Welcome back 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. We have been on holidays for the past two months, and now resume our shows. Each member is invited to send in photos of a model and some explanation. August marks our thirteenth (13th) on-line show & tell. We thank all of our members and builders for keeping alive the hobby. August is our semi-annual kit swap meet, but as we cannot meet, I recommend that you move your own kits around on the shelves and it will give you the feeling you have new kits!
THANK YOU TO ALL PARTICIPANTS, and KEEP BUILDING.
! Miniature world domination !
Enjoy our show, and we all hope to meet again soon.
FINISHED MODELS
Big resin inn
I’m not sure where this is from as I got it secondhand in an unmarked box, but this is the biggest and heaviest chunk of resin I own.
I went with an interesting approach to painting this:
Prime black
Using heavy body artist tube acrylics, mixing white and black to make greys, I dry-brushed it with a cheap makeup brush with progressively lighter greys for the stone, and went all the way up to pure white on the wood and the shingles. Since this model had a lot of texture on the wood grains and the shingles, this dry-brushing will bring out the wood grain texture. What you will end up with is a monochrome black and white model.
Mask off the stone, and airbrush the beige sides of the building
Brush on a couple coats of brown artist acrylic inks over the wood and over the shingles. Since these inks are very transparent, they will tint the monochrome dry-brushed wood a brown wood colour.
Pick out windows and other details
-Brian
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| Big Resin Inn |
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| Big Resin Inn |
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| Big Resin Inn |
Prime Artificer Nemo (Privateer Press)
This is one of the big centerpiece models for my latest wargaming army, the Convergence of Cyriss.
The Convergence of Cyriss is a small cult of humans who worship Cyriss, the clockwork goddess of logic and mathematics. They have developed the technology to insert their souls into clockwork vessels so they can live on in clockwork bodies. Sebastien Nemo is an elderly scientist who, as he near death, had his soul was stuffed into a big floating ball by the Convergence.
This one was tricky… the model came with a clear flight stand but I didn’t like how it looked. The model is also very heavy; it’s basically a resin baseball. To make it look like it is floating, I scratchbuilt a couple plasma thingies, using brass rod and apoxie sculpt to ensure that they are firmly attached together and to the base. I then used brass rod and heavy paper clips going from the plasma coils on the model to the plasma coils on the base to hold the model up, and painted them up like arcing lightning between the model and the plasma thingy on the base.
Paints are mostly Vallejo Metal Color. Glow effects were done by painting the source of the glow white, airbrushing with a transparent blue allowing the overspray to represent the glow, and then re-highlighting the source with more white.
-Brian
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| Cyriss |
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| Cyriss |
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| Cyriss |
Sd. Kfz. 251/8 Ambulance (ESCI 1:72)
Michael Roy
German Light Truck G 3a Mercedes Ambulance (MAC Distribution 1:72)
Michael Roy
R.A.F. HAWKER SEA FURY (Magma Model, resin)
Tomy the Technical Adviror ('cat' - see May 2021 blog entry) is very happy so he gives me a word to send you another model built under his control after a very serious testing. - Bien cordialement
Jean-Michel (IPMS France)
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| Hawker Sea Fury |
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| Hawker Sea Fury |
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| Hawker Sea Fury |
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| Hawker Sea Fury |
404 Squadron Greenhorn Blenheim IVf and Beaufighter TFX
I have submitted these models individually before but now I have completed the 404 squadron information sheet to go with them. I’ve tried to take pictures of them together but the individual pictures were better. Look back in John Clearwater’s previous postings for those photos.
Bristol Blenheim, Mk IVf late autumn 1941, based at Dyce, (Aberdeen) Scotland.
Z6279, EE A.
Bristol Beaufighter TF X late summer of 1944, based at Davidstow Moor, Cornwall. LZ451 EE M was used by WC A.K. Gatward, the squadron commander, although it was also flown by other pilots. (Gatward was the Beaufighter pilot who, in 1942, flew a single ship low level mission to Paris to strafe a daily German parade down the Champs-Élysées. The parade was unfortunately late that day but he and his navigator, Sgt Gilbert 'George' Fern, dropped a tricolour over the Arc de Triomph and shot up the Kriegsmarine headquarters.) LZ451 is a large part of the Beaufighter article in Carl Vincent’s book Canadian Aircraft of WW II, with many useful pictures.
