Posted by Bart Cusumano on Nov 9, 2014 | Comments Off on Pelikan Meerting S&T Photos – 11/4/14
Jeff Price’s cool Mirror-Mirror ISS Enterprise in 1:1000 scale from Polar Lights
Charlie Hess did this neat German sub from Dubbya Dubbya 2.
Prez Dave brings in the Tamiya 1:48 Skyraider – but broke the rear starboard vertical stabilizer off when playing Vietnam out in the parking lot before the meeting – he was dive bombing a fire ant mound when it happened.
Guy Borgeson’s very cool 1:72 scale German bikes and sidecars – war game pieces, but nice models on their own.
Jeff Price Enterprise again – too cool to not show top and bottom.
Jeff Price also did this lethal 50’s-era space ship from some campy 50’s sci-fi movie. From the Pegasus kit.
Big Joe Bivona continues with the well received WWI them with this figure of the kaiser, done up in oils.
Joe Bivona also brought in this little 1:72 scale Nieuport
Terry Kirkpatrick has gone fishing with these US military service branch themed flies
Jeff Price did this cool Pontiac Bonneville from the AMT kit using Alclad candy coat paint – wouldn’t this look cool on an Ironman model?
Karl goes French with this 1:48 French airplane.
Herr Karl Pople did this Israeli 109 in 1:48 from the Hobbycraft kit
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Posted by Bart Cusumano on Oct 14, 2014 | Comments Off on Pelikan Meeting S&T Photos – 10/7/14
Robby the Robot by Jeff Price
George Cost 1:700 WWI Ship
Hover tank ‘Nutrocker’ by Jeff Price
Space Clipper by Ozzie Leandri
Randy Cooper’s magnificent award-winning Time Machine
Walt Lamb’s nice bi-plane
George Cost does another cool 1:700 ship
George Brown’s 1:48 ‘Dinah’
Jesus Ramos does the OLD Tamiya 1:35 kit proud
F6F Hellcat by Ozzie Leandri in 1:72
Guy Borgeson’s nicely finished 1:72 German truck
Art-Master Robert marquinez’z in-progress 1:35 Land Rover
George Brown’s headache in 1:48
Another nice George Cost 1:700 ship
Bill Lyon brings in two oldie but goodies
Jeff Price does a huge 106 Recoiless
Ed Brut finishes his tiny 3-D printed kit
Jeff Price goes big again with this .50 cal.
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Posted by Bart Cusumano on Sep 4, 2014 | Comments Off on Pelikan Club Meeting: September 2, 2014
Jeff Price steps on a model and out comes a BSG Fast Cruiser! From the original Monogram issue.
MPC’s Y-Wing from Star Wars – from Jeff Price.
Jeff Price is taken by The Force: Another Star Wars T.I.E. fighter of some sort. Looks cool in blood red.
Mike Hanson’s neato 1:350 scale Blue Ridge Models USS Nautilus
Big George Hecht exploits the Chinese Child Labor market again and brings us this operational huge model of some German Green Thang from WW2. Several Pelikans were almost killed during a live-fire demo.
Not to be left out, Ed Brut also takes advantage of lax Chinese Child Labor laws and bought in this cool collection of WWI aero planes.
Walt Lamb does a double – two 1:72 scale Monogram double deckers. That actually makes four.
The honorable Robert Marquinez goes French and does up this cool 54mm figure of some French guy from WWI
More 1:35 scale figures from Robert Marquinez – this time a striped duo in a cool setting.
HJ Charles Hess flies in with this Polish Pzl in 1:72 scale. A Revell kit. Was there any kielbasa left?
Steve Sobieralski goes Ferrari nuts with this humongous Ferrari model. 1:12 scale?
The Famous Nick Torrey orders off the Italian menu with a M13/40 in 1:35 scale from Tamiya.
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Posted by Bart Cusumano on Aug 7, 2014 | Comments Off on Pelikan Club Meeting: August 5, 2014
Ex-FL Karl Pople does a 1:72 Eduard Dr.1 in Red Baron livery.
