IPMS – Capt. James J. McKinstry Chapter

April 8, 2016 McKinstry Meeting
Theme: Knife fight – X3 Stiletto, Sabres, Cutlass (car or plane), Le Sabre, etc.

Notes by The Tick and Paul

Attendees were: Paul Gasiorowski, Mike Hanlon, THE TICK, Jim Batchelder, Frank Ress, Mark Murray, Carl Geiger, Dan Paulien

Another small turn out, we had 8 members show up. The library moved us to a small conference room because of a schedule conflict. The meeting was held at a conference room table, which sat the nine of us. It was a different way to have a meeting, rather than sit in rows of chairs facing the front of the display table. There seemed to be a lot more interaction when discussing the models brought to the meeting. There wasn’t the usual 2 or 3 “silent” conversations going on while the ‘on deck’ member tried to describe his kit.

Grumman AF-2S, 1/48th, Special Hobby, built by Jim Batchelder

F-100D Super Sabre, 1/48th, Monogram, built by Norris Graser

Model Master and Gunze paint. Metalizer Titanium and Steel for the exhaust and aft fuselage. Used the F-102 exhaust can option as used by the ANG. Micro Scale decals from various sources. Markings for the Ohio ANG Bicentennial. A/c F-100D-31-NA 553775.

F7U-3 Cutlass, 1/48th, Hobbycraft, built by Norris Graser

Overall Spray-n-Plate metal paint with (original) Metalizer for the exhaust area. SuperScale decals. Reshaped the nose, moved the windscreen and scratch built the seat.

Markings are for VA-12, the Flying Ubangi’s. VA-12 flew the Cutlass from August 1955 to April 1957.

F-86F-40 Super Sabre, 1/72nd, Hobby Boss, built by Paul Gasiorowski

OOB. Enjoyable build except for decals. Model Master Acrylic paints.

F-116C-30 Falcon, 1/48th, Tamiya, built by Mike Hanlon

Afterburner decals for F-16C-30E “Tacos” 188th FS, New Mexico ANG. Polyscale and Tamiya paints.

F-102A Delta Dagger, 1/72nd, Hasegawa, built by Carl Geiger

57th FIS, Keflavik. Paints: Model Master Non Buffing Aluminum. Most of the decals were from the “spares” box.

March 25, 2016 McKinstry Meeting
Theme: Boat Nite – Ships, Subs, Aircraft on floats…

Notes by The Tick and Paul

Attendees were: Paul Gasiorowski, Mike Hanlon, THE TICK, Jim Batchelder, Frank Ress, Mark Murray, Carl Geiger, Dan Paulien, Lee Lygiros, Glenn Estry, Brian Gardner, Charlie Scardon

The meeting on May 13th will be held at Paul Gasiorowski home (volunteered by Norris). The address is 669 W. Northwest Hwy, Palatine. One block east of Quentin Rd. on the south side of the street. Parking is on Stephen just to the west of his driveway. There is room for 6 cars in the driveway, but once you’re in you’re stuck till the meeting is over. If we go for eats after the meeting, Palatine Inn is just to the east about ½ miles away. They are open till 10:30 or 11:00 on Friday nights. So we should wrap up the meeting no later than 9:15.

Maps will be available to hand out at the April meeting. Otherwise use your male-oriented genes to find the place, or the GPS on your phone. (Paul offered that, “I DON’T NEED ANY DIRECTIONS OR MAP”, but the rest of the membership looked worried that he might not make it without one.). It will still be daylight at 7:30, but just to help there will be a snowman in the front yard. (Sadly, Paul’s not kidding; he’s both seasonally- and spatially-challenged.)

We still need to discuss the way to set up the display cabinet at the library in November to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The National IPMS convention committee sent us a letter to see if we wanted to sponsor a trophy or plaque for a specific theme. Under discussion. Probably needs to be finalized by the April 8th meeting, if we are going to do this.

DD-990 USS Vincennes and Russian Delta III, 1/700th, Dragon combo kit, built by Paul Gasiorowski

Paul’s first attempt at making fake water, his take below average look. Styrofoam base. Used Model master paints for the base, looked okay, but would take several coats of future to give it a glossy look.

Delta III, 1/700th, built by Paul Gasiorowski

Delta III simple kit, would look good in a water scene..

HMS Tribune, 1/700th, Tom’s Modelworks/Loose Cannon models, built by Charlie Scardon

It is a Type 1 T class. Overall PB19 Blue. Used Vallejo 899 dark Prussian blue. Built OTB except for stretched sprue antennae. WIP

Northrup N-3PB, 1/72nd, Special Hobby, built by Paul Gasiorowski

HMS Torbay, 1/700th, Arii, built by Charlie Scardon

Aichi Seiran A6M1, 1/48th, Tamiya, built by Mike Hanlon

For details on this kit and Mike’s build, please see his kit review from last year.

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February 26, 2016 McKinstry Meeting
Theme: Meteor Showers – Comets, Starfire, Shooting Star, etc.

Notes by The Tick and Paul

Attendees were: Paul Gasiorowski, Mike Hanlon, THE TICK, Jim Batchelder, Frank Ress, Carl Geiger, Glenn Estry, Bill Soppet, Charlie Scardon, John Koziol, John Koziol, Sr., Mark Murray

Brewster Buffalo, 1/48th, Tamiya, built by Jim Batchelder

Built out of the box using kit decals. Model Master enamels. Easy build, although the sky colored stripe did not fit as well as he expected.

DeHavilland Comet 4B, 1/144th, Airfix, built by Paul Gasiorowski

Not a bad kit to put together. OOB except for brass inserts in the engine intakes to cut down on the cave look. Paul used a total of 4 colors on this plane. It was primed with Tamiya Grey out of a rattle can. It was then painted in this sequence; Floquil Old Silver for the wing leading edges and engine nacelles, followed by red for the wings, white for the upper fuselage and light ghost gray for the bottom. Paints used were Model Master Acrylics. Lots of decals for the windows, etc. They all went down well, no silvering. Used Tamiya tape for the masking, did not lift any paint at all during the painting process.

DH88 Comet Racer, 1/72nd, Airfix, built by Paul Gasiorowski

3 planes of this DH 88 were built for a race from England to Australia, one in red, green and black. The red one won.

Lots of flash on the parts in this kit. No cockpit at all, but two heads as part of the fuselage. These were taken out and a rough cockpit was inserted using some old seat from the spares box, some styrene stock and rod. The model was first painted with Tamiya Grey primer. The plane was then painted with Model Master Acrylic Green, and given a coat of Future. The decals were put on, but there was a lot of opaqueness between the letters – it took about 3 coats of Future to get rid of the opaqueness.

F-104C Starfighter, 1/48th, Hasegawa, built by Norris Graser

Model Master paints, out of the box except SuperScale decals for a 1967 Udorn-based A/C, (pink) Pussycat; Cutting Edge resin seat (you still need parts of the kit seat to make it work). Scratch built the RHAW located under the forward fuselage utilizing an A-1 Skyraider pylon and reshaping it to match, plus cutting up and fairing in two F-16N targeting pods leftover from a Revell project for the two pods located just forward of the exhaust.

F4U-4 Corsair, Gulliows, 1/16th, built by John Koziol, Sr.

John Sr. is working on this Gulliows wood and tissue Corsair model – he is replacing the standard tissue or balsa skin with metal.

USS Skipjack, 1/72nd, Moebius, built by John Koziol

John cast the propeller for this model in copper, and is trying different weathering techniques than he has used on his submarine models before.