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The Meeting
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The club officers made their monthly reports |
| The club welcomed a new member, Burt Crismore. |  |
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A new IPMS San Diego was showed for approval. A vote by show of hands will be conducted at the July meeting. |
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Show 'n Tell |
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The Show 'n Tell tables, with little free space left. |
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Stewart Richline brought his Tamiya 1/350 scale USS New Jersey in a more complete state than two months ago.
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Tony Bunch is building a Yankee Modelworks 1/350 scale USS Nashville, CL-43, a resin kit bashed
with a USS Brooklyn (CL-40) kit from Iron Shipwrights, and detailed as the ship circa 1945, with unpainted natural wood deck. |
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 Lenny even brought his laptop to show the camo scheme that he plans to use on his Stuka. |
Lenny Hazelett surprised everyone by bringing a 1973 Monogram kit of a 1/48 scale Stuka JU 87G-1. Lenny is planning on finishing the aircraft in the Eastern front winter color scheme. 
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Ethan Idenmill's ARVN M113 (as in Saigon circa 1963) has been painted with Tamiya and Testors
acrylics, using Silly Putty as a masking agent. Ethan added brass antennas to the 1/72 ESCI kit. |
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Tony Beres has built three versions of the Curtiss
P-40, E, K and N. All three are 1/48 scale models from Hasegawa with Eagle Strike decals. |
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Fred Fimbres brought a P-38J in the colors of "Pudgy (V)", the aircraft flown by Major Thomas McGuire. The model is a 1/48 scale Monogram with scribed panel lines and drilled rivets. Fred finished the aircraft with Alclad paints and decals from Rich Dan, spending over 800 hours to complete the project. |
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Another project that Fred just started, a Testor 1/32 scale H-43 B Huskie.
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Jose Gonzalez is working on an AMT model of the Starship USS Enterprise (left) and a Revell kit
of a Colonial Viper (right) from the original Battlestar Galactica series. Jose pointed out how much influence science fiction series have on various generations. |
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Joel Hendricks brought his finished pteranodon "Donna" which took third place in the 2013 Model Expo Regional Contest's Miscellaneous category. |
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Dany G is working on a Tamiya 1/20 scale Ferrari
F1-2000, using Tamiya's lacquers and acrylics, a kit of photo etch and machined metal parts from Perfect Parts, and carbon fiber decals from Scale Motorsports. |
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Annalysa Walker created this octopede/centipede, with colorful legs and a make-believe bug body. |
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Our thanks to all who participated!
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JUNE 2013 MEETING REPORT
