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Issue 182 July 2019
Stealth to the next level
Next month – 19th August 2019 – Photo Show
Next month – 19th August 2019 – Photo Show ......................................................................................................................... 1 Peters Prattling ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1
August Meeting ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Shows Coming Up ................................................................................................................................................................. 1
Essex Modeller Show – Billericay – Sunday 28th July ....................................................................................................... 1 Echoes of History Show – Purleigh – Saturday & Sunday 10th & 11th August .................................................................. 2 Medway Model Show – 8th September .............................................................................................................................. 2 Chiltern Model Show – 8th September ............................................................................................................................... 2 London Engineering Model Show – 17th – 19th January 2020 ........................................................................................... 2
Forthcoming Shows in 2019/2020 ......................................................................................................................................... 2 Robins Ruminations .................................................................................................................................................................. 3
My official hat is now on…………. ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Competition Results for 2nd Round 2019 .................................................................................................................................. 5
Wally Arrowsmith Trophy (Aircraft) ....................................................................................................................................... 5 IPMS Hornchurch Trophy (Miscellaneous) ........................................................................................................................... 7
Peters Prattling
August Meeting
Next months meeting is down as a photo show, having said that John Bennett will also present his videos on Southern Expo 2019 and Scale Modelworld (Telford) 2018. The plan for the evening I recall was to show photos which we think may be interesting and also Allen Roffey was going to present a selection from Bob Plumridge’s collection which he has been uploading to the internet.
Shows Coming Up
Essex Modeller Show – Billericay – Sunday 28th July
It’s our own local show at Hannakins in Billericay on Sunday 28th July. We should have at least 2 tables but that might be stretched to 3 so please ensure you bring along enough models to put on a great display. I’m sure John & Jim (the main organisers) will be happy for any offers of help with either competition judging or packing up at the end of the show.
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Echoes of History Show – Purleigh – Saturday & Sunday 10th & 11th August
I have the following people down as attending this show. There’s a possibility I may not now be able to attend; do we have any other volunteers?
Medway Model Show – 8th September Chiltern Model Show – 8th September
Robin has requested
tables for the Sunday and
we have had confirmation
that we can attend then.
Did anyone want to go with
him or even go on the
Saturday too?
Do we want to book for
this show? It does clash
again with Medway and
we’d said we would go last
year but pulled out due to
lack of availability closer to
the show.
London Engineering Model Show – 17th – 19th January 2020
London Model Engineering Exhibition at Alexandra Palace, Friday 17th to Sunday 19th January from 10.00am to 5.00pm
Friday and Saturday and until 4.30pm Sunday
Forthcoming Shows in 2019/2020
Shows with highlight have been booked for us to attend. If you wish to attend any of the shows with the club stand please let me know so I can attempt to book space for the club.