Both kits are Airfix and excellent in engineering and fit. The decals came from Extradecal sheets. For the Beaufighter various antennae were added, including the whip one aft of the cockpit (which really was that long), and a rear view mirror. The 60 lb. HE rockets were replaced with aftermarket 25 lb. AP ones. As in the photos, the rails were staggered in inclination (to get the desired spread of the salvo).
The garish red primer paint around the cannon ports, which reminds one of the Joker’s use of lipstick, really was that extensive in the photos.
John Greenhorn
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| 404 Squadron |
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| 404 Squadron |
Inspired by the latest issue of RT, here is my Canadian Army Bird Dog in the camouflage scheme from the mid-50s. This is an Airfix kit of the L-19E, with a few changes (that I could figure out from looking at photos), to make an L-19A. This is a very light and delicate model – I broke off the rear and one of the main landing gear legs while building it.
The most difficult part of the build for me was trying to make the windows flat.
Paints are a combination of Testors/Model Master enamels, Tamiya and Mr Hobby acrylics. I used the IPMS Canada decals from issue 43-2.
Peter de Salis
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| Canadian Army Bird Dog |
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| Canadian Army Bird Dog |
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| Canadian Army Bird Dog |
USS INDEPENDENCE and FLECTHER CLASS ESCORT in 1943 (1:700)
One night I was assembling and painting the intricate top mast of the carrier .. and I DROPPED IT ON THE FLOOR. Heart froze... but that's not half of it. I stepped back from table …to feel my foot go down on a lego. CRUNCH . I just stepped on the assembly. Back on the table I dismantled the broken assembly and re-assembled what I could using new brass radars and new supports—it still looks wobbly and a few degrees off….but there were no plastic parts/spares available. Almost a deal breaker there … but met the challenge …the water effects took weeks.
Ray Bean (IPMS Winnipeg)
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| USS Independence & escort |
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| USS Independence & escort |
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| USS Independence & escort |
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| USS Independence & escort |
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| USS Independence & escort |
Hurricane IIc 34 Squadron India 1943
This model will joined shortly (I hope) by the aircraft that replaced it in 34 squadron – a natural metal Thunderbolt.
John Greenhorn
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| Hurricane IIc |
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| Hurricane IIc |
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| Hurricane IIc |
RMS TITANIC (Suyata 1:egg)
This is the very new model from a new Hong Kong company called Suyata Models.
The kit is a cartoon version of the spectacular failure of a ship the R.M.S. Titanic.
This is a superb kit in so many respects. It is far better and more detailed than the roughly similar Meng kit released at thee same time. The moulding is beautiful and the fit fantastic. It is cast in four colours, but I painted everything using both Vallejo and Tamiya gloss white acrylics anyway.
I bought the laser cut wooden decking for realism (as much as you can have in a cartoon). I added chain for the anchors; rigging; a sternpost flag; and filled in all the portholes with clear glue.
John Clearwater
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| RMS Titanic (cartoon) |
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| RMS Titanic (cartoon) |
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| RMS Titanic (cartoon) |
AMBULANCES (various makers and scales)
I started the Ambulance Collection in October 2012. There are currently 57 vehicles in the Ambulance Collection with 4 soon to completed ambulances. Most ambulance models are 1:72 with a couple 1:76 kits as well. Also pictured is my recently started Fire/Rescue Vehicle Collection, Currently 6 completed of which 5 are 1:72. There is one 1:72 fire truck soon to be completed.
Michael Roy
Michael Roy
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| Ambulance collection |
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| Ambulance collection |
SU-57 (Zvezda 1:48)
Recently finished up the SU-57 . Good fit all around. Added a Quinta cockpit interior and used New Ware Masks from the Czech Rep. They are excellent BTW. The only issue I have is the detail in the landing gear bays. They are completely void of detail.
A new aircraft, maybe, but one wonders why there can be so much detail in the cockpit and nothing in the wheel bays. Clearly, the delicate (classified) stuff would be in the cockpit.
The decals, BTW from this Russian manufacturer are excellent. No silvering.
Highly recommended. A kit that fits well, no putty required.
MV
(note: there is no official Russian name for this aircraft)
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| Su-57 rolling out of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant (KnAAPO or KnAAZ) |
Grumman Avenger (Sword SW72130 1:72)
My first model of a Royal Canadian Navy plane is the recently produced Sword kit of the TBM-3 which I finished as an AS.3 (one of the kit-supplied schemes). I really appreciate it when a manufacturer tries to provide Canadian markings. This is my first Sword kit, and I was pleased with the good detail and correct shape of the parts. There are no locator pins or perfectly fitting parts, so I used reference pictures to make sure things were in the correct place.
