Subject: SMML VOL 2340 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 03:41:37 +1100 SMML is proudly sponsored by SANDLE http://sandlehobbies.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1: Roll call 2: Roll Call (I weakened)! 3: 900-year-old ship, found in rice field, draws experts to India 4: Roll Call 5: Re: Roll Call Response 6: Roll Call 7: Re: Roll Call 8: Roll Call 9: Tug plans 10: HMS Vanguard 11: Re: Roll Call 12: Call the Roll ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: "Rod Dauteuil" Subject: Roll call Hello all, Since the muster has been shrinking I thought it would be a good time to re-introduce myself. I'm Rod Dauteuil, and I'm from northeast Massachusetts, about 30 miles north of Boston. I'm a little bit of everything, a builder, a collector, and a seller. I tend to build in phases--Right now for the past year I've been into truck modeling. But I still have all the ships in the garage for when I return to that phase. And the planes are out there too just waiting. I recently got married to the woman of my dreams who supports my hobby fully. When I'm not making models I am a bank auditor, which also helps to support the hobby. Also when not modeling, I fly my own airplane, a 1970 Cessna Cardinal. Just waiting for Monogram or Italeri or Hobbycraft to come out with a model of the Cardinal. In fact, I hear ICM may be tooling up for one! (Only joking!!). Rod ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: "lamkeel" Subject: Roll Call (I weakened)! John Lambert aged 66 and residing in Ampthill, Bedford, UK. Ex RNVR (London Division), National Service February 1956, signed on for 9. Served on HM Ships- Sluys, Theseus, Albion, Scott and Bulwark (The Rusty "B"). The last four years as a 'Stoker P.O.). Demobbed on 20th Feb.1965 and joined the Met. Police. on the 22nd. Served on the streets all my service in North London. (A most interesting 28 1/2 years). During the early years I made models, I met the late Norman Ough, and Alan Raven started me off on producing detailed warship drawings. This gradually developed on to writing magazine articles, illustrating books, and then on to writing my own. Good mates with Al Ross and I know and have met many other smmlies. (An illustrious band indeed). Eight boks published to date. (most are out of print though)! I retired from the Met. in August 1993 and later set up my own warship plans service: www.john-lambert-plans.com Now working hard on the final Allied Coastal Forces, Volume 3. Only two more Camper and Nicholsons designs to go and I'm calling it a day! To date about 227 different warships and 150 different weapons are drawn. Many more drawings and publications planned. All I need are more hours in the day! A most interesting list. Congratulations to Shane and Lorna (Thanks for the copy of your mag). Enjoy your modelling everyone. Yours "Aye" John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: John Kutina Subject: 900-year-old ship, found in rice field, draws experts to India http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/7084545.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Regards, John Kutina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: daveduck Subject: Roll Call Dave Miller, Realtor in Palm Bay, Florida. 58, Vietnam combat veteran, Army Huey Gunships. 1/48 aircraft and 1/700 ships, WWII. I have the attention span of a 5 year old and often am "working" on a dozen models at the same time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) From: "Stephen Varhegyi" Subject: Re: Roll Call Response My name is Stephen Varhegyi Age 48, Financial Adviser, Sydney, Australia. I split my modelling time between ships and aircraft. Have mostly built WWII 1:48 scale fighters. Spits, 109's, P-51s. Mossie, Beaufighter, Me 110, He-219, FW 154. Re-joined the hobby in 1992. Was IPMS (NSW Chapter) modeller of the year in 1999. More recently club secretary. Got interested in ships in 1998. Built the 1:350 Tamiya USS Fletcher, complete with GMM PE. Second project was the Tamiya 1:350 Bismarck also with GMM PE. Tried my first 1:700 waterline model last year, the 1:700 Scharnhorst. Scheduled projects currently include, the major capital ships involved in the Bismarck action. Have collected the following 1:700 kits and PE accessories for them. Bismarck, Prinz Eugen, Hood, POW, KGV, Rodney, Victorious and Ark Royal. I figure this will keep me going for a while. Also want to complete a collection of 1:48 WWII Hungarian aircraft. So far have built an FW190-F8 and a Bf109-G6 in Hungarian markings. Have collected the following kits yet to be built: FW189, JU88 A4, FW56, RE 2000, CR32,CR42, JU87A, JU87B2,JU87D, JU52, Bf110 and various 109s. On the bench at the moment have a 1:700 HMAS Perth. Besides modelling I am a keen fisherman and take my boat out in the rivers or bays about once a month. I am also getting involved in a part time band through the Weekend Warriors, playing lead guitar. These things are a good break from the serious stuff of modelling. Cheers Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) From: "Bob Pearson" Subject: Roll Call Bob Pearson, 38 (for another 5 days), one dog, one cat. For the past decade or so I've been illustrating WWI aircraft for various publications and am in the process of branching out to include other eras and topics. One of which is the Flower Class corvette. I have a website devoted to them in their various incarnations: http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/Flower/index.htm I spent my formative years building as many plastic kits as possible in as short a time as possible. Later I took up scratchbuilding 1/1200 and 1/2400 ships (a few hundred at least) .. I then took up ships in the bottle, followed by small scale sailing