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The Reporter

Speaking of the club….

This is a topic I would normally not

delve into on the first page of the news-

letter but it does need attention. This is

club dues. These were due by the 31st

of March. Do not miss out on the oppor-

tunity to continue receiving this news-

letter as well as participating in the an-

nual auction this month.

You will find more information on page

3 of the newsletter regarding this topic.

I know it is redundant but it is im-

portant. I hope you all will renew your

memberships and continue to share the

camaraderie we enjoy.

Build nights are always some of the

best attended meetings. This is evi-

denced by the turn out at the March

meeting as well as the growing num-

ber of members attending the month-

ly build nights hosted by John Gra-

ham.

The reason for this is really very sim-

ple. It is building models of course.

We build for many reasons. Interest

in certain historical subjects or

events for one. Or creating in minia-

ture our favorite auto or aircraft.

Sometimes it is to commemorate

one’s service to our nation. Maybe it’s

even reliving a little of our childhood.

Whatever the reason at the end of

the day it is because we enjoy the

physical aspect of building models.

As long as that fire burns inside of us

we’ll keep hosting build nights and

do what we enjoy the most. Building

of course!

Ask them to build & they will come by Tom Reese

The Official Newsletter of IPMS/Lakes Region Scale Modelers www.lakesregionmodelers.com April 2015

Inside this edition

“The Briefing Room” club news and the President’s Message. Page 3

Show & Tell Pages 4 - 8

Book Review by Ned Ricks Pages 9 - 10

Upcoming Events & Monthly Show & Tell Themes and programs. Pages 11 - 13

Join LRSM or IPMS USA - Page 14

Points of Interest

Build Night at G2 Revolution Lake In The Hills. Friday April 17th 5:30PM.

Annual Club Auc-tion at G2 Revolu-tion Friday April 24th 7:30PM. See Page 2 for direc-tions.

Everyone gathered around tables

with kits and tools in hand.

John Graham had a great slide show

from the 2014 MMSI Show. Plenty of

inspiration for all of us !

THE REPORTER THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF IPMS/LAKES REGION SCALE MODELERS PAGE 2

LRSM Auction Night – 7:30 p.m. - ??? Friday, April 24, 2015

8585 Pyott Road, Lake in the Hills

If lost, call John Graham (815) 353-2248

BRING CHAIRS (and table too if you have one)

Turn in here and

park in front of

building.

Auction will be held in this, the

north hangar building. Park,

walk to front of main g2

building, through the north-side

gate and across the pavement.

Go to front (west) side of

building through large doors to

be checked in for the auction.

Pyott Road

Walk through gate.

Main g2 revolution

building. Park in front

or on south side.

Park here


Newsletter Content

The cupboard is really lean! I’ve been living

month to month with content for the newslet-

ter.

We have many talented and knowledgeable

modelers in our club. Many of you have

shared your skills and knowledge at the

monthly meetings. I would really like to see

more how to articles and build reviews.

Please take a little time to commit to paper so

it can be shared with others who can’t make

the meetings.

Your contributions are greatly appreciated!

2015 Dues

Ladies and gentlemen I cannot stress this

enough. According to the club’s bylaws annual

dues must be paid up by March 31st. You must

be a member in good standing to continue re-

ceiving the monthly newsletter. The same is

true if you wish to participate in the annual

club auction. Non-members pay $5 to enter the

auction.

If you are not sure of your status please contact

Tom Reese or John Graham. We will be collect-

ing any unpaid dues at the auction on the 24th.

Please help us move forward with other club

business by taking care of this now.

The Briefing Room

By Tom Reese

Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to attend various meetings of other local

model clubs. One thing that has impressed me is how each group welcomes new people to their

sessions. My experience has been a positive one and I felt included in their activities. There

seems to be a wide-ranging, shared interest in models no matter what the subject. Modelers

want to know about models and the skills and techniques used to build them. I think our club

does a pretty good job in this regard. Still, I would encourage all of you to take the first step

when you see a “newbie” at a meeting. Introduce yourself and strike up a conversation about

our common interest – plastic modeling. NIMCON 4 is right around the corner. The prepara-

tion and planning phase is almost over, so now we need help in the actual running of the show.

We’ve all done this before. Please check the sign up sheet at the meeting and offer your help in

one of the open jobs. What I mentioned earlier about welcoming guests to our meetings also

applies to NIMCON. We want to grow both our club and our show, so do your best to make it a

positive experience for all who attend.

