Andy Brown gives a great airbrush demo at the September 2009 club meet...

Location at time...
7.30pm - 9.30pm - first Tuesday every month

The village of Ewerby is situated near (and NE of) Sleaford, just off the A17. As you come into Ewerby from the A153 end, there's a hard right turn into the village itslef. The Reading rooms are about 50 yards up on the right - you can't miss it. If you come in from the Sleaford end and A17, then look for the Reading Rooms on your left, about 50 yards past the Finchatton Arms pub/hotel on your left.

What to bring...
One or two completed scale models? Plus anything in progress to chat about and seek advice on... favourites or newly completed projects. We usually put these out on the tables when we get there and get an idea of what each of us has been doing - or if you're new, what you do?

Also... don't forget to bring something for the theme that night (see programme below) if you have something suitable.

Subs
You need £5 - At this stage it needs to be enough to cover the hall hire, tea/coffee/biscuits and maybe a small extra amount towards some of the other costs we will need to incur in the coming months like: baize and materials for display space at model shows and so on.

27 September 2009 - IPMS Brampton Scale Model Show, St Ives - Report
Good show this one - even better than expected.


Thanks to Adam, Mat and Les for helping to make our display a good one. Some good traders in evidence like MDC, Aviation Book Centre and Little Cars to mention just a few.

Roll on Newark...

Next event:

06 October 2009 - Club Meet
Please bring along any of your completed scale models and any in progress - we were a bit thin last month on models, although we had a great airbrushing deomonstration evening? See you there!

September 2009 - Club Meet
Great evening with lots of practical activity at work. Excellent airbrush displays by both Les Venus and Andy Brown - many thanks guys, so much valuable info and we learned a lot.

Les kicked off his demo with some excellent words of advice about spraying with Alclad metallic paints. More importantly, we all had the opportunity to have a go and check out our skills and even our youngest 'member' gary showed the way to go with a test how how well Les had got his maeesage across! Nice work.

Andy Brown gave an excellent demonstration of spraying using acrylic paints and an Iwata airbrush and again, extremely informative. Some very useful info exchanged hands especially in relation to mixing different paints...

Here's the link Andy promised us for getting Agama paints (the 'Czech Xtracrylics' Andy mentioned):www.agamacolor.cz/e-shop_en.html Thanks again Andy.


RAF Museum Hendon, Sunday 13th September, Battle of Britain Commemorative weekend.
Interesting anniversary show where we displayed in the Battle of Britain Hall near the main restaurant. Tom, Les, Mario and Geoff displayed and we had a good display out. Plenty of opportunity to examine all the life-size exhibits too!


31 May 2009 - IPMS Barnet / RAF Museum Hendon Scale Model Show Report



An excellent outing with the new club stand and what a display we managed to put on - well done everyone, a superb effort!

Thanks too to Les Rawlins and the team from IPMS Barnet who organised an excellent event that everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy. Here's to 2010...



With no less than 3 English Electric Lighnings on display, how fitting that we were placed right under the RAF Museum's FMk.6... brilliant!



The 'endeavour award' simply has to go to Rog Wigley for staying up until 2.30am the night before to finish his excellent Tamiya F-15E Strike Eagle - nice one Roger. The pic doesn't do his work justice - those Turkey feathers are stunningly realistic to look at in the flesh. Well done to everyone else too, Mike for his very nice Hawker Hunter prototype (lovely 'duck-egg green' scheme), Mat, Tom )awesome FGR-2 [see Friends Models] and Gareth too, good work team!


02 June 09 Club meet report
Good meeting tonight and we were able to welcome Geoff Browne back with an excellent Hawker Typhoon and Mario with his Fw 190A - really excellent scale modelling. Also welcome back to Andy and his stunning brace of Revell Hawker Hunter FMk.6s, sublime scale modelling and beautifully displayed on custom bases. Some other very models out too.

Etched metal folding demonstration - Les Venus. As ever, a really practical, informative and useful demo from Les showing us all how to do it - excellent stuff!


09 June 09 BBMF Branch Visit
Fantastic evening at the Flight. Access and great info from our host Mat and of course Tom P and Jim B who have and continue to do such a great job helping out at the BBMF. Huge thanks to Mat for organiding our visit - nice one Mat.


Team pic after our successful sortie to RAF Coningsby and the BBMF


Les Venus in the Mk.Vb Spitfire AB910 - how good is that?


Jim doing what he does best - having fun and informing others! Thanks Jim.


It doesn't get much better than this - Dave Norman gets his moment.

"Squadron scramble.....!"
Yours truly gets in on the act... well, it would be rude not to!




07 July 09 Club Meeting
Theme tonight is - 'Fish' - may sound strange but anything in your collection witrh a water, fish, aquatic link (however tenuous) bring it along. Just thinking about Tom Potter's No 19 Sqn RAF Phantom FGR-2 as an example? That Dolphin 19 Squadron badge? Yes, you've got it!



