SEPTEMBER 5TH MEETING

Great meeting on Wednesday. We had a pretty good crowd as well as a special guest (more about that below). We start with a cool WIP garage from Dr. Zorkon. The Doctor has been asked to do a diorama for a upcoming car show. This is where he's at as of the meeting. The garage is constructed of chip board and the Doctor as added details to the basic structure. Eventually, there will be more interior detail as well as a parking lot with additional cars. But this is really a cool start. The second picture shows the car bay from a slightly different angle.

Here we get a closeup of that mechanic working on the hot rod. I love the overalls. A very cool detail.

Here's the outside of the building from a slightly different angle. Those giant oil cans came from Hobby Lobby by the way.

The building even includes a bathroom with toilet and sink. I don't think I have ever seen one quite as clean as this one, hats off to the management.

The doctor is going to also have a fence on one side of the diorama and the fence with have auto themed signs on it. For the meeting he created this little scene with grass, a park bench, peeing dog and one of his fabulous scratchbuilt trees. Nice job buddy!

Our special guest, Dennis Widner, the TOY SURGEON, came all the way from Sout Carolina to attend our meeting this month. He brought a lot of sales goodies, but he also brought some eye candy for everyone to enjoy. This figures were just outstanding.

Have to admit, my favorite was this OSW Contest Winner, the American Tanker figure in the foreground. This was one sweet bash!

Of course Dennis is famous for his custom crates and this is some of what he brought to show off. Beautiful work, the pictures don't do it justice. I love the lettering done with his own custom decals, but the paper labels were beautiful too. Thanks Dennis for coming to the meeting and sharing your work. We all appreciated you taking the time and making the drive.

Club member, George K, brought some WIP items as well. Here we have a 21st Century Special Forces Ford Mutt with a couple of Navy SEALs that he bashed for the meeting. I've always like the 21st Ford Mutts, they are great for customizing and detailing and don't take up a lot of space.

Here we've got another bash that George is working on, a Dragon figure outfitted as a German Paratrooper. George still has detailing to do, but he has gotten a good start on this one.

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The final WIP project of the night was from Gray Ghost and Point Man. Over a period of three weeks they have created three M2A1 Half-tracks, using the front section of a 21st White Scout Car, the running gear from the Hasbro Half-track and a scratchbuilt fighting compartment.

The M2A1 was approximately a foot longer than the White Scout Car and the White Truck Company build the first M2s, so it is logical that they used some of what they already had. These miniature WHITES scale out approximately 2" longer than the 21st Scout Car (a scale foot). Point Man maintains that they are scale to the White Scout Car from 21st, but feels that there is probably some "Selective Compression" applied to that vehicle. All that said, these things dwarf the Hasbro Half-track.

Here's some of the gear that Point Man has assembled for his radio equipped HT. He's still got a few more things to find and build.

This one got the later bumper with the wench due to the fact that there were only two of the earlier bumpers available.

And that's it for the September meeting. It was a great time and plenty of eye candy to look at. Hope you can make it for the October meeting if you are in the Cincinnati area. First Wednesday of the month, doors open at 5:15 pm.