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ReconAnnual Model Kit & Die Cast Exhibition -Mar 20, 2016, Holiday Inn, Taunton, MAContact, Stu Marcus at 603-382-9724 [email protected]

Valleycon 26 - Apr 3, 2016, Knights ofColumbus, Chicopee, MA Contact, AlLafleche 413-306-1270 [email protected],www.wwmodelclub.org

Downeastcon 2016 - Apr 03, 2016,Thorton Academy, Saco Maine Contact,Dave Osborne 207-985-8106

CAN/AM Con - Apr 23, 2016, Holiday Inn,Plattsburgh, NY Contact, Frank Baehre518-561-4265 [email protected]

Noreastcon 45 - Apr 29-30,2016,Museum of American Armor, OldBethpage, NY Contact, Robert [email protected] or www.lisms-ipms.org

Volume : 34 Issue: 3 December 2015

InsideRecon 1

Del's Corner 2

Kit Review - Ger. Staff Car 3

From The Bridge 4-6

Up Scope 7

Hobby Shops 8-9

In Range 10

2015 2016 Dues

If you have not already done so,please renew your dues for thecoming 2015-2016 membership year.Dues are still $10. Please remit yourdues to John Nickerson at themeeting or send it to him at 18Stone Street, Middleboro, MA 02346

Don't forget to ask for the FamilyMembership if you have sons ordaughters as members in the club aswell.

Del’s Corner

In The Pocket Review

Aviaeology AOD 72002M RCAF BristolBeaufighter DecalsWith the recent release of the 1/72 scaleAirfix Bristol Beaufighter new tool, I wassearchingthrough some of my decals to see what Ihad for Beaufighters, and I found this gem.I’ll state up front that I don’t know if thissheet is still in production, but you can stillfind it in some shops and online retailers. Itis also available in 1/48 and 1/32, I believe.Aviaeology specializes in WW2 Canadiansubjects, and does extensive research. Moreon that later.My sheets are dead nuts on, as far asregistration goes. One sheet is the aircraftmarkings and the other is the stenciling.The sheet follows four 404 Sqdn. RCAF TF.XBeaufighters through some coding changes.There are three schemes for LZ451, twoschemes each for NE355 and NV173, and asingle scheme for NE825. Most of them areEDSG, (Extra Dark Sea Grey), over sky.Some have invasion stripes.As promised, it’s time for later, it comeswith an 8 page booklet of instructions.Unfortunately, it’s printed in black andwhite, and I think the original artwork wasin color. There are profiles for each aircraftand typical wing plans. There are 5 colorsamples or keys to the profiles, which arenow in grey scale and difficult to discern

their usage. This is the biggest negative I’vefound. The colors are listed as Fresh ESDG,Typical “in service” EDSG, Faded EDSG,Extremely faded EDSG, and Sky. Where thisset goes above and beyond is in thediscussion on paint. It describes how theEDSG fades and where it wears away. It alsodiscusses what fluids went into the aircraftand where, and how those fluids wouldaffect the color of the local panels. Evidently,the Bristol Hercules had a tendency to leakoil. Bristol developed the engine into a“power egg” configuration, so that ifmaintenance was required, the engine wouldbe swapped out for service. New enginescame with new cowls, read as fresh paint.But my favorite part is the discussion onfabric tape. Seems some of the access hatcheswould come lose, so they would tape themdown and paint the tape with local camocolor or clear dope, but in some cases reddope or red lead primer was used. This wasa cannon armed aircraft and evidently, thevibrations from the cannons firing wouldshake loose certain screws, including thoseholding on the wing root covers. They wouldrun a strip of fabric tape over these screwsto help hold them in, and paint it.Because they follow each aircraft throughchanges, they list the changes as to antennainstallations and removals, etc. They areproviding you with a guide to building amodel of a specific airframe as it looked at aspecific time, complete with weathering.Also, there is a discussion of the rockets theycarried, how they were wired and armed. Ifyou are looking for schemes for your newBeaufighter kit and want some detailing info,I’d say this is a good place to start.I give it 4.5 thumbs up.

