Alamo Squadron`s date with Glacier Girl
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Alamo Squadron`s date with Glacier Girl
AP R I L 2 0 1 5 Alamo Squadron’s date with Glacier Girl I P M S / U S A 1998-1999 & 2004-2005 Program for April 2: ELECTION DAY!! CHAPTER OF THE YEAR The Prez Notes By Art Nicholson It’s election time! At the March meeting, Dick Mongtomery was nominated for President, Tony Neira, Henry Nunez, Gilberto Ojeda, and Rick Warring for Vice President, and Lee Washburn for Treasurer. Tony and Rick have since declined. At the April meeting, we will take any additional nominations, and then you’ll vote. The winners will be announced and sworn in and will take office right away. Dick Montgomery Gil Ojeda At the meeting we will also have a show ‘n tell and our monthly contest (an Open), but no program (unless you count the Election) and no raffle. This is my last column as prez! I am not running for office, as I have another book I really need to finish. It’s been a real honor to serve you as president and ModelFiesta contest director. Henry Nunez I hope to see you all at the meeting at 7:15 on April 2nd at Northside Ford. In the meantime… Lee Washburn Happy Modeling! Art Alamo Squadron – April 2015 Michael Holsen Charles Stone Gil Ojeda Alamo Squadron – April 2015 3 What if…? Alamo Squadron – April 2015 4 We can say that this is also a show and tell, as last month, John Kress got married with Grace… indeed! Congratulations, John! WANTED: RODEN Fokker D VI, 1/32nd scale. No Gold Diggers, Please! - Anthony Neira Alamo Squadron – April 2015 5 Next meeting: 7:15 p.m. Thursday, April 2nd, at Northside Ford on 12300 San Pedro. April 25, 2015 Modelmania 2015 IPMS Houston 10505 Cash Road Stafford, Texas April 18, 2015 Tulsa Show 211 N Cabaniss Ave Bixby, Oklahoma May 16, 2015 Cajun Modelfest XXX 4-H minibarn building , BLDG 338 Louisiana State University Campus Baton Rouge, Louisiana June 13, 2015 SoonerCon 2015 701 Southwest 74 Street Oklahoma City, Oklahoma August 1, 2015 HAMS Ninth Annual Model Car Show and Contest 6823 Cypresswood Drive Spring, Texas Squadron’s Eagle Quest coming up in June in Carrollton, Texas LIKE US ON FACEBOOK!!! www.facebook.com/alamosquadronipms Alamo Squadron – April 2015 6 Around Alamo City By Jerry Escobedo deI’m going to start a new column sign two paper models of the Boecalled Around Alamo City - hopeful- ing 757’s that the band used to travly every month - in which I will inel on. clude news related to the world of Anyway, there are many areas in our everyday life that can relate to scale modeling. I will be glad to receive ideas, photos, articles, comments, e-mails and phone calls regarding your inputs on this to enrich this column. session at the Lewis Warbirds Museum. Among the Museum’s treasures is one special WWII fighter airplane: the P-38 Glacier Girl. The airplane was restored to flying condition after being buried beneath the ice of the remote Greenland Ice Sheet for over 50 years. For that extraordinary task, the Greenland Expedition Society went to the remote lands (or, should I say “ice”?) in 1992 and melted a big tunnel in the glacier to reach the flying machine. modeling. Items may include modAnd now we can see this astonishLewis Warbirds Museum eling events and contests, airshows, ing airplane here in Alamo City, altcar shows, meet-and-greet events, To begin with, I shall tell you that hough not open to the public, but members of the Alamo Squadron travels, and so on. with special invitation from the Mutraveled to the San Antonio InternaIn my three and a half years living in seum. Nevertheless, the “Girl” tional Airport to attend a special the Alamo City, I’ve found that sometimes goes out to have fun at there are many events that can be The Alamo Squadron with the Glacier Girl related to the modeling world. In one event I even promoted heavy metal music, and upon being asked why, I explained that there are items related to modeling in heavy metal: figures, art work, models, etc. One example was the English band Iron Maiden, whom used an airplane specifically designed as the artwork they use in their album covers. I helped a friend of mine to the different airshows in the United States. We count ourselves very lucky to be able to touch this treasure of aviation history. model into the small aircraft plastic category, and it also was awarded a 2nd place. On his own words: “This particular contest did not have a paper model category, so these Model Fiesta 34 models were placed into And we still have some an Open Category, which news for the Model Fieswas broken down into ta 34! (aggh, that hapseveral other classes, including Mispens when you don’t go to the cellaneous Mechanical event… ). I was pleased to know and Miscellaneous Biological. If that a friend of mine at the Paper- memory serves, there were about modelers.com forum from Arkan- 30 models, made of wood, plastic sas came to the event, and won and paper in these classes. some good Then [my] 1/300 Santa Maawards. Ray ria [paper model] was Smith enawarded a 2nd place tered a 1/144 plaque.” AH-1 paper model in the By the way, these plaques were sponsored by the Doosmall scale little Raiders Association, rotorcraft which is around the Alamo plastic cateCity, in Comfort, Texas; gory, and it was awarded home of our good friend, the Jimmy Doolittle co-pilot, a 2nd place plaque. Then he subLt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole. mitted a 1/144 Spad SA-2 paper Then he went on and on, by being honored with the Best Open Subject, by non the less our own Gary Emery’s Hill Country Hobby. So as you can see, paper modeling is still making noise at the IPMS events. I for one hope to see more paper models in the IPMS events around the Alamo City! Participate! If you know of an occasion, gathering, special location with modeling related events, please share! Write to me at [email protected] and tell me all about it. 2015 Internal Contest Schedule by Mike Picard April – Open September – Open