Models

Pelikan Meeting S&T – October 11, 2016

Posted by Bart Cusumano on Oct 25, 2016 | Comments Off on Pelikan Meeting S&T – October 11, 2016

George Brown flies in with this 1:48 Airfix Hawker Hurricane Mk.I Tropical almost OOB.

Tom Milne recreated a historical F4U French Corsair.

Dennie Adams brought in this great collection of Korean war era photos taken by his dad.

Academy 1:72 Deuce and a Half from chronic pain in the butt, Bart Cusumano.

Bill Malick goes Russian on this Tamiya 1:35 Su-152.

This time Bill goes over to the losers and presented this cool 1:35 Tamiya Panther G.

George Hecht does a size demo with these various scale Panther G’s in 1:16, 1:18 and 1:25.

Tom Knapp’s nice little Stewart with cool poles.

Al Vacaro’s OOB Tamiya 1:48 Japanese floating/flying thang.

Ed Brut goes teeny on these various 1:72 Panthers and a little 1:4 Colt 1847 Walker

Robert Marquinez’s nice 1:35 diorama with British guys with Japanese heads. OK, so sue me – they’re Ghurkas displaying their “Spoils of War”. MiniArt figures with Hornet heads.

Robert Martinez got bored one afternoon and whipped up this cool 1:35 U.S. Special Forces Operator from Think 180 Studios.

Star Wars Exhibit

Posted by Mike Hanson on Apr 12, 2016 | Comments Off on Star Wars Exhibit

There’s a really nice Star Wars exhibit at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, that shows off a few of the shooting models from the early films and maquette models from the later films (these were models used for reference for the computer-build digital models). Additionally, there were some of the props from the latest ‘The Force Awakens’ movie.

When you look at the photos of the older shooting models, see how many parts you can see from model kits, like landing gear, machine guns, transmissions, etc. Often used in very unique ways. I could have looked at these things for hours!

Some of them are a bit dark; apologies, as I only had my cell phone camera. Next time I go I’ll try to remember take a better camera.