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The Scale Model Podcast – EP 159 – Show Wrap Ups

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Welcome to Episode 159 of The Scale Model Podcast, Sponsored by CultTVMan and Sean’s Custom Model Tools

Hosts
Stuart
Terry
Geoff

Thanks to our latest Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee Supporters:

Check out our What We Like page for lists of what we like.

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LATEST NEWS

Southwestern Ontario Scale Model Expo post show.

Shout out to the winner of the raffle grand prize: Harold Sydness, a good story there!

Had a good chat with the Mid-Michigan Model Makers.

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LATEST HOBBY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Revell’s July releases

Five releases from Italeri in June

MiniArt’s new 48th scale P-47D-11RE Thunderbolt “Razorback” “Basic kit” 

https://dnmodels.com/all/takom-unveils-henschel-129b-2-b-3-kits-in-1-48-scale/

Alvis FV622 Stalwart Mk.2. in 1/35 by Airfix

Border BS-005 IJN HEAVY CRUISER TAKAO

 

What’s new at Scalemates.com

 

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Wonderfest wrap-up with George Seletas

 

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WHAT’S ON THE BENCH
Stuart – With the model show planning and life, no time for bench work this week.

Geoff – two windstorms in London impacted our neighbourhood, resulting in changes in our lives and one chainsaw accident…

As a tie in to the books I’ve been reading I worked on repairing a couple of dinosaur skeletons originally built by Steve Harvey, who passed away last year.

A year ago I built a 1/48 Monogram DC-3 for my brother, who had just become a grandfather and wanted a “bush plane/rescue thing” to hang from the ceiling of his cottage.  A fellow club member made custom decals for “Nana and Pops Rescue Service”, with a logo I designed of a bare bum passing explosive gas.  It was flown by my brother’s nom de plume, “Rocco Flamefart”…. Anyway, he wants more vehicles for the “fleet”, so I am now building a Heller 1/72 DC6B in N&P markings!

I also have been working on the old Hobbycraft 1/28 Fokker DR1.  Not bad and satisfyingly substantial!

Terry – I can see the bench again!  I’m getting close to getting back on the bench itself.  As far as building goes, not much new. Still the same mechs and some base coat on the two Reaper dragons.

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WHAT WE ARE READING

Stuart – The Notebook by Roland Allen

Geoff – my wife and I did the dinosaur road tour of Alberta last month and I read The Rise and Fall Of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte, and The Burgess Shale by Coppold and Powell. Good reads.

Terry – Ed Yong’s I Contain Multitudes.  About microorganisms, specifically our micro biome.  A very good read, so far.  Catching up on the My Happy Marriage light novels.

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THINGS WE’VE SEEN
Sprue Pie With Frets has had some good posts lately.

https://spruepiewithfrets.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/model-prices-part-1-the-good-scale-modeling-sure-is-cheap/

https://spruepiewithfrets.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/model-prices-part-2-the-bad-scale-modeling-will-survive-tariffs-but-there-will-be-discomfort/?wref=tp

https://spruepiewithfrets.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/model-prices-part-3-the-weird-why-oh-why-is-that-one-weird-kit-ive-always-wanted-gone-or-expensive/

Tony Wootson’s Wonderfest report

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Ep 125 – Shows

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Hosts
Stuart
Geoff

 

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LATEST NEWS

 

Southwestern Ontario Scale Model Expo – We will be there!

We will also be taking a break for the next episode due to most of us helping at the show.

 

Windsor Model Show

 

26th Model Show of the GPC – Plastic Modeling Group of Campinas

 

Strange things afoot at the Nats

 

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I just finished listening to Anthony’s interview with Rob Booth concerning the future of the IPMS and I wanted to write in to say thank you.

I am exclusively a Sci-Fi modeler. Thanks to Dave over at the PMM podcast I am also a member of IPMS/USA but it’s only because I feel an obligation to support the hobby in general. There is honestly not much for me in IPMS currently, and I’m not very engaged in the organization. However, thanks to Anthony’s interview with Rob, I decided to vote on the new amendments to the constitution and by-laws, in the interest of inclusivity. I imagine there are a lot of people out there like me who would love for IPMS to promote and support their niche of this fantastic hobby but who are apathetic to the current iteration of the organization.

