alamo squadron’s program for april 2: date with glacier girl · wanted: roden fokker d vi, 1/32nd...

APRIL 2015

I P M S / U S A 1 9 9 8 - 1 9 9 9 & 2 0 0 4 - 2 0 0 5 C H A P T E R O F T H E Y E A R

Program for April 2:ELECTION DAY!!

Alamo Squadron’s

date with

Glacier Girl

Alamo Squadron – April 2015

The Prez NotesBy Art Nicholson

It’s election time! At the March meeting, Dick Mongtomery was nominated for President, Tony Neira, Henry Nunez, Gilberto Ojeda, and Rick Warring for Vice President, and Lee Washburn for Treasurer. Tony and Rick have since declined.

At the April meeting, we will take any additional nominations, and then you’ll vote. The winners will be announced and sworn in and will take office right away.

At the meeting we will also have a show ‘n tell and our monthly contest (an Open), but no program (unless you count the Election) and no raffle.

This is my last column as prez! I am not running for office, as I have another book I really need to finish. It’s been a real honor to serve you as president and ModelFiesta contest director.

I hope to see you all at the meeting at 7:15 on April 2nd at Northside Ford. In the meantime…

Happy Modeling!

Art

Dick Montgomery

Gil Ojeda

Henry Nunez

Lee Washburn

3Alamo Squadron – April 2015

Charles StoneMichael Holsen

Gil Ojeda


What if…?


We can say that this isalso a show and tell, as last month, John Kressgot married withGrace… indeed!Congratulations, John!

WANTED: RODEN Fokker D VI, 1/32nd scale. No Gold Diggers, Please!- Anthony Neira

Next meeting: 7:15 p.m. Thursday, April 2nd, at Northside Ford on 12300 San Pedro.

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Squadron’s Eagle Quest coming up in June in Carrollton, Texas

I’m going to start a new column

called Around Alamo City - hopeful-

ly every month - in which I will in-

clude news related to the world of

modeling. Items may include mod-

eling events and contests, airshows,

car shows, meet-and-greet events,

travels, and so on.

In my three and a half years living in

the Alamo City, I’ve found that

there are many events that can be

related to the modeling world. In

one event I even promoted heavy

metal music, and upon being asked

why, I explained that there are

items related to modeling in heavy

metal: figures, art work, models,

etc. One example was the English

band Iron Maiden, whom used an

airplane specifically designed as the

artwork they use in their album co-

vers. I helped a friend of mine to

de-

sign two paper models of the Boe-

ing 757’s that the band used to trav-

el on.

Anyway, there are many areas in

our everyday life that can relate

to scale modeling.

I will be glad to receive ideas, pho-

tos, articles, comments, e-mails

and phone calls regarding your

inputs on this to enrich

this column.

Lewis Warbirds Museum

To begin with, I shall tell you that

members of the Alamo Squadron

traveled to the San Antonio Interna-

tional Airport to attend a special

session at the Lewis Warbirds Mu-

seum. Among the Museum’s treas-

ures is one special WWII fighter air-

plane: the P-38 Glacier Girl. The air-

plane was restored to flying condi-

tion after being buried beneath the

ice of the remote Greenland Ice

Sheet for over 50 years. For that

extraordinary task, the Greenland

Expedition Society went to the re-

mote lands (or, should I say “ice”?)

in 1992 and melted a big tunnel in

the glacier to reach the flying ma-

chine.

And now we can see this astonish-

ing airplane here in Alamo City, alt-

hough not open to the public, but

with special invitation from the Mu-

seum. Nevertheless, the “Girl”

sometimes goes out to have fun at

Around Alamo City By Jerry Escobedo

The Alamo Squadron with the Glacier Girl

the different airshows in

the United States. We

count ourselves very

lucky to be able to touch

this treasure of aviation

history.

Model Fiesta 34

And we still have some

news for the Model Fies-

ta 34! (aggh, that hap-

pens when you don’t go to the

event… ). I was pleased to know

that a friend of mine at the Paper-

modelers.com forum from Arkan-

sas came to the event, and won

some good

awards. Ray

Smith en-

tered a 1/144

AH-1 paper

model in the

small scale

rotorcraft

plastic cate-

gory, and it

was awarded

a 2nd place plaque. Then he sub-

mitted a 1/144 Spad SA-2 paper

model into the small air-

craft plastic category, and

it also was awarded a 2nd

place. On his own words:

“This particular contest

did not have a paper

model category, so these

models were placed into

an Open Category, which

was broken down into

several other classes, including Mis-

cellaneous Mechanical

and Miscellaneous Biological. If

memory serves, there were about

30 models, made of wood, plastic

and paper in these classes.

Then [my] 1/300 Santa Ma-

ria [paper model] was

awarded a 2nd place

plaque.”

By the way, these plaques

were sponsored by the Doo-

little Raiders Association,

which is around the Alamo

City, in Comfort, Texas;

home of our good friend,

the Jimmy Doolittle co-pilot,

Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole.

