In This Issue

‘Prez’ Deppe

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Make Your Own Laminated Wood Propellers (Steve Lawson)

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What’s New In Town

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Meeting Minutes

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Mid-America Air Museum Review (Chuck Stout)

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Project A-4 Summary (Earl Hosmer)

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IPMS Rob Wolf Member Roster

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Website Of The Month

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Presentation Calendar

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Classified Ads

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Calendar of Events

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HEAD’S UP!

Here’s the Roster!

The current IPMS Rob Wolf Roster is starts at page 7. This roster includes names, addresses, phone numbers, email address, and each person's “Key interest area”.

Tear it out and hang it on your workbench wall!

Future Presentations

Many thanks to those who stepped up to give a presentation at some point in the near future. The calendar is loaded through March!!

Check out the Presentation Calendar on page 9 for the latest!

Museum Review

Chuck Stout sent in a great review of the Mid-America Air Museum. Check out his story on page 5!

‘Prez’ Deppe

My apologies to all of you in general and Shawn in particular for having missed his deadline and producing no column for last month’s newsletter.

Apparently, “Murphy’s Law” has struck next year’s Front Range model contest with the overpricing of the venue that had been arranged with the Denver Public Library. I have some ideas percolating around in my mind about alternate sites for the contest and I am sure a few of you might be doing the same. Please contact Mark [Persichetti} or myself if you come up with a reasonably priced location about the same size or slightly larger than our meeting room at Burt Chevrolet.

Many thanks to those of you who volunteered to put on presentations for future meetings. We are now booked up through the first quarter of next year. However, we are always receptive to anyone who might want to highlight an interest or demonstrate a modeling skill to the rest of us.

I am continually heartened by our solid and increasing club membership. There is a downside to this though and that is the increasing chunk that “Show-n-Tell” takes out of our limited meeting time budget. Everyone’s contribution to “Show-n-Tell” is truly valued but given the time constraints facing us, the “3-minute time limit” is going to return regarding individual contributions to this part of the meeting. Remember: “Brevity is next to divinity” when you hold forth about your completed kits and/or works in progress.

As always, happy trails and happy modeling! --Tom

Make Your Own Laminated Wood Propellers

By: Steve Lawson

Laminated Wood Propellers are easy to master. Choose your woods from those available from radio control stock at your favorite hobby shop or from the local crafts store that has "Doll House" veneers or Marqueting woods. My favorites are Walnut, Mahogany, Birch and Bass. Cut the thin wood into strips that will be wider than the needed propeller by 1/8th of an inch. The length should also be about 1/8th longer but at each end. If the wood comes with a paper or a gummed backing this will need to be removed. This may mean soaking in clean thinner. Working with rubber gloves, lay the strips face down on a ceramic or glass plate. Now from the center out to the end scrape the gummed paper away with a #11 razor knife. Have some paper towels handy to wipe away the accumulated goo. When completed set the wood aside for several days to dry. Next, when dry stack the strips light-dark-light-dark-light.. Til you have 6 or 7 strips total that are the same thickness of the kit propeller.. Again working with rubber gloves, coat each strip with mixed 10 minute epoxy. Stack them again alternating the dark-light strips. Set these aside to dry for no less that 24 hrs. When thoroughly dry locate the center of the stack and drill a hole from front to rear. Take the kit prop and glue a metal rod in its center hub. When the kit prop is dry push the rod through the hole in your wood stack/prop blank. With a common #2 pencil trace around the blade profile. I then begin to sand down the unwanted wood outside the pencil profile. I like the sanding wheels available at many hardware stores chucked into my mototool. This makes very short work of the job. Next start sanding the face of the blades one at a time. Check your side profile to match the kit item. Also note how the laminations start surfacing. Check your references for appearance. Finish with 600 then 1200 grit sanding film. Finally dip the wood prop into clear gloss. With practice you can finish a cured blank in about 45-50 minutes.

Painted laminations are equally as easy if not more so. Once you have studied photos of the item your duplicating break it down into simple steps. Paint the whole propeller antique or dirty white with an acrylic paint. When dry then clear coat the prop then on only one blade paint first lamination with a dark red/brown at the prop boss face. Leaving a dirty white painted area move down the blade to the tip and add the second dark lamination. I will narrow as you bring it back to the prop boss side view. This will be about the center of the hub profile. Next leave another area of dirty white and add the last dark strip of lamination. Using a paper template mark the other blade to match the one you just finished. The rear of the prop will be completed by extending the dark laminations to their mating ends at the prop hub profile.

