Meeting Reminder November 2, 2014

Hi Folks

Just a reminder that the next club meeting is on Tuesday November 2, 2014

Visitors are welcome!

8:00PM
MUN Earth Sciences Bldg
Room 3005C
Email ipms.sj@gmail.com if you need directions on how to get there.

Last meeting before the Plastic Model Show on Nov 9.

See you there!

Meeting Summary October 2, 2014

In attendance on this night:

Randy, Rob, Chris J., Steve F, Steve R. Chris W., Gary, Joe

Chris J. brought along his completed Syrian T72. He recently won Silver at the KMK Show in Belgium which he attended, and conducted a weathering seminar, with his colleagues from Abrams Squad. Very nicely done.

Chris W. is an old friend of the club. He returned for a visit tonight, and hopefully we will see a lot more of him. He brought in his work-in-progress 48 scale trainer aircraft. It is known in the USAAF as the T-6 Texan, or in the US Navy/Marine the SNJ, or for Commonwealth enthusiasts, the Harvard. It will be nice to see that one when complete. Chris also showed us a future project, the venerable Monogram C-47.

Steve F. brought in a couple of Cold War single seater jets from the 50’s. The 48 scale F84G Thunderjet fighter, and the 48 scale RF-84F Thunderflash photo recon aircraft.
He also brought in a 72 scale Whitley Mk V with the Merlin 20 engines. For comparison the Spitfire Mk Vb had the newer more powerful Merlin 45. He also had to scratch build the tail turret from detailed reference. I didn't get a good shot of it but the detail was awesome!.

That’s it for this summary. Next meeting is November 2.

And a reminder, just one week until the IPMS St. John’s Plastic Model Show!



Hope to see you all there!

Meeting Reminder - October 7, 2017

Hi Folks

Just a reminder that the next club meeting is on Tuesday.
Visitors welcome!

8:00PM
MUN Earth Sciences Bldg
Room 3005C
Email ipms.sj@gmail.com if you need directions on how to get there.

One more meeting in November and then there is the Show on Nov 9.
Hope to see as many people as possible on Tuesday.

See you there!

Meeting Summary Sept 2, 2014

The September meeting of IPMS St. John’s was held on September 2, 2014.

In attendance that night was a large crowd… Mike, Joe, Dave, Rob, John (all the way from Carbonear tonight!), Rodney, Tracie, Steve R, Chris and new member Randy!

Mike - ME-109G
Mike has been working on this for a while and it is one of his best efforts to date. Lots of weathering! Come see it at the Show on Nov 9!

 Joe - Revell 48 Scale Hawker Typhoon, Airfix 72 scale meteor, Hasegawa 72 Scale B-17F (Hells Angels)

While I finish my LAV III (It’s been on the bench since January – almost done though) I looked at a few things on the bench to finish, just for a change of pace. That was the Meteor and the Typhoon. However, I got the B-17 from Dave at the Swap Table on Club Day. ALWAYS a fan of the Fort. I hadn’t built one since I was a kid. And I wanted to try out some aircraft weathering techniques.

Rodney – Maine Peapod
Rodney, you have the patience of a saint. To put that together plank by plank is on par with building a photo etch model. I am envious of your patience. Check out and additional shot for even more progress on this one!

Tracie – Figures for the Figure competition!

Tracie has been trolling eBay for some artistic and interpretive examples for the figure competition. I embrace the subjects that Tracie brings to show us, it reminds us of the breadth of the modeling culture, and it is not all planes and tanks and cars and ships. Bravo Tracie!!

John - Saab Viggen 

John has been working on this for a while (how many years John? J ) This was his example of re-scribing a raised panel line model and he coincided this with a tool new to use for scribing.. the plexi-glass cutter. See our other post on Facebook and the website for more details..

See more photos on our Facewbook Album.
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https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.578780812245475.1073741849.319507198172839&type=1

See you next meeting!

Scribing tool.....

I want to share a tool new that may be new to some of us.
At a recent meeting, John introduced us to the plexiglass cutter. Works just as good or better than any scriber I have seen. Couple this with a straight edge for guidance and good to go. Speaking o...f straight edge, Steve F. showed us to his straight edge of choice back on Club Day; pieces of metal measuring tape. It is very flexible and cut at each end with an angle to get into hard to reach places.

I found my plexiglass cutter at Home Depot - $12.99. I bought a 1 meter tape there too, and cut it with side cutter plyers.

The blue steel parts ( the internal coil) are actually better, very flexible, can go around curves, like a fuselage maybe? 

Remember the figure competition!!!

CLUB MEMBERS ONLY - remember the figure challenge, get that figure started!

Show is 2 months away!

September 12 and we are almost exactly 2 months away from the IPMS St. John's Plastic Model Show and Competition...

So keep building, we want to see what you have at the show!