Pople strikes again – this time a 1:72 Hawker Hurricane IIc night fighter from Hobby Boss.
Herr Pople rounds out the evening with an Me163 done up in a one-time Wolf Spate scheme to honor the Red baron. Hobby Boss 1:72
Brought to you this evening, direct from Pinellas county: the George Hecht Collection. George actually builds TWO real models – a Takom 1:16 Ft-17 and some sort of Nazi rail car. To keep his screwdriving skills up-to-date, he does a big P-51 in Tuskegee Airmen colors.
Randy Cooper continues to wow and amaze with this bubble ship from the movie Oblivion. Totally scratch built folks and totally superb.
Randy’s bubble ship – a cockpit close-up
Rear view of Randy’s bubble ship.
Dave Fenwick recycles a base with a new German rocket of unknown (to this writer) type in 1:72 scale.
Holy antique cars Batman! One of the many Randy Cooper car collection pieces. This one being a Futura from which the TV show Batman Batmobile was made from. All the cars in this month’s gallery are from Randy’s collection.
Not only does he lead, he builds! Prez Dave’s Tamiya 1:32 Spitfire MkXVI – OOB
Prez Dave holds his Spitfire aloft so that we can the the bottom. No idea what Prez Dave is chewing on . . .
Jeff Price goes into orbit with the Moebius Space Clipper from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Jeff Price continues the space theme with this Sanger in 1:144th scale – an old Revell kit.
The Jeff Price Space Collection
Barry Reese brings us a Kiwi SBD Dauntless in 1:48 scale by Revell. A one dollar garage sale kit acquisition!
Ed Brut continues his penchant for the strange and weird with this Shapeways 3D printed kit in 1:144th scale of a Handley Page WWI bomber. Can you say, “Cool!”
The amazing and eclectic Joe Bivona goes WWI with these two 1:72 scale biplanes and a cool 1:16 scale model of a Spandau machine gun.
Special Hobby’s 1:48 scale F2A-3 Buffalo by Tom Milne – done up as a Midway survivor.
Andy Mason goes Navy wit this nice 1:48 scale Hasegawa A7E from VA-86
Jeff Price continues to model in lieu of eating and delves into the world of 1:35 scale armor. Here’s an Italeri M-108 SPH from the ‘Nam
Another Jeff Price armor piece in 1:35 scale.
Really? Jeff is one prolific dude! Here’s a 1:35 scale Centauro.
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Posted by Bart Cusumano on Jun 5, 2014 | Comments Off on Pelikan Club Meeting S&T – June 3, 2014
Special guest visitor to meeting night, Flat Matty, caught in a tender moment with Yvonne DeCarlo
Dave Fenwick goes 1:72 scale German missile diorama again in June.
An absolutely stunning 1:1 scale collection of used applesauce containers by Robert Marquinez.
Joe Bivona goes for twice the fun with this cool biplane.
Robert Marquinez brings life to the Verlinden 120mm British guy.
This cool little fairy in a leaf by Nemrod is done by the amazing Libby Brut and is called “In Good Company”.
Guy Borgeson goes road wheel crazy with this nice 1:72 Churchill tank.
Monogram’s 1:72 scale Mustang P-51B by the famous Charlie Hess, heir to the Hess Gas fortune.
Charlie Hess goes invasion stripe crazy again with this cool Matchbox A-20G in 1:72 scale.
OK, so he’s not the heir to the giant Hess Gas fortune, but Charlie Hess did build this 1:72 scale Airfix LCVP painted with Model Master.
The often imitated, but never surpassed, Brad Johnson brings us three cool models: Italeri German motorcycle with side-car, Tasca M4 Sherman and I have no idea who’s Panther G early. All in 1:35 scale.
Lord Vader, your TIE fighter is ready . . .Jeff Price gives us the nice 1:72 scale Fine Molds kit.
