October 2016 IPMS Ottawa Contest

These are the entries to the IPMS Ottawa, October 2016, monthly contest.

1st Place Winner -Nazi German U-47 Type VII U-Boot with scratch built interior. Battle of the Atlantic. Revell 1:100 scale.

Second Place Winner - P-47D flown by Lt Kibble, 56th GS, 61st FS, Halesworth UK, March 1944. OOB Academy 1:48 scale.

Third Place Winner - RCAF CP-122 P2V Neptune ASW maritime patrol aircraft. OOB Hasegawa 1:72 scale.

Morris Mini - splendour in the grass. Tamiya, 1:24 scale.

IJN mini-submarine as used in Pearl Harbour, 1941. added brass wire and chain and rigging. Finemolds, 1:72 scale.

RS-71 "OXCART" used by C.I.A. Hasegawa 1:72 scale (kit K-0016) by John Clearwater

GAZ-67B with towed ZIS-3 artillery, and Miniart Red Army crew. AER (Moldova) and Italeria, 1:35 scale.

Renault ambulance captured from France and used by Nazi Germany in 1944. White circles are painted. Number 39 in a series of military ambulances by the builder. Ace Models, 1:72 scale.

Container Ship "Cartier". Used IPMS decals instead of kit stickers. ZT Models (China) unknown scale.

Zeon Scout sci-fi hovercraft in Israeli colours. Custom rebuild with PE parts and new gun and wiring. Gundam, 1:35 scale.

Japanese Type 97 tank. Battle of Iwo Jima. OOB Tamiya 1:35 scale.

Heinkel HE-277. aircraft. This is the old Airfix 1:72 scale kit with Toad Resin parts.

ME-109G flown by Franz Stiglers. Note the yellow 2 made from a six. Academy 1:48scale.

"Anything British" September 2016 IPMS Ottawa Contest

These are the entries to IPMS Ottawa's annual "Anything British" contest in September 2016.
The winner was awarded the Cody Tree Trophy sponsored by our sister club IPMS Farnborough in England.

IPMS Farnborough sponsored the CODY TREE TROPHY for IPMS Ottawa's annual 'All Things British' contest. The tree is said to be the one used for engine tests where an aircraft was tied to the tree and the engine run at maximum power.

First Place, and Cody Tree Trophy winner - Wessex HAS-2 helicopter in Royal Navy colours. 1:48 scale from Italeri.

2nd Place winner - "1804 Steam Locomotive", sometimes known as the Trevithick or the Coalbrookdale Locomotive or the Pen-y-Darren Locomotive. 1:24 scale from  Airfix / Hornby  (kit #A05871),  by John Clearwater.

3rd Place winner, Wessex HU-5 helicopter in RAF colours from RAF Odiham. 1:72 scale by Italeri.

Spitfire Mk XIV C in 1:72 scale from Academy.

Churchill tank after the battle of Dieppe. 1:35 scale from Tamiya.

1971 Toyota Celica in 1:24 scale from Oashima. Does being right-hand drive qualify for the British contest?

Jet Provost in 1:72 scale from Airfix

Sea Vixen in 1:72 scale from Airfix

British 25 Pounder Gun pulled by CMP Quad Gun Tractor as Canadian 1st Infantry Division. 1:35 scale from Tamiya.

British SAS Raider 4x4 truck. 1:72 scale from Dragon

These items were on display:

ZIS truck with winter running attachments. 1:72 scale.

Large deck gun. Metal and wood model of a "32 pound long gun" 1:30 scale from Unicorn Model of China

3-D printed stretchers in 1:72 scale

August 2016 IPMS Ottawa Contest

These are the entries to the IPMS Ottawa, August 2016, monthly contest.

1st Place Winner - 1:72 scale Revell kit of Nazi German S100 Schnelboot.
This was a superb work and won by a total sweep of the votes.

2nd Place Winner - SPACE ARK from World of the Worlds, by Pegasus Hobby in 1:350 scale. This was a weekend build in conjunction with IPMS Canberra. The body is done in polished aluminium by Alclad.

3rd Place Winner - Bristol Blenheim IV on floats in 1:72 scale by airfix.

Yak-1 in 1:48 scale from Accurate Miniatures

Yak-1 in 1:48 scale from Accurate Miniatures

German Anti-Tank Anti-Aircraft 88 m/m FLAK 18 from Fujimi in 1:76 scale  (kit #02) by John Clearwater

"Buggy Schlesser" metal body on plastic kit from Burago kits of Italy in 1:24 scale, showing a car from the Paris-Dakar-Cairo race in 2000, by John Clearwater

SDKF 222 Nazi German reconn vehicle from Tamiya in 1:35 scale.

"Canada Day" July 2016 IPMS Ottawa Contest

These are the entries to the IPMS Ottawa, "Canada Day" theme, July 2016, monthly contest.

1st Place Winner - CS2F-2 Tracker in RCN colours. Hasegawa 1/72 scale kit. The aircraft crashed on takeoff from the aircraft carrier HMSC Bonaventure on 16 February 1969 killing all three crew.

2nd Place Winner - Canadian Army Leopard 2A6M main battle tank with protective screens as deployed in Afghanistan. Hobby Boss 1/35 scale kit #82458.

3rd Place Winner - LCdr Montgomery Scott figure from Star Trek TV series. Ertl 1/6 scale kit. The actor who played Scottie was a decorated Canadian artillery soldier who was on Juno Beach at D-Day.

DH-100 Vampire FB5, in RCAF 421 Sqdn markings, and an experimental use of the new water-based Vallejo metalic paints. Cyber-Hobby 1/72 scale kit #5085.

Canadian in that it is painted red and white? Monogram 1/24 scale sports car.

Canadian Army Provost Corps jeep. S-Models 1/72 scale kit #720046 or 720047.

Bristol Blenheim which is actually another airplane (a Bollingbroke) as Airfix scanned and moulded the wrong airframe when preparing the new kit. Airfix 1/72 scale kit #A04017.

Canadian Army CMP Quad Gun Tractor and motorcycle. Tamiya 1/35 scale kit #35045.

Canadian Army Bren Carrier. Tamiya 1/35 scale kit #35249.

Trans-Canada Airlines, Vickers Viscount. Glencoe Models 1/96 scale, kit #06511, painted with Alclad Aluminium, built by John Clearwater.

Work-in-progress by club president

Husky helicopter and Ford Mustang car.

The ever-growing collection of 1.72 scale military ambulances and 1/35 scale motorcycles..

Examples of scratch built items and methods for a talk given by Mike Belcher of "Belcher Bits" hobbies. Pictured is a USN Trident-3 SLBM and the moulds for the resin castings.