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Continue reading →: CAMS presents Grand Ledge National Guard Armory with helicopter displayA trip to the National Guard Armory in Grand Ledge on February 10 by Brian, Dick, Chris K, Mike O, John and Norm represented the culmination of a project almost a year in the making. In April, 2025, Dick made contact with then-commander Capt. Stephen Ronan and suggested CAMS create…
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Continue reading →: Jason McEntire gets best Gundam at 4M MayhemThe spring contest season launched February 7 with 4M Mayhem in Saginaw, which saw Jason McEntire take best Gundam for his RX-78. The show, hosted by the Mid Michigan Model Makers, is open-judged, so each model is measured against a build standard, so CAMS members took home several awards. In…
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Continue reading →: Brad finds some challenges with the RyeField Models Tiger ISwitching up from my normal aircraft modelling, I decided upon a small diorama of a shot up and partially burnt-out Tiger I (my favorite tank). For my plan, I needed a kit with a full interior. Not a lot of choices out there. After some online research, I decided on…
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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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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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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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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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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 repertoir 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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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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