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  1. Rhino

    OMACON 2024 23 march.

    https://fortcrookipms.com/ Club website contest entry and registration forms are fillable! The Show is afoot Saturday, weather permitting.
  2. Rhino

    IPMS Great Plains Model Contest (KCCON) 9 March 2024

    Is anyone planning the voyage to South KC for this show? I am told KC AMPS no longer shares this event with IPMS Great Plains. Bummer for Armor guys.
  3. Rhino

    1/350 US Coast Guard HH-65C Dolphin Helicopter

    So it begins.............. With Trumpeter 1/350 Z-9C helicopters I traded for. One of these will become...... This, but with a rescue hoist instead of torpedoes that have a Chinese 1-Yuan deposit on them. Trumpeter molds these in a really vinyl-ish, slippery, clear plastic. Evidently they...
  4. Rhino

    Francisco's 1/72 USCG Island Class WBP Scratch build.

    Francisco begins his project to honor is good friend Rafael Rivera, late of USCGC Chandeleur, WPB-1319. I have known Francisco and his skill and attention to detail for many moons. I am certain this will be GRAND! The grid drawings need blown up to 1" squares for 1/72 scale. Francisco...
  5. Rhino

    Back Aft Models 1/700 USS Simon Lake AS-33 Submarine Tender model kit.

    My friend Carl Musselman, proprietor of Back Aft Models in Millard Nebraska and esteemed model ship builder, was working to create a 1/700 diorama of the US Navy submarine servicing vessels at Holy Loch, Scotland. See pictured here, Carl's LPP hull and an awful white versatile plastic 3D print...
  6. Rhino

    2024 Plastic Surgeons Posts

    I haven't been to a Club meeting in 2024 yet. One of our satellite members has healed up and is back to his bench. Gentlemen, I give you Finescale Ship Model reviewer and connoisseur of all thngs Nautical and Wisconasin: Mark Karolus :yipee: US Coast Guard WPC (B) 165' hull converted to a...
  7. Rhino

    1/700 MV Wild Goose. John Wayne's Yacht '62-'79. TLAR #124

    YMS-1 class Minesweeper YMS-328 in the WWII fit. Long before her conversion to The Duke's Wild Goose yacht. The build begins with the original Minesweeper deck plan drawing, a digital caliper and a calculator. Her skipper during 16 years of the Wayne family's ownership of this yacht was an...
  8. Rhino

    1/700 RV Calypso Ocean Research Vessel TLAR 1223

    Do you remember my review of the horrible 1/700 Calypso Gaga 3D print I bought for a Christmas gift? Paying good $$ for such a chunk of absolute shit smooth pissed me off! SOoo..............................
  9. Rhino

    Gaga 3D Printed 1/700 RV Calypso Ocean Exploration Vessel

    Who doesn't remember fondly The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau? How about the 1/125 Revell model of Calypso, that came with a helicopter, divers sharks, diving saucer, diving bell, ships boats and all the accouterment that the Cousteau boys got paid to goof off in the ocean with? Revell Ag...
  10. Rhino

    Christmas 2023 and January Humor share.

    NOT a modeling subject whatsoever! Share a joke or a funny Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa story. When the times seem dreary, it is best to keep our collective chins up, don't you agree? "Rhino, Kwansaa?! Really?" Hey. it's kinda fun to put on colorful robes, dig a hole and slow roast a...
  11. Rhino

    Mid Iowa Modelers Expo 4 NNL /IPMS Glue Brothers, 19 August 2023. Grimes, Iowa.

    IPMS Glue Brothers Mark Johnson and Kevin Iuetzler's small but devoted team of model car makers put on their 4th NNL event this weekend in the sprawling metropolis of Grimes, Iowa. No, I do NOT think they are actually blood relatives! Pay attention. We had never been to an NNL event before...
  12. Rhino

    1/350 US Coast Guard Reliance class Cutter TLAR Models #723

    A tlarmodels.com customer from Phoenix requested a 1/350 USCGC Dauntless. A 210' Reliance class cutter model. Internet searches reveal that this vessel, in this scale, has in fact, been ignored by mainstream resin ship model makers. The pictured version is of the late fit USCGC Reliance with...
  13. Rhino

    Independence Day 4 July 2023

    What are my fellow Americans doing on the coolest holiday of the year?
  14. Rhino

    Ron Schultz' Bunnies.

    Ron Schultz asked me to cast some rabbits for him. One needed new ears and the other just sucked. I swear I won't bore anyone over much by posting every minute detail. I will also do my best not to say anything dumber than usual. As usual, I went overboard. I seem unable to switch off my...
  15. Rhino

    1/350 Scale "Three Mile Limit" TLAR #423

    You guys remember my 1/700 "Three Mile Limit" display? The 90-footer from the Rum-runners and Smugglers set? Remember what a pain it was to put boobs on the 1/700 P/E figures to make reasonably endowed wimmin? My very first tlarmodels.com customer made a request. He would like to see the 90'...
  16. Rhino

    Airfix 1/72 DH.88 Comet Racer And Resin Cockpit set. TLAR Models #523

    I bought my Airfix Classic Vintage 1/72 DH.88 Comet Racer kit at our recent show in Bondurant. The "Vintage Classic" tag wasn't on the Red Box re-issue model and I had higher detail expectations for this kit. Something MUST be done! With the rumored "death" of SBS Models 1/72 DH.88 Comet...
  17. Rhino

    15 April 2023. Fleacon 19. Monticello, Iowa.

    Ladies and Gentleman! Children of all ages! Come one, Come all to the wilds of north central eastern Iowa for Model Fun! IPMS Alexander Lippisch presents their 19th Model Contest, in picturesque Monticello, Iowa for your amusement and amazement! https://www.lippischmodelclub.org/ We left...
  18. Rhino

    1 April 2023 SurgiCon 27, Bondurant Iowa

    The day begins as the Shocking Pink Surgeons sally forth for the wilds of Bondurant Iowa to do our part for SurgiCon 27. It is rare, indeed for me to leave the house before daylight for any event. RTB for forgotten contest necessities and then leave in earnest for the Show. Call sign "Boat...
  19. Rhino

    Mad City Modelers 4 March 2023, Madison Wisconasin.

    We made the 300-odd mile drive to Madison Wisconasin Friday 3 March, 2023 under variable overcast in March Wisconsin typical weather. I am no longer young enough to drive 600 miles in one day, so for this IPMS Contest adventure I rented a really nice hotel room next door to the venue. We had a...
  20. Rhino

    Sweet "Star of Afrika" ME-109F-4 Trop and Kubelwagen

    I'm in! This kit comes with 2 cute little Messerschmitt models. I will only build the one, unless things go awry. The accompanying Bucket Car must also be done!
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