The Art of Seiji - Sonoran Desert Model Builders · 2016. 5. 30. · Boeing 2707 would have been...

PLUS… - Club News brings us all the coverage of past and upcoming events from the Sonoran Desert Model Builders.

- In the Tips and Tricks we see how to model cables and hoses.

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In this Issue…

The Art

of Seiji

watanabe

- We take look at our club’s annual model exhibition at the Tucson downtown library.

Mold Lines is the official publication of the Sonoran Desert Model Builders Modeling club. We publish it on a monthly basis and it is your source for Club news, interviews, model reviews, photos or our member’s modeling work as well as articles on modeling techniques and other articles of interest to our

members.

WHO ARE THEY? The Sonoran Desert Model Builders is a chartered IPMS model club in Tucson, Arizona dedicated to advancing each other’s skills through tip sharing, encouragement and, most importantly, hands-on building. Our members enjoy a deep camaraderie and level of respect for each other as well as a passion for model building. We build it all... cars, airplanes, armor, ships, figures, sci-fi...

Our mission is simple… LET’S BUILD!

WHERE CAN I

FIND THEM?

We meet at the Northwest corner of Alvernon and 22nd from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.

1100 South Alvernon Way Tucson, AZ

MEETING DATES 2016

JANUARY ……………… 7 th

FEBRUARY ……………… 4 th

MARCH ……………… 3 rd

APRIL ……………… 7 th

MAY ……………… 5 th

JUNE ……………… 2 nd

JULY ……………… 7 th

AUGUST ……………… 4 th

SEPTEMBER ….………… 1 st

OCTOBER ….….……… 6 th

NOVEMBER ..…….…… 3 rd

DECEMBER ……..…… 2 nd

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If you are like me and hate when model kits have molded in cables and hoses that have flat sides and look anything but round then you will love our Tips and Trick section for this month as we bring you some ideas on how to simulate these features with simple items you may find around the house. Recently our President Dave Brown commented to me that he has been inspired by our fellow modeler Dick Smith and his goal to finish all of his “shelf queens”. I agree with him that this could be an interesting discussion theme for a show – and – tell. Maybe we can bring to the July meeting a project that has been sitting around long enough. Also, send me photos of you oldest shelf queen and tell me how long it’s been around and we will see who has the oldest shelf queen of them all. Until next time. Model on!

Editor’ Workbench

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Hello Fellow modelers and dear friends, Welcome to another edition of Mold-Lines. This month we have quite a lot of modeling goodies for you. This month we had our annual exhibition at the Joel Valdez branch of the Pima County Library in downtown Tucson. It is always amazing how at the beginning of the set-up its all chaos and by the end the display always looks amazing! I would like to thank everybody who help with the set up earlier this month. Last month we dedicated the newsletter to Sci-fi modeling and one of the submissions was a set of photos from Seiji Watanabe. There wasn’t very much space left in the newsletter and I wanted to include all of the photos. So I contacted Seiji and ask him to write something about himself and his models. While not quite an interview we bring you a view into our friend Seiji’s modeling hobby.

Vince Welsch shared with me a couple of interesting photos. Apparently these were drop tanks adapted to carry wounded soldiers. Interesting, Anyone up for the challenge?

CLUB NEWS

RECENT EVENTS

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• Sonoran Desert Model Builder monthly meeting - The monthly meeting for the club was held on May 5th 2016. This month we had some very interesting models on display as it seems everybody decided to bring large models. Our library display was set up a few days prior to our meeting so everybody was excited about how great it looked. We even started brainstorming ideas for next year. what will be the next them, we shall see.

Ron Schorf talks about his most recent projects which include a scratch built German Hansa-Branderburg D1 airplane.

The D.I, also known as the KD (Kampf Doppeldecker) was a German fighter aircraft of Work War I. Despite poor handling, it was built for Austria-Hungary, some aircraft serving to the end of the war

CLUB NEWS

RECENT EVENTS

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Bob Duke brought this beautiful 1/48 scale SR-75. The SR-75 also known as the Aurora is a long rumored supersonic spy plane owned by the USAF.

John Myers’s pair of Supersonic Transport aircrafts gave us a view into what would have been possible if aircrafts like the Boeing 2707 would have been built.

CLUB NEWS

RECENT EVENTS

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Doug Smith’s Tamiya 1/350 Tirpitz See more awesome

model photos from our

meeting at:

www.sdmb.yolasite.com

Bob Duke’s 1/72 Cessna Float Plane

CLUB NEWS

UPCOMING EVENTS

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• Make and Take at the Pima Air and Space Museum - This event is designed to introduce children to the hobby of model building and the math and historical research used to build accurate scale models. The event will take place June 4th , 2016 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM.

