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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