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Cincinnati Scale Modelers IPMS/USA Chapter IV / 26
CSM Debrief Dec. 2016 www.cincyipms.com
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 45227 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 www.ipmsusa.org 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 Raffle
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
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.
President: Mike Ward ……………………. [email protected] Treasurer: Tom Owens ……… [email protected]
Vice President: Dave Reeves …....… [email protected] Membership: Ted Everett ..……. [email protected]
Secretary / Editor: Rob Schorry ...….….. [email protected]
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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) 351-1582 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 email (to save postage, trees, and hassle, I
recommend email!). 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) 489-5387 or send email to:
Upcoming events in or near “IPMS/USA Region IV.” http://www.ipmsusa.org
Date(s) Chapter City/Area
1/21/2017 SVASM Free Swap Meet Contact: Dave Taylor - [email protected]
Sharon, PA
2/4/2017 2017 Model Contest & Show Contact: Jim Church - [email protected]
Bay City, MI
3/5/2017 SEMMEX 2017 Contact: Jim Ashford - [email protected]
Madison Heights, MI
Please try to keep your telephone and email 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!
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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
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Best Figure – Mummy bust by Mark McGovern
Best Sci-fi / Misc –
Fantasy Fish Sub by
Ronald Sorrell
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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:
http://www.cincyipms.com/gallery/index.php/Contest-Swap-Meet/2016
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Some photos from the November meeting – Rob Schorry
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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 1954. 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
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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.
1960 vintage Strombecker kit (Note: An advanced model ‘No carving tools needed’)
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CSM Debrief
Cincinnati Scale Modelers Monthly Newsletter www.cincyipms.com Dec. 2016
Editorial address: 5675 Sovereign Drive Cincinnati, Oh 45241