04 August 09 Club Meeting
Airbrush demonstration - spraying acrylics and using your airbrush to best effect. Thanks Andy for volunteering to lead on this and bring your kit - much appreciated.



May Club Meet Report...
Another good night tonight - plenty of members and models on display. Many thanks to Rog Wigley for an excellent presentation on the Canberra PR-9 - great stuff Roger and we learned a lot, that's for sure.

The theme of No.1 was well supported and we are now well set for the forthcoming Hendon show staged by IPMS Barnet at the RAF Museum, Hendon on Sunday 31st May 2009. Highly recommended and IPMS S.L.A.M. will be adding their full support with a good display and new stand so do say hello when you go.

Welcome too to Geoff Browne - welcome Geoff, you are very welcome.

Our short AGM sees Tom Potter voted back as Teeasurer and yours truly as Secretary for another 12 months and we are very pleased to continue to lead IPMS S.L.A.M. through 2009/10 - thanks everyone for your unanimous support.


Dave Norman's super line up of Airfix Hawks in 1:48 scale - nice one Dave!


3 March Club Meet Report...
Packed evening tonight - 17 members... our highest yet and growing well, so well done everyone and who else do you know who might come along and get involved?

3 major events tonight: Demos by Geoff C. on making an aircraft hard standing base; Bill Curtis on building rtealistic groundwork for (mostly) AFV projects and Les V. with hints and tips on incorporating resin detail sets into your scale model project.

Display bases - Geoff Coughlin
How to make your own. Geoff showed how they make his bases. These are great for our club displays, we want to try and get everything onto a realistic display base to really set the models off and show them to their best advantage when we next display.



Building realistic groundwork - Bill Curtis
Excellent demo from Bill C. How to use polystyrene foam and go from there...



Working with resin detail sets - Les Venus
Some bery useful hints and tips from Les V. tonight. Cutting the resin through to preparing this material and planning your project...some great tips.


There's always one!!! Good zap Gareth!

German theme - anything as long as it's German in theme! Different this one as many of the club have got a special interest in anything BUT German projects... But that was the challenge - try something new and what a display we had. Also a competition where everyone voted for their Best German Project brought along.


Bill C's Stug - superb scale modelling of the highest order...

Here are a few other projects - really good work everyone

Here are a few of the other examples of the excellent work on display - first up Les Venus's awesome 1:32nd scale He 162 Mistel / Famo combination...Wow!





Les rightly attracted the most votes for this extraordinary effort - just look at those fully wires up Jumo engines...really inspiring stuff - well done Les.


Here's Dave Coward's excellent 1:48th scale diorama of a Fw 190D-9 of JV44 - Red 3. The prop even spins on the Focke Wulf 190!

Although not in the German theme, a couple of other lovely models...

Roger W's very nice Zero floatplane...


And those Hawks again from Dave N. ...




7 April 2009 Club Meeting
In April...thanks to Roger W. for agreeing to give us a short presentation chat on the Canberra PR-9 and what to watch out for when building your Airfix and Classic Airframes kits. His expert knowledge of working on the type will be invaluable - thanks Rog.

Also a themed night : 1950s to 1980s Anything from your collection or you can build before next time that falls into this category...whatever the subject! Good luck





Further meetings and outings will cover:
- airbrushing
- applying decals
- trips to RAF Coningsby; Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and East Kirkby (home of Lancaster 'Just Jane'


Past club meets...

Here's a flavour for what you can expect if you join us...


January 6 2009 Club Meet - Good meet tonight - probably the best yet! Well done everyone. Scribing panel lines and polishing canopies demo by yours truly, with lots of made up models on display. English Electric Canberras and PR-9s at that were strongly in evidence - nice one Les with a really nice solver machine. Mike too with his work in progress on the B1(8). A stunning array of 1:144 scale E.E. Lightnings from Bryan plus lots more from the guys - great stuff!


You could be flying over Binbrook! In fact this is a 1:144 scale Lightning line up from Bryan Keates - great work Bryan...

And here's Les Venus's very nice airfix English Electric Canberra PR-9 in 1:48 - just look at the lustre he has managed using Alclad 'silver' tones?


Sorted out our participation at ModelKraft 2009 (IPMS Milton Keynes) show on Sunday 1st February 2009. Stantonbury Leisure Centre Milton Keynes MK14 6BN. See you there!



December 2008 meeting...

Really excellent social evening this month for Christmas - about a dozen of us getting together, having fun and talking nonsense! (did I really say that?)Well done everyone and here's to 2009 and getting even bigger and more successful...


