¶ Modeling Updates and Show Reports
Well , Dave , it's February and it's time for a 12-minute model sphere or some other duration of time that starts with a T Can you believe that January has already flown by . No , but I'm glad it has .
Well , yeah , I can understand that , but still , honest to gosh , I blinked my eyes and January is just a blur to me .
Well , I think it was that lingering snowfall .
I do think a lot of it had to do with that . It made you compress time .
It sure seemed like it . It did Well , even though the first month of the year has gotten off to a supersonic start . As far as shows goes . We're kind of behind the time a little bit . We've not been anywhere because we've not had anywhere to go .
We talked about going to Chattanooga , but they ended up canceling and rescheduling their show because of the weather . It was kind of attached to the weather . We got , yeah , and the next one up close for us is Columbus , yep , and I'm not going to be able to make that one my friend , but you may carry the flag to Columbus .
I am going to make every effort to represent PMM at the Columbus show . I may get Substitute Mike aka Skippy to go along with me and go up there and at least give a good show report for the dojo and meet up with Inch High and many of the other listeners , and I'm going to make every effort . We'll see what happens , but right now I'm planning on it .
Well , I'm going to miss inch and gosh . You asked who else would be there .
Oh gosh , any number of people . It depends , it's , it's Ben .
Ben .
Pluth would be there , ben will be there , barry numeric usually shows up .
Ah man , now I'm wanting to go more than I did before .
Well , family obligations come first . We all understand that .
Well folks , if Dave makes it to Columbus , stop by his table and say hi , yes , please . Well , dave .
February is a short month , yes , but we're going to get in the required two episodes .
Yes , we're going to get into , along with this TMM , and probably a model show spotlight as well for shows coming up in March . But we do have two episodes . The first one is episode 134 , and this was the Shop Talk promise for last month . But I guess these TMMs have become kind of guidelines for what we might do .
Yes , yeah , always subject to change , always subject to change . It's the lawyer language . Always notes .
Yes , it's like a concert poster exactly dates subject to change , but in the shop talk room , of course we're going to tackle some modeling topics , but we also , as promised , we're going to pick up one of the journaling prompts from steve anderson's scale modeling journal that we talked about a couple episodes ago .
Yeah , which has gotten some good , gotten some good traffic on the Dojo and direct message and emails .
Yes , it has , and , as a matter of fact , I've started jotting some stuff down in it , so I'll be anxious to talk .
Well , I'll disclose the one we're going to take on in the shop talk and in the outline for that episode .
All right .
Maybe I'll give you a little better warning than that . There you go . Well , you know that episode was kind of different . It was nice to see that there were some folks out there who appreciated that line of activity .
I guess Modeling adjacent , modeling adjacent activity I thought it was a great thing and anyway we're glad folks are getting some inspiration from that .
I know some folks have ordered the journals and sent us pictures of them after they've received them and Steve sent us a nice email and thanked us for having him on and it's just going to be a fun thing to tackle those during these shop talks . Dave .
Yep , looking forward to it . So what's 135 ?
Well , let me back up Steve Anderson's episode , which I think was 132 , was a little unusual and interesting for our listeners . Well , we've got another one coming up , Dave , For episode 135 , we have Mr Mark Copeland as our guest and Mark is part of the travel entourage from the greater Minneapolis area with Steve Hustad .
In fact he's the one that prompted us to have Steve on for the first time .
Yes , yes , I am forever in his debt .
Well , since then and since us getting acquainted with Mark and Steve , mark has taken on a new job over the last year or so I think , maybe two , yeah , year and a half , something like that . Mark's the director of educational travel for the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force out of Savannah , georgia . Now Mark's in Minnesota .
The museum is in Savannah and I've been to it . It's a fabulous thing to go see if you're in the Savannah area . But Mark's going to come on the show and he's a modeler as well , make no mistake about that . We'll talk a little bit about his modeling and talk a little about this really interesting and seemingly wonderful new career track he's on .