Del out!

Kit Review

Bronco – 1/35th German Light Staff CarStabswagen Model 1937 Cabriolet

By Robert Magina

Upon opening this kit it is quite a little gem. It is

not much bigger than a jeep when you look at the

kit. Parts are well molded with no distortion or

warpage. No flash anywhere. Pin ejection marks are

pretty minimal. The kit comes with a small fret of

PE for the license plates and a few other small

parts. You have the option of having the soft top up

or down. Doors can be assembled open or closed.

The truck lid and engine hood are molded shut.

Instructions are well written and include color

illustrations for painting. Decals include markings

for several German Units as well as the Allied

Occupation Forces post 1945. Decals are also

provided for (2) dashboard gauges.

I began assembly of the chassis. Sorry to say there

is no engine included in the kit. All you get is the

oil pan on the chassis rails. Assembly is pretty

straight forward. The front wheel assembly lends

itself nicely to cantering the front wheels should

you be so inclined. The wheels themselves assemble

in six sections putting the seams in the bottom of

the treads which is very nice. However, they are a

bit fidgety to put together. Front and rear wheel

assemblies are pretty straight forward.

Next I worked on the assembly of the interior. First,

I painted the interior in Model Master Enamel

Panzer Grey. Once done, I took the dashboard and

applied the gauge decals. The seats were painted in

a red brown color using Testor’s Hull Red. Once the

interior was done, I applied some weathering to the

floors, etc and then glued in the dashboard and

seats along with some personal equipment. Tires and

muffler were painted and glued in place.

The body was now affixed to the chassis and

readied for painting. I masked the window openings

and roof opening to preserve the work on the

interior. Painting was done with Model Master

Enamel Panzer Grey. Windows were glued in

next. Doors were installed leaving the driver’s

door open. I added the fuel can racks and spare

tire to the rear of the body.

Next I applied an acrylic grey wash from Vallejo.

I then dry brushed the car body with a lighter

shade of panzer grey. Dirt and mud were applied

to the wheels, wheel wells and chassis.

Weathering/wear was done lightly as this is early

in the war so I felt the staff car would not be too

beat up. Testor’s Gloss Coat was applied to areas

where the decals would be applied. After drying a

few days, I applied the decals. Several days later

another coat of gloss was applied over the decals.

After that dried, I applied a little weathering to

them to match the tone of the car. The last step

was to apply a coat of Testor’s enamel dull coat.

I created a small base with vinyl spackle for

groundwork. I added two tree stumps which I

made from a wood dowel and wire for roots. The

stumps were then coated with Liquid Nails for the

tree texture. Next I painted the groundwork with

various browns and used various grays for the

stumps. I then applied static grass, clump grass

from Silfor which was given a light airbrushing of

Model Master Medium Green. I added leaf litter

along with a couple of officers from DML with

resin heads from Warriors to round out the base.

I depicted a staff car belonging to an unidentified

unit in the invasion of France in 1941. I titled my

diorama “Next Move.”

I highly recommend this kit. The finished model

is a great representation of German WWII staff

cars. It’s a great change of pace from the usual

tank model. This kit is not priced too badly for

Bronco or for that matter any of the current

German WWII staff cars out there. It is offered in

the soft top and hardtop versions. This kit is a

current offering from Bronco and is readily

available at your local hobby shop or on the

internet.

From The BridgeThe President's Column

We are now in our 47th (2015 – 2016)membership year. The membership fee isstill only $10 per year and we acceptadvanced payment if you wish to getahead on your membership. There is also afamily membership plan. You can catch meat a meeting or send your payments to meby mail, checks to be made payable to BayColony Historic Modelers.

Seventy five modelers entered 280 modelsat BayCon 2015. The number is animprovement over last year, but on parwith past few years. If you remember, wehad a snow storm for BayCon 2014 thatkept a few people away, especially somewith longer drives.