One issue I would have loved to hear addressed in that interview is the chicken and egg problem of new contest categories. Rob said that they track the level of participation in each of their categories and try to respond with new categories and modifications to existing ones where necessary. My question then is: why would modelers enter sci-fi / gundam / other “niche” models into IPMS contests if there are no categories that properly value their contest entries? And if IPMS is waiting until they see significant levels of participation in those niches to create sensible contest categories… well, you see the problem.

If IPMS wants to truly be seen as inclusive it needs to proactively court modelers in areas of the hobby that it has traditionally overlooked by reaching out to those communities and working directly with them to establish new contest categories and other opportunities within IPMS. If you want something, you have to go after it. You can’t wait for it to come to you.

Just my 2 cents.

Keep up the great podcast,

Gino

 


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LATEST HOBBY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sprues of MiniArt’s new 48th scale P-47D-25 RE Thunderbolt

Hobbyboss Sept

Special Hobby re-releases

HKM 1/48th scale Lancaster B.Mk.III Dambusters kit

Magic Factory’s new 35th scale MRZR D4 kit

Border Model’s 35th scale Akagi & B5N2 Kate
HpH news – 1/32 Kate, Marauder, Ventura and 1/48 B-47

1/72 – McDD F-15 Eagle family by Finemolds

Preview: New Mirage 2000-5 1/32 Resin cockpit from ResKit

 

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WHAT’S ON THE BENCH
Stuart – Work continues on the 2023 Moosaroo build, the 1/72 Ural truck, I’ve got more of an idea of what I want to do for a diorama for it.  I think as building continues it will become more clear. I also primed the tires.

Geoff – Spent the whole time sorting through a ton of magazines, books and paints I received from a retiring modeller.  I did splash some paint on the very odd experimental British WW2 “fighter” whose name I cannot recall again.

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What are we Reading 

Stuart – Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil Degrasse Tyson 

 

Geoff – Every frigging aircraft and modelling magazine known to man!

 


THINGS WE’VE SEEN
Inside the Armour Publications

 


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The Scale Model Podcast – Ep. 111 – Geoff Builds a Gundam

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Welcome to Episode 111 Sponsored by CultTVMan,  Sean’s Custom Model Tools and Return To Kit Form

 

Hosts

Stuart

Geoff 

Terry 

Anthony 

 

Thanks to our latest Patreon Supporters:

Rick and Rob

 

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LATEST NEWS

 

Getting Excited for HeritageCon – Just over a month to go

Plastic Model Mojo will be joining us there.

 

Wonderfest news

William Stout

Nick Tate

 

Special Hobby awarded the Model of the Year prize at Nuremburg for their 1/48 Cobra

 

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LATEST HOBBY ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

A second pre-order bonus for Kotare’s 1/32nd scale Spitfire Mk.Ia (Late)

Sneak Peak: X-Plus at Wonderfestival Japan

Upgraded Millennium Falcon from Round 2 in 1/72

Gecko’s Ram Kangaroo & Badger in 1/35

ICM 2023 Catalog

SBS Model’s Norden Bombsight

Special Hobby Feb

CMK sets for the 1/72 PT Boats

Trumpter’s 1/32 TBD-1 Devestator and a discussion on why it came out.

 

 

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Interview

Vince Hoffmann

Photos

 

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WHAT’S ON THE BENCH

 

Stuart – Still slow but steady progress on the Beaufighter and mechs.

Geoff – Finished the two 1/18 scale jets for the London Jet Aircraft Museum, but couldn’t deliver them because illness intervened.  Also finished the Arma Hobbies 1/72 P51B Mustang for the Moosearoo Cup.  All three were “obligation builds”, so it will be nice to settle down to the bench with something from my stash for a change!

Geoff builds a Gundam!

Anthony – Slowly beating my way through my stalled out guilt-inducing projects! Putting decals on my 1/144th EYE-Zak in Titans Test Team livery, which was a major conversion project that I started only years before they released a new tool kit!

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THINGS WE’VE SEEN

 

Catalyst Creations new offerings (Terry and George) Space Academy Seeker mastered by Carl Darby offered as a 3D print in 1/48 scale – roughly 17 inches long.  An interior set mastered by Randy Cooper will include resin cast parts and a vacuformed window.

We’re also working on an Ark 2 in 1/24 scale.  Details to follow.

 

Fantastic Plastic Regula-1 space station 1/1000 scale.  Produced by G&T and really nicely modeled and cast.

 

Got a package from Above and Below Graphics.

Closed until 5 March 2023

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