Next meeting: WeD 28 November 2018

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In this issue:• Club News • Club Champs Photos & Results• Australian Armour & Artillery Museum

ConnectionsNovember 2018

Club committeeMike Regan (president@scalemodelswellington.org.nz)Richard Alexander (secretary@scalemodelswellington.org.nz)Steve Holgate (treasurer@scalemodelswellington.org.nz)Aaron Smith (editor@scalemodelswellington.org.nz)Philip StopforthKevin TrewDave Johnson You can reach the committee easily via email - individual email addresses are listed above, and you can contact the whole committee using:• contact@scalemodelswellington.org.nz

About usConnections is the monthly newsletter of Scale Models Wellington IPMS Incorporated. Scale Models Wellington is a society for model-makers of all types from the Greater Wellington area and elsewhere in the country.

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Front cover: Michael Rohde’s 1/48 Trumpeter F100 Super Sabre

Contents2 Club Dates3 Club News 4 Club Championship Results6 October Club Night 7 Australian Armour and Artillery Museum - Part 211 Club Champs pictorial

Club DAtesEvents calendar28 November - final 2018 meeting and Club prizegiving

30 January 2019 - first meeting for 2019, with “What I did over Christmas” theme.

27 February 2019 - Club meeting. Theme (if any!) TBA.

27 March 2019 - Club meeting and AGM

From The Editor Lots of pictures this month, with Part 2 of Ray’s excellent feature about the Australian Armour and Artilley Museum and a photo spread of the Club Champs. This issue also includes the results for placegetter and Highly Commended entries in the Club Champs - I’ll feature the winning models, properly captioned, once the Best in Show and trophy results are announced at the Club meeting/prizegiving this week.

Aaron

Editor

Back cover: Martin van Ginkel’s 1/10 Young Miniatures WWII US Paratrooper

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Club NEws Club Champs Prizegiving

Placegetters and highly commended models are included in this newsletter, but trophy winners will be announced at the prizegiving on Wednesday at the normal monthly meeting.

Future Release for Shipbuilders

I have recently received a ship model from a manufacturer called Dodo Models, they do 1/700 resin ships (mostly mod-ern). There was a note attached to the kit saying that a RNZN ship was going to be released soon - they did not say which, but they have already done an early and late version of the Austra-lian ANZAC frigates. They do some interesting subject matter - for example they also did the Australian Armidale patrol boat. In the box the quality of Dodo models looks very good (I haven’t actually built one yet). I have found them on ebay - if looking for them on ebay it pays to search Dodomodels as one word and as two Dodo models, you get different results!

- Martin Van Ginkel

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Club Venue

When? Last Wednesday of each month at 19.30.

All meetings for 2018 will be at the new location.

Where? Trust Room at the Johnsonville Community Centre, 3 Frankmore Avenue, Johnsonville.

How do I get there? Exit SH1 north- or south-bound at Johnsonville and once you get to the main roundabout turn down Moorefield Road. The Community Centre will be on your right, and you can get to the Trust Room from the Moorefield Road entrance.

Car parking? Parking is available around the Community Centre building, on Frankmoore Avenue and Moorefield Road. Additional parking can be found across Moorefield Road by Johnsonville railway station and in the Mall car-park.

Room location? Enter the Community hall from the Southern Entrance on Moorefield Road, then take the stairs up to the Trust Room. There’s also a lift available.

Facilities? There will be tables and chairs, and we will be able to provide the usual tea and coffee. Home baking is very welcome!

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Club Championships REsults Congratulations to all the placegetters - trophy results will follow in the next issue, after the prizegiving on 28 November.

Class Code Class Place Modeller Scale Brand Subject

J7 Junior Figures (all scales) 1 Laura Vale 28mm Games Workshop Tau Pathfinders

J7 Junior Figures (all scales) 2 Laura Vale 28mm Games workshop Kroot

J6 Junior Sci-Fi & misc. 1 Laura Vale 28mm Games workshop Tau XV8 Crisis Battesuit

J6 Junior Sci-Fi & misc. 2 Jayden Johnson 1/12 Bandai R5D4

J2 Junior AFVs (all scales) 1 Jayden Johnson 1/35 Trumpeter LAV-25

G4 Fact, fiction, collections & misc. - Miscellaneous 1 Will Vale 28mm Games workshop Suffocating Gravetide

G4 Fact, fiction, collections & misc. - Miscellaneous 2 Geoff Warren 1/144 Revell / Trumpeter Ha-har, mines bigger than yours display. USA v USSR

Strategic Nuclear Bombers.