What’s New In Town

By Terry Tuytschaevers

A+V MODELS

1/72 Yak-21

AIRFIX

1/24 BAe Sea Harrier FRS.1

1/600 WWII Destroyers Set Of 4 (HMS Campbeltown, HMS Hotspur, HMS Cossack & German Narvik Class Destroyer)

1/144 Douglas DC-10/30 Scandinavian Airlines

1/48 Dassault Super Etendard W/Exocet

AMTECH

1/72 Junkers Ju-88S-1/T-1 Bomber/Photo Recon

AMT/ERTL

1/25 1967 Pontiac GTO

1/25 1980 Dodge Ram 50 Mini-Truck

1/25 1929 Ford Model A Roadster

1/25 1953 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible

1/25 1955 Chevrolet Corvette 283

1/25 1962 Chevrolet Corvette 327

1/25 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Hardtop

1/25 1972 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible

1/25 1975 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible

1/25 1994 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible

1/25 1995 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1

1/25 1996 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport

1/25 1998 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible

1/25 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454

1/25 George Barris's "Moonscope" Show Car

BANDAI

1/100 Master Grade Gundam MS-18E Kampfer

1/100 Master Grade Gundam RGM-79(G)GM EFSF Production Mobile Suit

1/100 High Grade Gundam Mk-II RX-178 Titans Mobile Suit

1/100 Master Grade Gundam Spiegel Neo Germany Mobile Suit GF13-021NG

1/100 High Grade Gundam Wing Nataku Mobile Suit XXXG-01S2

1/144 High Grade Gundam Sandrock Custom Mobile Suit XXXG-01SR2

1/144 High Grade Gundam YMS-15 "Gyan"

1/144 Gundam Wing Zero Mobile Suit XXG-00W0

1/144 Gundam Wing Tallgeese II Mobile Suit OZ-00MS2

1/144 Gundam Wing Epyon Mobile Suit OZ-13MS

CLASSIC AIRFRAMES

1/48 Arado Ar-68E/F Pre-WWII Markings

1/48 Regianne Re 2000 Fighter

1/48 Regianne Re 2001 Fighter

1/48 Regianne Re 200i CN Fighter

DOYUSHA

1/32 IJN Type 93 Akatombo "Willow" Float Plane

EDUARD

1/72 Fokker E.III Profipack

1/72 Fokker E.IV

EMHAR MODELS

1/72 A7V Sturmpanzer

FINE MOLDS

1/72 Star Wars Attack Of The Clones Jedi Starfighter

HASEGAWA

1/72 Curtiss P-40N Warhawk 15,000th Markings

1/72 Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star USAF 26th

1/72 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I No 74 Squadron

1/48 Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6 JG27

1/48 Nakajima B5N2 Kate Model 3 "Midway"

1/48 Arado Ar-234B-2 Blitz

1/48 MDD F-15A Strike Eagle USAF Flight Test

1/700 IJN Heavy Battleship Ise

1/700 IJN Heavy Battleship Hyuga

HELLER

1/400 British Battlecruiser HMS Hood

1/35 VAB 4x4 Armor Transport

HOBBYCRAFT

1/48 General Dynamics EF-III "Sparkvark"

1/72 Lockheed F-117A Stealth Fighter

1/72 Mikoyan MiG-25 Foxbat

1/72 Mikoyan MiG-15 International

1/48 Douglas A-4M Skyhawk VMA-131

1/72 Hughes AH-64 Apache Decals For IFOR 1997

KANGNAM

1/32 General Dynamics F-16A Fighter

1/48 MacDac F/A-18 Hornet VFA-106

1/72 North American RA-5C Vigilante

1/72 Douglas A-4E/F Skyhawk VA-55

MODELCRAFT

1/48 Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman

PAVLA

1/72 Westland Whirlwind Mk I Hi-Tech

POLAR LIGHTS

Land Of The Giants Diorama Rattlesnake Attacking 3-Humans

REVELL/MONOGRAM

1/48 Convair F-102 Delta Dagger

1/25 1948 Ford Deluxe Convertible

1/25 1969 Chevrolet Corvette "Baldwin Motion"

