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August 2012
August Meeting
The August meeting of
the Tidewater Chapter of the International Plastic Modelers Society will be at the Air and Space
Museum on Settlers Landing
Road in Hampton on the first
Friday of the month, August 3rd,
at its regular time - 6:30 pm (or
so). We are scheduled to meet in
our regular space in the first
floor media room.
We will start with our
usual business meeting, where
we will discuss the progress in
preparing our bid for the 2014
IPMS/USA National Conven-
tion. We will also discuss support for any upcoming contests
and other activities.
There is no official
demo planned for the meeting,
but we may get a chance to see
a full dress rehearsal of our
presentation to the convention
selection committee. The actual
presentation is only a week
away, so if there is anything
else to be done to it, now is the
time to discover it.
Next, we turn to our
show ‘n’ tell, where you get to
show all the good work you
have done in the last month.
There may even be a preview of
some national convention entries.
Finally, Rafflemaster (and
Prez) Scott Bregi, will move to
the raffle table to raffle off the
new bag of goodies.
Then it’s on to Anna’s
Pizza for the meeting after the
meeting and where the real business of the club is conducted. Be
there or be nominated for something.
It’s Show Time…..!
Next week, our crack team of
national convention presenters will
be making their way to Orlando, FL
to present our bid for the 2014
IPMS/USA national convention at
this year’s event, being held at the
Disney Contemporary Hotel on the
grounds of Walt Disney World.
Led by convention chairman
selectee John Lent, our bid will be
given on Saturday morning to the
IPMS E-board and a select committee of interested parties. The an-
nouncement of who will host
the 2014 convention will be
made at the awards banquet on
Saturday evening.
Our team has put in a lot
of work, and the outcome was
a little different than what we
expected when we agreed to
make the effort. The outside
parties who wanted us to do
this encouraged us to “take it
back to the beach”, not realizing that the Virginia Beach
Convention Center was no
longer a competitive venue.
Regardless of the outcome,
our team has done an outstanding job and has put together a bid that will be an exceptional value for IPMS/USA
and its 50th anniversary celebration.
Come to the meeting to get
the very latest word and get a
look at what we will present
next week.
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Tidewater Wins Shootout
Contest Report
2012 Virginia Shootout
sponsored by
Roanoke Valley IPMS
By Chip Jean
A sextuplet (it had to be a SEXtuplet, didn't
it?) of IPMS Tidewater modelers garnered
enough points to capture the Virginia Shootout
trophy for the second straight year as the best
IPMS chapter in attendance at the 2012 edition
of The Roanoke Valley IPMS Virginia Shootout
contest on July 14.
Once again though, "capturing" the trophy
was merely symbolic as last year the trophy
turned up missing and again this year, it was not
in attendance. Much like stolen, priceless artwork though, the trophy has miraculously turned
up, this time in the Confederate Capitol. Our
model geek brethren from Richmond have quietly kept the trophy for the past 2 years, no doubt
buried and forgotten amongst a stash of unbuilt
kits. They have promised to deliver the trophy
to it's current rightful owners, IPMS Tidewater.
There will be no Shootout next year as IPMS
Roanoke will be hosting the Region 2 convention, so if/when we get the trophy, we will have
it until at least 2014 and maybe longer is we can
find a hidey-hole for it in John Kelly's attic.
The contest is held at the Roanoke Civic
Center, in a basement conference so humid, it's
where model aircraft antenna wires go to droop.
Despite the contest room having a dew point
only half a degree below room temperature, attendees were brave enough to place 437 models
on the tables. The contest theme was "The Titanic" and in a cutesy move keeping with the
theme, the Roanoke guys renamed the awards
"First Class", "Second Class", and "Steerage"
instead of the old, ordinary, well-worn first, sec-
ond, third.