Boeing 737-200 in Piedmont livery in 1:144 scale by Bart Cusumano.
Frank Stansell goes on a cat fight with his two Grumman Hellcats: the Hasegawa 1:48 scale offering and the 1:72 scale kit from Heller?
An A-4P Skyhawk of the Argentinian navy from the Airfix 1:72 scale kit by the Amazing Leandri – or Ozzie as we all know him.
Big George Brown’s beautiful Mustang in Brit configuration – 1:48 scale.
Walt Lamb goes OOB with this real nice Fokker D-VII from the 1:72 Revell kit.
The French have a navy and submarines? Barry Reese offers this proof that they do: a 1:400 kit of their Surcoft by Heller.
Tom Knapp’s special guest Flat Matty partying on with the members of a Hellcat squadron.
1:48 scale Tamiya M-10 artfully done by the now famous Robert Marquinez, whose amazing 1:1 rendering of used applesauce containers will be displayed at MoMA this summer.
Charlie Hess goes nautical again (well, he is a US Navy vet) with this WIP of DML’s LCM in 1:72 scale.
Otaki’s 1:48 scale Spitfire Mk VIII converted to a PR Mk XI by Walt Lamb
Robert Marquinez (again?) painted up this real nice Warriors 1:35 scale US Infantry guy from the 2nd Armored Division in Dubbya Dubbya 2.
You Futured the plastic? Really? Joe Bivona, that is amazing! We thought it was painted! Cool car, dude.
George Brown’s difficult WIP of Italeri’s OH-something or other Helo. Looks real nice – can’t wait to see it done.
Can you say, Beaufighter Mk X? Brian Sibbitt’s 1:72 scale Hasegawa kit. Funny, but I didn’t know that Beaufighters floated. . .
Steve Sobieralski’s cat terror device: Tamiya’s 1:16 scale Tiger I – R/C tank.
Brad loves his Tasca Shermans so much, I figured I’d post another photo . . .
Robert Marquinez also did this cool vignette of two German dudes on a turret: figures from Alpine and turret from Tamiya Panzer IV D in 1:48 scale.
Our guest, Flat Matty hangs with old FDR for a while before Tom Knapp takes him home.
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Posted by Bart Cusumano on May 8, 2014 | Comments Off on Pelikan Club Meeting: May 6, 2014
Joe Bivona’s terrific presentation of Ernst Udet’s machinery from WWI.
George Hecht has finally lost his mind: ’nuff said.
Karl goes all Godzilla on us with this Japanese fighter aircraft.
Former Fearless Leader Karl Pople has it out with a Hellcat in 1:72 scale by Hobby Boss.
Ed Brut brought in this really nice Wayne Anderson WWI diorama.
Another Steve Sobieralski Ferrari model – big-‘un.
BSG detail shot
Although it looks like one of Randy’s, this is actually a formula racer body model WIP by Steve Sobieralski.
BSG detail shot
BSG undersides detail shot
Wanted in five states – reward available. Call US Marshall’s office for details.
Keeping it all in the family, Annie Cooper gives us George Jetson and Astro.
Jesus Ramos cruises with a 1:700 scale Tamiya offering of a Japanese Navy WW2 ship.
An antique balsa/plastic hybrid B-25 model.
Nice diorama by unknown modeler – sorry no slips this month!
BSG detail shot
BSG detail shot
BSG detail shot
Tom Knapp goes all diorama for the first time with this nice PaK settee.
Frank Stansell flies in with a 1:48 scale hasegawa F6-F Hellcat WIP and a completed Airfix 1:72 scale Spitfire
Randy Cooper’s magnificent Battlestar Galactica (BSG) from the original TV series
Ferrari in 1:18 scale by Steve Sobieralski – in resin and mixed media
Dave Fenwick’s German anti- airplane missile dirama in 1:72 scale
BSG detail shot
George Cost’s 1:700 scale WIP model of a ship sunk by the US Congress.
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