• SDMB Monthly Meeting – Our club’s next meeting will be held on June 2nd, 2016 from 6:30 – 8:30. It will be held at our regular meeting location. (See Page 2 for details).

• Don’t forget to support our monthly raffle - Every month we give away one item from our raffle stash for every 10 tickets . Tickets are only $1.00!

Pima Air and Space Museum

390th Diorama

The fantastic work done by our members in the Framlingham, England, (Jul 1943-4 Aug 1945) airfield diorama has been recognized internationally. One of the historians and website moderator for the Airfield Research Group (ARG) in England visited the Pima Air and Space museum and posted photos of the diorama on their Facebook page. Congratulations to the 390th team for a job well done!

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The Art of Seiji Watanabe

This month I am really proud to spotlight the wonderful work of one of our club members. Seiji Watanabe is not a regular at our club meetings, but that is because he lives in Japan. Still at least once or twice a year when he visits Tucson he enjoys coming to our meetings. His work is always crisp and very neat. But what better way to tell you about his work than from Seiji himself.

Seiji Watanabe I am originally from Tokyo, Japan. I came to Tucson in 2000 and studied at the University of Arizona as a graduate student. I graduated in 2009, and since then, I teach at a small university called Akita International University in Akita, Japan. Akita is located in the north-east of Japan.

There are many things I like about the SDMB, but one thing I really like is that the SDMB members seems to be interested in the subjects that are outside of the average for each modeling genre. Generally speaking, many modelers tend to limit their model building genres to one or two.

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When I visited Portland, Oregon, the only plastic model club I could find there was an automobile model club. It was obvious that they were only interested in car models, nothing else. I like building formula ones, but at that time I didn’t have any car models. I knew that they didn’t want me to bring a model of Frankenstein, so I did not bother going to their meeting.

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Although I have never been to a model club meeting in Japan, I assume the situation would be similar. But the SDMB is totally different. The SDMB members are all respectful to other members’ works. I like building models from different genres, such as Sci-Fi, monsters (I love Aurora monster models.), anime, automobiles (I am a big fan of Ayrton Senna.) and armor, and I feel comfortable and enjoy bringing them to the SDMB meetings. I truly enjoy the meetings and I would like to express my gratitude to all the members.

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Since I cannot spare much time for modeling, I tend to stay away from super detailing. Instead, I like to add simple modifications like Dr. Smith’s coat around his neck. I seemed too plasticky. Consequently, I attached fabric material I purchased at Michael’s. and added aluminum foil inside of the“Robot” so that it looked as if it was lit. For painting, I use lacquer-based paints, such as Tamiya Sprays, for automobiles, alcohol-based acrylics, such as Tamiya Acrylics, for armor, and non-alcohol-based acrylics, such as Vallejo, Citadel, Liquitex, and Golden, for figures. I rarely use enamel-based paint. The exceptions are the silver parts of R5-D4, where I used Tamiya Chrome Silver Paint Marker. I also seal the paint surface with clear lacquer paint every time I move on to another color. I work from dark to light, which means that I basecoat my model with a darker color and then gradually add highlights to the basecoat by airbrushing multiple layers with subtly different colors. To thin non-alcohol-based acrylics, I use Vallejo Airbrush Cleaner, and to thin lacquer-based paints and Tamiya Acrylics I use Lacquer Thinner. I learned this from Dave Brown.

Conclusion As you can tell by now, I do nothing special when I build my models. One thing I keep in my mind is to imagine the completed model that I am working on. I feel happy when the end result is what I have imagined.

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Models in

The Movies The Sequel

This past month of May the Sonoran Desert Model Builders held their annual scale model exhibit at the Joel Valdez branch of the Pima County Library in downtown Tucson. This year’s theme was “Models from Movies, TV and Books – Part II.” This theme, like last year was meant to evoke the viewer’s memories of their favorite Movies, TV shows. and books. In the words of Betsy Langley – Art & exhibits Librarian – “Everything (the display) looks amazing, as always!”

Models in The Movies The Sequel

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Above: The Scorpions hard at work setting up the main window. Below: Pat Harrington and Dick Smith bring us the crew of The Hunters.

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Left: Mike Bilcik’s 1/72 F-100 Super Sabre. Complete with autographed photo. Below: Ron Schlorff’s rocket from When Worlds Collide.

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For more awesome photos go to: www.sdmb.yolasite.com Until next time!

Simon Herbert’s 1/24 logging truck

http://www.sdmb.yolasite.com/


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For all of you who remember the small quiz at the end of the Greeblies article in last month’s newsletter, here are the answers.


