MAD MONTHLY DOG The Newsletter of IPMS Boise March 2011

Resurrection winner Paul Erlendson’s 1/24th scale Protar Ferrari 126C2 This month- The Vandervoort Memorial M D

MEETING MINUTES M November -Vignettes anddioramas something yourememberfromit.) August -ChildhoodMemeories(Buildakitfromyourchildhoodor May - The BillBailey(Buildsomethingyoubought fromBill’s March - The Vandervoort Next year’s themesare- vehicles. This monthistheVandervoort forcars,trucks,bikes,andwheeledmilitary assumption isthattheymadeitokay. We alsohavenotheardanythingaboutthekitswesent“downrange.” The Maybe we’llgetanewmemberortwoandkiddlefireinthekids. tember planonshowingoffyourwearstothechurchandbuildwithkids. national organizationtoarrangeforkitsthetakeandmake.SothisSep church forlettingusmeetthere.Kent saidhewouldgetintouchwiththe for thekids. The subjectwasrevisitedthismonthasawayofthankingthe show thechurchwhatwedo. The thoughtwastoalsohaveatakeandmake for it’s paritioners. The thoughtthenwastohaveamodelshowthisyear Last September’s meetingcoincidedwithafestivalthatthechurchheld collection) March 2011 Chapter Contact- Kent Eckhart Secretary andEditor - Tom Gloeckle Treasurer -JeffD’Andrea Vice President -BrianGeiger President -BillSpeece Your ExecutiveBoardmembersare- 2 - M PRESIDENT’S NOTES D M Bill Bring thecarsandseeyaSaturday. many piecesofmymindtogiveloseanymore. Wish Icouldgettheotheronesback. our ownmoney. That’s greatpeaceofmindnothavingtocoverourselves. And, Idon’thavetoo attending ameetingorshow. Itisquiteapaintosearchandpayforinsurancebyourselvesoutof printing, andhavedrawings.With nationalmembership,IPMSpaysforourinsurancewhileweare moments allthetime. As longaswehaveaviableclubcansponsorawards,cover postageand if someoneelsedoesn’t.Wouldn’t itbenicetohaveseniordiscounts,afterallwe to joinlater, weproratethedues.We allknowitisn’tfairtotheothersmemberswhohavepaid updated thetreasurytorunefficiently. Ifyouhaven’t beentoameetingyetthisyearandwant way intheupper90%. This makeJeff’s jobsomucheasiertodo.Hecertainlyhasorganizedand project beforethisoneisdone. Yah, likethat’s notgoingtohappen. them, butyearslateritallclicksandcomestogether?Now, therealtrickisnottostartanother too manypokersinourfires,don’twe?Whydosomekitsfeellikeaburdenwhenyou’rebuilding this timetobeagreatopportunitypullanotherpokeroutofthefire.Ofcourseweallhave resurrection themelastmonth,butIfeltitwastimetofinallycompleteforMarch.found I cleanedofftheyearsofdust.Itcouldhavebeenusedforbluethemelastyearoreven time tofinishakit? Well, afterstartingthiskitseveralyearsagoandshelvingitforwaytolong, time tocompletemycarentry. Isn’titrelaxingnothavingtoworkallthewayupmeeting ever cruisingby, stopinandbeimpressed. off afullyrestoredcar. Lastyearitwasa1965Mustangconvertiblelookingsweet.Soifyouare among thetop10automuseumsincountry. Really, inMontana? Yes, andeachyeartheyraffle a massiveE-70locomotive. The facilityhousesover150vehiclesinthecollectionandisranked photos fromtheMontana Auto MuseuminDeerlodgewhenItraveledtherelastyear. There isalso entry receiveadiscountcoupontouseatHobby Town. Formoreinspiration,Iaddedsomecar expenses afterDontookcareofitformanyyears.Remember, inadditiontothetrophies,all remember lastyear, theywerereallyoutstanding.It’s nicethattheclubisabletohelpwith did afantasticpresentationontheirgreatkits.Donanotherfinejobthetrophies.Ifyou has doneatopnotchjobandputinlotsoftimeeffortontheirkit.Lastyear, DarrinandJeff I wanttothankthosewhohavepaidtheirduesinthepreviousmonths. The percentageis I hadfinishedlastmonthscontestmodelearlyforachangesothatleftmewithmore Since thismonthistheCurtVandervoot Memorial“Wheel’s onWheel’s, Ihopeeveryone March 2011 3 M DM March 2011 4

