Mike's Blog (9)

Category # Place Name 010 1st Bobby Corvino 010 2nd Bobby Corvino 010 3rd Shannon Verburg 020 1st Ray Penticost Jr. 020 2nd Adam Foster 020 3rd Bobby Corvino 030 1st Cole Freeman 030 2nd Bobby Corvino 030 3rd Bobby Corvino 040 1st Logan Bennett 040 2nd None 040 3rd None 050 1st Bobby Corvino 050 2nd Adam Foster 050 3rd Adam Foster 070 1st Cole Freeman 070 2nd Bobby Corvino 070 3rd Logan Bennett 080 1st Bobby Corvino 080 2nd Adam Foster 080 3rd Elizabeth Dicken 100 1st Ron Verburg 100 2nd None 10… Continue

I am posting this for Charlie Sullivan. if you are interested in them you should contact Charlie @ 910-286-2012 Kits for sale as follows:

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August 2009 Howdy R-12, Well, summer is over, the kids are back in school (finally), and the Nats are over with. Where has this year gone? Must getting old, the years are now just flying by. This newsletter will mostly speak of the Nats for those of you that couldn’t make. They had 2525 entries… Continue

I just started work on these possible future decals for B-25s.

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Officers and CC's: Please pass this along to all of your fellow members ASAP! They can use the link to check into what may be of interest to them. And for you "non-members", THIS is just another example (besides the Journal, group insurance, the MakeNTake, the Adult Builders Course, free decals, and support for your local club and its activities) of what IPMS can do for YOU, IF you join and help support this hobby, your local club, and your fellow club members who are already members. Heck, I be… Continue

May 2009

Hi R-12, OK, I know that I’m late again in getting this newsletter out, but this weekend at worked sucked bigtime. We had 5 people to “turn” 12 F-16s!! Needless to say that I was beat each night and couldn’t even crawl upstairs to the computer. First some great news… Continue

We are going to hold our June meeting one week early. So try to remember that we will be meeting on the 5 of June. This is to accommodate our friend Adam Coleman, if you do not know Adam he is just a great fellow modeler who loves obscure subject and anything to do with the Falkland… Continue

I have come across a wonderful solution for painting the intakes of jet aircraft. Someone out there may know this one but it took me all of about two weeks of making and stuffing cut objects in to the intakes. As I tried to mask the sharp white demarcation with Tamiya tape it would stick where I did not want it to and could not get it right. Then I stuffed precut soft foam in the intakes this worked OK, but still was not what I was hoping for. Then I came to me use white decal paper. I had some… Continue

We have made arrangements for our Christmas party. We are going to have it at Ryan's on Skibo It is over by Sam's Club and Walmart. We will meet there at 7:00 on the 12th of December. The parties name is under LaFayette Scale Modelers. Your families are welcome to come enjoy as well. We are going to have a Yankee swap meet. If you do not know what it is bring a model wrapped and we can explain it at the party. The gift should not be extravagant (less than $20). I look forward to seeing everyone… Continue