IPMS Scale Modelworld Telford November 2008



A great opportunity...IPMS S.L.A.M's Dave Coward meeting Roy Sutherland - you know, the author and supern scale modeller who produced that superb scale model of the burnt De Havilland Mosquito? Dave is seen here holding his version that so impressed Roy - well done Dave!





Our stand at Telford - just wait until next year! A great effort by everyone who attended, well done guys! In this picture - from left to right: Ashley Keates, Les Venus and far right Tom Potter

Here are some of our models on display...


Les Venus's awesome Hind - some great scale modelling here - note how the base sets off his model


Some of Brian and ashley's stunning 1:144 scale models - many with original decals produced by Brian


A lovely conversion of the Hasegawa 1:48 scale Sea King by Gareth Jordan - very nce indeed!

Dave Coward had a number of good aircraft on display, including this F-16C in 'Arctic Flanker'colours - how striking is that!?




And one from me...my Focke wulf Fw-190A-8 R8 from the superb Hasegawa kit.



There were some amazing models on display: This stunning two-seat conversion of the 1:32nd scale Corsair was a real treat... Well done Patrick Bouclans and thanks you so much for bringing and displaying your inspirational model!





And this Ch-53E?





Two other models caught my eye on the Barnet stand:
An F-4 Phantom by Neil Ashby


and the new Saab Draken by Hasegawa from Les Rawlins




And moving away from aircraft, what about this superb example of the USS Saipan?





HOT NEWS!(13 October 2008)
We've just heard back from Rob Monfea the IPMS UK Branch Liaison Officer and what good news!



We are now IPMS S.L.A.M. AND have managed to secure a small display space at this year's Scale Model World at Telford International Centre over the weekend of 15-16 November 2008. Fantastic! Both Rob and Richard have been extremely supportive and this is just what IPMS should be all about - trying to work positively together to make things happen and not put up barriers and obstacles.

Do drop by and say hello over the weekend, we'll have a good display on show with lots of variety in scale modelling representing the interests of IPMS S.L.A.M.



November Club Meeting
A really good night tonight. Lots of final preparations for scale Modelworld at Telford on weekend 15-16 November.

Dates secured for 2009 - the first Tuesday in every month at our usual venue.

December meeting next month (2nd) will be a social get together at the Finchatton Arms in Ewerby just down from the Reading Rooms where we meet. Let's aim to be there at 7.15 for 7.30pm. We can get a nice pub meal and have a good chat and get together.

Here's Gareth Jordan receiving his prize of 'Best Improved Modeller' for the Oct-Dec quarter. I wanted to award this prize in recognition of Gareth's excellent efforts on his RAF Sea King helicopter in 1:48 scale. Nice work Gareth. I wonder who'll be next?...


That's Gareth on the right...


October Club Meet
Good meeting with hopes for our application to IPMS for club status and space at Telford...

Demo from yours truly on weathering using pastels...


Brampton Model Show September 2008
Our first outing and what a great turnout!

A really excellent show and lots of models from the guys - well done everyone, a great effort! Here are some great pics from Ashley Keates - a mighty fine 1:72 scale modeller too






Yes Brian....you did ALL these!


Really nice modelling skill from Gareth with his conversion of the Hasegawa 1:48 scale kit


Some of you may remember Les Venus's excellent Trumpeter F-100D in 1:32 scale- very nice work Les and rightly he picked up awards at this year's Milton Keynes show with his model.


Great work from Dave Coward here with that awesome burnt paintwork / fabric effect.







Here's Les demonstrating with an Iwata airbrush...
5 August 2008


Plenty of interest tonight...Tom and my own F.Mk.6 English Electric Lightnings looked good in QRA pose...plus several new kits on show and discussions about who's bringing what to our first model show outing as a club - Brampton in September.

2 July 2008 - Club Meeting Report
A good meeting tonight, with about 10 of us there. This was our third club meet and we are definitely going from strength to strength.

Tonight featured an excellent airbrush demo from Les Venus, focusing on the application of Alclad II 'silver' finished and spraying with acrylics. Big lessons for many of us, including keeping the paint very well thinned for acrylic spraying just one of the tips on offer.


Here's Adam B having a go following Les's really helpful demo...

Future meetings will include:
- weathering using oils
- weathering using pastels
- detailing aircraft cockpits
plus lots more...

Here are some of the pics from tonight - more to follow when I've had some sleep and done some work! Some lovely work on show tonight.


And here are some of the guy's scale models - some very nice pieces here!

Dave Coward first off:





And here's Dave's Fisher Models 1:32 Sea Fury:



Here's Adam B's lovely Tamiya P-47DE 'Razor back':



And Tom Potter's lovely Classic Airframes' Gloster Meteor F.Mk.8





Les (who knows much about such matters!)has discovered the Finchatton Arms, barely 50 yards away! Aweful, isn't it!!?? Where we often get a quick beer in after we finish...