CSM Debrief Dec

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1 Cincinnati Scale Modelers IPMS/USA Chapter IV / 26 CSM Debrief Dec President: Mike Ward. m1ward@cinci.rr.com Vice President: Dave Reeves... roseannb26@gmail.com Secretary / Editor: Rob Schorry rschorry@cinci.rr.com Treasurer: Tom Owens towens@cinci.rr.com Membership: Ted Everett... ceverett@fuse.net Our next meeting will be Sunday, Dec. 4th, 2016 from 2 4 PM. The club meets at Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 4600 Erie Avenue, Madisonville, Ohio on the 1st Sunday of each month. Annual Cincinnati Scale Modelers membership fees are $15. You do not have to join the national organization to join our club. CSM club membership cost is $15 per person per year. IPMS/USA national membership fees are $25 a year and include the IPMS/USA Journal. If you are a member of the IPMS/USA you can enter models into the national contest. See for details. Finances Club finances are sound. Our Treasurer Tom Owens has a detailed statement available if you wish to examine it. Raffle & Door Prizes Prize tickets are available for sale ($1 each), which supports ongoing raffles and having fun! Our raffle policy, confirmed by a formal proposal of these rules and a vote by the members present on March 9, 2014: Everyone who is a current member gets ONE door prize ticket for attending the meeting. Members get a 2nd door prize ticket if they bring a model. First-time visitors get one free door prize ticket for being with us. Santa Claus comes early this year. Don Flynn Door Prizes ICM 1/144th U-Boat Type IIB Airfix 1/72nd P-51D with Fw190A-8 Hasegawa 1/24th Jeep DML 1/35th 2cm Flak 30 Hasegawa 1/48th P-40E Trumpeter 1/35th LAV-25 ICM 1/48th Spitfire LF.IX E Eduard 1/48th P-39Q DML 1/35th Sd.Kfz.251/16 Italeri 1/72nd Ju 86 Hasegawa 1/72nd Ki46-II Dinah IMC 1/35th T-34/76/43 Academy 1/48th Mig 21MF Tamiya 1/48th P-47D Bubbletop Tamiya 1/35th Stug IIIB Italeri 1/35th M-20 Tamiya 1/48th Me 262 A1a Revell 1/32nd Bae Hawk T.1A Red Arrows & 1/72 Revell Hawk T-1A Combo Raffle If you win something in the raffle and don t want it please consider offering it at auction before donating it to the VA. You can earmark the funds from any auctions to buy kits more suited to the VA s needs, or keep the money for yourself. The skill level of some of our prizes is high. Those kits may be frustrating for someone getting into the hobby as therapy. We can find deals on those simpler kits and don t mind scrounging for them for the VA. NOTE: Our raffle stock is very low. 1

2 Show and Tell One of the reasons to be in a model club is to build models. Bring in a model you are working on or just got done and be prepared (if you wish) to tell your fellow modelers what you are doing, the challenges you have overcome or are trying to work out. Show off your skills, share your knowledge and gain some besides. VA project(s) The Cincinnati Scale Modelers VA Support group (CSMVASG got a better acronym?) continues to staff model building sessions at the hospital in Clifton and at the TRAC in Clermont Cty. Volunteers work with veterans on the scale modeling hobby, helping them build, share stories, etc every Tuesday from 9 11:30 at the VA hospital in Clifton. Call Tom Owens if you are interested in helping. (513) The VA Medical Center always needs kits appropriate to the skills of the patients. Thank you for all recent donations of kits and supplies for the veterans who enjoy building kits. Interested in writing an article or taking photos? The CSM Debrief is looking for original info on models, workbench techniques, or Roadside Relics you may see. Send them to the editor for possible publication. The Debrief is available by post or (to save postage, trees, and hassle, I recommend !). It is also posted each month on the CSM club website. We also have a Facebook page so search for Cincinnati Scale Modelers Wants & Disposals - If you have a want or a disposal, please call (513) or send to: rschorry@cinci.rr.com Upcoming events in or near IPMS/USA Region IV. Date(s) Chapter City/Area 1/21/2017 SVASM Free Swap Meet Contact: Dave Taylor - daverace@roadrunner.com Sharon, PA 2/4/2017 3/5/ Model Contest & Show Contact: Jim Church - jecdiamond3@aol.com SEMMEX 2017 Contact: Jim Ashford - jimandkatie08@wowway.com Bay City, MI Madison Heights, MI Please try to keep your telephone and up to date with the club. In case of severe weather or other reason, we will try to contact you if our monthly meeting is cancelled or postponed. Thank you! 2

