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EVENTS & INFORMATIONCalendar

November 18th 2018Southern Model Club Competition & SwapChurch of Christ Community Hall2 - 12 Chesterville Road Cheltenham

December 4th 2018ESSMC Xmas Breakup, BBQ,Raffle and Swap

January 19th 2019 (Saturday)Frank’s Pizza & Plastic315 Tindals RoadWarrandyteBring along your current project and enjoy some quality modelling time, conversation and pizza!

February 5th 2019Eastern Suburbs Annual General MeetingAwards, Committee elections and discussion of events in 2019.

EditorialIn this issue Paul Kruger has written a very poignant eulogy to Don Forbes and at the last committee meeting we were considering how we could continue to remember one of our longest serving members. To that end it’s been decided to rename our annual Clubman of the Year award in Don’s honour. It will now be called the “Don Forbes Memorial Award for Clubman of the Year”. The artwork has been prepared and we look forward to seeing who will be the first recipient in February next year.

Last month’s front cover presented a selection of box-top and header card illustrations of the Airfix 1:32 ‘Modern Cars’ series (’modern’ being a relative term you’ll understand). That illustration was a last minute act of desperation on my part when I was casting about for something to fill the page and my eye fell upon a couple of recent kit acquisitions cluttering up my computer desk.

A couple of favourable comments encouraged me to repeat the theme, so our cover this month features header card illustrations from Airfix’s bagged 1:72 aircraft kits as sold at F. W. Woolworths shops in Britain in the late fifties. It was Woolworths’ insistence on an absolute rock-bottom ‘pocket money’ price that forced Airfix to reluctantly adopt the plastic bag packaging, and would ensure that a whole generation grew up building Airfix models. It also helped to make Airfix a household name as synonymous with plastic models as Hoover to vacuum cleaners and Biro to ball-point pens and, in Britain at least, the term ‘Airfix kit’ came to be applied to any plastic kit regardless of manufacturer.

Michael

Don Forbes1960 - 2018

t is indeed regretful to announce that our fellow Iclubman, Don Forbes, died on the 14th of October at the Monash Hospital, aged 58. We extend our deepest sympathies to Don's wife Leanne, sons Stewart and Thomas, and brothers Malcolm and Bob. Coincidently or not, Don and I joined the ESSMC about the same time in 1994 but I had first met him about 1983 as he attended the same church as my brother. It was at this very church, St. Marks in Forest Hill, that Don's funeral took place on the 25th of October and it was fitting that the church was full of people partaking in the act of

Despite the lengthening of the odds that he would beat his illness, Don lived with the sincere hope and faith he would conquer it. When I look back to the time when I visited Don after his operation as he was recuperating at the Donvale Rehabilitation Hospital, and to the last time when I dropped him home after the ESSMC October meeting, not once did Don tell me he despaired, or complained of his situation. That takes courage.

I'm sure Don will now rest in peace. Farewell, friend.

Paul Kruger

that final good-bye, including a small c o n t i n g e n t r e p r e s e n t i n g ESSMC. type would have to carry the corporation prefix of

either Vickers or Douglas. The closest I ever One o f Don ' s heard Don be sharply critical was when he called interests, besides the 1/72 Heller DC-6 “a pig of a kit!”.scale modelling, was photography and he was also a radio amateur, being a member of the Eastern and Mountain District Radio Club for seventeen years.

Don joined Eastern Suburbs in 1994, only two years after its founding .

St. Arnaud was a place of very special significance to Don, part of the reason was that his mother's family was from there and he always looked forward to that time of year when he could spend a week there. Another popular place Don loved to visit was the Moorabbin Air Museum. Given his fixation with the Vickers Viscount I'm sure t h a t w a s t h e m a j o r drawcard. Or perhaps it

old was the DC-3 and, depending on the day, quite possibly the Bristol Freighter. This kind of attention translated into what model aircraft Don would build; it would have to be civilian and the

Paul Kruger

Don’s final model displayed at the October meeting;the Glencoe 1:96 Vickers Viscount

finish, them that afternoon. In those days I would Living in the Seventiesmake the kit, that is assembly entirely complete before any paint, and not go off on a tangent of

