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10/17-24 In-Person Meeting

10/17/2024

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Build a Car Challenge Results
Members were challenged to build a car model for the October in-person meeting. Here's a photo gallery of our efforts, some more complete than others. 
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Aside from the car challenge builds, here are a few photos of the additional projects members shared.
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10/3/24 Zoom Meeting

10/3/2024

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Special Guest - Ester Aube, AirCorps Library Manager
From our special guest, "For those that may not be familiar, the 
AirCorps Library is a website that offers enthusiasts of WWII aircraft a place to access primary source blueprints and manuals for the warbirds we love. Join Ester Aube, the manager of AirCorps Library, as she discusses the history behind the website, and how the hobbyist community can utilize the over half a million resources that are accessible there. If you have an interest in building WWII aircraft, and have ever had questions about the accuracy of your kit, or are an over-enthusiastic scratch builder or modifier, then you won't want to miss this presentation!
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9/5/24 Zoom Meeting

9/5/2024

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Kwai Me a River
Aris Pappas shares pictures and descriptions of his experience visiting Kanchanoburi, Thailand, site of the famous Bridge on the River Kwai and the infamous "Death Railway" during WWII.
Behind the Scenes of Kermit Weeks' "Fantasy of Flight Museum"
Brian Fowler recently had a behind the scenes tour of this well known flying museum in Florida. Brian couldn't be with us for the meeting and asked Tim Burke to run a photo presentation of this amazing collection.
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8/15/24 In-Person Meeting

8/8/2024

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The Sanford Cup Competition Returns!
Our August in-person meeting brings the return of the Sanford Cup competition after a five year hiatus.

This award, inspired by the late Al Sanford’s excellence in modeling and good sense of humor, is presented to the NENY member whose work is voted to be the best model exhibited at the chapter’s August meeting each year. The winner will take the cup home for the year and return it to the site of the next year’s August meeting.

It's a friendly competition (as friendly as possible when modelers compete for anything) and an opportunity to put forward your best model of the recent past and enjoy good fellowship. We hope you'll participate next year! Here's a PDF of the rules.

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Contest Results

Everyone who entered a model also qualified for, and received, a nifty commemorative coaster that was designed and 3D printed by our very own member, Jason Mantor. A huge thank you to Jason for his excellent work on this!

​14 worthy entries vied for the honors this year with a close run result requiring a tie-breaking second round of voting.​ 


​Brian Fowler's 1/32 Tamiya A6M2 Zero (entry #6) edged out Paul Dupree's build of the ancient box-scale Revell Pine Island seaplane tender (entry #9) by one vote! 

Here's a gallery of the entries and winner.

Overview of the entries.
Nick Filippone's 1/72 Flying Boat Falco
Eric Burleigh's 1/72 Short Stirling
Jim Middelton's 1/48 Beaufighter
Tim Burke's 1/48 SSW D.III
Jay Devlin's 1/24 Pinto Modified
Brian Fowler's 1/48 A6M2 Zero
Pat Piccirilli's 1/72 F-35
Greg Aldi's 1/48 A-36 Apache
Paul Dupree's 1/426 Pine Island
Steve Tytko's 1/72 Boeing 247D
Pauld Jendzeizyk's Trevithick Locomotive
Dave Pratt's 1/72 British Wildcat
Kyle Koppos's 1/48 Tiger Moth
Bill Ellis's 1/700 Sub
Tim Burke presents the Sanford Cup to Winner Brian Fowler
Brian Fowler, 2024 Sanford cup winner
Show and Tell

Several members displayed models not entered in competition for show and tell. Here are a few photos of the meeting and show and tell models.
Tim Burke's 1/48 Hawk Laird Solution
Eric Burleigh's 1/72 ICM SU-2
Brian Fowler's 1/72 Flyhawk FT-17
Greg Aldi's Bandai AT-M6
Paul Dupree's 1/72 Airfix Pearl Harbor set
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8/1/24 Zoom Meeting

8/1/2024

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Commemorative Air Force Fly-in Photos
A PT-13, RC-45J, T-6, B-29, and P-51D of the Commemorative Air Force visited the Schenectady County Airport on June 12-16 and members of the club toured the visiting aircraft. It was a beautiful afternoon to see these iconic aircraft up close and talk with the staff who maintain and fly them. Here's a short photo gallery of the aircraft.
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6/6/24 Zoom Meeting

6/6/2024

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Special Guest - Peter Vetri, President of Atlantis Models

​We are fortunate to have Peter from Atlantis joining us for our meeting. Atlantis is the premier manufacturer of new versions of vintage kits, which are made available to all of us for a stroll down memory lane or because no one else ever made a kit of that subject! Visit their website and check out their current and future releases!
Other Meeting Highlights

A peek behind the curtain at the IPMS Journal - Our NENY Zoom friend Shawn Hays has been working with the IPMS Journal team to help with the production process for the society's publication and he'd like to use our group as a mini-focus group to show us a new look and feel for the Journal and get some feedback from the group.  Maybe we'll have a contest to see who has the oldest copy of the Journal! 😉  

Building OLD kits - And since we're talking about older, vintage, classic, retro, etc. model kits...let's talk about that!  We ALL have some in our stashes, but how many actually build them?  What are the challenges?  What are the rewards?  How do you approach the project?  What's different from building a newer kit? 

