IPMS Phoenix / Craig Hewitt Chapter

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1 VOLUME 14, ISSUE 3 MARCH 2012 THE CORSAIR IPMS Phoenix / Craig Hewitt Chapter President s Message February presented our chapter with some great opportunities to promote our hobby out in public. We had a display case full of models at Best Fest celebrating Arizona Centennial down at the State capital. on the same weekend as Mesa Takes Flight. (See Bill Sanborn s article on page 12) Thanks to Mike Mackowski for finding us the Mesa Takes Flight opportunity. And should anyone else run across similar opportunities to promote our hobby, please feel free to approach our club officers for staffing. We ve finalized the monthly Club meeting Contest themes: MARCH... Modern and newer APRIL... A Wolf In Sheep s Clothing Any model not in its original colors or livery (military vehicles in civilian service, captured equipment, WWII race planes and fire bombers, armored cars used by police, etc.) MAY... Egg Subjects Use all those leftover plastic eggs to create something. JUNE... On This Day In History Choose an historic date and have any model pertaining to that event. JULY... Red, White and Blue The model has to have all three colors. AUGUST... No Contest - Club Swap Meet. SEPTEMBER.. Innovators Concept Models Any subject that never made it into full scale production. OCTOBER... Wet N Wild Any model to do with, in, under, on, or around water. Boats, ships, subs, figures, vignettes and dioramas, planes, helicopters. NOVEMBER... Semper Fi Any Marine Corps subject. DECEMBER... Out Of This World Real space, rockets, missiles, UFOs, post-apocalyptic vehicles, etc. Lots of hobby events happening this month: MARCH 10- GATEWAY AVIATION DAY MARCH 17- CHOLEWA SWAP MEET MARCH AMPS ARMOR and Tank killer contest at the SOUTHWEST MILITARY TRANSPORT SHOW at the CAF So come out and share the enjoyment of your hobby with your fellow modelers and new potential modelers See you there! Keith Pieper Chapter President I N T H I S I S S U E April Hinderliter and Craig Pierce took top honors in the February meeting s Open contest. Above is April s 1/6 MPC/Round 2 Barnabas Collins figure, and below is Craig s 1/43 Heller Mitsubishi Lancer rally car. February 2012 Meeting Pictures Raffle Update... 4 Upcoming Events... 4 Club Officers... 4 ModelArt F-1/T-2 Book Review by Jim Pearsall... 5 Join IPMS/USA!... 6 Southwest Military Transport Show flyer... 7 Mike Mackowski s View... 8 Car Modeler Needed!... 8 Airmodel 1/72 He-60 by Carmel Attard... 9 Gateway Aviation Day flyer A Pair Of Make N Takes Support Your Local Hobby Shop!... 14

2 THE CORSAIR PAGE 2 MARCH 2012 February 2012 Meeting February s meeting was very well attended, including a couple of first timers joining us. We are always glad to welcome new modelers to our club, and if you know of somebody that you think might enjoy attending a meeting, please invite them to give it a try. And if you see an unfamiliar face at one of the meetings, be sure to introduce yourself and make that person feel welcome. The February contest was another open contest. The winner in the Advanced class once again was Craig Pierce with his vignette of a Mitsubishi Lancer rally car using the 1/43 Heller kit, and the winner in the Novice class was April Hinderliter with her 1/6 MPC/Round 2 Barnabas Collins figure. Congratulations April and Craig! Our club is fortunate to have a couple of prolific aviation photographers, and at the February meeting Doug Slowiak shared some of his before and after slides. Doug has countless aircraft pictures of the same aircraft taken many years apart and in different paint schemes and/or markings. Doug uses two slide projectors to compare the different schemes. It is truly fascinating to see and we really appreciate Doug sharing his photos. To see more of the pictures Jim Hough took at the meeting, visit the Gallery on our website at Brian Baker s 1/72 Hasegawa F9F2B Panther. Jim Pearsall built this Grade A Large F-22 egg plane. Ethan Dunsford s 1/35 Academy M113A3 Bandaid. Richard McCoy brought in this trio of 1/25 Revell Batman Returns vehicles. Keenan Chittester used the Eduard 1/32 Bf109E-1 kit and the Werner s Wings conversion to make this Bf109V-13 racing plane.