Phil

President’s Message


Show & Tell

Longest or Unfinished Build Photos & captions courtesy of Tom Reese

Tom Reese: Another less often modeled sub-

ject that I enjoy building, the HE 112B. This

Heinkel aircraft was competing with the ME-109

to be the Luftwaffe’s primary fighter. Only 98

were built mostly exported to Axis countries. The

1/72 Heller kit is excellent. This one in Romanian

livery.

Dan Barten: Five years in the making is

“Raul’s Rod. Dan is kit bashing Monogram’s

Rommel’s Rod and a ‘63 Chevy to custom build

and car/truck hybrid!

William Wallace: Longest in process build

for William is this impressive 1/72 XB-70 Val-

kyrie. The Italerie kit requires a lot of putty.

William plans on painting the Valkyrie in a

hypothetical SE Asia 3 color camo.

Dan Barten: Another imaginative custom

build is his “Child Catcher” from the movie Chitty

Chitty Bang Bang. Dan is using the 1/24 AMT

Raiders Coach adding to it a scratch built caged

trailer.


Show & Tell


Don Norton: Definitely qualifying as a long build

is Don’s 1/9 scale German soldier. Don started the Esci

kit sometime in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s. After uncov-

ering the stalled project recently he figures he can fi-

nally finish this with skills acquired in the intervening

years.

Stephen Kumura: Newest member, young

Stephen built this diorama using Testors M3

Grant tank. Well done!

Ned Ricks: My photography skills do not

do this kit justice! This is a flat model casting

of the Field Marshall Richard Wellsley, the

Duke of Wellington. The depth illusion is cre-

ated by highlights and shadows in the paint-

ing process.

Ned Ricks: This 1/72 Hasegawa F-86D Sabre

Dog was a rough draft for future projects requir-

ing a NMF that Ned started several years ago.

Ned added Eduard’s PE set to the cockpit and

painted the NMF with Model Master Metalizers.

Panel lines were picked out with India ink and a

drafting pen.


Show & Tell


Ned Ricks: The WWII aviator is actually a

pilot for an RC plane. Ned purchased it in 2013

and finished it this month. The Theodore Roose-

velt bust depicts Teddy as a Rough Rider in Cuba

1898. Ned scratch build 22 eyeglasses to replace

the inaccurate kit glasses before getting it right!

Art Giovannoni: Nothing languishing on

Art’s bench. Below is his recently completed

Douglas A-1H Skyraider.

Dave Haas: On the left is Amodel’s 1/144

C-123J. Dave ran out of putty stalling the pro-

ject. On the right is another of his repainted

and modified J-Wings die cast kits. The one a

B-25C from the 340th BG, 489th BS.

Art Giovannoni: Frank Cuden’s P-40 in a re-

cent issue of Fine Scale Modeler caught Art’s eye.

Here is his rendition of the P-40K-1 flown by

Sgt. Frank Roldan in North Africa during 1942.

Art used the 1/48 AMT/Ertl kit painting 2 coats

of sand to get the color he wanted to match his

references.


Show & Tell


Mark Karolus: Mark built Revell’s 1/144 LSM

210 out of the box only adding stretch sprue for

the railings.

Steve Day: Steve build the Midas Trust and

the Temple Tower buildings for a model railroad-

ing client. The resin kits from Bob Lunde Studi-

os are modeled in color and easy to build accord-

ing to Steve. He used Mig pigments for weather-

ing.

Ron Thorne: Ron has been building a lot of

WWI subjects as of late including this 1/35 Takom

Mark IV Tadpole. He’ll be adding filters, washes,

and pigments to complete this project.

Kevin Stover: Now this is just straight up

cool! I believe Kevin said this was a bag kit esti-

mated scale 1/80 of Thunderbird 1 from the

Thunderbirds movie/cartoon. Doing a little

checking I think this is Aoshima’s 1/144 kit?

Whichever it is Kevin earned Best Sci Fi subject

at the Mad City Modelers Contest!


Show & Tell


Eric Hungerford: Eric presented a couple of

builds 3 years in the making. The 1/35 Tamiya

Panzer IV recently made its way back on to Eric’s

bench. And the OV-10 stalled for lack of paint.

One of his favorite aircraft he hopes to resurrect

this project soon as well.

Walt Fink: Walt closed out the show and tell

with a pair of Crusaders. Below is a conversion

from an F8-E to a F8-C. Walt used Academy’s

1/72 kit to which he added a new windshield and

other scratch built bits and pieces.

