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This Saturday! Anybody coming to play with "The Cool Kids" in Omaha? https://fortcrookipms.com/ The show theme is "Monogram Memories". I am excited to see some of my old favorites, but I haven't any Monogram kit recently built to take along. If the tornader hadn't broken the landing gear...

The IPMS Plastic Surgeons present Surgicon 29! https://ipms-plasticsurgeons.com/surgicon 5 April 2025 in the sprawling metropolis of Nevada (Ne-VAY-da) Iowa. The show theme is "From Tonkin to Saigon." Any subject related to the Vietnam War. A very broad theme indeed! "Rhino, Nevada? Really...

http://www.ipmsgreatplains.org/KCCon2025.htm This is the show held in the huge church in Kansas City, Kansas in conjunction with KCAMPS. The Shocking Pink Surgeons plan to voyage South this coming Saturday to join in the IPMS-style judging. I don't like to wait the whole day and then some, for...

Having watched "A Bridge Too Far" the other day, and gotten the idea I needed to build a Sherman Firefly, I waited patiently for MMM 2025. I'll see your Panther and call, Gary. Now where did I leave my Michael Caine figure?

Hi guys! Welcome to this years Plastic Surgeon club thread! That's right! Our merry band of Model Miscreants weathered another year without serious casualty or damage! Teresa built a new Lighthouse Pen. The light operates! Not really a fade to bright and fade out light, but still really...

After a few conversations with Mr. Rogers, I find him more attached to his Seahawk squadron than to the USS Carl Vinson. A change of plan has occurred. Yes, based on Frank's advice, I bought a Communist model kit. I was prepared to be disappointed and I am! :bat The Hobbyboss kit includes...

Airfix new 2025 reveal is next Tuseday. The riddle is what exciting new model kit will be included in 2025. The clue is a picture of Wilbur Wright's statue at Le mans. I think a 1/24 Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk I/Hawk 81a is in the offing. RAF and AVG markings? 1/72 and 1/48 kits have been done, so...

What does your Christmas tree look like this year? Does your family have any interesting/funny holiday traditions?

https://www.uschivdr.com/ I placed an order from Uschi 23 November 2024. 15 days later, No shipping information or product was received. Repeated attempts to contact Alexander Glass have fallen on deaf ears (keyboards?) My hope was to offer Uschi's excellent .005 mm elastic rigging line on...

I bought a book while I was working on the SS Fraser steamboat for the 1/700 "Diorama-in-a-box" kit I recently released on tlarmodels.com This is the cover picture. Steamboat SS Whitehorse, plying the treacherous 5-finger rapids of the Yukon river in the early 1900's. I am NOT Canadian. I...

It all started back in Feburary of 2023.......... And here we are today. There is still lots of work to do, but I expect it to lay out like this. 140-foot 1850's paddle steamer, SS Fraser will be making her last trip up the wild, Fraser river in BC, Canada before the river freezes solid, to...

The Blackhawk Modelers Society of Yarmouth, Iowa is presenting their annual model contest. This will occur in Mount Pleasant Iowa on Saturday, 21 September. The Blackhawks have been ardent supporters of SurgiCon for a long time, so I feel some Quid Pro Quo is in order. This will be our...

I happened upon a Silent Service Vet at a gas station in Altoona one afternoon not long ago. Bob Kirby joined the US Navy at 17 years young. He was an electrician's mate 2nd class. He was generous enough to share a couple of photos of his boat. The first picture is his boat in her GUPPY1b...

We arrive 20 July at the home of Mark and Donna Karolus. They live in the sleepy village of Cleveland nestled up against the west coast of Lake Michigan, half way between Manitowoc and Sheboygan. (Sheboygan is a Chippewa word for "Passage or Waterway between the Lakes" We, ironically enough...

Sallying forth from Madison, WI, Boat-tail 712 clears out of MSN TCA for rapid transit to points north along the sunny shores of Lake Michigan. Along the way, I find my very own road. There seems a small error in spelling. :bm: Having been invited to overnite with the Karolus in thier...

I ran across an American tool manufacturer from Oklahoma, at the Nat's and I was impressed with his product. Meet Shaun Waldrop. Shawn at kirbytool.com makes a cool, slim magnetic knife handle to accommodate #11 hobby knife blades. I held the sample tool, removed and easily re-installed the...

Bob might be the biggest fan of the Gilligan's Island boat I know. I sent him a 1/700 version of the 4th boat. The movie prop with holes in it, lying on the beach. He wished for a 1/350 version, so I chose the first Minnow as a pattern. The one in the opening of the show, leaving the marina...

One of your wordiest, nerdiest, " M/A Roving Reporters" will be sallying forth to "America's Dairyland" to bring highlights, anecdotes, industry insider information and impressions of what, for model making folk, may be the greatest gathering of Model Miscreants of the year. That's right Guys...

Lookie! A 1/1 scale Herkimer Battle Jitney! Ok. MAYBE its a '56 Chevrolet Station wagon on a K-5 Blazer frame. It's powered by a 383 cu. in. stroker, and has lots of OOMPH! He skipper is Mike Seger, USMC combat medic. Seger=Cigar=Stogie for his callsign. He came for Teresa's happy...

The parallel build of the "Small Cutter" component of my WMEC effort goes forward! Ah. Teeny parts. This is where I live! The 1/700 scale version of this vessel will have 2 complete superstructures and both pilothouses, early and contemporary. I found the most fiddly part of the 1/350...