3 Here are photos of the best models in our 2016 model contest. Best Aircraft - P-2V-5 Neptune by Jeff "Mongo" Cramer Best Armor Panzer III by Steve Cohen 3

4 Best Figure Mummy bust by Mark McGovern Best Sci-fi / Misc Fantasy Fish Sub by Ronald Sorrell 4

5 Best Automotive - 53 Corvette by Larry Young Best Ship & Best in Show USS Hancock by Chris Toops More photos can be seen on the CSM website: 5

6 Some photos from the November meeting Rob Schorry 6

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8 Holiday Party! We will have our Secret Raffle gift exchange again plus food and goodies. The club will provide pizza, and you donate the rest. Family and significant others are also invited. If there is any special foodstuff that you enjoy and wish to share, please bring it. In the Secret Raffle you bring a model kit wrapped in any plain paper and labeled car, rocket ship, airplane, ship, whatzit, etc. All those go into a pile. Please bring a decent kit and not some old thing the dog chewed on. If you bring a gift you get a gift. Making Models: Preserving the Art in our Craft by Tom Draper I remember going to a craft fair in North Carolina some years ago, and looking at the hand carved and hand stitched items that were on hand and noting the veneration that was given to them by the attendees and fellow artisans. I remember hearing all the positive comments that ran through the exhibit that the items on display were so artistically made by hand from natural materials. My take was that model building took at least as much skill to replicate something in miniature as most of the more artistic items on display, but if a plastic model was put on display, it might look cute, but certainly not artistic. Recently I picked up a model magazine from In the letters to the editor, there were several letters attacking the new plastic kits that were hitting the market. Their point was that these new kits were taking the skill and the hours necessary out of the artistically higher wooden-based hobby and replacing the skill involved with a simple pegboard-like process using plastic pieces you simply glued together. Well, as we all know, things have changed. Those wooden balsa or pine kits, either solids made out of wood with a touch of metal such as Strombecker, Cleveland, and Comet as well as Monogram (balsa, with a touch of plastic) plus stick and tissue flyers (Guillow and Monogram to mention a few) provided a platform for modeling on which a modeler added skill (and lots of it!) but usually ended up with something that only simulated the real thing. Up until about fifth grade I built both types concurrently, mixing easy to build unpainted plastic kits with painted wood-based kits that required many more hours and much higher skill levels to achieve a similar result. It took years of doing this before Harleyford s famous book, Camouflage and Markings, gave me 8

9 the idea that plastic models could end up looking less toy-like and more accurate than wooden kits if you painted them, and started treating them like wooden kits by sanding seams, correcting kit errors, and adding parts you made yourself. The incremental aha moments that followed allowed modelers to improve accuracy by adding their own ideas and skills to those basic plastic kits correcting faults using three view drawings, and adding interiors, rigging, and correcting kits just like the older wooden kits. In other words, scratchbuilding, either on a large or small scale, which of course, was exactly what we were doing when we built wooden models. But here s the rub. Today s modern kits leave you a smaller stage on which to add your own touch; your own skill. Often it seems that today s more accurate kits require less of your own skill to achieve a satisfactory result. Today, you can buy any number of aftermarket parts or things such as paint masks and pre-painted parts to increase the accuracy of a kit by converting it into a glorified pegboard, and in many ways, often achieving higher levels of authenticity but by lowering the creativity content that is necessary to migrate a craft into an art. Ah, such is life vintage Strombecker kit (Note: An advanced model No carving tools needed ) 9

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