The contest entry forms have been added to the MosquitoCon 24 page. Download it and fill it out before arriving at the show to cut down on your time in line.
MosquitoCon 24 Information Added
A new flyer with the contest categories has been added to the MosquitoCon 24 information page. Also information pages have been linked that have the contest rules and the contest categories. Once available, the registration for and the trophy package sponsors will be added.
February Meeting
Friday the 13th turned out pretty well for the club meeting. The long anticipated Tin Can Group Build wrapped up, with Marc Rocca taking top honors for his destroyer build. Marc also demonstrated using EZ Line as a super-fine rigging material by showing how to strip it down to smaller individual fibers. There was also a find display of other kits on the table, everything from Century Series fighters to in-progress plank-on-frame sailing ships.
NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS: The March meeting will be a week earlier, on March 6th. There is a conflict with our usual meeting date.
Hydrofoil Exhibit
Added a few photos of the Hydrofoil Exhibit that will be at the National Museum of the United States Navy to the Features page. Thanks to Michael Dobrzelecki for the photos, and good job on the exhibit.
You can find the feature HERE.
AHOFCON1 Plastic Model Swap Meet, March 15th
Mike Terre sent in information from a mailing he received for AHOFCON 1, the first annual Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey’s plastic model kit swap meet. The event will be Sunday, February the 15th, at the Teterboro Airport.
A copy of the mailer, and a link to the event information on the Fine Scale Modeler website have been added to the Upcoming Events page.
Workshop at the February Meeting
Marc Rocca will present a workshop on the oil paint dot filter technique at the February meeting. You can see the technique in-progress to the left on his current build, a Type XXVII/B “Seehund” Midget Sub, Bronco 1/35th scale. (He’s also doing an online build of this subject on the Modelwarships.com website HERE)
Marc will also touch on rigging, using a new method to make finer strands of the popular rubberized EZ-Line.
Review, Newsletter and Upcoming Events Added
A review of the 1/72 Dakoplast Sikorsky S-16 has been added to the Reviews section.
The January 2015 newsletter has been added to the Newsletter page.
The Upcoming Events page has been updated with flyers and/or links for the upcoming Celebrate Modeling day on January 31st in Fairfield, CT, and for the upcoming Replicon 27 on April, 11th, in Freeport, Long Island.
A page for photo links to our offsite hosting for large photo features has been added to the Photos page.
And, finally, for those who are counting the minutes until MosquitoCon 24, we’ve added a counter to the Home Page that counts down along with you.
January 2015 Meeting: WWI Night
NJIPMS kicked off the new year with WWI night. There were plenty of models on the table, mostly aircraft, but few figures and pieces of armor did make an appearance as well. Maybe we can get some ships for next year?
Jon, the contest coordinator, mentioned that most of the meetings this year are open for sponsorship. As of now July is tentatively “North Africa” night, and November will be “Number 13”. North Africa is fairly self explanatory, Number 13 has to do with, obviously, the number thirteen. If it has that number on it (race car, building address, hull number, fuselage code) or it participated in the Battle of Friday the 13th at Guadalcanal in 1942, then it qualifies.
MosquitoCon 24 Page and Flyer Added
MosquitoCon 24 will be April 4th, 2015. The initial flyer and page have been added to the website HERE. More information will be added to the website as it becomes available.
HMS Zinnia, Mirage Hobby, 1/350th Scale Review Added
Martin J. Quinn has supplied a review of the HMS Zinnia, one of the recent releases in the small ship styrene realm. This is one of those subjects that ten years ago no one ever expected to see in styrene in this scale. It looks like a winner. Click HERE for the review.