We've spent time with him at different shows and all , and he has some absolute fantastic stories from just conducting tours , getting to meet veterans yeah , places he's been , Places he's been and so it'll be nice to talk with him and get not only a picture of what he does and how that's related to modeling for him , but also to get the wider picture of
supporting the museum going on these tours . I'm really looking forward to it .
Well , I know he's excited too , so we're going to have a lot of fun having Mark on finally . Yes , well , dave , the dojo has gotten a little bit electric over the last couple of weeks . The new member requests have ticked up .
Yes .
Which I really like that , but what else has been going on ?
have ticked up , yes , which I really like that . But what else has been going on ? Well , members have apparently been listening to the podcast and actually responding . The two things I want to point out this month on the 12-Minute Model Sphere for the dojo are my request for book reviews has been heard .
Warren Dickinson recently posted one Inch High is going to post one . I've got one to post . This is a great way . Not all our time is actual modeling time . Some of it is modeling adjacent . Many of us are historians or history motivated in our modeling , and books are a great part of that .
And it's another resource where in our community we can let people know hey , I read this , it's a good book . Hey , I read this , I don't think it's worth the money . Hey , don't spend your you know whatever .
And because of the fact that we're not a money-making business , unlike many magazines who you never see a bad review in them , we don't have that problem . We want people to be polite , but we want them to voice their actual opinion on what they've read and what they think about it , and so Warren and Inch have done so .
Others of you out there , if you've recently finished a book , please post the other thing that's shown up a lot in the dojo with the kickoff of model contest season have been reports from model contests . Special Agent 003 posted a winter blitz report which I got a DM from him .
He apologized that it was a little bit late but he had a modeling-related accident to some of his models and that kind of put a damper on the post-show enthusiasm . But there's a report photos on Winter Blitz .
In addition , steve Hustad went to the show in Rochester , minnesota , the Hope it Don't Snow show , and apparently it didn't , because they had a great turnout . They had something like 547 models on the table and that is amazing for a show in early February . That's a lot that far north .
That's just amazing to me that they pulled that off and apparently it didn't snow , at least not on the day of the show .
There was probably snow on the ground .
Yeah , there's always snow on the ground in winter in Minnesota . So he posted . In fact , he took so many pictures he had to break the post up into three separate posts .
Again , if you all attend shows , particularly shows that Mike and I can't get to , we would appreciate you posting photos and a brief report in the dojo to let the community know where , what's out there , what you're seeing on the tables , how the show was . A show report .
We appreciate it , we do , and if it's a show we're at , you can act on our behalf , because I'm not one of those guys that goes around takes a lot of pictures of the models .
I try and post on shows we go to . I try and post for a board . I'm not always successful .
I'm not one of those guys that comes back from a show with just about a picture of every entry there was . Yeah , I appreciate the folks who do , but that's typically not my thing . Yeah , so thank you to everyone who does that . Absolutely so , thank you to everyone who does that ?
Absolutely Well , dave , I'm going to deviate here from our outline and normal format and make one call to action , because I know I've seen Ed Barrett's name pop up from either from Ed himself or someone who he's interacted with in the last 24 , 48 hours or so , and I know Ed's going to be our third chair for the next installment of the Wheel of Accidental
Wisdom and I want folks who have a question that like to see us tackle on the wheel to go ahead and start submitting those via email .
¶ Email Curation for February Modeling
Yes , please Via email , even if you already have Now some folks have sent in seven or eight at once . Please re-curate those . If we've addressed it either directly or kind of adjacently , either take those out or think up something new .
We have to re-curate the list and I've got a bunch of email to go through , but I want to make sure we have enough to make a good episode , and I think we do , but a bunch more would not hurt things . Well , that's the one thing . I want to deviate and get out there , dave . So let's get on with our February .
Let's go ahead and get to modeling Bye .