October 21, 2010 modeling club meeting

Where: Styrene Cave, Porto Alere, Brazil. When: October 21st, 2010 Who: Southern Modelers Express Machine Why: Booze, new kits, new jokes and modeling...

  
We had another club meeting at the Styrene Cave on Oct. 21st. We had a good number of attendees as well as models, books and laughs.


As you can see, Blanco does not wast time and work every spare minute:


Just one newcomer that night: Dino dropped by with Fabricio to share some of their expertise on painting figures. More on that later. As for the models, Blanco brought his Eduard Fw-190 almost done, while I showed the last stage of my DFS-194 and the Hobby Boss XF-84, almost ready:


Bruno brought a control panel from his Academy's P-38, built following the photocopy method that I used in my P-40. It beats many PE items:

Fabricio brought a couple of figures he has been working on. Simply amazing! Check it out:


One of the high points of the night was a workshop carried out by Fabricio. As promised, he showed how to use the inks from Andrea colors.


He used a metal head to show how to use these inks. They work as a kind of filter. He used a few colors on this head. It is a white metal item, but the method could be used on a plastic or resin item previously painted with metalic color. The idea of these inks is to produce cooper, gold, and other metalic effects by filtering the light with a translucent layer over a metalic finish. Here is Fabricio in action:


A video may be more instructive, let alone in HD, but please forgive me for the background talking...



As usual, Fabricio made everything looks so simple...


More HD videos:
And here is the result of this workshop - it all took less than 10 minutes:

The lecturer of the night was Nestor. We were expecting something related to his new book "U-Boats: diving in history". Instead, he provided us a lecture almost 3 hours long, showing a glimpse of several military museums he has visited over the years... and U-boats, of course:

Rato Marczak © 2010