ere's what it was like in the 70's. I grew up in the Advanced Modellers Syndrome - nobody had ever Hvillage of Geelong and I spent six years of the heard of resin or brass. The tool kit in those days was 70's in high school where I got through by making maybe a razor blade and tweezers. Glue came out of minimal effort. Everything was closed at midday on a tube labelled Britfix, sometimes not at all, Saturday; at Bathurst they raced real cars; TV was sometimes in a deluge. Despite the semi-Paul Hogan, Benny Hill, Dave Allen, Gilligan's Island hallucinogenic properties, I don't seem to have any and World Championship Wrestling. Music was 3XY side effects.or whatever was on Countdown and every one-hit wonder was going to be “bigger than the Beatles” For reading material there were publications like according to Molly. The only people who had 4WD Purnell's, which had a lot of misinformation and errors vehicles were the Army and the Leyland Brothers and that perpetuated in many other reference sources. both of them had a good reason. Football was VFL, Artists' renderings were obviously cheaper for and there were twelve teams, all in Melbourne (except publishers than digging through archives. From the Geelong). The only other football was Wogball, which Belmont library I found a book on building models by was merely an excuse for foreigners to throw some expert. It showed how D-Day stripes on aircraft Molotovs at each other. The police would put a stop to had to be done, masking up and spray painting, and it, but everyone else said let them continue. Nobody tanks with winter cam were like wedding cars. south of the Murray had ever heard of one bloke trying (Meanwhile in the real world, they used brooms.) In to push 2 blokes' heads up 3 blokes' backsides. There 1979 I bought Encyclopaedia of German Tanks, my were two computers in Geelong; Deakin Uni had one first proper reference book, and it knocked my socks and Ford had the other. These were room-size and off.were attended by white coats. Johnny Farnham was only on his fifth farewell tour. Dad worked for the Gas & Fuel, long before Fuhrer Kennett privatized everything. Occasionally he had In the 70's I took up modelling in earnest, after a few to go to head office (called the Green Latrine) in tentative starts. Model kits could be found in various Spring Street. Back then driving into the middle of places; the local hardware a block from home had Melbourne was feasible. Once or twice I tagged Matchbox diecast cars, and suddenly had Matchbox along, for the specific purpose of perusing the hobby kits when they started that range. The newsagent shops in the CBD. Retailers like Hearns were a across the road also had some Revell aircraft kits but quantum leap above Geelong's toy shops and the main player was Airfix, who seemed to have the newsagents, in terms of quantity and range. I still had biggest range. In aircraft there was also Revell, only $10 to spend though, but that would still get me Matchbox, and Frog, and I can't think of any others. something out of the ordinary. In those days I wished I On some Saturdays I would walk three miles into the had the money to buy a wall of kits, these days I have centre of Geelong, where there were some large the money and I already have a wall of kits.toy/hobby shops that had, amongst many things, more kits than the local hardware store. By the end of I never knew there were such things as model clubs, the70's I had focussed on military vehicles in 1/72 and there were a few mates at school that dabbled, but there were a whole six brands (over ninety now). 1/35 they all gave it away as other more important hobbies kits by Tamiya were something like $7.50 so were big like underage drinking took precedence. The rest dollars and out of my league. Small kits were about were all going to be world surfing champions or test $2.50, and if I was flush I might be able to afford two, cricketers, apparently. and a tin of Humbrol. (I still use Humbrol tins and a

Garybrush). After a walk home I would start, and usually

Gary Zimmer

Living in the 50's...Hearn’s Hobbies circa 1958(?). Dig those cars!

WSMC Interclub 2018

aturday the 27th of October saw the Srunning of the annual Waverley Scale Modelling Club – ‘Interclub’ event. This event involves a team competition, swap and sell in a relaxed social atmosphere. The timing of the event has changed somewhat over the last few years and this Saturday unfortunately did not align well with the personal calendars of our clubmen – so attendance from our club was unfortunately likely to be down somewhat.

The competition is a team event. Each club’s entry requires construction of a ‘theme’ build kit, this year a Stuart Tank, built Given the trouble Pat and Peter had gone to with their superbly by Pat McCumiskey and two models in each entries I figured it was worth completing our entry with of the following categories: Aircraft; Automotive; a couple of models from my collection. Fortunatley I

live only five minutues away from the WSMC venue so I raced home and collected the models. A message from Peter Mac left on my phone confirmed that we were going to be short clubmen on the day and we were probably going to struggle. I grabbed a couple of tanks – a 1/35 scale Abrahms and 1/72 Sherman that looked reasonable and a Sptifire Mark X-something (Overleaf). Fortunately reference material doesn’t matter.

I returned to the venue, entered the remaining models, the Spitfire and the Sherman and proceeded upstairs to the Quickbuild area. The other two teams comprised a team of eight from Dandenong – well equipped by the look of it and with at

least a couple of aircraft builders - and a team of two Military Vehicles and Miscellaneous. Each club is from Waverley. Both teams were well underway then required to participate in the notorious ‘quick-cleaning parts from sprues, discussing the marking build’ competition on the day. At completion of the variant they would build and the paint they would quick build each club then does an eyeball vote on the require. other teams entries and a score calculated using a

complex algorithm determines the winner.

Peter McKinnon had dropped off one of his superb bi-planes – the De Havilland DH-4 Airliner (above) to me during the week so I arrived to the event with this and a couple of cars for the automotive section. Pat had already placed his Stuart (right) and another model into the military category. It was around 10.30 so I expected a few other ESSMC team-mates to arrive with entries for the other sections. After a coffee and a bun 11:00am arrived - time for the quick build competition to start! We were short a tank and an aircraft – Gino provided a couple of entries for miscellaneous, and it looked like I was on my own for the quick-build.

Simon Godfree

I went down stairs, grabbed a hamburger – the WSMC canteen is highly recommended - and returned to the ESSMC table and considered the build. After much thought I decided – paint was not required, wheels up, no armaments – and with a bit of luck it would be completed in time.

