Alamo Squadron`s date with Glacier Girl

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Alamo Squadron’s
date with
Glacier Girl
I P M S / U S A
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Program for April 2:
ELECTION DAY!!
CHAPTER OF THE YEAR
The Prez Notes
By 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.
Dick Montgomery
Gil Ojeda
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.
Henry Nunez
I hope to see you all at the meeting at 7:15 on
April 2nd at Northside Ford. In the meantime…
Lee Washburn
Happy Modeling!
Art
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Michael Holsen
Charles Stone
Gil Ojeda
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What if…?
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We can say that this is
also a show and tell, as
last month, John Kress
got married with
Grace… indeed!
Congratulations, John!
WANTED: RODEN Fokker D VI,
1/32nd scale. No Gold Diggers,
Please!
- Anthony Neira
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Next meeting: 7:15 p.m. Thursday, April 2nd,
at Northside Ford on 12300 San Pedro.
April 25, 2015
Modelmania 2015
IPMS Houston
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Stafford, Texas
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Tulsa Show
211 N Cabaniss Ave
Bixby, Oklahoma
May 16, 2015
Cajun Modelfest XXX
4-H minibarn building , BLDG 338 Louisiana State
University Campus
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
June 13, 2015
SoonerCon 2015
701 Southwest 74 Street
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 1, 2015
HAMS Ninth Annual Model Car Show and Contest
6823 Cypresswood Drive
Spring, Texas
Squadron’s Eagle
Quest coming up
in June in
Carrollton, Texas
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Around Alamo City
By Jerry Escobedo
deI’m going to start a new column
sign two paper models of the Boecalled Around Alamo City - hopeful- ing 757’s that the band used to travly every month - in which I will inel on.
clude news related to the world of Anyway, there are many areas in
our everyday life that can relate
to scale modeling.
I will be glad to receive ideas, photos, articles, comments, e-mails
and phone calls regarding your
inputs on this to enrich
this column.
session at the Lewis Warbirds Museum. Among the Museum’s treasures is one special WWII fighter airplane: the P-38 Glacier Girl. The airplane was restored to flying condition 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 remote lands (or, should I say “ice”?)
in 1992 and melted a big tunnel in
the glacier to reach the flying machine.
modeling. Items may include modAnd now we can see this astonishLewis Warbirds Museum
eling events and contests, airshows,
ing airplane here in Alamo City, altcar shows, meet-and-greet events, To begin with, I shall tell you that
hough not open to the public, but
members of the Alamo Squadron
travels, and so on.
with special invitation from the Mutraveled to the San Antonio InternaIn my three and a half years living in
seum. Nevertheless, the “Girl”
tional Airport to attend a special
the Alamo City, I’ve found that
sometimes goes out to have fun at
there are many events that can be
The Alamo Squadron with the Glacier Girl
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 covers. I helped a friend of mine to
the different airshows in
the United States. We
count ourselves very
lucky to be able to touch
this treasure of aviation
history.
model into the small aircraft 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
Model Fiesta 34
models were placed into
And we still have some
an Open Category, which
news for the Model Fieswas broken down into
ta 34! (aggh, that hapseveral other classes, including Mispens when you don’t go to the
cellaneous Mechanical
event… ). I was pleased to know
and Miscellaneous Biological. If
that a friend of mine at the Paper- memory serves, there were about
modelers.com forum from Arkan- 30 models, made of wood, plastic
sas came to the event, and won
and paper in these classes.
some good
Then [my] 1/300 Santa Maawards. Ray ria [paper model] was
Smith enawarded a 2nd place
tered a 1/144 plaque.”
AH-1 paper
model in the By the way, these plaques
were sponsored by the Doosmall scale
little Raiders Association,
rotorcraft
which is around the Alamo
plastic cateCity, in Comfort, Texas;
gory, and it
was awarded home of our good friend,
the Jimmy Doolittle co-pilot,
a 2nd place plaque. Then he subLt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole.
mitted a 1/144 Spad SA-2 paper
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, gathering, special location with modeling
related events, please share! Write
to me at
gerardo.escobedo@gmail.com
and tell me all about it.
2015 Internal
Contest Schedule
by Mike Picard
April – Open
September – 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)
October – Anything
American in Foreign
Service.
June – Open
July – Open
November – Kitbash:
Use parts from
different kits to build
something that never
existed. (Quarterly
Contest)
December – Christmas
Party
August – The 1950s
(Quarterly Contest)
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I don’t know
what is this, but
I love it!
Steve
Jobs is
my Hero!
I love Tamiya
tape! The
bigger, the
better!
You can be
burned with
this, so it’s
not for you
guys, only
for grown
ups!
An awesome
tool to jam
your fingers in,
when you are
bored of
modeling!
What
is your
best
tool?
I can paint
the
eyelashes of
my figures
with this!
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In their own words...
Ferrari’
Ferrari’s Fiat Transporter
By Pablo Barrena
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 pictures. One day
in 2009 I was
looking nostalgically 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 annotations 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 computer 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 encouraged 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 appropriate measures, I
could begin building
the cabin using the
measures from the
blueprint and they
were in fact according 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 repairs on racetracks, so for that I use the
Fujimi kit with different tools and appropriate 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 superminiature 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 darker: Model Master Flame
Red # 1965R; and the clearer: 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 working on three cars that will go on the bus,
the way they used to do it in the 60’s.
Information
2014-2015
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.
President: Art Nicholson
IPMS# 36967
president@alamosquadron.com
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.
Vice-President:
Henry Nunez
IPMS# 49498
vp@alamosquadron.com
Treasurer:
Dick Montgomery
IPMS #14003
sec-treas@alamosquadron.com
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