Roger and I both saw this today and we want to share it with you.  If you find 3D printing fascinating then you will not be disappointed by this.  A group did a 3D mapping of the USS Arizona and printed it in 1/200 scale.  This is part of a conservation project but surviving members of the Arizona will receive a printed copy.  Roger mentioned that it's only a matter of time before it is available to print in smaller scales.  That would be very cool to make this available in 1/700 and 1/350 scales.

Model_Monkey has produced a model of the memorial in these scales.  Can you imagine an accurate  diorama of the Arizona and the memorial together?  Give it a look.
Dave

http://members.boardhost.com/Warship/msg/1472330572.html

Hang on boys, this is a long one!  We had a very busy meeting today.  We started off discussing IPMS show and Jerry share some pictures of some of his favorite builds.

I think this one might have been one of his favorites.  You can see the SBD, can't you?  Really a brilliant and creative underwater scene.

John asked about the major category winners.  You can find all the pictures and results at this link which includes the entire awards presentation.  There are some really impressive builds!

http://svsm.org/gallery/columbia2016-awards/2_G

Since we're really focused on ships here's entry that won best ship.  It was a 110' WWII Subchaser.  Some photos along with detail shots courtesy of Jerry.

Meanwhile back at the meeting...

Roger and Jerry were very interested in all of the different paint offerings at the meeting.  This is not Roger diving into the donut box (although that may have happened) but rather a poor photo on my part.  They both picked up brochures of various paint offerings and discussed some of the paint related demonstrations.

Dave Shields reminded me that I had forgotten the Blue Ridge Models parts that Roger brought.  Blue Ridge has come out with their own line of 3D printed ship parts in 1/700 scale.  Roger advises that they are planning on 1/350 scale and perhaps some others.  Here are a couple of examples.  Thanks for the reminder Dave!

Probably my favorite part of the show was actually not at the show but touring around Patriots Point with Roger and Jerry reliving their memories of serving on Ticonderoga and Borie which were almost identical to the museum ships USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Laffey (DD-724).  My apologies for being unable to post Roger and Hugh's photo.  We'll try again next meeting.

Hugh picked up a few kits at the show.  One of the most interesting was the Blue Ridge Models USS Wolverine which was a USN Aircraft Carrier training ship operating in the Great Lakes.  This kit is extremely well done as we're coming to expect from Blue Ridge Models new releases.  

Hugh also discussed interesting box art from his Aoshima USS Wasp CV-7 which was torpedoed by IJN I-19 in route to Guadalcanal with reinforcements.  The art work depicts a victorious I-19 passing in review of the the Wasp in her death throws.  As Hugh said is this art work for a submarine or for the carrier?  Interesting choice of art work to say the least.

Another addition that I left out were the 3D printed aircraft from Tom's Modelworks.  These are nicely printed 1/700 scale aircraft that can support your model ships and dioramas.  I don't remember which aircraft Hugh brought but this is a PBM Mariner.  Two planes to the set.  How great would that look in your 1/700 diorama!

John treated us to his new project which I described as a scrape off.  Flyhawk Models has produced a very detailed update set for the Revell 1/700 HMS Kelly which was a K Class destroyer of the Royal Navy.  Roger built the Revell kit out of the box and it was agreed that it would be very interesting to compare the two builds after John completes this one.  We'll be looking forward to this one John!

Rodrigo brought his very impressive work from his project which I was so mesmerized with I forgot to take pictures.  Rodrigo's soldering work is remarkable.  Rodrigo gave us a soldering demonstration which is captured in a video included on our site.  

We ran short on time but we had a chance to play with water color pencils used for weathering.  These can be used as filters or panels, rust streaks, etc.  These show a lot of promise because they are very forgiving to work with.  If you don't like it you can wipe it off with water.  Also because it's water soluble you can soften the effects.  I'm going to play with this a little more and bring it to the next meeting.  Below is a sample of decking like you would see in 1/200 scale and a 1/700 Type IX U-Boat built specifically to experiment with water colors.  

Looking forward to the next meeting!

Something new I wanted to share with you all today.   MENG models, famous for their beautiful armor kits is releasing for the first time a series of ship models.  Here are their first two.  HMS Rodney and USS Lexington.  They're taking an interesting approach with these kits.  There doesn't seem to be any photo etch.  Instead (like it or not) they've molded some of those details into the kit.  The parts are all pre colored as well.  It will be interesting to see how these are received and if the aftermarket community decides to support them.

Here is the MENG web site.

http://www.meng-model.com/new.php?id=612

Here are the kits....

USS Lexington

HMS Rodney

Greetings everyone, It's time again for another meeting.

Location:  Rockler Woodworking
Address:  2553 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 108, Denver, Colorado  80222
Time:  10:00

Five of us made it to IPMS 2016 in Columbia, South Carolina.  We're going to share with you some of our experiences and discuss some excellent ship building that we saw during our visit.  You may have seen the video I posted.  Hugh, Jerry, Roger also took some excellent photographs.

If you would like to see all the winners from IPMS 2016 here is a link.  You'll find ships at the back of the presentation starting on page 19.

http://svsm.org/gallery/columbia2016-awards/2_G

I'm going to bring a couple of kits I came across at the show.  First is the Blue Ridge Models USS Bainbridge in 1/350 scale.  The second is the all new Revell Germany 1/144 Flower Class Corvette.

I believe that Hugh bought the Blue Ridge Models USS Normandie which is involved in a little controversy.

No promises I'm hoping to bring a ship sample so that we can try out some of these water color pencils.  Maybe even a deck section.  If I don't get it prepared by meeting time we'll have it next meeting for sure.

New release from AK Interactive is the US Navy Camouflages set 2 acrylic paint and is available at Freetime Hobbies.  The set contains the following colors

Dark Gray 5D
Pale Gray 5P
Standard Navy Gray 5
Flight Deck Blue 21
Neutral Haze Gray
Hull Red

Look forward to seeing you Saturday.
Dave

I just returned from the IPMS 2016 show in Charleston, South Carolina.  They really did a great job.  We could have used more ship sellers but Brandon from Freetime Hobbies was well represented as usual.  From our club we were represented by Hugh, Sam, Roger, Jerry, and myself.  We'll talk more about it at the next meeting.  In the mean time here's a video I put together of the individual ship entries at the show.  This will give you a flavor for the model room just prior to judging.  The detail is not great but you can see more detailed photos on Modelwarships.com
Enjoy and see you at the next meeting..

Dave