I started to clean parts and then at about 11:30 our team doubled in size – Andrew Riddle arrived. He proceeded to clean and assemble the jet’s underwing fuel tanks whilst I worked away on the fuselage. Andrew could stay till about 13:00 so we worked away on the build. He did a great job on the fuel tanks and proceeded to clean up and install the interior detail (a seat) and missiles – in case we had half dried metallizer onto the model.time to fit them. 13:00 arrived and Andrew left with us in a reasonable chance of completing the build. This technique demonstrated on a number of

occasions by Peter McKinnon is a rather effective way One of the benefits of being in a club like ESSMC is of reproducing a realistic metallic finish and was learning lots of different tips and techniques that either working very well on the Mig. I proceeded to work the produce outstanding results or make difficult tasks a finish with the brush over the model with little or no

interest from the other groups. As people passed by and saw the result I soon found myself explaining and demonstrating the technique but it soon started to impact the build timeframe. Fortunately Isaac Kong, another of ESSMC’s accomplished modellers arrived and was able to help with the final details and completion of the model.

The quick build deadline soon arrived and we headed with the other teams downstairs to display our model, finalise the judging, and hear the results. Given the circumstances of the day it was pleasing that ESSMC

lot simpler. Well, as the other teams sorted through their rattle can inventories looking for flat Aluminium I looked through my collection of paints and found a bottle of my trusty Testors aluminium buffing metallizer. That and my worst condition buffing brush would be all that is needed for application of a reasonably realistic metallic finish. I opened the bottle only to discover it had completely dried out; &$%#^ useless…! Fortunately I had another bottle of bronze metallizer and was able to decanter enough solvent into the aluminium metallizer so it could be used. With careful application I then proceeded to apply blobs of

had been able to field a complete entry and support the WSMC in what is always an enjoyable event. Well, to everyone’s surprise, ESSMC won by a point!

Thanks to the club members who contributed to the win – Pat, Peter, Andrew, Gino and Isaac. It would be great if the date is more suitable to everyone next year and we can get a stronger turnout.

Simon

Simon Godfree

ESSMC

Waverley

Dandenong

but it is really good for getting large chunks of paint Cleaning Your Airbrushout. To get the fibres out - load up a big fat syringe with thinner, you can buy a cheap one from your he biggest mistake people make when cleaning chemist, and then blow it through the spout.Ttheir airbrush is to use water or warm soapy

water as neither will get into the nooks and crannies.Now for the nozzle, or tip. You will know if it is blocked if you can't see light through it. Grab your To get started; break down your airbrush into parts - needle and gently poke it through while at the same sometimes you can get away with just cleaning the time wiping the paint off as you go.nozzle and needle. It depends how blocked up it is.

If you are not confident in breaking it down just I like to clean my airbrush after every few sessions

remember it's like a gun; it only goes together one but some people say you should clean your

way. Or you can ask someone at the club; I'm sure airbrush clean after every session some people say

there will be plenty of people who can help you.clean it when it is so blocked it just won't work any more.Then put the parts in a plastic container and pour thinner over until covered, lacquer thinner is best Remember; it's important to understand your

because it rips into the paint and won't damage your airbrush is a highly engineered precision

rubber seals so leave the parts in the thinner for as instrument, treat it right and it will serve you well.

long as it takes to have a cup of coffee.

Tony McGoldrickThen hit it with a pipe cleaner; pushing it through the spout but being careful to not to move the internal "O"ring as the pipe cleaner might leave some fibres

ICM 1:24 Ford 1912 Model T

Those who’ve been paying attention will recall that I said there had been no new Model T car kits since the

and the

Well, now there have - it’s basically the same 1912 Runabout but with a couple of changes that render it a more accurate model; no louvres on the bonnet sides and a flat firewall instead of a cowling, both actually features of the 1914 model. It’s the latest in a series of Model T versions by ICM, including a US Fire Engine, Tourer, Roadster, Speedster, Ambulance and Delivery Van, and an Australian Army WWI ute and patrol car - both in RHD. Some of the kits have rubber tyres, such as the Roadster, but few, if any, have plated sprues. Full engine detail is included but the bonnet is lift-off, not hinged.

1:16 KSN-Midori I built and wrote about two years ago 1:32 Airfix I built about twenty years before that, both products of the 60's.

Lukgraph 1:32 Macchi Ni.29

Lukgraph produce resin kits of less familiar subjects such as this Nieuport-Delage NiD.29 fighter. Available in French, Italian, Belgian, Swedish, Spanish and even Japanese versions. Around $250.

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Greetings from Malta! My club, Association of Model Engineers, has just had its 10 day annual exhibition last Below are pics of my winners and the other exhibits. This week. We had a successful show. year I participated solely with aircraft. If you go to my fb

page there are a selection of videos also.I won four honours this year; CharlesGold for the 1/500 vignette of Munich airport.Gold for the 1/12 F16 cockpit (Italeri).Silver for the Shawnee helicopter in French marine decals.Bronze for my Airfix Devastator.

Charles Mifsud