IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter – April 2017 Volume 25 # 4 Southern California’s Premier Model Club The President’s Column By David Frederick “OC President: Takes First place at ValleyCon and Silicon Valley” In This Issue Who is crazy enough to attend a Table of Contents Page model contest on Saturday and Vice Presidents Column 3 Sunday, when the contests are over Monthly Contest Themes 6 400 miles from each other? Your Financials 8 President of course, who else? USA Membership 9 Silicon Valley show was held in OC Membership Form 10 Northern California, and the Insane Candid Meeting Photos 11 Model Posse set out in my car to National Convention Sponsor 15 break it in. This year’s show had a Largest Scale Armor Collection 16 respectable Raffle table to pick IPMS OC Contest Tables 17 from. Monthly Contest Results 24 Re-Building the Lindberg I-53 25 Fred Horky comments on I-53 31 IPMS Silicon Valley Classic 35 Rainbow Canyon re-visit 41 Mary Ellis – Spitfire Pilot 48 Orange Circle Car Show 52 Local Club Meetings 61 Upcoming Events 65 I won a 1/350 scale BB-55 North Carolina Trumpeter ship model. I took first place for my Battlestar Galactica Viper MKVII; there were about eight other models in that category so it was a good accomplishment. ValleyCon the same model took first, but it was the only model in the category, “If you do not bring it you cannot place.” IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter April 2017 The President’s Column Up north in San Jose, Mark Glidden placed first with his newly finished Japanese WWII airplane “Tony," which is just arriving in the hobby stores. Lily Liu, who is a junior modeling advocate as she organizes other teens to show up to the Silicon Valley show to enter models. She is part of the IPMS Bay Area Dragons Juniors club. Wouldn’t it be great to have someone like her in Southern California, as we need someone to keep the modeling hobby alive in our younger folks as we are not getting any younger? ValleyCon on Sunday had many familiar faces as our Vice President Sean Fallesen accepting his award and getting photo bombed by George Creed. This year unlike last the vendors were inside the building. Tamiya, who sponsored a Tamiya build award was present and showed off all the new kits that just come out. For the second time in a row the ValleyCon show was held at the Petersen Automotive museum. There seems to be a car for everyone. Just take a look as I jump in like Speed Racer, in the Mach Five replica, Go Speed Racer… GO. 2 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter April 2017 The President’s Column In the past few years the ValleyCon show has been dominated by car and science fiction modeler’s. There seem to be less Science Fiction models than the previous two years; however the quality tipped the scale. I have never seen a 3D printed model of the Disney movie Black Hole: Cygnus. To top it off it was lit up and took home the Best of Show. Same modeler did the Valley Forge spaceship from the 70’s science fiction Silent Running. Raffle Czar sneak peek of models for April Monthly raffle (If you like below choices bring MONEY to support club…) 1. Armor: 1/35 Trumpeter: TGSDF Recon Vehicle 2. Auto: 1/25 AMT: 1932 Ford Victoria LIL’ Vicky 3. Airplane: 1/32) Revell: F4G Phantom II Wild Weasel 4. Sci-Fi: Moebius: Bella Lugosi Dracula 5. Miscellaneous: Monogram: USA/USSR missile set. Vice President’s Column By Sean Fallesen Overcoming a couple of hiccups, the product demonstrations at last month’s meeting turned out satisfactory, in my own assessment. But it seems I’m a bit out-of-touch, because we’ve received several very positive comments about them, and we hear that the shops were deluged with requests for the products that were shown. I confess, I was worried about running product demos – especially the photoetch railings with Gator’s Grip Glue that I personally presented. It doesn’t seem to me that it was that long ago when I presented on the same subject… but in fact, it has been at least 4 years, probably more. My worry about repeating material too soon since the last time is running afoul of my “old timer’s” sense of dates – that is, in most cases, it really has been a lot longer than I think it has, and it’s worth revisiting now. 3 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter April 2017 Vice President’s Column So, I feel I should apologize; I hadn’t realized how much of a hunger there was for these types of technique and product exhibitions; and will work to incorporate more of them going forward. So, following up on last month’s specific product demonstrations, this