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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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Continue reading →: Two Little D&D FiguresBy Michael Orris I found these two little D&D figures in a box in a desk drawer. I have no idea when I acquired them other than decades ago. Anyway, I decided to paint them and get them a little base for display. The first figure I decided to make…
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Continue reading →: Brian Takes Second with Normandy Soldier FigureNewer CAMS member Brian Daly was among the awardees at the IPMS Duneland show October 12. Brian’s 101st Airborne soldier at Normandy took second place in the 90mm or larger figures. He was one of two CAMS members in the show but the only to win an award.
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Continue reading →: The Mandalorian sees some custom touches.When we were at Nationals in Madison, WI, my wife, daughter and I wandered through a local Hobby Lobby. They spotted something and said, “Hey, this one’s on sale; are you going to get it?” “Nah,” I replied. “Are you SURE?” Well, it was marked down about 80%, so I…
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Continue reading →: Jason McEntire Builds an Award-Winning Milenium FalconThis is Bandai’s 1/350 scale Millennium Falcon. I love these kinds of small kits. After construction and nub cleanup, I primed it with black Stynylrez primer through my airbrush. Then, I airbrushed several coats of a light grey. The grey is still darker than the actual Falcon models, so I’ll…
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Continue reading →: CAMS Gets Expert Tips on Photographing ModelsPhotographing models is all about lighting and perspective, Kevin Epling, a long-time scale model and toy photographer and videographer at Michigan State University, told CAMS at its September meeting. Epling (smallscalepics.smugmug.com and https://www.youtube.com/@1964K/featured) brought several of his sets and camera setups to show how differences in both placement and color…
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Continue reading →: HJ Shows Us to Create Polished Metal with Primer and PaperA brilliant metal finish can be completed with black primer, your preferred metal color and a sheet of printer paper, our member Hyeon-Jung “HJ” Yun showed us in a recent demonstration. H.J. explained how he achieved a mirror finish: On the feature image for this post, I applied a black…
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