picked up from others and modified to suite my purposes or the materials I had on hand at the moment. And I am reminded of a quote a while back from one of the fellows in the Denver Club. “The most important tool in my shop is the waste basket”.

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17 Doug Tolbert

Doug, in pursuit of a ship not previously worked up for modelers, Buckingham 1751, a Royal Navy 70-gun third rate ship-of-the-Line from the Seven Years War, is struggling to crawl out from under some eleven thousand images of original documents and plans found for this ship in the British National Archives (KEW), the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich), contemporary British newspapers and other historical sources. Besides many pages of historical analysis, he is working toward a set of modern ship lines for Buckingham, aimed at an eventual plank-on-frame model.

His Majesty’s Ship Buckingham, 65 guns, in single action against the French 74 Florissant along with the frigates Aigrette 38 and Atalanta 28, off Montserrat, 3 November 1758 is shown in the attached Richard Paton engraving, 1760, which is image 51.7.146 in the Beverly R. Robinson Collection at the US Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis. The photo is courtesy of Grant Walker, USNA, via Robert Gardiner, Seaforth Publishing. Also search “BHC3762” at https://prints.rmg.co.uk/ to see a 1752 John Cleveley, the Elder, painting thought to be of Buckingham on the stocks at Deptford.

Doug is a 20+-year SMA member, past president, and long-time Webmaster, who relocated to Austin, Texas in 2016. He is currently completing a new workshop for his modeling and woodturning hobbies. Pictured above, Doug, with his new lockdown haircut, enjoys the only part of his shop not still in complete chaos. Besides SMA, Doug is a member of the Nautical Research Guild, Society for Nautical Research (UK), and the Gulf Coast Ship Modeling Society (Houston).

18 ANNOUNCEMENTS SMA Club Ship Model Plans

Our Treasurer, Larry Van Es, has offered to take on the task of cataloging our Club’s ship plans collection. This job has been attempted various times by others in the past with varying results. Larry promised to do his best. If you would like to help him with this endeavor, please contact him at: (714) 936-0389 or e-mail him at [email protected].

Dues are Due!!

All members of the SMA – Dues are due for 2020. It is that time again. It believe it is still the same as in the years past, with $25.00 due for members and $20.00 for those members who live over 100 miles from the meeting location in Fullerton.

Plexiglas Displays for Ship Models

Presentations

The president of the SMA also announced that the officers are looking for members who may be interested in presenting a short presentation of ship model construction at a meeting. Again, contact any SMA officer if interested.

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Don Dressel’s Roebuck interior under construction

Donald C. Dressel 908 W. 22nd Street, Upland, CA. 91784-1220

NEXT MEETING WEDNESDAY, ? , 7:30 PM, HILLCREST PARK RED CROSS BUILDING

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