The Scale Model Podcast - Ep 125 - Shows

Welcome to Episode 125 Sponsored by CultTVMan, Sean’s Custom Model Tools and Return To Kit Form

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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MAILBAG

We want to hear from you! Let us know if you have any comments or suggestions [email protected].

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

What’s new at Scalemates.com

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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 LAST WORD

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