Your Tidewater troops scored points in
the aircraft, armor, space/sci-fi, and automotive categories, with the bulk of our
points coming in aircraft. The highlights of
the show were Steve Simmons taking the
Best Automotive award with his '41 Chevy
Pickup and Chris Durden's Rumpler C3
taking the Best Aircraft and Best of Show
awards. Here are our individual award
winners:
Rigged/Multi-Wing
1st Chris Durden
Roland C3
1/72 SE Prop - Allied
2nd Bill Brickhouse
Hurricane
Mk. IIA
1/72 SE Prop - Axis
2nd Bill Brickhouse
A5M4
Claude
1/48 SE Prop - Allied
1st Chip Jean
F8F-1 Bearcat
1/48 SE Prop - Me-109
2nd Bill Brickhouse
Bf-109E-4
1/48 SE Prop - Axis Other Than Me-109
1st Bill Brickhouse
Ki61
3rd Chip Jean
D4Y3 Judy
1/72 ME Prop
1st Chip "Zelco Itchyballs" Jean (ya'
hadda be there)
G4M Betty
2nd Bill Brickhouse
Ki-45 Nick
3rd Scott Bregi
F7F Tigercat
Tidewater Sweep!!!!!
1/48 ME Prop
1st Bill Brickhouse
Hs-129B-1
1/72 SE Jet
2nd Chip Jean
Swift FR.5
3rd Bill Brickhouse
Fw226 Flitzer
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1/72 ME Jet
1st Scott Bregi
Blue Angels F/A-18
1/48 ME Jet
2nd Chip Jean
F/A-18F
Rotary Wing
1st Chip Jean
MH-60G
1/32 Prop
1st Chris Durden
Roland D5A
1/32 Jet
1st Chip Jean
T-33A
Out of the Box Aircraft - all scales
1st Bill Brickhouse
Ki-61
2nd Scott Bregi
P-47D
1/48 & Smaller Wheeled/Soft Skinned Vehicles
1st David Garcia
Kubelwagen
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1/20 & Smaller Showroom Stock
1st Scott Bregi
Ferrari
All Scales Custom
1st Steve Simmons '41 Chevy Pick-up
Out of the Box Automotive - all scales
1st Steve Simmons '58 Chevy Impala
Real Spacecraft & Vehicles - all scales
2nd Scott Bregi
Mercury Liberty Bell
BEST AUTOMOTIVE
Steve Simmons
'41 Chevy Pick-up
BEST AIRCRAFT
Chris Durden
Roland C3
BEST OF SHOW
Chris Durden
Roland C3
More Amazing Footage
Product Review
DVD by Victory Films- Mission to Rabaul
Reviewer:
Floyd S. Werner, Jr.
I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing the releases
from Victory Films and it never ceases to amaze
me the level of stuff that they have found. The
latest DVD is titled “Mission to Rabaul”. Contained on this two hour and five minute DVD are
the “Bismark Sea Victory”, “Mission to Rabaul”,
“United States Pacific Ace”, “Fifth Air Force
Gun Camera”, “Ace of Aces”, “The Headhunt-
ers”, “Leapfrog” and “Pacific Gun Camera Film”.
Bismark Sea Victory is a typical documentary from
1943. This is why we fight and here are our boys
doing Tojo no good. For those who like their aircraft with an Australian flare this is a very good
video. RAAF P-40s, A-20s and Beaufighters are the
highlight of this documentary. For the modeler
there is a plethora of diorama ideas here.
Mission to Rabaul is a boon for those that love the
art of low level flying. The weathering that is
shown on the P-38s will create a terrible looking
model. Building the airstrip are highlighted then P40s, which look like the 49th FG, landing and taking
off. B-24s and B-25s show the combined effect of
high and low altitude attacks. Somehow the photographer got really close to the exploding bombs on
the airfield. I liked watching the B-25s flying so
low that they blew up dirt while they are kicking
butt. One B-25 is shown flying right down the airstrip strafing everything in sight. The B-25s also
have lots of nose art on them, including a really cool
looking Dragon.
For those who only know about the parachute drops
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in Europe there is section on a large airborne operation. These are supported by A-20 smoke
ships. The sarcasm is hilarious in this sequence.
