What happens when you rebuild a 50-year-old childhood favorite with modern tools and techniques? Follow the transformation of Revell’s cartoon Deal’s Wheels Messaschnitzel 109 into a superdetailed North African Emil.
How far can you push a plastic kit when you can machine your own parts? Watch an aging Williams Brothers kit become a photorealistic, museum-quality engine using a home-shop lathe and mill.
Dick takes you through the origins of the Capital Area Modelers Society (C.A.M.S.) during the Covid Pandemic to become the IPMS Chapter of the Year!
Learn to make any object "glow" using only acrylic paints with this painting technique.
Build your next US Army Pearl Harbor fighter plane with unique markings and a known history. Avoid common kit and decal maker's Pearl Harbor blunders. Here we untangle the markings of 1941 Wheeler Field fighters with pre-attack accident photos, accident documents, and postattack wreckage study.
Learn the types of brushes, when to use them and how to make them last as long as possible.
A "behind the scenes" look at the history, creation, and finished work of the traveling exhibit that honors the soldiers of the Omaha Beach D-Day landings.
Add realistic masts and flags to your models and dioramas.
Learn how to integrate paint masks to achieve greater flexibility in creating realistic markings. Address common challenges with practical solutions. This seminar follows John Ferdico's presentation.
Are you a scale modeler wondering how these pre-colored, snap-fit robot models for kids could possibly appeal to you? Or an avid Gunpla builder wondering how to take your models to the next level? There's more we have in common than you might think and we'll discuss how techniques and philosophies cross to help you appreciate all forms of plastic modeling.