1/25 1956 Ford Pickup "Ed Roth Tribute"

1/25 Budweiser King Top Fuel Dragster

1/500 USS North Carolina WWII Battleship

SWORD

1/48 Northrop N-1M

TAMIYA

1/12 Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa

1/24 Motorized Ford Zakspeed Capri Turbo

1/24 Motorized Volkswagen New Beetle

1/700 IJN Heavy Aircraft Cruiser Mogami

1/35 M3 Lee Light Tank

1/35 M3A2 Half Track

1/35 M16 Quad Machine Gun Motor Carriage

1/35 Russian T34/85 Medium Tank

TRUMPETER

1/35 Soviet IS-IIIM Heavy Tank 1960

1/700 USS Iowa BB-61 Modern Version

1/700 USS New Jersey BB-62 Modern Version

1/700 USSR Minsk Aircraft Carrier 1975

1/144 Chinese Type 33G Missile Submarine

1/144 Russian Kilo Class Attack Sub

1/48 Mikoyan MiG-15 UTI Midget Trainer

1/48 Mikoyan MiG-15 BIS Fagot-B

1/350 USS Arizona BB-39 Pearl Harbor

AEROFAX BOOKS

Yakovlev Yak-25/-26/-27/-28 Flashlight

CLASSIC BOOKS

Me 163 Rocket Interceptor Volume One

DACO PUBLISHING

Uncovering the Lockheed/Martin F-16A, B, C, & D

GRUB STREET BOOKS

Japanese Army AF Fighter Units/Aces

MOTORBOOKS

Military Aircraft Boneyards

Barris Kustoms Of The 1960s

SPECIALTY PRESS

Polikarpov's Biplane Fighters

SQUADRON SIGNAL

F-15 Eagle in Action

Panzer Colors III: Mkgs of the German Panzers

MINUTES FOR SEPTEMBER 4, 2002

Our President, Tom Deppe, called the September 4, 2002 meeting to order at 7:05 PM at the Burt Chevrolet conference room with 36 members and guest present.

CORRESPONDENCE:

No Correspondence - Cliff Davis was not present for the nights meeting.

TREASURY:

Dallas Lloyd reported a balance of $3010.53 in the treasury, $776.04 belongs to the contest fund, plus $75.00 received tonight in dues.

OLD BUSINESS:

Mark Persichetti reported that John Trueblood, who was setting up a local contest next year in downtown Denver, has put the contest on hold until a new site can be found. The City Of Denver is now charging over $800.00 for the use of the rooms, which is way over their budget. Other sites are now being looked at including some hotel sites. If any members have any ideas, please let John know. Dale Summers mentioned that it might be worth looking into the many empty store areas in various mall locations across the metro area.

NEW BUSINESS:

Steve Lawson reported that the Lafayette Foundation lost one of its leaders, Dr Parks, recently. There will be an event at the Platte Valley Airfield in the near future. Alan Harrison reported that the Grand Junction contest would be held on September 14^th and 15^th at the Country Inn. Mike Gawell brought up that Lowry Days will also be on September 14^th and 15^th. Tom Deppe reported that he has some upcoming months with no programs scheduled. Some ideas for programs were how to do canopies, how to laminate props, and how to rig aircraft and ships. After some discussion a preliminary scheduled was developed to get us at least through March of next year. Carl Barna brought up the idea of doing a Modeling Magazine since we have so many good ideas and techniques right here in our club. Another idea was to put this magazine on a web page. More discussion will follow at a later date. Trophy sponsorship for next years National Convention was brought up but deferred to next month meeting because of time constraints.