G3 Fact, fiction, collections & misc. - Collections 1

Ernie Thompson 1/24 and 1/25 AMT, Gunze Sangyo, Revell

Coca Cola promotional vehicles: Ford Model T, Fiat Bambina, Chevrolet Cameo Ute, Chevrolet SSR Ute, Kurtiss Midget Racer and 1936 Ford V8 Coupe tow car.

G2 Fact, fiction, collections & misc. - Science fiction 1 Will Vale 1/32 Moebius Cylon Raider

G2 Fact, fiction, collections & misc. - Science fiction 2 Dave Johnson 1/72 Bandai Tie Interceptor

F2 Ships & submarines 1/450 & larger 1 Martin Van Ginkel 1/350 Trumpeter Type 71 LPD

F2 Ships & submarines 1/450 & larger 2 Martin Van Ginkel 1/350 Trumpeter Kirov Cruiser

F2 Ships & submarines 1/450 & larger 3 Martin Van Ginkel 1/144 Trumpeter Sauryo Submarine

E Dioramas 1 Will Vale 1/72 Kotobukiya/Scratch Pteras Refuelling

E Dioramas 2 Ray Thorpe 1/35 Dragon Elephant in the Rooom

D4 Figures - Busts 1 Martin Van Ginkel 1/10 Young Miniatures US Paratroopers WWII

D4 Figures - Busts 2 Martin Van Ginkel 1/10 Young Miniatures Crusader

D1 Figures smaller than 120mm 1 Will Vale 28mm Games workshop Necron Wraiths

D1 Figures smaller than 120mm 2 Will Vale 28mm Games workshop Skeltons!

D1 Figures smaller than 120mm 3 Will Vale 28mm Games workshop Ghosts!

D1 Figures smaller than 120mm HC Will Vale 28mm Games workshop Necron Immortals

C5 Civilian Vehicles Box stock 1 Mark Stockdale 1:24 Fujimi Mini Cooper

C5 Civilian Vehicles Box stock 2 Mark Stockdale 1:24 Tamiya Aston Martin DBS

C4 Civilian Vehicles with a NZ Con-nection 1 Grant Matchett 1/24 BelKits Ford Escort Mk1 - Masport Jim Donald

C4 Civilian Vehicles with a NZ Con-nection 2 Grant Matchett 1/24 Aoshima Beemax Volvo 240T - 85 Wellington Nissan Sport 500

C4 Civilian Vehicles with a NZ Con-nection 3 Grant Matchett 1/24 BelKits Opal Manta 400 - Gary Smith Rally NZ 1986

C2 Civilian Vehicles Road Vehicles 1 Steve Holgate 1/25 Revell Dodge Challenger R/t !970

C2 Civilian Vehicles Road Vehicles 2 Steve Holgate 1/25 Revell Dodge Viper SRT

C2 Civilian Vehicles Road Vehicles 3 Steve Holgate 1/24 Tamiya Ferrari F50

C2 Civilian Vehicles Road Vehicles HC Will Vale 1/64 Hot Wheels Laser Raptor

C1 Civilian Vehicles Racing Oriented 1 Steve Holgate 1/12 Trumpeter GT40 Mk2 - Lemans 1966 No.2

C1 Civilian Vehicles Racing Oriented 2 Ernie Thompson 1/12 Tamiya 1/12 Ferrari 312 conversion

B5 Millitary vehicles - Box stock 1 Tish Glasson Jan-35 MENG Renault FT17

B4 Millitary vehicles with NZ connection 1 Martin Van Ginkel 1/24 Kit Form services Light Gun

B3 Millitary vehicles smaller than 1/35 1 Ewan Forbes 1/48 Tamiya Churchill Crocodile

B3 Millitary vehicles smaller than 1/35 2 Ewan Forbes 1/87 Roco Minitanks LARS

B3 Millitary vehicles smaller than 1/35 3 Ewan Forbes 1/87 Roco Minitanks M977

B2 Military vehicles 1/35 and larger WWII and before 1 Dave Johnson 1/35 Tamiya M-10

B1 Military vehicles 1/35 and larger post WWII 1 Steve Pilcher 1/35 Xact Scale Russian T80U

B1 Military vehicles 1/35 and larger post WWII 2 Steve Pilcher 1/35 Meng Syrian Buk Air defense System

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A5 Aircraft Box stock 1 Brian Rhodes 1/72 Revell F/A18F Super Hornet

A5 Aircraft Box stock 2 Geoff Warren 1/72 Airfix Bristol Blenhiem Mk1F

A5 Aircraft Box stock 3 Geoff Warren 1/144 Doyusha YS-11 Prop-jet Air liner.

