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PREZNOTES Be Careful What length when completed. As I say, small. Yet the kit has 650 injection plastic parts, 50 You Wish For photo etched brass parts, and an A4 sized set of instructions totaling 38 pages, From the time I started building armor covering 50 separate instruction steps. models in the late 1960s, I realized that the The kit comes with a full interior: engine, “rubber band” tracks that came with the and engine compartment, driver’s area, models left a lot to be desired. For a start, ammunition stowage area, full drive train, nothing seemed capable of gluing them full turret interior, including gun breach together. Even the instructions didn’t detail, radio set, even two sets of hand mention glue, but instead to heat a screw grenades in a box, and five parts per box. driver or a flat headed nail, and melt a series of “pins” to join the tracks together. And the Sherman tracks? I mentioned Often as not I messed this up, or the bond these at a meeting not too long ago: 960 wasn’t strong enough and the joined individual parts, which combine to tracks split apart. Other times the track was produce only the tracks for a kit which so ridged it was nearly impossible to get itself might have upwards of 500 or more the tracks to wrap around the road wheels, additional parts! drive sprocket and idler wheel with anything close to a realistic look. As I grew Be careful what you wish for… older and met other armor modelers, I realized my gripes were an almost universal complaint. “Individual track links, made from the same plastic as the rest of the Andrew model” seemed to be a popular wish. Then with the “discovery” of aftermarket photo etched brass parts, modelers started to wish for such parts to be included in the kits themselves. “Allow us to have scale Seattle Chapter News thickness parts” was the cry! And slowly but surely, the model firms heard about the track complaints, and the cries for parts that were of scale thickness. “And while you’re at it, how about better detailed parts, oh, and full interiors as well!” In This Issue So here I sit, typing this PrezNote, staring at the latest kit from Bronco Models of Hong Kong: a 1/35th scale Humber IPMS Vancouver Show Preview Armoured Car Mk.IV, as used by the 3 British in WW2. Sitting beside it is a set of MiniArt Soviet Field Kitchen aftermarket tracks (the tracks only), also by 4 Bronco, for a Sherman tank. The Humber Airfix Stratos 4 TSR.2MS 6 was a smallish wheeled reconnaissance Trumpeter J-20 8 vehicle with a turret, and with a three man Tamiya Do 335 10 crew. The model, in 1/35th scale, will Academy HMS Warspite 12 measure almost exactly five inches in Hurricane Theater: The Red Baron: What IS This? 14 Seattle Chapter IPMS/USA October 2011 IPMS Seattle Chapter Newsletter Page 2 SEATTLE CHAPTER CONTACTS President: Vice President: Treasurer: Show Chair: Andrew Birkbeck Eric Christianson Spencer Tom Jon Fincher P.O. Box 15983 18215 NE 95th Way #103 318 N.E. 81st St. 1819 S. 116th St. #307 Seattle, WA 98115 Redmond, WA 98052 Seattle, WA 98115 Seattle, WA 98166 Ph: 206-522-3539 Ph: 425-591-7385 Ph: 206-522-8414 Ph: 206-354-9682 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] IPMS Seattle Web Site (Webmasters, Norm Filer & 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 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 $25 a year for regular mail delivery of the newsletter, and $15 for e-mail delivery, and may be paid to Spencer Tom, 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 information 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, WordPerfect, or text 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 2011 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 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. October 8 November 12 December 10 Newsletter Editor: Robert Allen 12534 NE 128th Way #E3 Kirkland, WA 98034 Ph: 425-823-4658 [email protected] IPMS Seattle Chapter Newsletter Page 3 The IPMS Vancouver 41st • At the end of the day, awards and special Trophy Categories Annual Fall Model Show prizes are handed out and the winning models are photographed for the clubs Best of Show and Swap Meet archives. Best of Show Junior Best Aircraft - Jet/Helicopter Bonsor Recreation Complex 6550 Bonsor, Admission: Best Aircraft - Prop Engine Burnaby, BC, Canada $5 CDN (17 and Older); FREE (16 and Best Aircraft - Civilian Saturday, October 8, 2011 Under) Best Auto - Street or Show 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Best Auto - Competition The Showroom will be closed 3:00 to 4:00 Vendor Tables: Best Armour - Allied or NATO Entry registration closes at 12:00 noon $40 CDN Best Armour - Axis or Warsaw Pact Best Figure The Show is held at the Bonsor Recreation Registration: from 9:00am to 12:00 noon Best Nautical Subject Complex in Burnaby, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 $7 CDN (17 and Older) Best Diorama p.m. The main show room is closed to $2 CDN (16 and Under) Best Sci¬ Space or Vehicle everyone but judges between 3 and 4 pm Best TV/Movie Monster for final judging and ribbon placement. For more information, see the club’s web George Price Memorial Award - Best site at http://www.ipmsvancouver.ca/ Canadian Subject The event is not limited to IPMS members. index.html Best Royal Canadian Navy Subject Anyone can come and view the show. Additionally, anyone can enter a kit to be On-line registration forms are available at judged, the objective is for the best kit in a http://www.ipmsvancouver.ca/page12/ category to win, not the best kit built by an page12.html IPMS member. Contacts: This years special theme is “Operation Show Info: Peter Hickey Barbarossa” , open to armour, aircraft, Phone : 604-988-3253 figures, dioramas etc. E-Mail: [email protected] Vendor Tables: Ross Hillman • This is the event of the year for modelers Phone : 604-949-1918 in the greater Vancouver area. The show attracts modelers from Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Recent Shows have had around 470 kits entered in dozens of trophy or ribbon categories. • Several other modeling clubs are in- volved, sponsoring trophies, door prizes, and volunteering to judge or just helping out. • Most of the hobby shops in the lower mainland contribute to the show, sponsor- ing trophies or donating door prizes. Several manufacturers and suppliers also contribute. There is a vendor room with tables set up in flea market fashion. • Door prizes, largely donated by hobby shops and suppliers to the industry, are given out during the day. IPMS Seattle Chapter Newsletter Page 4 MiniArt 1/35th Scale Soviet Also, the sides of the main cooking tub The figures included in this kit, like those Field Kitchen KP-42 assembled in Step 3 must fit around the in every MiniArt kit I build, are exquisite tub cover built in Step 4, and the cover fits and a great value by themselves.