3 THE CORSAIR PAGE 3 MARCH 2012 More February pictures... Don Stewart used Friul tracks and Cavalier zimmerit to finish off this 1/35 Tamiya Sturmtiger. Joseph Garicia built this 1/48 Italeri Hawk Mk. 1. Not exactly a model, but interesting nonetheless. This is a Lego White House built by Dennis Hutchison. This beautifully painted and marked F-84F was built by Mike Hinderliter from the 1/48 Monogram kit. A nice selection of armor models were on display at the February meeting. Here is Charles Swanson s 1/35 Dragon Stug. IIIF/8. This 1/72 Heller Bf108B was done by the very capable hands of John Kienitz. John used Techmod decals to finish off his Taifun.

4 THE CORSAIR PAGE 4 MARCH 2012 On the table at the March 6 meeting will be the following raffle items: Item A, AMT 1/ Ford Flipnose Truck; Item B, Brand New!!! Even the hobby shops don't have Tamiya 1/72 A6M5 Zero--great detail, makes Hasegawa look like Starfix; Item C, Airfix 1/72 Canadian Sabre, relatively new, nice decals; Item D, Eduard 1/48 Nieuport 17 Weekend Edition; Item E, Trumpeter 1/48 Panther Jet F9F-2, new; Item F, Hobby Boss 1/35 AA-VP Amphibious Assault Vehicle with PE, new; Item G, Dragon 1/700 "USS Albany," new with PE; Item H, Decal sheet co-researched by our own member and last meetings' guest speaker, Doug Slowiak! Featured aircraft is 1/48 A-37B/OA- 37B printed by Cartograf, a very nice detailed sheet. At the April meeting the notable MPC 1/ Christie Fire Engine will be on the table. It has been started but not enough to deter the completion of a super model. This kit ranges from $70 to $170 on the internet. The kit was donated to and for the benefit of the club by member Dan Wong. We have also received donations from Dave Weitzel, Jeff Seyk, and Jim Pearsall. Finally, regarding donations, please read the following: The current Craig Hewitt IPMS/Phoenix policy for donations is that all donations are from the members for the benefit of the club and for no other reason. Consequently, raffle tickets will not be exchanged for items donated. When I pass to the Great Styrene Spirit in the sky, my survivors are expected to donate my entire stash to the club for whatever purpose the club might have. I do not expect raffle tickets to be tossed into my coffin by the then club VP. -Chuck Ludwig, VP, Craig Hewitt IPMS UPCOMING EVENTS MARCH 2012 Tuesday 6th, 7pm - Craig Hewitt Chapter meeting at American Legion Post #1. Contest: Modern. Saturday 17th, 8:30am - 1:30pm - Cholewa Plastic Model Flea Market at the Postal Workers Social Club, 3720 W. Greenway Rd., Phoenix, AZ. Admission $3. Contact Mike for more info: Saturday & Sunday 24th & 25th - Southwest Military Transport Show at the Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa, AZ. Visit for more information. APRIL 2012 Tuesday 3rd, 7pm - Craig Hewitt Chapter meeting at American Legion Post #1. Contest: Wolf In Sheep s Clothing. Saturday 21st, 9am - 5pm - Desert Scale Classic Model Car Contest & Swap Meet at the Postal Workers Social Hall, 3720 W. Greenway Rd., Phoenix, AZ. For more info: or moonmodler@aol.com. The club meets at 7pm on the first Tuesday of each month at the American Legion Post #1 in Phoenix. Check the club website at for more meeting info. American Legion Post #1 364 N. 7th Ave. Phoenix, AZ The post is located South of I-10 just a few blocks North of Van Buren. Look for the huge American flag. Chapter Officers President... Keith Pieper... president@ipms-phoenix.org Vice President... Chuck Ludwig... vice_president@ipms-phoenix.org Secretary... Doug Solomon... secretary@ipms-phoenix.org Treasurer... Bill Sanborn... treasurer@ipms-phoenx.org Chapter Contact... Bill Dunkle... chapter_contact@ipms-phoenix.org Member At Large... Sam Bueler... member-at-large@ipms-phoenix.org Webmaster... Jim Pearsall... webmaster@ipms-phoenix.org Newsletter Editor... Keenan Chittester... newsletter@ipms-phoenix.org

