May 2014 - RPM Model Club

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2014 Club Officers
Toby Halliday - President
Erik Zabel - Vice President
Jim Allen - Sergeant at Arms
Bill Halvorson - Treasurer
May
2014
Member
IPMS/USA
since 2001
“RPM is a club created for the building and enjoyment of race car and sports car scale models”
A word
from the
PRESIDENT...
It’s May, and it finally seems like Spring is here, and
summer is just around the corner. That means that the
full size cars will be getting out more and more, which
is always good, and seems to give everyone that extra
inspiration to get to the modeling bench and build the
car of their dreams, only a bit smaller. The other thing
that May brings is the NNL North. I am sure many of
you are in the home stretch of that project that you
intend to have on the tables next Sunday, as am I. I am
still working on my first motorcycle build. I was actually
shooting for the Milwaukee NNL, but the paint and decals went bad on the first attempt. After a regroup and
a couple more sets of decals, the NNL North became
the next target. It is still fighting me the whole way, but
should be done in time for the show. If for some reason
it doesn’t get done, I guess there is always the Back to
the 50’s show. I encourage everyone to attend Back to
the 50’s, I believe it is a new 1 day format for the model
contest this year, and you also get the chance to see a
few cool street rods(like 10,000!!). Unfortunately it is the
same day as our June meeting, but I think low attendance at our meeting to grow another local show is a
good trade off.
Other good news is that we have found a checking
account option for the club that has no fees, no minimum balances, and is designed for small recreational
clubs such as ours. It is opened, and the clubs funds
have been deposited in it. Eventually we will have all 4
officers on the account, and it is with a bank that has
many locations, so it should work out very well.
Speaking of depositing the clubs funds, it was a nice
amount due to the April auction. In case you haven’t
heard, the club took in $1067 for the auction. I want to
thank everyone who participated in the auction. Not
only was it a great time, but gave us a nice start on saving up for that R5 bid we discussed earlier this year. I am
going to start working on putting together an actual
budget to host an R5 between now and the end of the
year. This should help us determine if we want to put in
a 2015 bid for the 2016 show, or not.
That is all that I really have for this month. I better
go get back to my motorcycle if I am going to get it
done in time. Remember this month’s theme is Indy
500, and we have a demonstration on scratch building
headers scheduled. All right, everyone get back to your
projects so the NNL tables are full of nice, new builds!
See you at the meeting!
Toby
Upcoming Events
May 18th
June 7/8th
June 14th
June 20/21st
NNL North
Bloomington, MN
Heartland Nationals
Kansas City, MO
OmaCon
Ashland, NE
Back To The 50’s
Minnesota State Fairgrounds
June 21st
“Spring In the Pines”
Eagle River, WI
Model of the Month...
built by Cameron Jamison
“Call me Ishmael...” OK, mabey alitte too dramatic for
a model write-up. This months model is a slightly older
build and to be perfectly honest, I didn’t have time to get
together the build story on it. So, instead, here is a short
version of the actual car’s story. This is a “tale of Moby Dick”
Porsche’s 935 model,
introduced in 1976, served as the basis for
many formatable race cars during the late ‘70s and ‘80s.
Starting as the 935/76a then on to the 935/77 2.0 it won
many notable races, including the ‘79 24 Hours of Le Mans
overall.
However in ‘78, a third and final version of the 935
was developed, intended only for Le Mans. The new car
again took full advantage of a new loophole in the Group
5 rules, introduced for BMW, allowing to cut the floor to
accommodate the exhaust of
the front engine. As this rule
applied also for the rear engine Porsche, the whole floor
pan of the 911 was cut away,
and the body was lowered by
10 cm (3.9 in). The gearbox
was mounted upside down
to reduce the angle of the
drive shafts. As the rules
did not limit the forward
extension of the rear
aerodynamic devices, Porsche
even added fairings to the doors, bridging
the gap between the front and rear
fenders. These were
shortened later,
covering only the front third of the doors.
Because of
its white color and long tail shape optimised for low drag,
the 935/78 was often nicknamed “Moby-Dick.”
At the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 935 qualified
third, barely beaten by a Renault Alpine and a 936. Compared to 1976, lap times were 15 seconds quicker now.
With its 3.2L engine, it was the fastest car on the straight
in Le Mans at 235 mph, easily passing the prototypes
of Renault Alpine as well as the teammate 936, as these
Group 6 cars had 2.1L engines, equal to normal 3.0L. The
engine had to be replaced before the race, though, and
with ensuing problems early in the race, “Moby Dick” was
no contender, finishing 8th behind three customer 935.
Well, there is is the short version of the story of “Moby
Dick”. A unique race car which has been faithfully reproduced
in scale form by Cameron Jamison. Starting with a Tamiya kit
and appying his typical clean building skills and attention to detail, Cameron has his own version of
“Moby Dick” to put on the shelf
with the classics.
On The Table...
by Bob Maderich
Well, being the auction month, we had a
small turnout on the table, but oh, what nice
models we had!
Erik Zabel gave us the 1/43 Tameo Toyota
TS-012 Grand Prix car. He used Tamiya paint s on
this little jewel.
Torben Rothgeb did a beautiful job on his ‘41’
Willys drag car decked out in the K&S Pittman
color scheme.
Scott Harvieux graced us with the new 1/24
Tamiya Porsche 934 in Jagermeister colors. His
first finished model in a while, it is a beauty.
Bob Maderich II got his RPM
“Resin” club challenge done and it’s the 1967
LeMans winner, the Ford Mk IV. It was built from
the LeMans Miniatures kit and painted with
MCW lacquer.
Allan James brought along his own kit, the Porsche 917 PA that he made from the Heller 917
endurance car. He will be selling this kit soon, so
don’t miss it!
Clint Williams had two bodies ready to go, the
first being a ‘64’ Dodge Dick Landy car and the
second being a “What If “ 427 Cobra.
New member, Tom Finch, had 4 beautiful Moto
GP bikes to share with us. He had the 2009
Yamaha “Monster” , the 2004 “Spiderman” Yamaha, the 2009 Rossi Yamaha, and the old 1980
Honda endurance bike. Great work Tom!