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Dick’s ICM 1/48th UH-60A Black Hawk Conclusion
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Continue reading →: Dick’s ICM 1/48th UH-60A Black Hawk ConclusionBy Dick Davenport When last we met, I was working to get the engine compartments together. Many of the “worst case scenarios” came true in this build. I found a series of YouTube build videos by MM Scale Models of another configuration of this kit, which was helpful in figuring…
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Scratch and Dent Super Sabre
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Continue reading →: Scratch and Dent Super SabreBy Norm Witte In the back of the lot, parked right next to a low-mileage MiG-21, we have this gently used F-100, driven to church on Sundays by a little old lady. It started out life as part of IMC’s “battle-damaged” series of 1/72 aircraft and has all the inaccuracies…
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Dick Davenport helps youth group start modeling
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Continue reading →: Dick Davenport helps youth group start modelingRecently a young man of our church, St. Peter Lutheran in Riley Township, started a group for adolescent boys of the congregation. I invited Christopher, the leader, to come to the West Michigan IPMS Great Lakes Challenge in October and said, if the group was interested, I’d provide a “make…
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Mike Orris completes his National Guard build
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Continue reading →: Mike Orris completes his National Guard buildby Mike Orris I finished the National Guard helicopter project, a 1/72 Heller UH-72A Lakota. I enjoyed the build. The instructions are quite clear and detailed. The parts are well done with little flash, though a ew small pieces shot off into the far unknown so are not on the model. The…
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Brad walks through weathering his Phantom
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Continue reading →: Brad walks through weathering his PhantomBy Brad Shafer At the Great Lakes Challenge, I had the opportunity to show how I weathered my twice best in show F4 Phantom. Here are some of the paint types and colors I used to pull off the effects. The whole process took a variety of custom paint mixes…
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Continue reading →: Norm adds scribing to his repartoir as he works toward his Century SeriesBy Norm Witte I’ve made a probably life-long commitment to build the Century Series Fighters—the F-100, F-101, F-102, F-104, F-105 and F-106—in 1/48 scale, which was kind of an outgrowth of completing the F-106. I’ve decided to do a better job on the F-105 than the F-106, and that includes…
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Dick starts work on Black Hawk for National Guard
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Continue reading →: Dick starts work on Black Hawk for National GuardICM 1/48th UH-60A Black Hawk by Dick Davenport A few of us have taken on building a display for the National Guard unit in Grand Ledge, just west of Lansing. The unit has a number of helicopters, including Eurocopter and various configurations of the Sikorsky Black Hawk. I opted to…
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Dick’s adventures with RX-178 Gundam Mk II (Prototype)
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Continue reading →: Dick’s adventures with RX-178 Gundam Mk II (Prototype)I recently built the white A.E.U.G. Prototype Mobile Suit (Bandai 193) as a change of pace between projects. With some research, I learned there was another version of the kit in purple (Titans Prototype Mobile Suit, Bandai 194) and now have a battle plan for the two kits. I originally…
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Norm investigates the Muse for his F-105G Wild Weasel
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Continue reading →: Norm investigates the Muse for his F-105G Wild WeaselBy Norm Witte For those who follow the CAMS Facebook page, you are probably more aware than you ever wanted to be that I have two, and possibly three, F-105 projects currently underway. I won’t go into the gory details about that except to say that, right now, I am…
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Yet another non-airworthy Delta Dart
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Continue reading →: Yet another non-airworthy Delta DartThe late 1940s and early 1950s saw a frenetic burst in the U.S. to develop ever better jet powered fighters. The result was the post-Korean Century Series fighters, so called because of their designations in the F-1XX range:. the F-100 Super Sabre, the F-101 Voodoo, the F-102 Delta Dagger, the…
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