ships, and then returned to plastic aircraft around 1988. . this also saw my getting serious on WWI aviation research and for the next decade that was the focus of my illustration work and building. Then around 1999 I did a couple of 1/700 ships and I was hooked on ships once again. My most recent model is a 1/6 scale Douglas World Cruiser (101" wingspan) which I built for the local heritage committee to hang at the airport. This caused a year long hiatus in my main project of converting the Revell 1/72 Flower into the short focsle HMCS Wetaskiwin. Another is being converted to the IE Flower HMCS Cobourg and a third one is still undetermined. I also have a dozen of the L'Arsenal 1/400 kits that are being converted to various other Flowers. On top of which I am one of the the three principles in Internet Modeler .. all in all, enough to keep me busy and almost debt free without having to find a 'real' job. Regards, Bob Pearson Flower Class corvettes http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/Flower/index.htm Colours & Markings of the World's Air Forces 1912-20 http://www.internetmodeler.com/cd-roms/RNP_CD/index.htm Managing Editor / Internet Modeler http://www.internetmodeler.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) From: "Devin J. Poore" Subject: Re: Roll Call Devin Poore, living in Hoboken, NJ. 33, 6 year Navy vet. Until this past Wednesday I was a computer LAN tech at a large publishing house, but got laid off. Before anyone sends condolences: don't. It's the best thing that has happened to me since I got out of the Navy. I got a nice severance package and so now I'm going to write full time (I write speculative fiction), build models, and concentrate on school for the next several months. Currently working on a USS Laffey and USS Juneau diorama in 1/350th scale, from BWN kits. Have the Trumpeter Essex kit, to be built as CV-10 during her shakedown cruise guise, on deck. Devin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) From: "hoeard" Subject: Roll Call Hi Name is Howard Brower and I live in Bullhead City Arizona. I've been modeling ever since I can remember (and thats a long time) but unfortunatly right now everything is drydocked as we just sold our house and moved to a small apartment until we move back to West Virginia in the spring. All my reference books (yes I have quite few, some of which are out of print) (and yes Steve I have all of yours up to the USS New Mexico issue which I hope to get soon) and all of my models both built and unbuilt (many) are in storage. My background is I am a retired U.S. Marine, Retired US Civil Service (was in Berlin, Germany when the wall came down) and now hope to fully retire and get hopping on those unbuilt models when we get settled in. I enjoy this list and have gotten help from it by just reading. Semper Fi Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life, use it wisely. Howard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9) From: AMDM Subject: Tug plans any one have plans for the tug jan? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) From: Graeme Martin Subject: HMS Vanguard To Gordon Buttress Would Gordon Butress get in touch with Graeme Martin about his 1:128 scale Vanguard as Graeme would like to pick his brains. I am about to start a Fleetscale 1:128 scale Vanguard. cheers, Graeme. martz58@ihug.co.nz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11) From: "Keith Bender" Subject: Re: Roll Call Hi SMMLies, I have decided to re-do my roll call for I have not shared as much inf. as I should have. Yes I'm still 42 as said before. Been married to the same wife almost 17 years and have one daughter Emily, almost 12. She doesn't get into model building at all but has done a few planes and a PT Cruiser just to "do something with dad". She has the talent but uses it in other ways, girl things. My wife "Dori", is the Leading Teller trainer for Citizens Bank. She like my daughter could care less about models but gives me 100 % support and has even helped in finishing when the dead-line nears on a commission job. When it comes time to traval to do a show or meeting I always get the green light, no whinning, life is good. After the navy I moved around from job to job until I found my real job. I been a machinist for 14 years spending 10 of them at Electric Boat in Groton, CT. My best job ever until the Cold War ended and the government decided we didn't need subs any more, lay-off ! We moved to Delaware in 2000 and I been a machinist here as well making what ever anyone wants. I found the best part about doing a commissioned model is when it is for someone who served aboard the vessel, especially a WW ll vet and they don't know their getting it as a gift. To see their reaction makes all the work worth while. I can't go without saying I couldn't have done any of this without the gift our God has given me, he IS awesome! Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12) From: "Russell Adams" Subject: Call the Roll Hello all! I am 52, machinist, three kids, wife, too damn many cats! Just getting back into modeling after 25 years. Am more a kit collector than builder at this point. Collecting references, photos,etc. so models turn out somewhat right. On the ways: two Arizonas (1916 & 1941); Fletcher DD; Lindberg DE; Lionfish SS. Interested in transitional ships 19thC. to modern. Russell Adams "Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy" Ben Franklin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the SMML site for the List Rules, Backissues, Member's models & reference pictures at: http://smmlonline.com Check out the APMA site for an index of ship articles in the Reference section at: http://apma.org.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume