Welcome to IPMS Ottawa's ongoing monthly SHOW & TELL, which allows club members to show off their completed work despite not being able to attend group meetings. Each member is invited to send in up to three photos of a model and some explanation.
This month is our annual "ANYTHING BRITISH" event. These are the entries to the annual IPMS Farnborough "Anything British" show held by IPMS Ottawa every September.
THANK YOU TO ALL PARTICIPANTS, and KEEP BUILDING
Enjoy the show.
YAS QUEEN!
This is my entry for the "Anything British" contest, which I did during the blitz build, because what could be more British than the Queen? It is a bust of Queen Elizabeth II in her ATS uniform during WW2, in 1:14 scale, from 9th Gate Miniatures. The cast was very nice and clean, with very little in the way of mold lines. It came in two pieces, body and head, with two options for the head (with or without hat). For most of the model, I started with a zenithal prime, then did wet blending overtop and airbrush glazing to smooth out the blends. From there, I painted the hair and picked out the details with a brush. I finished it with time to spare, and it may be appearing in a future RT article.
Brian Latour
1804 TREVITHICK STEAM LOCOMOTIVE (Minicraft 1:38)
This is the Trevithick Locomotive which is considered to be the first actual functioning steam locomotive to operate on iron plates (tracks) and to pull a multi-tonne load, in Pen-y-Darren, Wales, on 21 February 1804. This is The kit came from a Kijiji sale during Covid-19 and was a fun 4 day build.
I drastically altered the whole kit. The firebox door and plate was reshaped and moved to the opposite end (rear) of the boiler. The control rods on the top of the boiler were moved from out in front over the piston, to over the boiler in the other direction. Small brackets were built at both ends to guide the control rods with their handles over the firebox door. A clear glass water level gauge was added to the non-geared side of the boiler. A pressure gauge on a coiled pipe was built and added to the top of the boiler. The smoke stack was far too thick and had giant rivets. It was cut off near the lower elbow joint and replaced with a section of large drinking straw which was the appropriate thickness. One tiny part was missing from the mechanism above the piston and had to be built to receive the tip of one control rod. Paint is a mix of Vallejo flat black with steel and anthracite grey, then matted and weathered with Vallejo powders of grey and soot black. Rust powders from PanPastel were added to select areas and to the tracks.
The entire tender was cut down and rebuilt. All the fake wood was cut away and replaced with real wood. The frame was cut apart and reshaped to fit into the back of the locomotive. A chain was added to the back of the tender. Coal was added inside the back of the tender.
John Clearwater