So, new venue, new hall. We had a lot ofgood comments about the new hall.Lighting wasn’t one of them. That was themost repeated negative. We tried addingsome lights, which did help a little. Welearned from that. Hopefully we canimprove the lighting next year. The soundsystem was also a problem that we will tryto fix.

We do owe an apology to the guys thatshowed up early that Sunday morning tohelp set up, only to find the work alreadydone. A crew did go to set up Saturdayevening and didn’t notify anyone. It was a

good plan, it would be better to find anyproblems, first time in the hall, Saturdayevening instead of Sunday morning with aline of modelers waiting to get their modelson the tables. Hopefully, next year we willpublicize the setup time better, and avoidthat confusion. There were a number ofsnags during the day. Nothingunsurmountable. I doubt that any of themwere related to the change of venue, and Ithink that they have all happened before,just not all at the same time. But all in all, Ithink most everyone had a good time.

When we were at the Knights Hall, in SouthAttleboro, we had been there for so long,that everything kind of fell into place. Weknew where everything was, we knew all ofthe problem spots. With the Elks hall, it wasall new again. We had to watch everything.The show committee worked very hard toget this one in the rear view mirror. I needto call your attention to the efforts of a few,that without there diligence, this year’s showmay not have happened, and they would beGian Montecalvo, John Gisetto, and PaulChampigny. Big thanks guys. There were alot more that helped out the day of theshow, I know that because the work gotdone. And I couldn’t even begin to listthem, because I don’t know who did what.Thanks everyone for all of your help. Oneguy that does step up in a big way is JoeRussem. Joe walks in and takes over thatfront registration table, for the day! He didhave some help, I remember Gil Costa sittingthere and I think Bob Don. So once again,to all of those that helped out, ourgratitude,

We had one model left behind, a motorcycleby Chris McLoud. If anyone can deliver it toChris, please let me know.

One thing we have to work on is the JudgesMeeting. Very few people turn out. Theyknow they will be asked to judge, or to help

out in some way, but they ignore the meeting.Yes, most of the info at the meeting is just arehash of the same stuff. But there is importantinfo given out, sometimes about specific modelsor categories that have been moved or shuffled,or need to be. So we need to work on gettingpeople to turn out. It helps to get us all on thesame page.

I’m trying to get this finished early to makesure Bob can get the newsletter out ahead ofthe meeting. It’s the December holiday meetingat the Libucha household. It has becometradition to not only have the regular meetingraffle but also a kit swap. If you wish toparticipate, all you have to do is wrap a kit, soit is not recognizable. This could be withholiday wrap, newspaper, aluminum foil, orbrown paper. The kit just needs to becomplete, un-started, and not a booby prize.You may enhance the kit by adding PE, glue,additional decals, decal set, tools etc. Westarted this to try to get the kits that peoplewon at the raffles, that were residing in “to bebuilt” piles, back into circulation. It’s also agood way to dispose of a kit that you have lostinterest in. You know the one. You bought itthinking how nifty it was, and what a great jobyou were going to do, then Hasamyagonadmyreleased a better one or the exact variant youwanted to model. So it now languishes in the“to be built, maybe” pile? Yeah, that’s theone. Or maybe you won it in the meetingraffle, not quite what you built, but youchecked it out and it looks like an interestingbuild, so maybe someday? Well, maybe this isits day! Wrap it up and gift it to anothermodeler. You don’t have to go out and buy anew kit to participate, unless, of course, youwant to, and in that case, I was consideringadding the new Revell C-54 to my collection.Hint, hint.

We are always looking for articles for thenewsletter. What kind of articles you ask? Itcould be anything hobby or club related, long

or short. It’s always nice to have a page longarticle, but we also need fillers, to fill inthose quarter page spots. Some possibilitiesare auto-biographies, first kit ever built, worstkit ever built, most enjoyable build, first timewith an airbrush, historical moment, how youfound this club, kit reviews, show reviews,and many more. Just don’t be overlynegative. If you have something for thenewsletter send it to Bob Magina. Just onelast point on this, if you do submitsomething, don’t expect it to be in the nextnewsletter. Bob uses them as he needs them.Length of article is a strong factor in when itgets published.