5 THE CORSAIR PAGE 5 MARCH 2012 ModelArt Profile 09: Mitsubishi T-2/F-1 of JASDF Reviewed by Jim Pearsall I recently built the Hasegawa 1/72 T-2 for a detail set review. I ran into a large problem. The decals in my T-2 were many years old, had yellowed, and I didn t want to do the Blue Impulse plane anyway. I went to my bookshelf, and I had only two references to the T-2, and one of them was for the Blue Impulse. I found a photograph of an aggressor which I used, but this book would have been a super reference, and saved me a lot of trouble. The text is Japanese, but by golly the profiles, photographs and 1/48 scale drawing all translate nicely into whatever language you use, and there are 4 pages of English translation in the back of the book. It s the history of the T-2/F-1 and assigned units, which covers pages Another super feature is the time line for 11 T-2s. It shows delivery date, IRAN (Inspect and Repair As Necessary) and the color schemes used on that aircraft with the dates. This covers 4 pages, and is just mind boggling in its detail. Someone has really done their homework here! Next is 24 pages of detail photos, starting with the nose probe and ending with the tail cone. There are a number of photos where access panels have been opened to show interiors. And that s just the T-2! The F-1 follows. This starts with 9 pages of detail photos, going from the nose probe to the tail. I ll have to say that photos 1 and 2 of the tail are a rivet counter s dream, even if those are Phillips-head screws. There are 8 pages of large format profiles, most of them 3-views. Note the inclusion of size reference for the unit badges, and location info for the wing and fuselage national markings. The next page has a bottom view, and includes sizes and spacing for the aircraft numbers and sizes for the Hinomarus. This is everything you d ever want to make your own decals or cut stencils. The modeling section builds the Hasegawa 1/48 T-2, and F-1. The T-2 build answers one of my questions. On Aggressor T-2s the Hinomarus and serial numbers are not bright red, but have a gray tint. As shown in steps 45 and 48, you just paint them over with the background color. Yes, the Hinomarus are treated the same way. Another feature of the build section is that they show the aftermarket available for the kits. Watch for the yellow Check circle. For the F-1 build, they used a Fine Molds mask, Hasegawa weapons

6 THE CORSAIR PAGE 6 MARCH 2012 set and the Platz PE set. The modeling section concludes with a listing of all the T-2/F-1 kits available. Hasegawa has 1/48 and 1/72 kits of both aircraft. There s also a 1/144 T-2 by Platz. So is it worth $28? Yes, Recommended. If you read Japanese, or have a friend who can translate for you, then it s highly recommended. The detail photographs are priceless, the color information is very useful, and the modeling section certainly taught me some things. Thanks to Dragon USA for the review copy, and IPMS USA for the chance to learn from it. Join the IPMS/USA! $25 annual membership includes a one year subscription to the IPMS Journal. Visit to download a membership form. Or you can write to: IPMS/USA National Office P.O. Box 2475 N. Canton, OH Membership also gives you access to the online Discussion Forum, where you can exchange ideas and information with other members of IPMS.