SHOW & TELL:

Dale Summers brought in a 1/48 Tamiya Gloster Meteor F.3 kit, a 1/144 Trumpeter Kilo Class Sub kit, a 1/144 Trumpeter Chinese Sub kit, a 1/48 Hasegawa Arado Ar-234B-2 kit, a 1/24 Airfix Sea Harrier under construction, a 1/72 Italeri Su-37 Berkut under construction and a 1/144 Boeing 757 being built with United Airlines retro markings. Everett McEwan had a 1/48 Douglas TA-4J being built from a Monogram kit plus a resin conversion kit. Jim Harness showed us a 1/35 Tamiya M-4 and a 1/35 M4 A3 bulldozer. Mark Persichetti brought in many photos taken on his most recent trip to the east plus many photo-etch parts that he had for sale. He also had a completed 1/700 Kursk submarine, a HO scale cattle car complete with various animals which won him a 2^nd place at the IPMS Nationals, and a couple of ¼ scale ducks that also won him a first place at the Nationals in some obscure class that only he had entered. Doug DeCounter showed us his 1/35 Academy M-3 Stuart Light Tank, a 1/16 Tamiya Kubelwagen that was under construction, and a 1/35 Alan Bison that was under construction. Pat Rittler brought in his current project of a 1/32 Hasegawa F-16C. Darren McTee had a completed 1/48 Hasegawa Vought F4U-1 Corsair. Chuck Stout showed us a 1/72 Sword Beech Staggerwing and a 1/72 Airfix Britten Norman Islander. Terry Tuytschaevers had a 1/16 Revell Testarossa Koenig Twin Turbo and a 1/48 Revell-Monogram F9F-5 Panther. Bob Nixon showed us a completed 1/72 Hasegawa F9F Cougar. Dave Nelson brought in the new 1/35 AFV M41 and an older 1/35 Tamiya M-41. Al Gonzalez showed us a 1/35 Revell of Germany Lynx Armor Car, a Gundam Model, and a completed 1/48 Hasegawa Blue Angels A-4. Jack Lassiter, in his first model in years, brought in a completed 1/24 Revell Toyota MR2. Way to go Jack. Mike Gawell showed us his “Model From Hell”. He finally completed the 1/48 Revell Monogram Messerschmitt Bf-110 that he has been fighting with for many weeks now. Steve Lawson showed us a 1/48 Eduard Nieuport 17 completed with many brass parts, a 1/48 Eduard Nieuport 17 without the brass, and a 1/48 Fokker E.V. John Morrissey brought in a 1/25 AMT 1957 Chevrolet Pick-up and a 1/35 Tamiya M-41. Dallas Lloyd had a 1/48 Hasegawa F-18 completed with a beautiful set of Leading Edge decals. Alan Harrison showed us a completed Polar Lights Yellow Submarine John Lennon. Ton Deppe brought in a 1/144 Hobbycraft Convair B-36 kit.

PROGRAM:

The program for the evening was a demonstration of how to apply natural metal finishes by Martin Sagara. This was a very informative program on how to use SNJ powder effectively, and after seeing the results; I can say that I was impressed.

Mid-America Air Museum and Kansas Cosmosphere

By Chuck Stout

I recently got to spend a pleasant weekend visiting not one but TWO aerospace museums. The Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson (population 40,000) is probably the second or third best collection of space hardware in the United States (after the National Air and Space Museum). If you haven’t been there for a few years, it’s probably worth another trip. They are constantly adding new exhibits and programs. Although the artifacts on display are both beautiful and historically important, I was most impressed by the consistent high quality of their exhibit design. The German V-2 rocket is displayed on its side in a setting that suggests the claustrophobic underground factories where they were built. The walls of the exhibit on breaking the sound barrier allude to Edwards Air Force Base in the late 1940s, without trying to recreate any specific setting. There’s also a very effective exhibit on our early space program. As you enter a long, narrow room, you read part of JFK’s 1961 speech about landing on the Moon before the end of the decade, while at the other end of the room large video screens show a seemingly endless montage of rocket after rocket exploding on the pad or rising for a few seconds and then failing spectacularly. Visitors discover that when JFK challenged the nation to go to the Moon, only a small fraction of our launches were successful. Flanking the video screens are slabs of four-inch-thick armor glass taken from historic blockhouses at Cape Canaveral. The cracks and divots speak louder than words of the violent force of those early launch failures. Powerful and effective exhibit design like this is not necessarily expensive, but definitely adds a lot to the impact and meaning of the objects on display, especially for visitors who don’t come in with an aerospace background. The exhibits have plenty of “meat” for hard-core space junkies, too. Bring plenty of film (or an extra battery if your camera just does ones and zeros). What do they have? It might be easier to list what they don’t have! The entry atrium has a NASA T-38 and an SR-71. Inside, you will be able to see an enormous and comprehensive collection of American and Soviet spacecraft, satellites, spacesuits, interplanetary probes, and engines.

