IPMS August 2001
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PREZNOTES To say the least, my efforts at completing model is painted I’ll take a foam back any sort of model lately have basically sanding pad and sand with a very light “gone out the window.” With our house touch across the raised panel lines - just remodel in full swing, my modeling time is enough to remove the finish color from the virtually non-existent. The room I model in raised detail. Since most of my models are has now become our bedroom whilst our finished with a well used look I’ll also sand contractor is hard at work upstairs. Much across wing leading edges, walkways and of my free time is spent moving furniture so on. The challenge to this technique is and “stuff” away from where he is work- to not rub too much color off. If you model ing. My modeling space is devoid of your aircraft very clean, this technique books, most of my started projects, and all requires very careful attention to how the kits I had planned to start soon. I have much paint you remove. After you have retained a small corner of my workbench to completed your sanding then you can finish two time sensitive projects but that’s finish the model as always. It works for me. about it. That space will disappear for a time as well and my model bench will I gotta go now...more boxes to move. consist of a small board on my lap! Since most of my stuff is packed away I had to See you at the meeting, use all 37 brain cells to remember what I was going to write about this month. Ah yes, I remember - dealing with raised panel Terry lines. In the middle ages of this hobby, Mono- Meeting Update gram, Revell, Hasegawa, and others were turning out some pretty decent kits. At the The September and October IPMS time they were state of the art but when Seattle meetings will be on the 3rd models started coming out with engraved Saturday of the month, September 21 Seattle Chapter News panel detail some of these kits became and October 19. These two meetings dinosaurs overnight. I like some of these will also be in the Crafts Room at the models and it shows by the sizable North Bellevue Community/Senior quantity I have in my garage o’ kits. I Center, rather than the main room. don’t have the talent or interest to change all raised panel lines to engraved panel lines on a model. After all, this is supposed to be fun and engraving panel lines on any model is a lot of work! That being said... In This Issue After my model is primed and all seams Exercise Tiger 3 have been finished, I spray my model with Floquil bright silver for dark finished Gundam to the Rescue 4 aircraft and dark gray, such as Floquil Modeling Time 6 grimy black, for light finished aircraft. I use It’s All in the Definition 6 Floquil because it is very durable and can ZZ Top Eliminator Ford 7 take the handling required for this type of Polar Lights KISS Kits 8 project. After the Floquil has dried completely (I usually give it a day or so) I AeroMaster FAA Sheet 10 apply my finish colors using an acrylic RECON 7 Preview 12 Seattle Chapter IPMS/USA paint (I use Tamiya). Immediately after the Upcoming Shows 15 August 2002 Amodel Sukhoi T-4 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: 253-735-9060 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. As such, it serves as the voice for our Chapter, and depends largely upon the generous contributions of our members for articles, comments, club news, and anything else involving plastic scale modeling and associated subjects. Our meetings are generally held on the second Saturday of each month, (see below for actual meeting dates), at the North Bellevue Community/Senior Center, 4063-148th Ave NE, in Bellevue. See the back page for a map. Our meetings begin at 10:00 AM, except as noted, and usually last for two to three hours. Our meetings are very informal, and are open to any interested plastic modeler, regardless of interests. Modelers are encouraged to bring their models to the meetings. Subscriptions to the newsletter are included with the Chapter dues. Dues are $24 a year, and may be paid to Norm Filer, our Treasurer. (See address above). We also highly recommend our members join and support IPMS-USA, the national organization. See below for form. Any of the members listed above will gladly assist you with further informa- tion about the Chapter or Society. The views and opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of the individual writers, and do not constitute the official position of the Chapter or IPMS-USA. You are encouraged to submit any material for this newsletter to the editor. He will gladly work with you and see that your material is put into print and included in the newsletter, no matter your level of writing experience or computer expertise. The newsletter is currently being edited using a PC, and PageMaker 6.5. Any Word or WordPerfect document for the PC would be suitable for publication. Articles can also be submitted via e-mail, to the editor’s address above. Deadline for submission of articles is generally twelve days prior to the next meeting - earlier would be appreciated! Please call me at 425-823-4658 if you have any questions. If you use or reprint the material contained in the newsletter, we would appreciate attribution both to the author and the source document. Our newsletter is prepared with one thing in mind; this is information for our members, and all fellow modelers, and is prepared and printed in the newsletter in order to expand the skills and knowledge of those fellow modelers. Upcoming Meeting Dates The IPMS Seattle 2002 meeting schedule is as follows. All meetings are from 10 AM to 1 PM, except as indicated. To avoid conflicts with other groups using our new meeting facility, we must NOT be in the building before our scheduled start times, and MUST be finished and have the room restored to its proper layout by our scheduled finish time. We suggest that you keep this information in a readily accessable place. August 10 September 21 (3rd Saturday, in Crafts Room) October 19 (3rd Saturday, in Crafts Room) November 10 (back to normal) IPMS Seattle Chapter Newsletter Page 3 Were You Aware our ships and soldiers totally by surprise, discussion or recognition of the loss of Of...Exercise Tiger? the high loss of life threatened our personnel during “Tiger.” In the reports of command structure and the actual plan- this tragedy, it is interesting to note how ning for the D-Day landings. Remember, closely this information was held for all by Bob LaBouy the Normandy landings were being these years. An example cited involved planned for about five weeks later. U.S. Navy Captain John H. Doyle, who I recently saw a brief mention of a WW II American Army leadership was worried served at the CO of one of the LSTs. That event that piqued my interest about about how the rest of the Army would night he is attributed with saving the lives something I had read about several years react and whether the loss of life would of over 132 soldiers and sailors. He passed ago. A show on the History Channel create a demoralizing effect on the remain- away in 1993 and apparently never portrayed it as one of the greatest blun- ing Army troops and Navy sailors in mentioned that night’s events, not even to ders of WW II. When mentioned to England. There was also considerable his immediate family or closest friends. another modeler, he indicated he had never concern, from an intelligence standpoint, heard of it at all. as to the effect this successful German To provide more emphasis on the U.S. attack might have on the Germans. Should Army’s concern about the forthcoming This event, which has finally received the Germans learn how much damage they European invasion, I would like to share a some airing in recent years, is normally had done, might such attacks continue or brief reference from Stephen Ambrose in referred to by its wartime code name, even increase, thereby further delaying the his 1997 book Americans At War: “Exercise Tiger” or “Slapton Sands” projected D-Day invasion? Remember the (drawing that name from the beach Allies had a very small “window” of time “On June 6,1944, the U.S., Britain and location where the event took place almost for the planned invasion of France. Any Canada launched the largest force of 60 years ago). Never hear of it? Don’t be further problems or delay, at this critical warships in history across the English surprised. However, this “blunder” (I’m time, could easily set the Allied efforts Channel.