month we’ll be seeing a broader-scope exhibition illustrating how to take multiple materials and methods and incorporating them into a creative whole, as Foster Rash goes into the construction of diorama structures. Looking ahead, in May we will have our annual Build Night; while I don’t expect to have a formal program, the nature of a build night is such that everyone ought to be talking and sharing with each other as we practice our hobby together. Maybe we’ll even arrive at some requests or, better still, offers for a future presentation? June, of course, is our semi- annual Distressed Kit Auction; no other program for that month. We’ll get another demo night in July or August. SF 4 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter April 2017 Meeting Notice & Agenda Date: April 21, 2017 Theme: Something English Doors Open: 7:00 p.m. or earlier Meeting: 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. Location: La Quinta Inn & Suites 3 Centerpointe Drive La Palma, CA 90623 Right Off the 91 Fwy at Valley View 2017 Chapter Officers President David Frederick st 1 Vice President Sean Fallesen 2nd Vice President David O’ Barr Treasurer Jeff Hunter Secretary Nat Richards Contest Director Derek Collins Volunteers Chapter Contact Nat Richards (949) 631-7142 [email protected] Newsletter Editor Terry Huber (714) 544-8908 [email protected] Webmaster Julian English [email protected] Mail IPMS Orange County Club Website www.ipmsoc.org P.O. Box 913 Garden Grove, CA 92842 National Website [email protected] www.ipmsusa.org 5 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter April 2017 Orange County Themes for 2017 January 20th - OUT OF THE BOX ONLY Anything built out of the box with no aftermarket parts. Built using only what came inside the box. Decals optional. February 17th - THE SHELF OF DOOM Build or finish a kit that you never thought you would start or complete because you lost interest or ran into a problem. March 17th - TAMIYA VS HASEGAWA Who's the best? Build the best model you can from either company. Best Tamiya Model and Best Hasegawa Model will receive an award. April 21st - SOMETHING ENGLISH Build a model of anything English. Including Scotland and Ireland. May 19th - BUILD NIGHT (No Monthly Contest in May, Build Night Only) Bring a kit to work on and have some fun with other club members building. June 16th - FIRST OR LAST The first or last of something. The first Abrams tank. The last F4 Phantom. Last to use a radial engine. First to use a jet engine, etc. July 21st - CLASSIC PLASTIC Build the oldest model you have in your stash. August 18th - WHEN I WAS A KID Build the model that was your favorite from when you were a kid September 15th - SOMETHING GERMAN Build a model of anything from Germany 6 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter April 2017 Orange County Themes for 2017 October 20th - CONVERSIONS Build a model of something you normally could not get. Make a conversion from an existing kit to make a different version November 17th - UNEXPECTED Build a model of something you never expected to be released as a model kit December 15th - SOMETHING FRENCH Build a model of anything French. JANUARY 19th 2018 - IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FUN Build a model of your favorite subject. Something you enjoy the most building. ORANGECON 2017 - SEVEN Any subject with a name or designation that ends in “Seven.” Hope to see you there. DC Volunteer Opening at the club We need a member who would like to step up and take over the multi-media aspects of our meeting. This would include bringing the PA system to each meeting as well as bringing the overhead and/or camera when needed. Also need to have the person find out why the camera wasn't able to project the demos up on the screen this past meeting. The club also has a laptop that is part of the demo equipment. Please see David Frederick if you would like to be the AV person for the meetings. 7 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter April 2017 From Our Treasurer Financial Statistics for the meeting in March 2017 Admission Distressed Kits $ 0.00 Members 31 Monthly Raffle $ 97.00 Non-Members 2 Juniors 0 Total Income $ 420.00 Paid in Full 6 Total Expenses $ (748.93) Guests 4 Profit / (Loss) $ (328.93) Total Attendance 43 $ in Checking $ 770.07 $ in Savings $ 9,663.93 Memberships / Renewals $ in PayPal $ 250.69 Regular 7 Total in Bank $ 10,684.69 Youth 0 Full Year 0 8 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter April 2017 Membership is of great importance, both here at the level of the local chapter as well as the National level.