Two of the three building challenges forBayCon 2016 have been posted. The Kwasnychallenge is WWI subject, armor, artillery, etc.all scales. The Shea Naval Air Museumchallenge is for any Massachusetts aircraft,any scale. For finite rules for these you willhave to go to the club forum.

I’ve found the Battle of Britain to be aninteresting area of study. Not only the aircraftused but the policies and strategies used bythe opponents. But most of all it’s theaircraft. On the British side it was theSupermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane.When you delve into the actual history of thebattle, what you find is the Spitfire got all ofthe glory, the Hurricane did all of the work.The Hurri was the numerically superiorfighter. For that fact, they had so fewSpitfires at the start of the battle, part of thestrategy dealt with how to preserve the fewthat they had. Some suspect that the “few”that Winston Churchill referred to were theSpitfires, and want to know why they get allof the credit. The Hurri had eight wingmounted .303 caliber machine guns. This wasthe same round fired by the Lee-Enfield thatthe infantry used. It was a rugged and stablegun platform. To build a Battle of Britain

Hurricane, the new Airfix 1/48 Hurricane is agood starting point and is getting good reviews.Most of the negative I’ve found about this kit isa flaw in the instructions involving the landinggear assembly. I’m told that if you follow theinsert, that view is shown correctly. And if youwould prefer to build in a smaller scale, Airfixhas two 1/72 Mk. I Hurricanes. One has thetwo bladed prop which is not a Battle of Britainaircraft. By that time they all had three bladedprops.

The Dec. 2015 issue of Scale Auto has a greatdiscussion on painting. Six “Master Modelers”were interviewed and gave their opinions onnumerous aspects of painting and getting a greatfinish. They address primer, clear coats, spraycan or airbrush, lacquer or enamel, and properpreparation. Just a heads up.

And as one last note, to fit the season, did youever think of building models for yourChristmas tree? The December Squadron flyerhas a five step quick build process for buildingmodel aircraft as ornaments. They use 1/72scale Hobby Boss quick build kits, paint themsilver and gold, but I’m thinking 1/144 may bebetter because you will not be restricted to justfighters, and you could also paint them in theirsquadron colors. I don’t think a 1/72 scale B-17hanging on the tree qualifies as an ornament.But let’s expand the idea, Zvezda has some1/100 snap kits of armor. See where I’m going?The Sci-Fi builders don’t have this problem,Hallmark has already made Star Trek and StarWars ornaments. Not to leave the car buildersand ship guys out, Heller makes some 1/43scale car kits, and some of the smaller size1/700 vessels, such as destroyers, subs, patrolboats, etc, would work. Just a thought.

Wishing you all the best of this holiday season.

God bless America! Pray for our servicemenoverseas.Happy modeling and give kits to kids!John J. [email protected]

WANTED

Our annual BayCon show is in need of aRaffle Chairman. This is a vital andimportant position that is needed to helpstreamline the operation of BayCon. TheRaffle Chairman would be responsible for:Acquiring items for the show raffle.Selling raffle tickets.Drawing tickets and announcing winningticket numbersAfter the show, reporting on monies earnedand overall function of the raffle.This position is open to any club member,male or female over the age of 18. If youare interested in learning more or applyingplease contact: John J. Gisetto Sr. at 508-947-1546, [email protected] or stop byhis home and chat about this mostimportant position.

Up Scope:February 13th 2016

Meeting

Fairhaven Fire Station146 Washington StreetFairhaven, MA 02719

Contact:Brian Messier508-889-4026

Directions

From the north, you want to take either 140south or 495 south. For those taking 140, take195 east to exit 18. For those taking 495 take195 West to exit 18. off the exit you will beheading south. go through 1 set of lights. bearright at the second set of lights onto route 6.Again, go through one set of lights at AldenRoad. take your NEXT LEFT ( across from BurgerKing). This is Washington St. The fire station isabout a thousand feet down on your right. theaddress for those with a GPS is 146 WashingtonSt, Fairhaven MA. 02719.