Besides top-notch exhibits, the Cosmosphere has the usual attributes of any first-class museum—live science demonstrations, classes, field trips, teacher workshops, educator resources, outreach programs, overnight activities, scouting badge programs, and an IMAX theater. They also have a full range of features found at the better aerospace museums, such as a Future Astronaut Training Program (a five-day residential summer camp that offers realistic astronaut training using a full range of simulators and training devices), Star Station One programs, NASA TV, amateur radio satellite communications, and a planetarium. They even have an elderhostel program that provides realistic astronaut training for seniors. In a small town on the farmlands of Oz, they’ve managed to pull together an absolutely stunning space museum.

The Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas is what most people think of when they picture an aviation museum—a hangar full of aircraft, each with its dull, dry label on a little stand nearby. What exhibits there are consist of accumulations of personal or corporate memorabilia put into cases without much in the way of background, context, or explanation.

Even so, Mid-America has features that surpass many other air museums. It is clean, warm in the winter, well lighted, the aircraft are in excellent condition, and there’s a good balance between military and civilian aircraft. They’re developing an education program, and have an area with some kid-oriented aviation activities. The museum has a couple of cockpit trainers where visitors can climb in and work the controls, and an innovative cutaway airplane that lets visitors move a stick and rudder pedals and see the control surfaces move from outside the airplane.

Three simple exhibits that work well and will probably appeal to mainstream audiences are a history of aviation timeline, a small exhibit on supersonic flight, and an exhibit on the Korean War. All three use scale models to tell the story. (The first exhibit mixes scales, the second is in 1/72, the third in 1/48.) Unfortunately, there are also several cases of mediocre models in mixed scales without labels or interpretation. I expect this will change quickly as they gain experience. They are already making efforts to give visitors an idea of the relative importance or relevance of some of the artifacts, and to focus on developing a wider audience. Currently they have about a hundred aircraft, and most are displayed indoors. (You can see the full list on their website.)

Although obviously operating on a shoestring, this five-year old museum appears to have a very bright future and gets better every month. The Mid-America Air Museum shows what can be done in a few short years with volunteer staff building exhibits with donated paint and plywood. The Kansas Cosmosphere shows that even in a relatively small town, the vision, professional expertise, and money can be pulled together to create a museum on par with the NASM.

Continued on Page 9…..

Project A-4 Status

By: Earl Hosmer

(As of August 2002)


SUBJECT	NATION	BUILDER	STATUS	#	sheet fin
A4D-1	UNITED STATES	EARL HOSMER	FINISHED	1	Y
A-4AR	ARGENTINA	EVERETT MCGEWAN	NOT STARTED	2	Y
A-4B	UNITED STATES	OPEN	NOT STARTED	3
A-4C	UNITED STATES	DOUG DECOUNTER	STARTED	4	Y
A-4E	UNITED STATES	DAVID REINEKE	STARTED	5	Y
A-4E AGGRESSOR	UNITED STATES	DARREN MCTEE	FINISHED	6	Y
A-4E INDONESIA	INDONESIA	EARL HOSMER	STARTED	7	Y
A-4F	UNITED STATES	EARL HOSMER	FINISHED	8	Y
A-4F BLUE ANGELS	UNITED STATES	AL GONZALES	FINISHED	9	Y
A-4G	AUSTRALIA	TERRY TUYTSCHAEVERS	FINISHED	10	Y
A-4H	ISRAEL	EVERETT MCGEWAN	FINISHED	11	Y
TA-4J	UNITED STATES	EVERETT MCGEWAN	STARTED	12	Y
A-4K	NEW ZEALAND	JOHN HOLCOMB	STARTED	13	Y
A-4KU	KUWAIT	BILLY CRISLER	STARTED	14	Y
A-4L	UNITED STATES	EARL HOSMER	FINISHED	15	Y
A-4M	UNITED STATES	CAMERON LYNCH	NOT STARTED	16	Y
OA-4M	UNITED STATES	EARL HOSMER	FINISHED