Apr. - IPMS

Only 65 months until our next National
This month’s meeting of IPMS Tidewater will be on the first Friday of April —the 3rd.
As usual we will be meeting at 6:30pm at the Virginia Air and Space Center
(www.vasc.org) but feel free to come a bit early to chat.
Joe Koenig will cover any pressing business. The demo for this month is “Digital Stash
Management” by Jared Nuss . Maybe now Bill can figure out how many Tonys and
Tojos he has in his stash. Hopefully this will also include digital encryption techniques
because we don’t want this information falling into the wrong hands! We are also welcoming a new sponsor - Pig Figments!
Show n’ Tell will follow under the strict time limits imposed by Generalissimo Koenig.
He is bringing a tazer this month so be succinct please.
After our show n’ tell where everyone shares their current and completed projects we
will have our monthly raffle, presided over by raffle master Scott.
After we finish loading all of the raffle kits in Bob and Gary’s trunk, we will then retire to
Anna's (www.annasva.com/annas_3) to finish the evening with good food since, judging by our waistlines, we never miss an opportunity to eat.
Mike Schine send his regards and a nice picture: “I'm down in Pascagoula working on USS
JOHN FINN (DDG 113). She is being "launched" today/tonight. For the uninitiated, launching means floating the dry-dock out into the river, sinking the dry-dock, and the ship floats
(hopefully) off. The ship will get towed pier side, where construction will be completed.”
Chapter Officers
President: Joe Koenig [email protected]
1st VP: Dennis Tennant - [email protected]
2nd VP: Jack Cairns -
[email protected]
Treasurer: John Kelly -
[email protected]
Chapter Contact: Bill Brickhouse
- [email protected]
Guest Editor: fresh from his brief
stay in the hospital - Clint Mills
Special thanks to Dennis
Tennant for the graphics
and editorial support!
Steve Simmons brings us a report from the 35th annual MDA Car Show and Model Car Contest
Here are some pics from the 35th annual MDA Car Show and Model Car Contest which was held on March 6-8 at the Berglund Civic Center
in the Star City. I think I was the only Tidewater representative there but there were plenty of familiar faces, many of which we saw in Richmond only a week before. My profound apologies if I miscredited anyone’s model.
When Robert Doss’s skills are a little rusty it’s a good thing.
“Humble” Hunter Selby’s latest work in process. The dang TV works.
Scott’s next Willys
Obviously Rodney Jefferson’s eye-poppin’ work.
The only vehicle that would still fit in the Berglund (formerly Roanoke) Civic Center’s ridiculously inadequate parking lot by 9:10
YEEEEEEE-HA But folks, there ain’t nobody in them cars.
This here must be the Haints of Hazzard.
Either John
Kelly’s next build
or Andy Goddin’s
recent one.
My next build. But where will the anime girl’s sit?
My knees got wobbly and my eyes got misty.
My knees buckled and I fell to the floor openly weeping.
Setting the scene
Dave Garcia has been setting up
scene shots with some older kits to
create shots that bring to mind England in 1944.
The photo-etch bike is by Flightpath
and has about 20 pieces. On the other
photo the figures are by Prieser and P
-38 is Hasegawa, Jeep by Academy. The Defiant is the old, old Airfix
version with many updates.
Academy B-17G along
with some Airfix ground
personnel on the tarmac.
Bastard - can’t even show
his face...
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A boring tiger in the
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This Month’s Model Review - A Blast from the past:
DML M103A2 by Ben Guenther
Starting January, I've been working on the DML M103A2 for an IPMS review. I had hope to been done by now, but the work
has been slow at times and then fast for awhile and then slow again as you know how that can be at times. Anyway, the hull
and turret are done and the only thing holding me up are the tracks. The kit has DS tracks, which in the past I have used
without any problems, but with this tank I decided that I can't use them. Too much flash around the teeth and along the edges makes them unusable. You can't really sand or cut this flexible material very well, so I'm waiting for some AFV Club T87E2
tracks. They should come tomorrow and then once on the hull I can mount the tank to the base and finish it off.
The DML kit, as you may already know, has a lot of problems - dimensionally, etc... as a review kit I decided that I wasn't going
to change the hull, but I couldn't resist to make other many corrections on the turret and a few on the hull as well. All too
numerous, but I've sent some photos of some of them. Also didn't like DML M2 50cal MG so I used Tasca's with a scratchbuilt ammo can, ammo mount and added chains to pins that I had added. A nice little mini model.
added material to
widen mantlet and
front of tank
More work done on turret view from rear
Making rear barrel cover that goes over taper
used plastic card to fill hole on underside of fenders
painted fender extensions & phone box
Show n’ Frikkin Tell….
Photos by Kludge-san
The Bregi Collection: Sword 1/73 F-94 Starfire; Tasca 1/35 M32B1; AMT Gasser: Fujimi Fararri
The Brickhouse Collection: Hasagewa 1/72
Rex and Beaufighter
That's a Shapeways 3D
printed HansaBrandenburg W.29 by
Jim Hassler
A nice Beaufighter by Kevin Farris using Maltese orphan labor...
Tom Jett’s award
winning 1/16 scaleTakom FT-17
The highly esoteric Kelly Collection: Monogram
1/24 Mac tanker; 1/72 Caproni CA-3; Anatolian
Infantryman
The Ritger Collection: 1/32 109s from Hasegawa and Werner
Wings converted S-199 Mule, with Trumpeter 1/48 Wyvern
and Classic Airframes Attacker
Gary Griffith's Trumpeter 1/350 USS New York
Ken Flick's Tamiya 1/48 Lancaster and Revell 1/24 Gemini
Kayleigh Stevens and her toothy
monster model
Kevin Crist's Dragon 1/16
13thSS Grenadier
Charles Landrum's 1/48 AMK Aero L-29 Delfin
Andy Goddin's Langley Research
Center photo archive demo
Thanks from IPMS Richmond
March 6th, 2015
Dear IPMS Tidewater,
On behalf of IPMS Richmond, I want to thank all the members of IPMS Tidewater for not only your
financial support, but also your moral support of the 2015 Old Dominion Open, known affectionately
to many as the “ODO”. Ah, maybe we should be rethinking that moniker to read…“The ODO Winter
Carnival” from now on, hmm?
The show was a resounding success in spite of the winter storm, which came barreling through just
48 hours before show time and dumping 6 inches of snow, from Charlotte, NC. to Virginia Beach,
VA. and north to Richmond. In light of that, we still managed to have 139 modelers display 624 models. Fortunately for us, Mother Nature could not thwart the passion of this yearʼs general admission
attendees nor our vendors. We experienced significant increases in them and when combined with
the model contestants, there were still well over 850 folks having a great time.
Whether you measure success by shopping with great vendors, admiring beautifully built models,
or taking home an award, the ODO did indeed accomplish many goals. Perhaps the ODOʼs greatest
success is its fellowship with old friends, and the making of new ones. Take care and many thanks
to each and every one of you for making the February 28th, 2015 “ODO” a resounding success and a
venue of good cheer.
With warm regards,
Chazz Klanian
Next Month - an exciting new line of
paints gets reviewed
A Look Ahead:
Chapter Meeting
April 3
HRSM Meeting
April 17
Model Classic
Fairfax, VA
Apr 25
AMPS
April 30 to May 2
IPMS/USA Convention
Columbus, OH
July 22-25