My bad luck with canopies continued with this model – I damaged the rear section but was able to cut off a portion of an unused part and use that instead. Luckily the kit includes many parts for other versions of the Avenger (presumably so they can use the same sprues in their other Avenger versions). Even so, I was surprised that some parts I wanted were not included: no attachment points for tail hook, no rocket holders, no sonobuoy launch tube.
I had the most trouble with posing the aircraft in flying configuration, and this model was clearly not intended to be built that way: no crew figures, no stand, no separate parts for the stowed landing gear. I had to chop up the landing gear and never did get the main doors to fit – I made new ones from sheet styrene.
Paints were a combination of Testors/Model Master enamels, Tamiya acrylics, and AK Real Colours acrylics; decals came from the kit and Belcher Bits BD38.
Peter de Salis
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| RCN Grumman Avenger |
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| RCN Grumman Avenger |
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| RCN Grumman Avenger |
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
SeaRAM CIWS with Missile-loading Platform(1:35)
I have embarked on one of the most challenging scratchbuilding projects since I began modelling; creating a missile-loading gantry platform for my 1/35 SeaRAM close-in weapons system. I got the idea from a picture of a shipboard SeaRAM being reloaded with missiles. First I went to my friend Paul Bornn to see if he would design and 3D print some missiles... then that evolved to the self-contained missile launching tubes... then their transport case; he came through with flying colours! After figuring out a base and layout (to mimic a ship deck), I began designing and then scratchbuilding the gantry platform, then the overhead railing framework, and then the sliding arm (that’s where I am today). Next up will be the winch system, then adding all the fine details. I use CorelDRAW to design many of the features, then using printed blueprints as templates for cutting/fitting the parts together. For materials I used strip styrene of various shapes & sizes, as well as brass tubing, wire, and metal mesh. There have been setbacks along the way, and mistakes were made, but I taking my time to see it through to the end. There is something very satisfying about creating things from basic building blocks, and so I am enjoying this project immensely.
Glenn Cauley
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| SeaRAM CIWS |
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| SeaRAM CIWS |
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| SeaRAM CIWS |
T-55 TANK (Trumpeter 1:35)
This model is boxed as the Israeli-modified Tiran tank, but I have backdated it to the original T-55.
Over 80 000 of these tanks were built - mostly in Ukraine at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory (KhPZ). It is easier to see the green when sprayed on a white primer.
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| T-55 tank build in progress at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory (KhPZ) |
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| T-55 tank build in progress at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory (KhPZ) |
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| T-55 tank build in progress at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory (KhPZ) |
SU-57 (Zvezda 1:48)
I used Tamiya acrylics. As you know they are flat, not a friend of decals. By using Tamiya clear X-22 as the base, adding the commensurate colours and cutting the resulting mix with Mr Color Leveling Thinner, I was able to create a semigloss finish. To obtain a gloss finish I sprayed X-22 clear cut with Leveling Thinner, 50/50 and then immediately afterwards, spray the wet paint with 100 % Leveling Thinner. The result is a glossy finish. Wait 24 hours and apply the decals.
MV
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| Su-57 build in progress at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant |
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| Su-57 build in progress at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant |
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| Su-57 build in progress at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant |
DAIHATSU 1955 CM10T (ARII 1:32)
Three-wheeled Japanese delivery truck.Thanks to Michael Roy for the kit.
There were about 25 pieces of wooden decking, and I took the better part of a day applying it after first sticking it to my fingers, then to the knife blade. However, it was a great way to learn about applying wooden decking to model ships. There was no decking for the aft flying bridge so I used excess wood to make proper decking for that piece.
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| Tiny bits of wooden decking for Titanic cartoon model |
Here are some pics of a couple of builds for GBs (Group Build) on a discussion forum. The first is a jeep to be done as a Canadian vehicle with the rear frame for carrying stretchers. The replacement grill is from an etch set, modified slightly to fit this kit.
The second is an Israeli Heavy APC based on the Centurion chassis, the visible etch is from the kit, most additions are in plastic (white), there will be an antenna on the roof that looks like 2 umbrella frames mounted top to top.
Graham Mansell