January 9th 2016 Meeting

Bill Collins113 Powderhorn DriveTaunton, MA 02780

Contact:Bob Magina508-695-7754

Directions

Take 140N from Taunton or S from

Norton. Go right or left on Norton Street.Take a left at first fork, then a right atthe second fork. Take first right andfollow along to house #113.

March 9th 2016 Meeting

Pat McColgen

96 Rawlinson Drive

Coventry, RI 02816

Contact:

Pat McColgan

8604556585

Directions:

Travel South on I 95 to exit 7 and take right

off the exit. At the second light (Cumberland

Farms) take a left onto Arnold Rd and

continue to the intersection of Rt 3/Tiogue

Avenue. Take a right onto Rt 3/Tiogue ave.

After passing Nino’s on the right, continue up

over the hill to the sixth street on the right.

Take a right onto Rawlinson Dr continue to

the four way intersection. Our house is on

the corner of East Shore Drive and Rawlinson

drive and is the biege ranch. Please park

along East Shore Drive and enter from the

garage side into the back yard.

Any questions you can call 8604556585.

Darlington Hobbies

379 Market St.

Warren RI 02885

401 245 7550

Store Hours:

Mon-Fri 10am - 7pm

Sat. 9am - 5pm

Sun. 12pm - 4pm

Contact Info.

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.darlingtonhobbies.com

Were willing to give your model clubdiscounts. 30% off ordered items.(must be prepaid) 20% off in stockitems.(paints & supplies are 15%)

In Range:November 14th Meeting Gian Montecalvo

1/35th Schneider (WIP) Steve Kwasny

1/35th T90A Early Spring Maneuvers Steve

Kwasny

1/35th Skoda 4.0CM Mortar Bill Collins

1/35th 10.5CM Field Gun Bill Collins

1/350th USS Boston Bill Collins

1/48th A4M Skyhawk Joe Ravino

1/48th Fury FJ4 Joe Ravino

1/35th KTR 250 Motorcycle Bob Don

1/76th Churchill Mortar Carriage Bob Don

1/700th Typhoon Sub Bob Don

90MM Gunfighter Joe McDonald Sr.

Buccaneer Bust Joe McDonald Sr.

RFC Pilot 1917 Bust Joe McDonald Sr.

1/32nd Raiden Kevin Conlon

Crazy Big Bird (WIP) Kevin Conlon

1/48th ME262 Joe Russum

In Attendance:

Bob Magina Ray Rosario

Bill Collins Kevin Conlon

Bob Don Gian Montecalvo

Paul Champigny Joe McDonald Sr.

John Nickerson Peter Jardim

Chris Libucha Joe Ravino

Hal Marshman Sr. Steve Kwasny

Kevin Colburn Joe Russum

Gil Costa John Gisetto Sr.

Pat McColgen

Raffle:

1/35th MK IV Female Tank Gil Costa

Sanding Sticks Peter Jardim

1/48th British A/C Decals Joe Russum

XActo Blades Bob Magina

IPMS Bay Colony Modelers meet the secondSaturday of each month from 1:00 to 4:00 PM.The meetings take place at selected membershouses. Look at the Battlewagon or the clubwebsite for locatiion and directions. Guests arealways welcome. Membership is $10.00 peryear. Members and guests are encourged tobring completed models or works in progress fordisplay and discussion.

The Battlewagon is published six times per year.All opinions expressed are those of the authorsand do not necessarily reflect IPMS Bay Colonyor IPMS USA views. Submissions relevant tomodeling are welcome, and may be published atthe discretion of the editor. All material issubject to editing. There is no payment forarticles.

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2015 - 2016 Club DuesIf you have not already done so,please renew your dues for thecoming 2015-2016 membership year.Dues are still $10. Please remit yourdues to John Nickerson at a meetingor send it to him at 18 Stone Street,Middleboro, MA 02346

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