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Continue reading →: Fishstick takes third in gundam at Model Con 419Chris “Fishstick” Long was the sole CAMS representative in the 2025 Model Con 419 (though there were others of us in attendance) and took third place in the Gundam category. The competition, sponsored by IPMS/Fremont Kitbashers and IPMS/Toledo Plastic Modelers, featured several hundred kits representing some impressive work. Best in…
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Continue reading →: H.J. provides a view of the IPMS Korea showAfter a couple of years in the United States visiting IPMS/USA (and some unaffiliated) shows and contests, CAMS member Yun “H.J.” Hyeon-Jung has returned home to South Korea and sent us some thoughts on the IPMS Korea show last month. “IPMS Korea show has been sort of a joint club…
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Continue reading →: CAMS takes on the Atlantis P-39Thanks to a manufacturing mistake, CAMS members had a build challenge for the May meeting. Atlantis molded hundreds of the military version of its P-39 kit in the yellow intended for its racing version of the kit. Rather than throw them away, the company offered them for pennies to IPMS…
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Continue reading →: Kevin Epling Shares His Photos of Our ModelsKevin Epling of Smallscalepics (smallscalepics.smugmug.com) at out March meeting had set up some backdrops and photographed some of our models to show us some tricks for lighting, angles and focus, as well as some gear for both our phones and for camera equipment. Some of the pictures we took were…
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Continue reading →: Fishstick and Chris K. Participate in the Facebook Annual 24-Hour Build ChallengeFishstick and Chris Klaver enjoy doing buddy builds together. Our first one was the 1970 ½ Camaro kit from AMT/Round2 that we got on the Hobby Lobby 40% off sale. The kits were terrible and both of us had many issues that challenged our building skills. As a friendly competition…
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Continue reading →: Brad’s Phantom Takes Second Best of at SEMMEXBrad Shafer took a second Best of Show at the 2025 SEMMEX show with his F-4 Phantom. CAMS members Mike Orris and Chris Long took best of categories in box stock and Gundam respectively in addition to numerous bronze, silver and gold badges for several entries. Judges said Brad’s notebook…
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Continue reading →: Brad takes best of 4M Mayhem with his PhantomCAMS member Brad Shafer corrected all the issues that had shut him out of the hardware at the 2024 Nationals to bring home Best in Show at the 2025 4M Mayhem with his F-4C Phantom. The 1/32 scale Tamiya kit, with lots of extras, was designed to replicate a plane…
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Continue reading →: Second time’s the charm for a T-6G replicaThis project, a 1/48th T-6G by Ocidental (#0201), started from a photo of my dad sitting in the cockpit of a North American T-6G Texan as a flight instructor at Bartow AFB, Lakeland, Florida. Vince Tassone graciously offered to make me a set of decals replicating the aircraft number and…
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Continue reading →: Jason tries weathering without full painting on Char’s GeloogBecause time is in short supply and Bandai’s Gundam kits come molded in color, I wanted to see how little paint I could put on a model and still get a good finish. After doing the regular test-fitting and nub cleanup, I decided to install a small LED for the…
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Continue reading →: Chrises Bring Bronzes from Region 5Chris Long and Chris Klaver brought CAMS to the Region 5 regionals sponsored by IPMS Butch O’Hare and came back with seven bronze awards between them. The show included 375 registered entries by 120 modelers, all judged with the IPMS gold-silver-bronze standards (as opposed to first-second-third for each category). Chris…
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