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Gatormodelers' Newsletter Vol. 9, Issue 2, January 2019 Gatormodelers’ Newsletter Vol. 9, Issue 2, January 2019 The IPMS Gators Christmas Party was held on December 16, 2018. Pictured are several members who were recognized during the party with certificates of appreciation. Top left: Tony and AJ; top right: Bruce and AJ; middle right: Jack and AJ, right: Nancy and Bill with Mike. Below – A Rogue’s gallery of attendees. 1 1-12-2019 Club officers A. J. Kwan President & Associate Newsletter Next meeting: Editor Dan Contento Tuesday, January 15 at: 6:30 PM Vice Pres Oak Hall Library Frank Ahern th Secretary 8009 SW 14 Ave Gainesville FL (See the map on page 33) Bruce Doyle Historian Paul Bennett On page 22 we have a guest Photographer author (William Geresy) who Tracy Palmer describes seeing the launch of Webmaster Apollo 8. Here is a little bit about Bill in his own words: “This is me Bill Winter Treasurer & working on a 1/48 Monogram B- Newsletter 17G. This was taken during a mini Editor group build at the Kalamazoo Hobby Town USA hobby shop. I IPMS Gators figured I had better include a Breaking News picture of me working on Gator’s auction is scheduled for something plastic. Someday I have got to finish the darned April 6 @ 1 PM (details to follow soon) thing!” Table of Contents Pres Sez 3 Launch of Apollo 8 21 Meeting minutes 4 Jaxcon 25 American Graffiti 6 Rogue’s Gallery 2018 26 Building better models 9 Odds and Ends 28 Son of Fiddly bits 10 Secretary’s page 31 Hollywood Heroes 15 IPMS Membership 32 Show and Tell 17 Directions to meeting 33 Faces in the Crowd 20 Wild Paint 34 2 Prez Sez…… By AJ Kwan Happy New Year. The new year is starting with a bang. The coming year we will have some very cool, and interesting presentations. Some Reminders • Please do not forget, it is dues time again, so time to pony up twenty bucks for the coming year. • Dan and Mike are looking into Mugs again; dishwasher safe, under $5 • Gray Model Contest was won by Jack Mugan; Jack chose “Rescue” as the next Semi-Annual (May) Model Contest Like I said, the Presentations are starting off with a BANG! • Aaron Alt presentation on Florida Civil Air Patrol • Facebook Page Demonstration by Mike Martinez • William Winter and Ed Ingersoll 2 Part Presentation on Competition Judging. o AMPS judging criteria. o Good and Bad of what Judges are looking for. o How IPMS and AMPS Judges are Certified. o What are AMPS Junior Class, Standard Class and Master Class definitions. Our club display at the main library is through the end of January. The display is “The Thunderbirds”. Frank and Bruce did a bang-up job of setting up the display. Thanks guys, very artistic! This year’s Collectors Day (Saturday, January 12, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm) display will be made up of IPMS winning models. Bruce is the man in charge. Come on down and help man our table. Come on down and you can see Ed’s “BIG” TROPHY. January’s Theme will be “Vehicles with more than 4 Wheels (spare tires and steering wheels DO NOT COUNT)”; P.S. • JAXCON is February 9. • 2019 IPMS USA Nationals, August 7-10, 2019, Chattanooga, Tennessee 3 Meeting Minutes – December 18, 2018 By Frank Ahern President AJ Kwan opened the meeting at 6:40pm welcoming 13 club members and 3 guests, plus Tayla the Spinney’s service dog. President Kwan led a discussion of his agenda for the meeting: Agenda for December General Meeting • Dues are due, $20/year • AJ Kwan elected President, Dan Contendo elected VP, Frank Ahern volunteered to stay on as Secretary (elected by consensus), William Winter volunteered to stay on as Treasurer (elected by consensus). • Discussion on Mugs was brought up again; dishwasher safe, under $5 • Gray Model Contest won by Jack Mugan (at November meeting) • Tracy Palmer also gave a good presentation on Battle of Tarawa (at November meeting) • Best Tarawa themed model was won by Jack Mugan (at the November meeting) • Tribute to President George HW Bush Presentation – AJ (at the December meeting) • Open Discussions On Meeting Agendas o Share modelling skills with a presentation. o IPMS and AMPS judging criteria. Good and Bad of what Judges are looking for. o How IPMS and AMPS Judges are Certified o What is AMPS Junior Class, Standard Class and a Master Class system. o We are not a big club. Would the club like to see us getting back to model building, model building techniques, discussions of models we have built, just general Q & A pass tips around at meetings. Someone would have to do a presentation: bring in the instruction sheet, maybe some photos of the build, good points, bad