The first club meeting of the year took place at the Styrene
Cave on Feb. 3rd. We had an unerstandable small number of attendees
and models - it was vacation time for most of us:
Some new kits were shown during the meeting, as well as several books:
I brought a few real items to show to the gang. Here are the P-51
oxygen regulator (left) and a P-47 flap/landing gear indicator:
I also
brought books signed by Bud Anderson, another signed by a Korean F4U
pilot and "Destination: Tokyo", signed by two surviving members of the
Doolittle raid. Another interesting piece was this BMW 801 engine
baffle belonging to a Fw-190F-8 (W.Nr 931862) from JG5 which crash
landed in Norway during
WWII, when piloted by Uffz. Heinz Orlowski. Later, I'd give this
part to my friend and Luftwaffe nut Nei Biazetto
as a gift:
Here is an excerpt of the combat records of The Black Friday - 9th February 1945 - White 1's final
combat (text from the original scan):
The aircraft is
currently under restoration by White One Foundation.
This will be the only Fw-190 in the world flying with an original BMW
engine. If you want to see one more restored Wurger in the world,
consider a donation to the foundation.
These
pieces were subject of a lot of discussion during the meeting, so here
are a couple of pictures of me during a visit to the foundation last
year, at Kisseemmee Air Museum, Florida, USA. It's about time to write
a report about that. The place is an aviation heaven:
Back to the models, only two assembled models brought by the only brave
modeler that night, Bruno's Academy's Hellcat and Corsair, both in
1/72. This boy has a promising modeling career ahead of him:
On the
'news' table, Fabricio's newest acquisition, a white metal Yoda figure
superbly cast (not to mention the fantastic packing):
Long summer night, long talkings:
Blanco
arrived late - as usual - and didn't lost a minute. He was moving to a
new place and didn't had a workbench to work on, so he was more avid
than usual to resume work on his Eduard Fw-190:
The
official photo. Left to right, standing: Alex, Victor, Jarbas, Nestor,
Vieira, Gerson, and me. Neeling, left to right: Bruno, Cristian and
Andre (missing: Blanco and Fabricio).
See you in the next one... and please bring your models!!!