Welcome to Episode 128 Sponsored by CultTVMan, Sean’s Custom Model Tools and Return To Kit Form

Hosts

Stuart

Geoff

Terry

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LATEST NEWS

MMSI show pics from Neil.

Terry went to the Cincinnati show.

Welcome Show in Guelph

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LATEST HOBBY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Trumpeter December items

Hobbyboss December

Special Hobby, CMK & Planet Model's latest kits in Nov/Dec

Barracuda Studios ten new sets in three scales

144th scale VIIC U-boat U-96

Arma Hobbies 10th Anniversary Hurricane IIC in 1/48

Osprey: 70 Years of the US Navy's Nuclear Submarines

2n1 Corsair kit from Magic Factory review

1/12 Fulldetail Kit : McLaren MP4/5 Modelfactory Hiro

Metropolis seated Robot Maria 1:8 scale from X-Plus

Eduard Upcoming 1/48 Stuka Family

Bandi Spirits Plannosaurus Ankylosaurus

1/24 80's F1 monitor

1/32 Drakkon preorder has started

What’s new at Scalemates.com

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WHAT’S ON THE BENCH

Stuart - More work done on the Moosaroo cup. This is proving to be quite a challenging kit and requires quite a bit of planning, due to its small size and finding a logical way forward. For example, the cab consists of quite a few parts, several of these will need to be assembled, primed and painted first before attaching them to the rest of the kit.

Also working on some Battletech Mini’s, trying a new technique called slapchop.

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Geoff - lots of reorganizing the hobby room to get a display cabinet installed (removed from the dining room) and make the reference materials more accessible. In the process of creating an index I found a good article on the Handley Page 0/400, so I started work on the old (1968) Airfix kit. Lots of work to get the wing “ribs” to scale (the kit molding had 2x4’s as ribbing tape!) but it’s not a bad kit once that’s fixed.

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Terry - Some work on the Aldrin class, I need to do a bit more on that as well. While in Cincinnati I built a little shelf cabinet unit for some 3D printed paint racks for the Pro Acryl sets. It’s a bit tight, I may need to do some filing or have them printed 10% bigger.

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WHAT WE ARE READING

Stuart -  

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization - Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It - Robert Zimmerman

Geoff - 

Modelling magazines coming out the ying yang!  

Terry - Same stuff. Ed Yong’s big and Immense World - about animal Umvelt. Also still on the 2015+ Hellblazer series.

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THINGS WE’VE SEEN

1/144 Blackbird

Spooky!  Vampire Mk.1 conversion - perfect for those Swedish subjects!

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