A4 Aircraft with NZ connection 1 Brian Rhodes 1/72 Tamiya Vought F4U-1A Corsair

A4 Aircraft with NZ connection 2 Brian Rhodes 1/72 Tamiya North American P51D Mustang

A3 Aircraft larger than 1/48 1 Dave Johnson 1/32 Tamiya F4U-1 Birdcage

A3 Aircraft larger than 1/48 2 Dave Johnson 1/32 Wignut Wings Junkers D1

A3 Aircraft larger than 1/48 3 Ernie Thompson 1/24 Airfix No 303 Polish Squadron RAF Hawker Hurricane

A2 Aircraft smaller than 1/48 1 Geoff Warren 1/72 Airfix Fairey Swordfish Mk 1

A2 Aircraft smaller than 1/48 2 Brian Rhodes 1/72 Trumpeter Westland Wyvern S-4

A2 Aircraft smaller than 1/48 3 Geoff Warren 1/72 Academy Curtiss P 40 E Warhawk

A1 Aircraft 1/48 1 Tore Martin 1/48 Trimaster Focke Wulf FW 190D-9

A1 Aircraft 1/48 2 Ernie Thompson 1/48 Revell Beech C 45 F Expeditor

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October Club Night Show and Tell

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Images: Steve Holgate

PLA Navy Destroyer (modeller unknown!)

Steve Holgate’s 1/12 Trumpeter GT40

1/144 Trumpeter Tu-95H (?) by Geoff Warren

Will Vale’s Graveyard

Nic Zwart’s AT-11 Kansan

Tony Ancel ’s Games Workshop figures

Following on from Part 1 in the October newsletter, Part 2 covers post-1950 NATO and Warsaw Pact collections at Australian Armour and Artillery Museum in Cairns.

Looking a lot cooler in my shades than the 30°C outside, on entering the Museum I came face to face with the i m p re s s i v e and well-p r e s e r v e d Best of British, Chieftain MBT. I could the strains of Uriah Heep’s “Salisbury” album playing in the back-ground and found myself waiting for the orange smoke and Leyland L60 powerpack to fire up. Alas this was not to be, and I had to be content with quietly humming a few strains from “Salisbury” to myself, which got some strange looks from the younger generation who obviously had no taste for original Hard Rock Music. Youth is so wasted on the young!

Of interest and a surprise was a post WWII conversion of a Churchill Flail Mine clearing version which I thought were WWII era but did service in the Korean War as well.

There are also a number of ex-Royal Australian Armoured Corps Centurions on display.

The selection of Warsaw Pact hardware from WW2 era T34-85, SU100s to the later T54/55 and T-72, BMP1, and BTR-60 captured more of my attention, having seen a lot of this hardware a lifetime ago in the bush and dust of Southern Africa. One of the most impressive pieces of Soviet hardware on display was the massive 2S7 Pion Self Propelled Artillery piece below.

Australian Armour & Artillery Museum Part 2Ray Thorpe

Churchill Flail Tank

Ex-RAAC Centurion next to a T-55

2S7 Pion Self Propelled Gun

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The Russian S-75 Dvina SAM (Surface to Air Missile), Mobile launcher and Transporter. I last saw one of these in the back of a C-130 transporter in Namibia as captured booty from Angola on its way back to South Africa for examination.

Once again, I’ll let the pictures do the talking for the rest of the article and happy to answer any questions on FaceBook or at our next club meet.

BMP-1 from front right

BMP-1 crew compartment

BMP-1 crew compartment, with driver’s seat visible

Abbott SPG

2S1 SPG

Various Russian artillery pieces

S-75 ‘Dvina’ SAM Czechoslovakian T72 8

Soviet M-152 152mm Gun

5.5 inch Medium Gun

T55 MBT detail

Czech M53/59 Praga

At time of writing a Panther V was undergoing restoration, which provides a perfect excuse for a return visit later next year and just to end off, I did NOT bring any “paint chip samples” back with me for paint research purposes, despite rumours to the contrary!

Happy modelling

Ray Thorpe

US M52 SPG

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Alvis Saladin

T55 MBT detail

US M47 Patton

M114A1 Command/Recon VehicleM113A1 APC M577A1 Armoured Command Vehicle

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