Resurrection Theme-

Tamiya Dragon Wagon 50 Ford Pickup Tamiya Skyraider 1/35th Scale 1/25th Scale 1/48th Scale by John Cromarty by Jim Burton by Bill Bailey MEETING MODELS Ace Grumman Guardian Tanker Revell 55 Chevy Belair Convertable Draconian Marauder 1/72nd Scale 1/25th Scale 1/32nd Scale by Terry Falk by John Wilch by Bill Speece

Revell F-4E Phantom II Academy M1A1 Abrams 1/32nd Scale 1/35th Scale by Larry Van Bussum by Thomas Whorley

Second Place Third Place ICM Panzer 2D Octopus Fairey Firefly 1/35th Scale 1/72nd Scale by George Bacon by Herb Arnold M DM March 2011 5

Model of the Month

Peterbilt Wrecker Lindberg 66 Chevy Chevelle Revell 69 Dodge Charger 1/25th Scale 1/25th Scale 1/25th Scale by John Wilch by John Wilch by Jim Burton Display Models

MEETING MODELS Panzer IV G Hasegawa P-47M Dragon Panzer IV G 1/35th Scale 1/48th Scale 1/35th Scale by Brian Geiger by Mark Oliver by Ian Robertson

Tamiya “Septic Tank” Games Workshop Lor “Balrog” Classic Airframes Vampire FB5 1/35th Scale 35mm Scale 1/48th Scale by Bill Speece by Steve Carder by Mark Russell M DM March 2011 6 Model scales

For those modelers that like to have a constant scale and be able to have a collection of civilian and military , the large amount of scales used can be a source of frustra- tion. The first constant scale used with military ships was the 1/600 used byAirfix. In the English speaking world, measurement follow the “imperial system”, so conversion followed as fraction of feet to inches. 1/48 = ¼ inch to foot. 1/72= 3/16 inch to foot. 1/96= 1/8 inch to foot. 1/192=1/16 inch to foot. Therefore we can ask ourselves where did the famous 1/600 scale originated. The scale represent 1” to 50 feet and it was the scale used for scale ships at the British Admiralty. Naval Intelligence also used models made at that scale for recognition. Many civil engi- neering plans and models also use that scale. The model company which use that scale for ships models (beside ) is ARII.

I have been trying to have a compendium of all the major scales used but the list is cer- THE SCUTTLEBUTT tainly not all inclusive.