2019 July 28th (Sunday) Essex Modellers Show, Billericay.
August 3rd (Saturday) IPMS Dundee, The Boomerang Community Centre, 10 Kemback Street, Dundee, DD4 6ET
August 4th (Sunday) IPMS Avon, Thornbury Leisure Centre, Alveston Hill, Thornbury, BS35 3BJ
10th & 11th August (Saturday & Sunday)
Echoes of History, Purleigh, Essex
August 11th (Saturday) Boscombe Down Model Show, Old Sarum Airfield Old Sarum, Wilts SP4 6DZ
August 31st (Saturday) Aberdeen, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Aberdeen Treetops, 161 Springfield Rd, Aberdeen, AB15 7AQ
September 1st (Sunday) East Riding, Driffield Showground Kelleythorpe, Driffield, Yorkshire YO25 9DN
September 7th & 8th (Saturday & Sunday)
IPMS Medway, RE Museum, Gillingham, Kent
September 8th (Sunday)
Chiltern Model Show, The Weatherley Centre, Eagle Farm Road, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire SG18 8JH
IPMS Wombourne, Wombourne Library, Church Road, Wolverhampton, WV5 9EZ
September 14th (Saturday) IPMS Farnborough, Kings International College, Watchetts Drive, Camberley, GU15 2PQ
September 21st (Saturday) West Cornwall, St John’s Hall, Elverton Road, Penzance, Cornwall TR18
September 22nd (Sunday)
Wings & Things, University Academy Holbeach, Park Road Holbeach, PE12 7PU
Keighley Plastic Model Show, University Academy Keighley, Greenhead Road, Keighley, BD20 6EB
September 28th (Saturday) South West Model Show, The Tank Museum, Bovington Wool, Dorset, BH20 6JG
Scale Scotland, BT Murrayfield Stadium, Roseburn Street, Edinburgh, EH12 5PJ
September 29th (Sunday) Brampton, Burgess Civic Hall, Westwood Road, St Ives, Cambridgeshire PE27 6WU
October 5th (Saturday) Abingdon Model Show, Larkmead School, Abingdon, OX14 1BB
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November 9th & 10th (Saturday & Sunday)
Scale Modelworld 2019, Telford International Centre Telford, Shropshire TF3 4JH
2020 January 17th – 19th (Friday, Saturday &
Sunday) London Engineering Model Show, Alexandra Palace
March 28th & 29th (Saturday & Sunday)
Southern Expo 2020
Peter
Robins Ruminations
Well I’m pleased to say that my new contact lenses and glasses are working well and I’m feeling a lot better. Getting used to wearing varifocals is a touch weird though, getting the correct focal point between the distance and spot on my glasses where I look through without moving my head is a touch strange but by the time I see you on club night I should have it licked. Tonight, at club night is “my favourite tool”, which I have a little bit of trouble with, after all my favourite tool is the one that I need to do a certain job at that particularly time. So, let me think about it, aloud as it were:
Swann and Morton No.3 handle with assorted blades, still the best cutting tools ever made.
My trusty Tamiya spruce cutter, 30 years old and still cutting as shapely as ever.
Flexi-file for all those awkward curved joints that need smoothing.
Tee shaped aluminium lengths with Wet & Dry double sided taped to on to them.
An Olaf P-Cutter for re-scribing any lost panel lines.
Tamiya tape including the type that follows curves.
My “jelly mat” that holds small pieces of etched brass safely and without leaving a sticky residue.
The RB small etch brass folding tool, so good for those pesky little pieces.
Lastly, the Badger 100 airbrush I use, I’ve never found a better airbrush. Looking at my list I have just noted down, I realise that all but one, the homemade aluminium tee shapes, are “propriety” brands, so I guess for me that the old adage must be true, don’t buy cheap tools. However, saying that, the tool is only good as the hand that wields it. The shame is at the moment I don’t seem to have too much time to pick up the tools, let alone wield them, but hope lives eternal and I’m moving forward with the He.219. Last weekend Adele, Graham and I headed off to Hailsham for their annual model show, but not before a short stop in Heathfield to visit a very nice bakers. With a couple of bags of cakes, we continued on our way to Hailsham and the model show, we quickly unpacked the cloths, sign and models. After then forcing down a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea from the kitchen we set-up the stand. Although small, the show is very friendly, the hall bright and airy and only two minutes outside of the town centre. The traders were around the walls with the clubs in the middle, the competition area was in the foyer with a large trade stand selling second hand kits and decals. The Hailsham Model club also ran a very good raffle and a tombola in the entrance hall, we won a few prizes on both, not the prizes we wanted of course but that’s the fun of it isn’t it? Graham managed to find a couple of kits he didn’t know he wanted and they found their way into his bag, purely by accident of course. I had a good look around but didn’t see anything or didn’t want anything I saw so for the first time in ages it looked as if I was going to escape without returning home with a box plastic and a lighter wallet. However, on my last look at the trader in the foyer, at the bottom of a of box of shall we say “tired” decals and odds and ends I found two sets of pristine decals for the Wingnuts Wings Albatros I recently bought in Salisbury. Tucked under the decals was an etched fret for the radiator on the top wing of the Albatros, again totally perfect, amazing. So, two sets of decals and the etch was only £12, now how bad can that be? I got back in time for the raffle and picked up a couple of bits and the prize giving was then done, all very nice with the exception of one person moaning behind me that there were too many raffle prizes and the host was taking too long in reading out the winners. I can only think that either the person didn’t win on the raffle, wasn’t placed in the competition or was just a miserable git. Why attend a pleasant model show on a lovely sunny day if all you’re going to do is sit there and
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bitch? It beats me. Still we packed up at four o’clock, loaded the car and headed home, other than a ten-minute delay at the tunnel we had a good run home and dropped Graham off and went home for a cup of tea, we know how to live the high life! All in all, a damn nice day all around.