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8 THE CORSAIR PAGE 8 MARCH 2012 The View from Space City Commentary on the Hobby by Mike Mackowski A few weeks ago I met up with an old friend that I have not seen in a while. I knew her hobby was collecting and painting model horses, and I had a chance to talk to her about her hobby in more detail. In some ways, it is just another group of folks who build and paint miniature figures, but in other ways it is very different. These hobbyists purchase plastic or resin horse figures and paint them to look like real horses. Some do a tremendous job, creating very realistic colors and tones. They enter the horses in competitions and prizes are awarded. This is much like figure modeling in IPMS. What happens next is what is odd. The person who paints the miniature might sell it to some one else, generally a collector. The new owner gets not just the model horse, but also any awards the model has won. The new owner can then enter the horse in a competition, as is, and win more awards. The person who painted the horse might be credited, but the new owner is the one who keeps any new awards. It is more like owning a real horse. The horse is the entity A Horse of Another Color winning the awards, no matter who the owner (or painter) is. A real horse can pass from owner to owner. If that horse wins an award in a horse show, it becomes more valuable and can be sold at an increased value. It is the same for miniature model horses. A collector can buy up well-made model horse, not get near a paintbrush, and collect a bunch of ribbons at model horse shows. The best way I can describe this hobby is that it is a substitute for owning a real horse. The horses win the awards, not the owner. The horses go up in value as they accumulate awards. I m not sure how they work stud services with these resin critters. The other thing that is a little different is that they will take dolls and dress them up to go with the horses to make dioramas, often of horse competitions (like jumps) or working horses (like cowboys). They use doll clothes and often make their own. It is real craftsmanship but a horse of a different color compared to our world of scale plastic models. Happy Modeling! Car Modeler Needed! A woman named Allison McFerren has contacted the club through Mike Mackowski with a request for a model car to be built. It would be great if someone from our club would step forward and help her out. Please read the information below and Mike Mackowski (mjmackowski@getnet.net) if you are willing to take on this project. I am on a quest that started out as an unusual request from my boss. His brother turns 50 this year (late May) and my boss would like to give him something special to remind him of the cherished 1979 Trans Am that he owned years ago. We ve got the original license plate and the original key fob. I bought the appropriate keys on Ebay and now the most important piece is the model of the car. We re hoping to put all of these items in a neat display case. The hard part, of course, is finding the model of the car. I originally searched for a die cast model but there were none in yellow for that vehicle year. So I moved on to plastic models that can be painted. I was able to find and purchase an original kit that was never built or even opened. Now my next step is to find an expert model builder to put this together for us. That leads me to you! Would you be willing to do this or recommend someone who could? I really want this to be expertly done, but I have no way of evaluating who is a good model maker or where I might find him. We are located in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area.

9 THE CORSAIR PAGE 9 MARCH /72 Airmodel Heinkel He-60 by Carmel Attard History The He-60 was a sturdy little plane that was designed to meet requirement for a shipboard reconnaissance aircraft. The floatplane was designed by Reinhold Mewes of the Heinkel s works. The He-60 was capable of being catapulted from the large German warships like Admiral Scheer and Leipzig, and its first flight goes back to It was armed with a one MG17 machine gun that fired forward and a single 7.92 machine gun mounted in the observer s position at the rear of the pilot compartment. The He-60 was powered by a BMW VI 6.0 2U which was a V-12 water-cooled 660 HP engine. This gave it a speed of 149mph and a range of 513 miles. The He-60C differed slightly in detail improvements from the He-60B and both types served on German battleships and cruisers as well as equipped four coastal reconnaissance wings. The type saw action even before the Second World War started. Like many German aircraft of the time it served during the Spanish Civil war when six He-60E were sent to Nationalist Spain.. By the time that WWII started most of the He-60s had been withdrawn from front line service and were relegated to training duties as the He-60D and only a few remained in service as maritime reconnaissance aircraft with units based in Greece and Crete. A few were supplied to Bulgaria being based at Varna and operating alongside Arado Ar-196, also based there. They were often used on maritime reconnaissance missions loitering over the Black Sea. The kit The kit comes packed in a poly bag, the first of the type in model form and is a vacform kit molded in white acetate. A comprehensive instruction sheet depicts an exploded view of the kit parts, aircraft history and good color details with side view markings are also suggested and 1/72 scale drawing are provided. No decals are supplied. Construction Building the kit is tackled in two separate sub assemblies before finally joining all the parts together. These are the twin floats complete with all the struts and additional detail; and the main fuselage, adding interior detail, closing the fuselage as well as adding on the wings, struts etc. The instructions depict several small items which are marked in italic letters that need to be scratch built. In fact there are no less than 24 in total comprising the wing and tail plane struts, float struts, prop shaft and cockpit interior parts. Two windshields had to be produced out of clear acetate. All struts were made from Contrail strips available at Roll Models or Aeroclub. A camera carried over the lower port wing also had to be made from scrap plastic. The vacform parts were first cut, sanded and prepared for fixing ensuring that they are a good dry fit. The cockpit interior was assembled, adding seats, control stick and rudder pedals to the cockpit floor. The rear seat for the observer/gunner is merely a round stool that is attached to the starboard side of fuselage interior by a bracket. The fuselage had surface detail re-scribed and engine exhaust outlets opened up using a 1mm twist drill. The floor assembly was fitted to one half of the fuselage. The fuselage was then closed utilizing added tabs fixed to the inner face, which assisted in the alignment of the halves. The entire interior was medium gray with seats in drab. An instrument panel, black with white dials, was added. Propeller shaft and prop were to be added at a later stage.