Neil Butler: Purchased in 1965 for the

princely sum of $1.50 Neil started this and

then put it way only rediscovering it in his

stash recently.

Walt Fink: This RF-8G is a conversion using

Hasegawa’s 72nd kit and a Ventura (N2) conver-

sion. Started in the ‘70s the kit was put in the

drawer of doom when it got to be too much. Last

year Walt pulled it back out. Working with the

very crude Ventura conversion lots of scratch

building, rescribing, and more than 250 decals

brought this one over the finish line! Of course

now that its done Wolfpack announced a new RF-

/A/G kit!


In a classic case of making lemonade from lem-

ons, when I had to be in the car for several

hours per day this winter I checked out my li-

brary’s copy of The Aviators… as a recorded

book. What a treat to hear these stories!

Winston Groom (Yes: he is the author of For-

rest Gump) does a terrific job of telling the sto-

ries of three of America’s most famous aviators

of the first half of the twentieth century, per-

haps only after the Wright Brothers in such

rankings. I thought I knew these stories, but I

discovered that I only knew the headlines ver-

sion.

Things I discovered included: Jimmy

Doolittle picked up extra cash as a boxer under

an assumed name and earned a PhD in aero-

nautical engineering; Charles Lindberg was

flunked out of the University of Wisconsin but

was involved in inventing an early artificial

heart machine; and Eddie Rickenbacker was

serving as an advisor on aviation affairs in the

Pacific Theater of WWII when his B-17 crashed

and he spent weeks adrift in a small raft. (The

outcome of Eddie’s ordeal was more fortunate

than that portrayed in the current movie re-

lease of Unbroken about a similar mishap.)

Groom does a good job of breaking up the

three story lines to mix in the background of

these men along with the more familiar hero-

ic deeds for which they are known. Lind-

berg’s father was a congressman from Minne-

sota for a while and Charles went to school

with the children of then-president Theodore

Roosevelt. Rickenbacker was a winning race

car driver who got the newspaper-created

nickname of “Baron Rickenbacker”; when Ed-

die sailed to England prior to the USA joining

WWI, Scotland Yard detained him as a possi-

ble German spy based upon those newspaper

clippings. Jimmy got leave from the air corps

to sell Curtiss fighters to South American

countries; while doing so, he had a non-

aviation accident that broke both ankles

which did not stop his flying the Andes

Mountains and breaking time-distance rec-

ords along the way. As famous fliers, these

men in turn came to know Ernst Udet and

Book Review by Ned Ricks

The Aviators,

Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolit-

tle, Charles Lindberg and the Epic

Age of Flight

by Winston Groom

ISBN-10: 1426211562

ISBN-13: 978-1426211560


Hermann Goering on trips to between-wars Eu-

rope. Which one kept a target range in his

apartment for pistol shooting?

For those who like to compare history to artistic

portrayal (don’t we all like to point out incor-

rect airplane types or tank configurations in

movies?), there are several details to pick up in

these stories. Here are just two: Doolittle’s

Raiders had no radios onboard due to weight

(unlike the movies) but did toss empty gas cans

overboard during their epic flight. One almost

hit a following plane! Unlike 49 year old Jimmy

Stewart’s portrayal of Lindberg in the great

movie The Spirit of St Louis, Charles was only

age 25.

There are lesser known stories about po-

litical intrigue, especially during the “neutral”

years before 1941, aerial daring -- Doolittle

made the first all-instrument flight of take-off

and landing in the blind, and physical courage.

Previously I did not know that Lindberg also

went to the Pacific and, under the aegis of com-

paring aircraft, flew over 50 combat missions in

Corsairs and Lightnings. By his experiences in

thousands of hours of flying, Lindberg was able

to instruct P-38 pilots how to get an additional

250-300 miles to a tank of gas!

These are great stories about true Ameri-

can aviation heroes. I recommend this book.


Monthly Show & Tell Themes and programs

January Holiday Party

February Between the wars

years

2014 MMSI Review &

Acrylic Thinner Demo

March Longest or Unfinished

Build

Show us your Man

Cave & Build Night

April Club Auction

May VE Day Show off your cool

tools

June Outside the Box –Build

something outside

your genre

Epoxy Putty & Sculpt-

ing Demo

July WWI 2015 Nats Review

August VJ Day EAA Airventure Re-

view

September “Firsts” i.e. first to

break the sound barri-

er, etc.

TBD

October Ken Macke kits TBD

November Heavy Metal Build Night

December Cold War TBD


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Secretary & Membership Chairman: John Graham,

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