For those that are looking for Japanese aircraft,
there are Zeros, Bettys, Sallys, Nicks, Hamp, Nell,
and Oscars in various stages of destruction. There
are shot up B-25s and P-38s undergoing maintenance that will prove useful to modelers. For
those that have the Accurate Miniatures B-25 will
recognize “Dirty Dora” and other ships like her.
There are some really tight formation and a good
closing sequence with flak and tracers arcing up at
the camera.
United States Pacific Ace highlights Colonel Neel
Kirby and his aircraft. The P-47 is covered on all
sides with a couple of great low level passes. I did
notice a very strange looking drop tank and rack
on Kirby’s machine. Fiery Ginger is just as much
a reason for this sequence as meeting Kirby and
his Medal of Honor.
Fifth Air Force Gun Camera Film contains some
great flying sequences. The one that really stands
out shows a P-38 chasing a Zero who is intent on
shooting down another P-38. There are really
close encounters including inverted near passes.
Ace of Aces highlights Richard Bong. The famous P-38 Marge is shown but well before there
were any hints of the famous picture being plastered on the nose. The kill markings are shown to
great detail, as well as, the aircraft data stencil.
Like Kearby, Bong does his bit of low level flying.
The Headhunters is dovetailed with the Bong sequence which shows off the P-38s of the 80th FS.
There are the customary low level flybys. Some
of the unit aces are highlighted. We also see the
Headhunter emblem prior to it being added to the
aircraft, blessed by real headhunters. We finally
do see the famous picture of Marge on the aircraft.
It is much further aft than I remember.
Leapfrog shows how the campaign in the Pacific
developed and how Rabaul was cut off and left to
die.
The final sequence is a full color sequence of gun
camera footage. There are some really impressive
sequences in here with a variety of Japanese aircraft smiling for the gun camera, including a
Dinah. There are plenty of strafing ships and
buildings with bullets and rockets. There is plenty
of flak and small arms fire. Excellent video.
As all the Victory Films, this DVD was a lot of fun
to watch from beginning to end. The quality of the
film and the information provided is a wealth of
information for the modeler and historian. These
films are an eye into what it was like back in World
War II.
Highly recommended
Thanks to Wade Meyers and Victory Films for the
review copy. You can obtain yours by contacting
them at http://wademeyersart.tripod.com/id69.html
Let them know you heard about it here.
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July Meeting
The July meeting was somewhat lightly
attended, perhaps due to the proximity of the
July 4th Holiday, but a good time was had by
all. The main activity of the evening was the
photography the models for the “Best of Britain” display being conducted by our sister
chapter in Ipswich, England. There was no
demo, but somehow we managed to make the
time go quickly.
John Kelly’s 1/144 Curtiss C-46 from the Miniwings
resin kit and decals by Drawdecal.
Ben Guenther’s latest masterpiece, a scratchbuilt 1/32
P-51H, soon to be on its way to the IPMS/USA national convention.
John Kelly’s 1/72 Valom Bell YFM-1 Airacuda
Hank Pugh’s 1/48 Heller F4U-4
Dave Garcia’s 1/72 Revell Tiger I
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Dave Garcia’s 1/72 Academy B-17
Steve Simmon’s Chevrolet pickup. This model won
the Best Auto award at the 2012 Virginia Shootout in
Roanoke
Steve Simmon’s 1.25 Custom 1941 Chevrolet.
Coming Events
Chapter Meeting
IPMS/USA National Convention
Orlando, FL
HRSM Meeting
Chapter Meeting
HRSM Meeting
TAMS Contest
LaFayette Scale Modelers Contest
Fayetteville, NC
Maraudercon 2012
Baltimore, MD
Photos by Scott Bregi
Club Officers
President
Aug 3
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Aug8-11
Aug 17
Sep 1
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Oct 27
Nov 10
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1st Vice President
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2nd Vice President
e-mail:
Secretary/Treasurer
email:
Chapter Contact
email:
Scott Bregi
[email protected]
John Lent
[email protected]
Bill Lee
[email protected]
John Kelly
[email protected]
Bill Brickhouse
[email protected]