10 THE CORSAIR PAGE 10 MARCH 2012 Float halves were joined together, and the wing parts and tail planes cemented together. The complete tail plane was then cut in two portions when dry, a slot was cut at the rear to take the tail planes. The tail planes had plastic tongues to locate inside the fuselage slots. Templates made from card were used to align and fit the wings and the floats to the fuselage. It was essential to measure and cut the struts to the required sizes and lengths. In the end float water rudders were added to the rear of the floats. Other details like the wing-mounted camera, gun mounting at rear of cockpit, crew figure were all added. Aerial tubes were added to the upper wing and top of the tail fin. These were made from a small length of metal wire cut to size and cemented with super glue. The propeller rear was filled with putty, allowed to dry and sanded down to shape. A small hole was drilled to take a spigot at the rear of the hole and the propeller was fixed to the front. Rigging was added at this stage using nylon thread. Wireless was made in the same fashion out of nylon thread. Bracing wires for the floats were made out of lengths of steel wire. floats up to the waterline was Grun 72. The interior was largely RLM Grau 02. I have completed my model of the He-60 in colors carried by the Bulgarian Navy during the early part of the war. These were delivered in a batch of either Dunkelgrau 71 or Schwarzgrun 70 for all upper surfaces and the sides with Hellgrau 65 for the undersides. Identification yellow areas were applied to rudder, around the lower side of engine and under wing tips. WWII Bulgarian insignias were applied to all six positions. Squadron insignia appears on the forward side of the engines, which was the same squadron equipped with Ar It was a time when the two types operated alongside each other and possibly the He-60 was at the phasing out stage of its service life. A white triangle marking on the fin carried the name and type tag of the aircraft. The model was finally given a couple overall coats of semi gloss lacquer thereby finishing another enjoyable project. Conclusion This was yet another additional type to join my Bulgarian military aircraft section. As one can see it was diverse with so many different types of German origin. Color and markings Heinkel He-60s were initially finished in overall Hellgrau 63 of a semi-gloss sheen. The underside of the