1/1250 Die cast ship models used in continental Europe for war gaming. 1/1200 Die cast ship models used in US & England, some are now available in resin and styrene. 1/800 ARII and Academy warships. 1/720 Revell , Testor and Italaeri warships. 1/700 “Constant” scale initiated by the Japanese 4, Aoshima, Tamyia, Fujimi and Hasegawa. Later to be joined by the like of Skywave, Dragon, Tumpeter, and many resin manufacturers. This has become the preferred scale for the smaller size ships models. 1/600 Airfix and ARII, 1/570 A box scale used by Revell for some liners and military ships. Close enough to be used beside 1/600 scale models. 1/550 IMEX freight carriers. 1/500 Some aircraft carriers and battleships by Fujimi & Nichimo. 1/450 Gunze-Sangio liners, Hasegawa Yamato, and IMEX freigthers. 1/400 Made popular by Heller for their series of French warships. The Polish Co. Mirage is also using this scale. 1/350 Adopted by Tamyia as the “large” scale for warships. Then Tamyia did not release another model (new) in that scale for almost 20 years. Then there was the Fletcher, then again nothing! But the Ginny was out of bottle and it was adopted by all the new ship model manufacturers (resin and plastic) M D Justice, aFrenchdestroyer andacoupleofu-boats the DutchcruiserDeRyuter. UBL willbereleasingtheSMSSharnhorst,French battleship that labeltheywillbe releasing1/350modelsofshipsinvolvedin WWII. the 1/350scalewillbe branchingoutwithasistercompanycalled P U-Boat Laboratoriumwhichisspecializedin resinmodelsfromshipsofthe1880–1920erain beauty isavailablefromInternetHobbyfor $140.Itwillbealimitededition. 1/350 Russian DestroyerGrozsiy(1905), Academy 1/400 Titanic withPEandwooddeck,this Dragon 1/350USSPennsylvania, Zvevda1/350HMSDreadnaught(WWI),Combrig New shipmodelsreleases. THE SCUTTLEBUTT CONT. M 1/253, 1/270,plusthenumerous‘box”scales. Some other“odd”scalesusedforshipmodels;1/15,1/110,1/120,1/125,1/220,1/225, willactlikeafullscaleshipwhensubjectedtowindandwaveactions. 1/25 A scalemostlyusedbyengineers,itisthesmallest atwhichamodelsship from4countriesarenowavailable,US,Germany, Italy, USSR,andsoonBritain. popularscaleinthatgenre.IthasbecomewithPT boatsmodelers,Pt’s 1/35 This wasmainlyanarmorscaleoriginatedby…… Tamiya andisnowthemost andtheMonogramVietnam erariverpatrolboatareacoupleofexamples. 1/48 Notapopularscaleforshipmodelers. The oldGlencoeCoastGuardrescueboat andGermansubmarines. aretheSnowberryfromRevell, thePT 109,the Tamiya Vosper, acoupleofUS 1/72 Imperialversion.Severalshipshavebeenreleasedinthatscale,themostnotable 1/75 HellersailingshipssuchatheChebecandRoman . Canbeusedwith1/72. Available inthescalefromCottageIndustry. Kearsage,etc..) almostidenticalto1/100.SomeCivilWar Ironcladsarealso 1/96 HistoricsailingshipsreleasedbyRevell (Pedro Nunez, Termopylae, Constitution, 1/100 Hellersailingships,themostnotablebeingVictory andSoleilRoyal. destroyerinthatscale. 1/144 Halfthe1/72scaleandusedmostlywithsubmarines,recentlyRevell issueda 1/150 Hellersailingships, scratchbuilders.FlagshipModelsusethatscalefortheCivilWar Ironclads. 1/192 Imperialscalecloseenoughtobeusedwiththemetric1/200.Mainlyby recentlythe Arizona from Trumpeter. fromNichimo(withsomedestroyersandacoupleofsubmarines)more shipsareavailableinthatscale. Also itwasmadepopular withthe Yamato thatdidnothavethe$$orspacefor1/100ship. Also acoupleofcivilian 1/200 This scalewas adoptedbyHellerforsomeoftheirsailingshipsthemodelers 1/250 Heller&Doyushamodels. March 2011 acific crossroad.Under Their firstreleaseis 7 M THE SCUTTLEBUTT CONT. D M Figure Review PegasoFigure Review Model90-050 Teutonic Knight on theirown. Their horsesweretrainedto kickandbite. The EasternRoman foundoutvery soonthatironshodhorsescouldbeafearsome weap valuable thanbronze we canguessthatmostearlyhorseshoeswere madeofbronze. rarity andanitemofgreat valuetohavebeenburiedwithaking. Ironbeingmuchmore the horseshoefoundin Belgiumwasmadeofironandnotbronze. Itmusthavebeena make sparksonrockyground. The Koran waswrittenabout660 AD. Interestingenough, Roman heavy cavalry calledCataphracts.Onlyhooveswithhorseshoesarecapableto horse hoovesmakingsparksonthestonyground. ItisprobablyreferringtotheEastern cerning horseshoesisintheKoran. The infidelswerechargingthewarriorsof Allah,the AD era. The tombislocatedin Tournai, Belgium. The firstwrittendocumentationcon of ahorseshoeeverfoundwasinthetomb of aFrankishKing whichreignedin the500 question, whocameupwiththehorseshoe? Well, nobodyisreallysure. The firstexample hide bootsthattheylacedonthehorseslegs. Sonowitcomestothesecondpartof Indeed theWestern Roman neverusedthehorseshoe,insteadthey atypeofraw is whatIcameupwith. more speciallycavalry. Also consulted Archeology andrenaissance magazines.Sohereit cal facts,IconsultedseveralofmybookstreatingwiththeRoman armyingeneraland 1453 until latest Empire which man it concernhistori- when Internet the AD. Nottrusting course concerntheWestern Roman Empirewhichlasteduntil476 AD nottheEasternRo- they didnotusestirrupsbutIwasabsolutelysureconcerningthehorseshoes. This of At thelastmeetingIwasaskedifRoman cavalrydidusehorseshoes.Iwassurethat Horseshoes March 2011 have itpartofadioramawithother“90mm”figures. At firstglancethiswasa“musthave”formystash. Thephotos A greatfigurebutbepreparedtodisappointedifyouwant for Pegaso, butGianniLaRocca. Andrea JulaorViktor Konos whomadetheotherknightsfigures to thepainterwhomadethisfigurelookright. Thesculptorisnot amount ofpadding,thisguyisprettyskinny. 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Real or Fake? Or Real Fake? The August 2010 issue of Popular Mechanics had an interesting article on page 102 about a photographic technique for taking pictures of real, or life size, vehicles and or scenes and render them in such a way as to make it look like it is a . Here is your chance to expand your model collection (or at least pictures of it) with the most realistic models ever built, and all you need is a digital camera. FIG. 1 The optical illusion is achieved through depth of field (DOF). DOF, as