Graham seems to have his eye on the sweeties!
My official hat is now on………….
Well the second round of this year’s competitions went pretty well I thought, a very nice selection of various models. Steve Crusts Kurnass came first in the 48th and larger section, with Ian Browns Ilyushin 86 winning in the 72nd and smaller. Hayden won the A.F.V. class with his Mk. IV tank with Ian Brown taking first place in the Miscellaneous class, well done. Don’t forget the upcoming Essex show, bacon butties and good cake coupled with a model show thrown in, what more can a man ask for?
Robin
Competition Results for 2nd Round 2019
Wally Arrowsmith Trophy (Aircraft)
1/72nd Scale or Less
Position Entrant Model Votes
1st Ian Brown Ilyusin Il-86 47
2nd Peter Bagshaw Supermarine Seafire 17 40
3rd Paul Bennett Bucker Jungmeister 35
4th Paul Bennett Saab J-29 Tunnan 25
5th Brian Breeze Bristol Blenheim IV 24
Peter Bagshaw Nakajima Ki-27 Nate 19
Brian Breeze Handley Page Hampden 16
Hayden Bell UH-1H 15
1/72nd Scale or less
Ian Brown Ilyusin Il-86
Peter Bagshaw Supermarine Seafire 17
Paul Bennett Bucker Jungmeister
Paul Bennett Saab J-29 Tunnan
Brian Breeze Bristol Blenheim IV
Peter Bagshaw Nakajima Ki-27 Nate
Brian Breeze Handley Page Hampden
Hayden Bell UH-1H
Greater than 1/72nd Scale
Position Entrant Model Votes
1st Steve Crust McDonell Douglas F-4E Kurnass 65
2nd Hayden Supermarine Spitfire PR.19 57
3rd David Morse Grumman Bearcat 45
Greater than 1/72nd Scale
Steve Crust McDonell Douglas F-4E Kurnass
Hayden Supermarine Spitfire PR.19
David Morse Grumman Bearcat
Positions after 2nd Round Position Entrant Points
1st Paul Bennett 80
2nd Ian Brown 69
3rd Peter Bagshaw 58
4th John Bennett 40
5th David Morse 31
Hayden 28
Brian Breeze 27
Steve Crust 25
Stever Crust 23
Wally Arrowsmith 19
Graham Hill 5
IPMS Hornchurch Trophy (Miscellaneous)
Military Vehicles
Position Entrant Model Votes
1st Hayden W.W.I Tank 55
2nd Kevin Curley Morris 15cwt Truck 53
Miscellaneous - Armour
Hayden W.W.I Tank
Kevin Curley Morris 15cwt Truck
Miscellaneous
Position Entrant Model Votes
1st Ian Brown Citroen Traction 11cv 53
2nd Kevin Curley HMS Victory 46
Miscellaneous
Ian Brown Citroen Traction 11cv
Kevin Curley HMS Victory
Positions after 2nd Round Position Entrant Points
1st Hayden Kevin Curley
92
2nd Bob Smith 88
3rd Ian Brown 50
4th Peter Bagshaw 34