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12 THE CORSAIR PAGE 12 MARCH 2012 A Pair of Make N Takes By Bill Sanborn Photos by Bill Sanborn and Ed Kucharski The Make N Take program for the Craig Hewitt Chapter of IPMS/ USA in Phoenix started off 2012 with two back to back events. The first Make N Take was held on January 26 and has become an annual event for the chapter. The Make N Take was for the Conely Elementary School Aviation Club in Chandler, AZ. This is the 8 th year that the Craig Hewitt Chapter has supported the event at the school. The partnership started when my daughter was a 5 th grader at the school and joined the Aviation Club. During the beginning of the year Meet the Teacher open house, I was talking to the Aviation Club s sponsor, Paul Kunze, about what activities the club did during the year. I mentioned that our IPMS chapter sponsored Make N Take events and he liked the idea. The kids rated the Make N Take one of the best activities in the Aviation Club and Mr. Kunze has been inviting us back ever since. This year s event featured the Revell Snap-Tite F-14 kits. Our chapter favors the Snap kits for Make N Takes due to the simplicity of the kits, minimal tools required and speed at which the kits can be built. We are often under a time constraint and would like the builder to be able to walk away with a completed model. Often, there is simply not enough time for the glue to dry or to build over several sessions, so Snap kits are the best answer. Snap kits still can teach the basic skills and begin the journey to a lifelong hobby. We are very often asked by kids and parents at events, Where can I get more of these?, so I know we are having some impact. The group this year consisted of 19 eager 5 th and 6 th grade students. We had a strong turn out of chapter members with me, Jim Pearsall, Ed Kucharski, and Sam Bueler as the experienced building mentors. We were also assisted by my wife, Laura, and two high school AFJROTC cadets, Samantha Thompson and my daughter, Lucy. We gave the students the kit, basic verbal instructions on what to do and not to do, loaned them a sprue cutter and emery board, then turned them loose. The kids worked at their own pace and we just provided a little guidance and encouragement when they hit any snags. Jim Pearsall summed it up best, At the end, after the stands were assembled and the stickers applied, everyone gathered for a group photo, showing off their finished masterpieces. Each of them had something to take home and show off. Look at this! I built it myself!. On February 14, Arizona celebrated its centennial and in conjunction with that the city of Mesa sponsored the Mesa Takes Flight Festival as part of a yearlong celebration of the rich history of aviation in Arizona. This provided the opportunity for the second Make N Take event for the chapter on the weekend of February The festival was outdoors on the Shadow Walk dividing the Mesa Arts Center campus. Luckily we had amazing weather as it was sunny and in the 70 s both days. Mike Mackowski organized the IPMS team and we had three tables for the event, one for model display, one for building demos and one for Make N Take. We had 120 kits available for the event. 100 of those were provided by the national IPMS/USA Make N Take program and the remainder provided by the Craig Hewitt Chapter. The kits for the event were Revell s Snap-Tite F-14, F-117, Sr-71 and

13 THE CORSAIR PAGE 13 MARCH 2012 Space Shuttle. We had a number of club members there all or part of the time to provide mentoring through the course of the event, including myself, Ed Kucharski, Bill Dunkle, Keith Pieper, Will Frey, Chuck Ludwig, Doug Solomon, Dennis Hutchison, and Mike and April Hinderliter. We had participants ranging in age from 5-16 years of age. For the younger kids we strongly encouraged parental participation with their child to build the bond of completing a project together. Much of the time there we only had one or two builders at the table, but due to the flow of the crowd, we ended up building most of the kits in a two hour period each day. When it got busy, we took over the demo table and had a standing room only crowd. At the end of the festival we had completed 101 kits. Over the course of the event, I had many conversations with parents who were excited to find a new activity they could do with their child and many of the kids wanted to do more and asked were they could get them. Our two days were well spent and we introduced model building and the IPMS to the video game crowd and their parents. All the kids left with a smile and I knew it was a great day when I saw two kids running around playing Top Gun with their new F-14s and I recalled how I got started..

14 THE CORSAIR PAGE 14 MARCH 2012 SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HOBBY SHOP! RIGHT STUFF, RIGHT PRICE W. Southern Ave. Tempe, AZ (480) Avalon Books and Hobbies 1510 N. Scottsdale Rd. Tempe, AZ (480) Copper State Models The Cutting Edge In Military Details Eric R. Hight 3245 E. Hillery Dr. Phoenix, AZ (602) Space modeling reference books by Mike Mackowski. Your One Stop Source for Scale Model Airliner Kits, Decals, Diecasts and Accessories HOBBY BENCH 2 Great Locations! 8058 N. 19th Ave W. Bell Rd. NW corner NE corner 19th Ave. & Northern 43rd Ave. & Bell E. Baseline Rd. Gilbert, AZ (480) Don t forget to sign up for your HobbyTown Card! THE MAD MEATBALL MIKE CHOLEWA DEALER IN PRE-OWNED PLASTIC NORTH 21ST DRIVE PHOENIX, AZ HISTORIC HOBBIES OF PRESCOTT In the Cortez Street Emporium 115 N. Cortez Street 1/2 block North of the Courthouse Prescott s only hobby shop dedicated to finescale plastic modeling - Aircraft, Armor, Auto, Figure & Ship kits and books for all skill levels. Sun.-Thurs. 10am - 5pm Fri.-Sat. 10am - 6pm