defined by Wikipedia, is the portion of a scene that appears sharp in an image. The DOF is determined by the camera-to-subject distance, the lens focal length, the lens f-number and the format size or circle of confusion criterion. A photo of a scene taken from far away – such as from a building or mountain – will almost be entirely in focus. Achiev- ing a fully focused picture of a close-up of something like a model is more difficult. Normally, in that instance, only a small portion or slot of the picture is in focus, and the remaining portion of the picture is FIG. 2 SCALE SCIENCE out of focus. If you blur the foreground or background of a picture of a scene, you can create an optical illusion that appears to be a close-up shot of a scale model.

There are several ways to take these sorts of photographs. The “pure” way is to use a “tilt-shift” lens on a SLR camera. The tilt-shift lens can be used to tilt the axis of the glass in front of the camera’s image sensor, controlling which part of the image is in focus. A tilt- focus lens costs over $1000.

Another way is to use photo-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop. There is a “Lens Blur Filter” that can be used to produce the same effect. Another possibility, for smart phone users, is an app like “TiltShift Genera- tor” or websites such as www.tiltshiftmaker.com, which is what some of the FIG. 3 photos below were produced with.

Using a tilt-shift focus is a fun way to look at the world around you. Many scenes and vehicles can be “miniaturized” and produce some outstanding photos. Only you would be the wiser as to whether the picture is of your lat- est and greatest model or , or of the real world. See if you can tell which photos below are “real” models and which are “fake” tilt-shift real- world scenes. (Answers on Page 12)

FIG. 4 Larry Van Bussum

FIG. 5 FIG. 6 FIG. 7 FIG. 8 M INTERNET MODELLING UPDATE D M Brian Geiger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGA32YSK9Uw out: technique, hedonshisLesPaul andfinishesupwithatastylick.Check it ering withpigments”byScaleModelMadman. After demonstratingthe Don’t hesitatetoshareifyoufinda gem likethisoneentitled,“W My tipforthemonthistotrysomemodel keywordsearcheson YouTube. less, they’reoutthereandjustafewclicksaway. guages andsomecallintoquestionthesanityoftheirauthors.Regard all therebaby. Somearebetterthanothers.inforeign lan someone createchipsmaskingwithsaltoralayerofhairspray? Ya, It’s rust, dust,mud,chipping,fading,colormodulation,etc…Want tosee the amountofarmorweatheringreferencesdealingwithoils,pigments, contests, andwitnessingmodeltechniquesinaction.Iwasblowawayby vintage footageofwarmachines,panningupanddowntablesmodel eling videoslately, you’reinforatreat. Take yourpickfromviewing posting modelingvideosto YouTube. If youhaven’tsearchedformod creating adedicatedsite,modelenthusiastssimplyansweredthecallby list nowbecauseit’s beendoneandit’s called…YouTube. Ratherthan modeling video-postingsitecalled“GlueTube”. Checkthatoffofyour evolved intoamajorcyberentity, Itoyed withtheideaofadedicated I wonderedwhatwouldbethenextevolutionaljump. As YouTube mation, reviews,andevenblogsdetailingstep-by-stepbuilds. Now weexpectnolessthanhistoricalreferences,newkitreleaseinfor models online.Contentwasusuallylimitedtoafewpersonalgalleries. consider thatjust15-16yearsago,usershadtosearchdeepfindscale The amountofinternetmodelingresourcesisprettyamazingwhenyou revisit thetopic. net. EnoughtimehaspassedtomeritanupdatesoIdecidedbriefly Years agoIwroteaboutnewmodelingresourcespoppingupontheinter March 2011 eath - - 10 - - - - M RAY SWEET TRIBUTE D M March 2011 Reprinted fromDirtyPlastic IPMS/Phoenix 11 Answers from page9:1)Real; 2) Model;3)4) Real; 5)Real; 6) Model;7)Real; 8)Model M RAY SWEET TRIBUTE D M March 2011 12 Reprinted from Dirty Plastic IPMS/Phoenix