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Pics From the Indianapolis IPMS Show; IPMS Roscoe Turner 2012 Indy Show
Topic Started: Mar 11 2012, 01:15 AM (2,118 Views)
Steve N
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Great pics, and a great time as always (although I notice you snubbed my P-40 and Nate ;) ) The Airfix Swordfish apparently has made it to this side of the pond..I scored one for 15 bucks from CRM (he had one lurking under his usual half-dozen tables of aftermarket goodies.)

The P-40 dierama was really cool, and I also liked that early short-wing Marauder. It's actually the Monogram Snap-Tite kit with a bunch of added detail.

That Ju-390 was a real stunner..particularly the antenna array and superdetailed cockpit.

While not quite 1/72, someone with more cahones than me actually entered a foil-covered Monogram Ford Tri-Motor..and it was damn nice looking too! It's hard to get foil to look good, and he managed it on a currugated airplane!

My Tomahawk took second in 1/72 Single-Engine Prop (Allied.) First went to that beautiful Tamiya P-47 "Slick Chick" pictured above (the same builder took Best Airaft with an incredibly superdetailed 1/48 Fairey Barracuda.) I didn't get a much of a chance to see who won what..we went over to Hobbytown during judging, and by the time we got back the room had been open for a few minutes and most of the models were cleared out.

SN
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Les Moore
Hand me that piano.
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Well DUH..... I knew I had seen the P-40 dio before...it was in Pittsburgh today as was the airbrush guy.... Now all the pieces fit.
Les Moore
Summerfield Florida





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InchHigh
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It's a good day to build.
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My apologies, Steve! Any snubs are not intentional. I noticed your P-40 & Nate and had hoped to run into you. I didn't post pics of your models, or Don's, or mine, simply because they had already appeared in this forum - usually with much better pictures - and there were many great models there that we hadn't seen here before. Most of the pictures I filter out are due having been posted previously (when I remember them) or me messing up the picture. I still wound up with over 30 pictures of 1/72 aircraft!

Congrats to you and Don on your wins, this forum is very well represented in the winners circles! I'd like to try to show which models placed, but I'm sure I'd miss somebody. I check the club sites, but many are slow at posting a results page. I have been trying to go back and post links to other photo archives when I come across them, though.

Thanks for the kind words on the Ju 390, I have promised a retro-build thread soon.

I agree on all the other models you mentioned, I loved the Barracuda and the Tri-Motor. The PH P-40 dio was really neat, especially if you saw it early when the props were spinning!
Jeff

Time spent modeling is not deducted from your lifespan.

I spent most of my money on beer and women. The rest of it I just wasted.
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Steve N
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No worries, Jeff...I was just razzin' you a bit. :D

I never saw the dio with the props spinning..bummer. I did get several pics from several angles though..I'll get 'em posted post haste.

SN

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Steve N
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Here are a few of my Indy pics..these of course are all 1/72...

The first three are by our club member Larry Cherniak. He really can make a silk purse from a sow's ear..that Whirlwind is the old Airfix kit, and the IAR-80 is the Pegasus "garage kit!"

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Some closeups of the P-40 dio. If I do another Airfix P-40 it'll definitely be a Pearl Harbor aircraft.

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Steve N
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A few more. Here's Jeff's awesome Ju-390. I think fully half of the 290 kits purchased are used as conversion sets to make 390s!

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Speaking of the Ju-290...

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Here's that super shiny Tin Goose..the entry form said the foil work took six hours. It'd take me that long just to do the horizontal stab!

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One of my all-time favorites..the B-26 Marauder. The first is the old Monogram Snap-Tite kit, fully pimped-out..the other is Hasegawa.

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And a couple others. The British Barn Door is a vac, and I believe the 188 is Hasegawa.

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tigermoth
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Wayne Brinker, Langley B.C.
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"Most of the pictures I filter out are due having been posted previously (when I remember them) or me messing up the picture. I still wound up with over 30 pictures of 1/72 aircraft!"

Your pics are some of the best I have seen! The second batch especially with the closeups are of a quality that could be used in professional publications.

Wayne
Wayne Brinker, Langley B.C.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
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InchHigh
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tigermoth,Mar 19 2012
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Your pics are some of the best I have seen! The second batch especially with the closeups are of a quality that could be used in professional publications.

Thanks Wayne! The second batch looks so good because Steve shot them. ;) :lol:

Thanks for posting these, Steve. Tell Larry I really like his work! I saw his IAR 80 at Kalamazoo, I really thought it should have done better than the judges ranked it.
Jeff

Time spent modeling is not deducted from your lifespan.

I spent most of my money on beer and women. The rest of it I just wasted.
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Steve N
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Thanks for the compliment on the pics. They were shot with a cheap Kodak pocket digital, using the "closeup" setting. It's great for models, but I still want to get a nice DSLR for airshows and such.

SN
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