PREZNOTES I may have to buy a surplus airliner seat of the actual item. Should I be summarily for my office one of these days. It seems I executed because it was late at night and I get my Preznotes columns all written whilst didnt have the exact serial number, and I in an airline seat. Heres another one: didnt want to wait until the next day to trek to the local hobby emporium to see if This particular airplane seems to have a they had the correct markings? In a seat pitch a few portions of an inch more contest situation, should something like than normal. My knees will be safe this this be brought to the attention of the trip. Appearance wise it looks like one of judges or does the model get judged on the older aircraft of the fleet - the seat the merits of construction and finish? How fabric is worn and the velcro fasteners about a P-38J in RAF sand/stone/azure arent velcro-ing anything. Im sitting in with TORCH stars, and European theatre the center section so I cant see if the squadron codes? The model is finished fabric on the wings is shredding... well enough to win best aircraft. What would you do? Is a model finished in colors and markings created at the whim of the modeler and Just a few questions to make you lose with no connection to reality to be allowed sleep at night after you have painted that in a competitive situation at a contest? model with FS 15042 and you should have There are some modelers (myself included) used 15044! that will take the occasional aircraft model and finish it in colors and markings that See you at the meeting, only exist in the darkest corners of the modelers imagination. A prime example is the camouflaged B-58. There has been no Terry photographic evidence (at least that I am aware of) that a B-58 was actually camou- flaged. There does exist in Tech Order 1.1.4. a pattern for painting a B-58 in a 3- tone bomber color scheme with black undersides. I have even heard someone say, I know someone who knew someone Seattle Chapter News that talked to a person that saw it... Hearsay is not much to go on. But, in my case, at the time I was building my B-58 In This Issue (several years ago), a natural metal finish was out of the question. I painted it in the ICM MiG-31 3 camouflage. I even entered it in a few AMT Millennium Cars 4 contests but my recollection is that it Revell 57 Chevy Bel Air 7 never won anything. My question is: should it have even been allowed to enter The Camouflaged Hustler 7 a contest and if so, which category, multi ICM Sukhoi Su-2 8 engine jets or flights of fancy? It presents IPMS Salem Web Site 9 an interesting problem for our judges - Taking Stock! 9 what would you do with something like SKIF MT-LB 10 that? Not every modeler provides refer- ences to back up a different color MPM Fokker T.8 11 scheme or odd markings. I have finished Supermarionation 12 models of a particular subject where the KC-97 Photos & Info 15 Seattle Chapter IPMS-USA markings are not exactly as representative Upcoming Shows 15 May 2001 Golden Age Stars of IPMS 16 IPMS Seattle Chapter Newsletter Page 2 SEATTLE CHAPTER CONTACTS President: Vice President: Treasurer: Editor: Terry Moore Keith Laird Norm Filer Robert Allen 3612 - 201st Pl. S.W. 528 South 2nd Ave. 16510 N.E. 99th 12534 NE 128th Way #E3 Lynnwood, WA 98036 Kent, WA 98032 Redmond, WA 98052 Kirkland, WA 98034 Ph: 425-774-6343 Ph: 253-854-9148 Ph: 425-885-7213 Ph: 425-823-4658 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] IPMS Seattle Web Site (Webmasters, Jon Fincher & Tracy White): http://www.ipms-seattle.org Public Disclaimers, Information, and Appeals for Help This is the official publication of the Seattle Chapter, IPMS-USA. 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May 12, 2001 June 9, 2001 July 14, 2001 August 18, 2001 (Third Saturday) IPMS Seattle Chapter Newsletter Page 3 ICM 1/72nd Scale MiG-31 panels are different, with a large screen as its gray. You are given a great assort- embossed on each face. Maybe the pilot ment of two different decals, Blue 74 with a flies the plane to and from, and the guy in nice unit badge, and Red 08 with a guards by Bill Osborn back flies the intercept. Back to the panels, logo with a blue stripe. The colors are there are no decals or embossed instru- given by both name and Humbrol num- ments, so youre on your own with the bers. cockpit. I havent yet glued anything together; just dry fitting and so on. ICM must have some kind of tool designers because most of their kits tend to be somewhat compli- cated. The landing gear doors are made in the closed position, which is OK if you First off, this is a MiG-31, not a rehash of a MiG-25. Thats the good news. The bad news is that the kit is rather strange in the This is not a great kit but it aint bad. Some way that its engineered. The lower body people will take a good state-of-the-art kit, section looks as if the mold was made in throw most of the parts away, and make several parts, and didnt mate just right. new ones. Why not get a kit like this, and Some panels are raised, or below, what when you toss the parts away, you wont should be a smooth surface. However, if I feel guilty? remember correctly, the real one I saw at Abbotsford several years ago wasnt smooth either. With enough power, almost want the model in a flying attitude, but a anything will fly. stand is not included. This means that to make the model with gear down, you must The kit is molded in a semi-hard medium cut the doors apart with great care, due to gray plastic with a little more than the the less than seeable shape. As with most usual amount of flash. ICM gives you an Russian aircraft, there are lots of probes assortment of under wing missiles and and antenna that stick out to catch the drop tanks. The plans are of the exploded unwary. view type, but so far there are locating holes and other indicators so you get the The clear and thin canopies have no parts in the right spots. The panel lines are framing on them, so the builder is left with very finely engraved, but some have raised the small two-view painting instruction edges.