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5/2/24 Zoom Meeting

5/2/2024

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Long Distance Flight, Small Scale Modeling by Harvey Low
Harvey will take us on a journey recounting the longest military flight in WWII. That long-distance flight was not by a bomber, but a transport aircraft, and not by the Allies, but the Axis – it was the Italian Savoia Marchetti SM.75. flight and of course, Harvey will tell us about his project to model this iconic aircraft in 1/72nd. 
Boots and Saddles, Everyone!
Brian Fowler will share photos he took at Fort Moore, GA (formerly Ft. Benning) last weekend where he and Shawn Hays visited the National Infantry Museum and the Armor and Cavalry Collection.  Many of the tanks and artillery pieces that were previously at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD are now preserved, under cover ("and there was much rejoicing!!), at Fort Moore. The base and collection is normally closed to the public, but this was a special open house weekend where the public could view the collection, so this is an extra special treat for all of us!!
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4/18/24 In-Person Meeting

4/18/2024

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Tonight's meeting was the best attended yet!

New members joined us and there were plenty of show and tell models on display, including many representing this month's theme of "bring something green". Galleries of our convivial group and  models on display follow.
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Mike Plonka's 1/35 Meng D9R Armored Dozer
Mike Plonka's 1/72 Revell PT Boat Cutaway
Bill Ellis's 1/48 Tamiya KV2
Bill Ellis's 1/700 USS Sargo
Tim Burke's 1/48 Roden Fokker D.VII
Tim Burke's Union Submarine Alligator
Kyle Koppos's Alien - Large
Kyle Koppos's Alien - small
Kyle Koppos's 1/144 Eduard Stuka
Kyle Koppos's 1/48 Monogram Huey
Kyle Koppos's 1/64 Revell/Atlantis B-25
Paul Jendzeizyk's Wooden Engine WIP
Paul Jendzeizyk's 1/25 Roadster
Dave Pratt's 1/72 Fujimi F1M2 Pete
Nick Filippone's 1/72 A2 Spad
Jim Middleton's 1/48 Tamiya P-51D
Steve Tytko's 1/35 Toga T-70
Jay Devlin's 1/25 Scratchbuilt Dumpsterfire 2020
Greg Aldi's Millennium Falcon and Birddog
Jason Mantor's 1/96 3D printed Fletcher Class Destroyer
Ralf Schauer's 1/72 Armourfest StuLG 33B
Ralf Schauer's 1/125 Ariane 4
Paul Dupree's 1/72 Heller T-28 and 1/428 Revell USS Pine Island
Paul Dupree's 1/72 Special Hobby CH-37 Mojave
Paul Dupree's 1/72 Airfix Westland Whirlwind
Paul Dupree's 1/72 Airfix Westland Whirlwind
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4/4/24 Zoom Meeting

4/4/2024

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3/21/24 In-Person Meeting

3/21/2024

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Turnout tonight was strong with a couple of new members joining us. 

Decal buy/sell/swap/giveaway was tonight's activity accompanied by an informative round table discussion about decaling tips and techniques.

The gallery below includes group shots and the show and tell projects members brought along to share.
Tim Burke's 1/48 Eduard SSW D.III
Tim Burke's AER Model Studios 1/288 Hanseatic Cog
Jim Middleton's Tamiya 1/16 German Machine Gunner
Jim Middleton's Dragon 1/16 Airborne Paratrooper
Greg Aldi's BanDai Yamato 2205 Flight Deck 19
Greg Aldi's BanDai Comet Empire Battleship
Jay Devlin's Tamiya 1/18 M8 McLaren
Jay Devlin's Tamiya 1/18 Lola
Paul Dupree's 1/144 VE vac-u-form Argosy
Paul Dupree's 1/144 Airfix HP 42 Heracles
Paul Dupree's 1/144 Airfix DH Comet 4B
Paul Dupree's 1/72 Heller N.A. T-28 Trojan
Paul Dupree's 1/72 Mach2 RAF Argosy
Paul Dupree's 1/424 Revell USS Pine Island
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