May – Design and Concept: Anything that existed only on paper, was started but never finished or was completed in prototype form only. (Quarterly Contest) October – Anything American in Foreign Service. June – Open July – Open November – Kitbash: Use parts from different kits to build something that never existed. (Quarterly Contest) December – Christmas Party August – The 1950s (Quarterly Contest) Alamo Squadron – April 2015 I don’t know what is this, but I love it! Steve Jobs is my Hero! I love Tamiya tape! The bigger, the better! You can be burned with this, so it’s not for you guys, only for grown ups! An awesome tool to jam your fingers in, when you are bored of modeling! What is your best tool? I can paint the eyelashes of my figures with this! Alamo Squadron – April 2015 10 In their own words... Ferrari’ Ferrari’s Fiat Transporter By Pablo Barrena Since I was a boy, this truck always attracted me so much. I had opportunity to see one in person in 2002, although it was not like this, (only three models were produced, and the three are different in some way). I took many pictures. One day in 2009 I was looking nostalgically some photographs when I found this truck. I immediately wanted to make a model of it, but after exhaustive internet search, I found there was no kit available. So I decided to build one by "scratch build". And so I entered a Ferrari car web site and asked if anyone had any information on this vehicle. The next day I got an answer from a modeler from Florida telling me that he had information with the actual measurements of the truck as well as a picture of the truck profile. He sent me the information by email and the first thing I did was convert the measurement of vehicle 1: 1 to 1:24 scale. I enlarged the picture he had sent me to the proportion of the scale and thus got the right size to start building. I began to take measures and record in the blueprint all my annotations using the original drawing. What worried me the most was the wheels, and as I looked for kits on the internet (I spend many hours at the computer in the wake of this project) I found that the AMT Chevy Astro truck kit had the wheels very similar to the ones for my project, so I bought the kit and with that got the wheels. That encouraged me a lot. Using the measures of the wheelbase I built a generic chassis as I had no reference to the original Fiat; I even wrote to the factory to see if they could share some information, but they never answered me. Once I built the chassis with appropriate measures, I could begin building the cabin using the measures from the blueprint and they were in fact according to the general structure of the model. Using 0.40 plastic sheets and Evergreen strips of different measures I started to give the basic shape, also used putty to form the curved parts and give a finish to the different components of the bodywork. Using different pieces of "Pandora's box" I could assemble the needed areas for the interior cabin. As these vehicles carried the Ferrari cars to competitions to the different circuits in Europe, they also had an area in the back with some basic tools for emergency repairs on racetracks, so for that I use the Fujimi kit with different tools and appropriate equipment, considering using equipment that was standard at that time, no modern equipment! As it was dark inside the "shop", I decided to light it; and for that goal I search for model trains on internet and found a kit of superminiature LED lights with switch and battery, installed in a way that could not be seen. For the final touch, I used two different shades of red lacquer paintings. The darker: Model Master Flame Red # 1965R; and the clearer: Bright Red Tamiya TS 49. A railway modeler from Phoenix printed the decals for me because a special printer (ALPS) is required to print the white color and he had that hardware. The rest is history. It was in 2009 that I started with the idea of the model and I finished it in 2014 - of course not always working on it, as I had other projects in between. Now I'm working on three cars that will go on the bus, the way they used to do it in the 60’s. Information 2014-2015 IPMS/USA Alamo Squadron: The Club was founded in 1977 in San Antonio, Texas, for the enjoyment of building scale models and the camaraderie of the members. Dues are normally $12.00 a year, due when the Treasurer tells you. President: Art Nicholson IPMS# 36967 [email protected] The Alamo Squadron has been putting on ModelFiesta since 1981. Locations have included the Wonderland Mall, a Holiday Inn, the Seven Oaks Motel & Convention Center, the Live Oak Civic Center and the new location for 2013, the San Antonio Event Center. Vice-President: Henry Nunez IPMS# 49498 [email protected] Treasurer: Dick Montgomery IPMS #14003 [email protected] QR Code for our Web Site Scan it with your cell phone’s QR software to get to our web site! QR Code for our Facebook Page Scan it with your cell phone’s QR software to get to our ARTICLES!! ARTICLES!! We need your writing skills for the newsletter! All submission must be turned in by the 20th of the month prior to next month’s meeting. Send your input to Gary Emery at [email protected] Alamo Squadron – April 2015 12 The Alamo Squadron Newsletter is published monthly by IPMS/USA Alamo Squadron of San Antonio, for the information and enjoyment of the members of the Alamo Squadron and its friends around the world. Articles, reviews, news items, ads to buy, sell or trade, and other contributions are very welcome. Send text file, photos and web sites to Gary Emery: [email protected] Newsletter design and publishing: Gerardo”Jerry” Escobedo (facebook.com/paperjerry) Support your Local Hobby Shops For models, paints, books, decals, tools and more! http://www.hobbytown.com/txsa http://www.hillcountryhobby.com/ For all your 3-D printing needs, visit us here: http://3dmodelparts.com/ eMail: [email protected] Alamo Squadron – April 2015 13
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