Then he went

on and on, by

being honored

with the Best

Open Subject,

by non the less

our own Gary

Emery’s Hill

Country Hobby.

So as you can

see, paper modeling is still making

noise at the IPMS events. I for one

hope to see more paper models in

the IPMS events around the Alamo

City!

Participate!

If you know of an occasion, gather-

ing, special location with modeling

related events, please share! Write

to me at

[email protected]

and tell me all about it.


2015 Internal

Contest Scheduleby Mike Picard

April – Open

May – Design and Concept: Anything that existed only on paper, was started but never finished or was completed in prototype form only. (Quarterly Contest)

June – Open

July – Open

August – The 1950s (Quarterly Contest)

September – Open

October – Anything American in Foreign Service.

November – Kitbash: Use parts from different kits to build something that never existed. (Quarterly Contest)

December – Christmas Party


Whatis your

besttool?Steve

Jobs is

my Hero!

I don’t know

what is this, but

I love it!

You can be burned with this, so it’s not for you guys, only for grown

ups!

I can paint the

eyelashes of my figures with this!

An awesome

tool to jam

your fingers in,

when you are

bored of

modeling!

I love Tamiya tape! The bigger, the

better!

Since I was a boy, this truck always

attracted me so much. I had opportunity

to see one in person in 2002, although it

was not like this, (only three models were

produced, and the three are different in

some way). I

took many pic-

tures. One day

in 2009 I was

looking nostal-

gically some

photographs

when I found

this truck.

I immediately

wanted to

make a model

of it, but after exhaustive internet search,

I found there was no kit available. So I

decided to build one by "scratch build".

And so I entered a Ferrari car web site and

asked if anyone had any information on

this vehicle. The next day I got an answer

from a modeler from Florida telling me

that he had information with the actual

measurements of the truck as well as a

picture of the truck profile. He sent me

the information by email and the first

thing I did was convert the measurement

of vehicle 1: 1 to 1:24 scale. I enlarged the

picture he had sent me to the proportion

of the scale and thus got the right size to

start building. I began to take measures

and record in the blueprint all my annota-

tions using the original drawing.

What worried me the most was the

wheels, and as I looked for kits on the

internet (I spend many hours at the com-

puter in the wake of this project) I found

that the AMT Chevy Astro truck kit had

the wheels very similar to the ones for my

project, so I bought the kit and with that

got the wheels.

That encour-

aged me a lot.

Using the

measures of the

wheelbase I

built a generic

chassis as I had

no reference to

the original Fiat;

I even wrote to

the factory to

see if they could share some information,

but they never answered me.

Once I built the

chassis with appro-

priate measures, I

could begin building

the cabin using the

measures from the

blueprint and they

were in fact accord-

ing to the general

structure of the

model. Using 0.40

plastic sheets and

Evergreen strips of

different measures I

started to give the basic shape, also used

putty to form the curved parts and give a

finish to the different components of the

bodywork. Using different pieces of

"Pandora's box" I could assemble the

needed areas for the interior cabin.

As these vehicles carried the Ferrari cars

to competitions to the different circuits in

Europe, they also had an area in the back

with some basic tools for emergency re-

pairs on racetracks, so for that I use the

Fujimi kit with different tools and appro-

priate equipment, considering using

equipment that was standard at that time,

no modern equipment! As it was dark

inside the "shop", I decided to light it; and

for that goal I search for model trains on

internet and found a kit of super-

miniature LED lights with switch and

battery, installed in a way that could not

be seen.

For the final touch, I used two different

shades of red lacquer paintings. The dark-

er: Model Master Flame

Red # 1965R; and the clear-

er: Bright Red Tamiya TS

49. A railway modeler from

Phoenix printed the decals

for me because a special

printer (ALPS) is required to

print the white color and he

had that hardware.

The rest is history. It was in

2009 that I started with the

idea of the model and I

finished it in 2014 - of

course not always working on it, as I had

other projects in between. Now I'm work-

ing on three cars that will go on the bus,

the way they used to do it in the 60’s.

In their own words...

FerrariFerrari’’s s Fiat TransporterFiat Transporter

By Pablo Barrena

IPMS/USA Alamo Squadron: The Club was

founded in 1977 in San Antonio, Texas, for

the enjoyment of building scale models and

the camaraderie of the members. Dues are

normally $12.00 a year, due when the

Treasurer tells you.

The Alamo Squadron has been putting on

ModelFiesta since 1981. Locations have

included the Wonderland Mall, a Holiday Inn,

the Seven Oaks Motel & Convention Center,

the Live Oak Civic Center and the new

location for 2013, the San Antonio Event

Center.

Information 2014-2015

Treasurer: Dick Montgomery

IPMS #[email protected]

Vice-President: Henry NunezIPMS# 49498

[email protected]

ARTICLES!! ARTICLES!!We need your writing skills for the newsletter!All submission must be turned in by the 20th of the month prior to next month’s meeting. Send your input to Gary Emery at [email protected]

President: Art NicholsonIPMS# 36967

[email protected]

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