issues, painting, masking, photos, types of paint, brands of paint, airbrush, rattle can, more photos. o Would the club want to have a “Build A Model Night”? Bring in a model, and start building, I could see it being really quiet or everyone starting a lively discussion. Mike Martinez has selected the theme for the January meeting – anything with more than 4 wheels. It was also announced that Jack Mugan had picked a theme for the semi-annual club model contest – Rescue. That contest will take place at the May meeting. The December theme was Battle of the Bulge and historian Bruce Doyle showed the club his collection of books on the battle as well as his extensive collection of autographs of WW2 aces. This was followed by a slide presentation by Tracy Palmer on his visits to military cemeteries and museums in Europe. Models displayed at the meeting were discussed by the club members who brought them. The monthly raffles were drawn and the winners were Brian Cormack, who chose a model of the Mig- 21, and Frank Ahern who picked a ’40 Ford Hot Rod. 4 Meeting Minutes – December 18, 2018 Voting took place for the monthly theme model contest and the winner was Mike Redmond along with grandson Andrew Nelson for their tank diorama. Finally AJ Kwan gave a presentation on the life and military service of President George H.W. Bush, who recently passed away. The meeting concluded at 8:35pm. 5 American Graffiti: The Cars, Part 4 By Frank Ahern The last installment in my series on the cars of ‘American Graffiti’ will focus on the car that defined the Hot Rod era – the Ford Deuce Coupe. The other cars in the movie were selected partially based on availability and cost. It was a low-budget movie, after all. The one car that George Lucas insisted be in the film was the ’32 Ford chopped, highboy 5-window coupe driven by John Milner (Paul Le Mat). It had come to symbolize the whole ‘car culture’ movement that flowered in post-war California in the late 40’s and 50’s. Sociologists pretty much agree that this was the beginning of the counter-culture attitude that the Baby Boom generation adopted in the 1960’s and beyond. The idea that you could take a discarded old car and turn it into a personal statement of speed, in a Hot Rod, or style, in a Custom Car, was early evidence that young people would be a societal force to be reckoned with in the future. How the ’32 Ford Model B became that iconic car was a combination of 6 American Graffiti: factors including cost, availability and its mechanical advantages. It had the first mass-produced V-8 - the famous “flat head” engine. The movement that began in California eventually spread across the country through the influence of mass media such as Beach Boys music and Hot Rod magazine. ********************************************************************************* 1932 Ford 5-window Coupe After my struggles with the ’58 Impala kit, I was a little concerned about tackling the challenge of a highly modified model of the Deuce Coupe. In particular, it was the prospect of “chopping” the roof that worried me the most. Some guys (I’m talking to you - Mike Martinez) seem to relish the idea of hacking up a kit to produce something unique. I’m not one of those guys. To the rescue came Jack Mugan, who suggested I visit the website of Jimmy Flintstone – a company that specializes in producing resin bodies of hot rod and custom cars. Sure enough, they had a chopped 5- window coupe body at a reasonable price ($10) and free shipping. Who says the age of miracles is over! That was the motivation I needed to get started on this build. It started, like most car models, with the engine. Since the engine is totally exposed on a highboy, I needed to put extra effort into making it look right. That included a pre-wired distributor from the Fat Kidd in Ocala, and scratch-built plug wire separators. Unfortunately that wasn’t the end of the struggles with modifications. My kit interior came out looking good, but like most of the kits I have built, there was conflict 7 American Graffiti: between my kit part and the resin body. Trying to force the kit interior into the body resulted in part of the exterior of the body snapping off. This left me with an ugly scar that will be difficult to hide. At this point I am forced to admit that this model is never going to be a good replica of Milner’s Deuce Coupe. Not only because of my mistakes, but also because it was missing several important features like motorcycle fenders on the front wheels, the correct style of chrome reverse wheels, small fenders over the rear wheels, incorrect style of exhaust pipes, etc.
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