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Hoses and cables are details that bring a model to life and add incredible amounts of interest. These are elements that can be found everywhere no matter the subject, from automotive engines and hydraulic lines on construction equipment to hoses in spacecraft. The downside is that these details are extremely hard to reproduce in injection molded kits. For this reason many manufacturers include simplified versions of these details or just omit them altogether. This month we will take a look at some simple techniques to simulate hoses and cables in scale models.

Cables One of the best ways to simulate cables is to use electrical copper wire. This is usually inexpensive and very easy to work with. It can be painted to simulate anything from hydraulic lines to electrical cables. I usually keep a couple of small spools at hand on my bench. These here are 32 gauge (.00795 in) and 26 gage (.0159 in). The dash cables on this 11/24 DeLorean time machine were done using 32 gage wire that was painted in several colors.

BY: DAVE DIAZ

Tips and Tricks May 2016

HOSES & CABLING

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For this next tip we will be using some solder wire in addition to the 32 gage copper wire. Soldering wire is a great way to represent cables by itself. It is easy to cut and easy to bend into shape. To use it in combination with the copper wire, first cut the desire length of solder wire. Drill a hole in the model part where you want one end of the cable to go and super glue one end in it.


1. Next super glue the end of your copper wire at the base of the solder wire. Carefully wind the coper wire around the thicker solder wire to create a hose texture. This can be very tedious, especially for long segments, but the advantage is that it can be used in very tight turns as the solder wire is soft enough to allow this.

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Another way to simulate hoses is to use a guitar string. The appearance of this is very realistic, the only downside is that guitar strings can be very stiff so it does not work well for tight bends or intricate shapes. One great advantage is that because it is stiff, it is ideal for long hoses.


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Not your Xuron cutters boys! Use a heavy duty wire cutter to cut the guitar string as they are very stiff

MODELING TIP

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This next tip is one of my favorite ways to simulate hoses and cables. To do it we need to get our hands on some round rubber o-rings or seals. To use this method simply cut the O-ring with a knife and super glue one end in the desired location.

Once that end is dry glue the other end into place and done. One of the greatest advantage of this method is that is ideal for tight bends and for wrapping around objects. The disadvantage is that because it is rubber it will not hold its shape like solder wire will. It is by far my favorite method to simulate hydraulic hoses.

O-RINGS!

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Enter the Tentacle Maker!

The Tentacle Maker is one nifty tool I came across at Green Stuff Industries. It is a sculpting tool that allows to replicate hose type textures on a long round piece of green sculpting putty (aka Green Stuff). I realized the idea had plenty of modeling potential and immediately ordered a set. Now, how does exactly this tool works? And why is it called the “tentacle maker”?

www.greenstuffindustries.com

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I quickly discovered that the tool works with many different kinds of putty including: Milliput (both standard and fine), Tamiya Epoxy Putty and of course Green Stuff. Each tool consist of two trays, that have a textured interior surface. The idea is to roll a putty “noddle” of your desired thickness. You then

Sprinkle some baby powder over whatever surface you are rolling the putty on to prevent the putty sticking to the surface.

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2.

MODELING TIP

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place this noodle on the bottom tray of the tool. Next, you use the top tray of the tool and a side to side motion to imprint the texture from the inside surfaces of the trays into the putty.

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The great advantage of using this method is that since the putty takes time to cure you can literally shape your hose to whatever shape you need it and once dry it will stay in that shape. additionally since you have direct control as to how thick you make the putty noodle this tool works for any scale. The only disadvantage is that the length is limited to the size of the tool.


Oh, and why the name of Tentacle Maker, well if you make the putty noodle in a tapered shape, once you roll it, it will look like a kind of tentacle, which is great for sci-fi modeling.

Milliput (Standard)

Milliput (Fine)

Tamiya Epoxy Putty

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SDMB Club Officers

& Contacts

HOW CAN I JOIN THE SDMB?

Test the water before you join!

Here's how: Drop by and say "hello" at one of our monthly meetings (see our Next Meeting page for date and location details). If you like what you see and hear then drop by again the next month

and be sure to bring your questions and we'll help you get started! The first two meetings are free so drop on by! After your second meeting we would appreciate you joining our club. Our club dues

pay for various things such as community programs and sponsorships of trophies in contests. We are happy to have visitors but even happier when you join our club of award winning modelers.

Dave Brown [email protected] (PRESIDENT)

Kent Weeks [email protected] (TREASURER)

Derek Campbell [email protected] (SECRETARY)

Mike Bilcik [email protected] (CLUB IPMS POINT OF CONTACT)

Dave Diaz [email protected] (NEWSLETTER EDITOR) (Vice President)

Steve Barlow [email protected] (CLUB WEBMASTER)

Visit our website at www.sdmb.yolasite.com You can also find us on Facebook. SDMB is an affiliated club of the International Plastic Modeler’s Society www.IPMSUSA.org








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