The St. John’s chapter of IPMS Canada held its Club Day on
June 7, 2014.
This is the first Club Day in many years and was well attended by
11 Members.
See all the pictures by following this link.
Steve R, Steve F, Tony, Dave, Gary, John, Tracie, Rodney,
Rob, Mike, Joe
It took place over 6 hours at our regular meeting place.
With coffee, donuts, muffins and pizza, we settled into an
unhurried banter about all things modelling and more.
We held two seminars on our Club day.
First, Dave presented Figure Painting, and surely made it
look so simple that we are all going to rush out to get our Tri-Art Caucasian
Flesh and Normandy Rose to try it ourselves. (Looks simple now J ).
Just to summarize, do not paint the faces or body, instead
apply many thinned washes, to build up gradually, so the paint does not mask
your figure detail. A good dose of dry brushing and darker paint in the shadows
will round out any figure.
A challenge has been issued to all present to paint a figure
for presentation at our Fall Show in October, for a special prize to the winner
of the President’s Choice award.
Second, Steve F. presented scratch building. Steve has been a
modeler for many decades and made a living making models at one point. Steve
gave us some pointers in vacuforming, with his hand made vacuform tool. John
also described his one time vacuform tool made out a soup can. Steve F showed us
some samples of his carved and sanded copy pieces and the process to vacuform
either parts or canopies. Some tips, don’t use squadron clear plastic, it will
not work out, and make sure your plastic card is at least 20 thou, in order to
stretch and thin without breaking for misforming. The other big scratch
building technique is resin molding of parts. Steve F showed us how vacuforming
can create your mold, to fill with your resin to make parts, sometimes multiple
parts, easily.
Also on this Club Day we discussed ideas for our Model Show in
October suggestions for attracting new members. We have some things to work on
and hopefully this year’s show will be bigger and better!
Lastly, with my new camera I acquired from Chris when he
upgraded his, we took some shots of various models in a light tent, including
some of the competition pieces. One of the theme events was to bring an old
model and a new model to compare how our techniques have (hopefully J ) improved over the
years. There are also some point and show shots from the room on the day. For
the photogs amongst you, the shots in the tent were F22, ISO 100, and 1/1.6 or
1/1.3 shutter for the most part.
Final words, congratulations to Rodney and his model and diorama
of a derelict 1956 Ford F150. Brilliant work! I know lot of thought and work
went into this, congrats Rodney! Also Kudos to Gary and John on your
competition pieces. Each piece was a great work of art. Hard choice, lots of
quality there!
Feedback from the day was positive and I think everyone got
something out of it, I know I did! Got to get to work on my figure!....
Peoples Choice winner -Rodney's Derelict 1956 Ford F150
Gary's Honda NSR250
John's 48 scale B25 Mitchell
