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  • Anniversary: Pearl Harbor

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    Well, the 70th anniversary of the “Day of Infamy” was last December.  Every year we commemorate any milestone anniversary with a theme build; but not necessarily a specific event.  This year I decided to note the attack on Pearl Harbor as most modelers were focusing on more recent milestones. At any rate, I dropped the…

  • “Shark Tank”

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    The requirement was to build any subject with a shark or shark mouth motif or related to a shark in some way.  Examples are a Blackburn Shark (been there, done that), any various aircraft with a shark mouth, SS-174 USS SHARK, a P-3 Orion of VP-6 “Blue Sharks”…you get the picture. I wanted to make…

  • A pair of Wildcats

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    Our club’s theme for July is “Salute the General”, any model of a General Motors subject. My initial plan was to model the FM-2 Wildcat using the MPM kit, but once the Museum project kicked in I had to find something less challenging. Since Iwasn’t doing 1 FM-2, I decided to do 2 FM-1’s. A…