¶ Model Sphere January Kickoff Episode
Well listeners , welcome to the January edition of the 12-Minute Model Sphere . Happy New Year , dave . Happy New Year listeners .
Happy New Year , mike . Happy New Year Dave . Happy New Year listeners . Happy New Year Mike . Happy New Year listeners . And yeah , we're getting this out a day or maybe after we meant to do it , but then again , you know , new Year's is kind of tough to get everything done with all the other stuff going on .
Well , that's for sure , we have a little spillover into what we tried to promise for December into January , but we'll get to that . Typically , we lead this off with where we've been and where we're going and we haven't really been anywhere because of the holidays .
Right , I feel it's fortunate for us , and maybe you do for you as well , but we're kind of in the stay-home years of our holiday enjoyment .
Yes , yes years of our holiday enjoyment , yes , yes . Well , I'm particularly lucky in that the vast majority of my family lives within four or five miles of my house . So and sisters , their children , my mom I'm very lucky in that regard .
So , yeah , not having to travel more than a couple of miles to do all that and the ability to spread it out from mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve all the way to the end of the day Christmas night , makes for a much more relaxed Christmas , as opposed to when Ruthie and I were first married and first had kids and we'd fly up to Baltimore , maryland , to go to
Southern Maryland where Ruthie's family was . Man , you want to talk about doing airports at Christmastime ? I do not miss that at all .
Well , the model show season is off to a rousing start . Yes , it is . I don't know if we'll get to any or not in January . We're trying to get to one . I'd love to . I will remind folks that the two shows outlined in the December show spotlight for the month of January still have not happened yet at the time of this drop .
So on January 10th and 11th that's a half a day on the 10th and all day on the 11th the Chattanooga Club will be hosting the Chattanooga Model Con . That's the one we were tempted to try to get down to .
Yes .
So if anybody sees us that weekend , that's where you would happen to see us .
It just sounds like a good show . We need to try to get to that facility . I mean , I have such fond memories of that facility the Downtown Convention Center where they held the 2019 Nationals . The downtown convention center where they held the 2019 nationals . That's just such a great facility to hold a show in that .
I have no doubt that that's just an awesome show to attend and I'd love to squeeze down there .
And the other one is in college station , texas winter blitz 25 , or winter blitz 2025 . Let me clear that up a little bit . Our friend of Brandon Jacobs show down there and that's a little later in the month , so you still got some time to plan on that one . So , folks , if you can get out and enjoy an early season model show , yes , absolutely .
I said we have a little carryover from December , but we'll get to the main episodes , the feature episodes , first . We've got two in January , dave .
Yes , we do 132 and 133 .
Something a little different for a guest , this time In episode 132 , I hope . Scheduling pending , these may get swapped , but we'll see how it goes . But that's the plan for now , episode 132 . We're going to be talking to listener Steve Anderson , and Steve has penned a .
Well , I'll read the title a guided journal for the modeler , for modelers , making the most of your hobby . And what what it is is a book with , oh , quite a few , 50 or so questions to ponder and space to journal a little bit and provide some action steps going forward for your hobby .
And then a little later in the book it's got some some project outlines and things like that . And , uh , you know , this is kind of unique . And and , uh , he , he mentioned this to us in a listener mail and I said , well , why don't you come on and talk about it ? So we're going to talk about this .
I don't know how many listeners like to write , but I'm sure quite a few do , or even note-taking can be beneficial . So , looking forward to seeing what this is all about .
Well , this has several things . I know there are a number of modelers who actually do keep notebooks on each of their projects . In addition to that , the other parts of this little booklet it's more a booklet than a book is kind of thought-provoking .
You can sit down with it when you're not at your bench modeling but wherever , grab a few minutes , read through and ponder on a section . I think it stimulates the modeling centers in the brain and I'll be interested to talk with him about that .
Well , the other episode 133 , as planned today will be another shop talk . So , dave , we've got to cook up some good questions and our good topics , and I've been successful at that . So I think that should not be a problem , given the amount of work we've been getting to at our benches here in the recent past .
I was going to say I've got one or two kicking around already in my brain .
Well , the model show scene stays hot going on into February and we'll have a model show spotlight sometime this month in January , and we'll know we're going to feature one show , maybe two , trying to line that up so folks can tune in for news on other shows out there in the model sphere . And then finally in December we actually gosh it's back in November .
We'd hope to have Dr Strangerbush on in December for a short on types and applying of primers and we still intend to do that and I got to get him scheduled and really hoping to drop that in January as well .
Yes , I think that would be a useful discussion . In fact , modeling friend Scott Skippy King came over on New Year's Day to have a modeling session and some black eyed peas and cabbage and he's at the stage where he's about to prime his current project .
So we had a little bit of talk about that just between the two of us and I'm really looking forward to Dr Strangebrush's words of wisdom on that subject .
So folks join us for all that and hopefully we'll all learn something new . So folks join us for all that and hopefully we'll all learn something new . Dave the dojo is pretty active over the holidays . What's been going down ?
Yes , me excepted . Unfortunately , the dark time applies not only to me not getting the modeling I wanted done , but I was not on social media nearly as much and so I didn't get into the dojo . But I'm going to cure that . But yes , thank gosh , others were picking up the slack , like me . Yes , yeah , well , you were modeling because you had what ?
Almost two weeks off , ten days .
Ten days , counting the weekends .
And you actually got some modeling done , man , I'm telling you . But yeah , the dojo is very active . We're well over 5,000 members racing toward 5,100 , which is our next goal . So if you are a current member of the dojo and your Facebook friends with other modelers , please go through your friends list and invite all the modelers to the dojo .
The posts , particularly in December , tended to center around two things . One , we got a lot of people posting this is what I finished in 2024 . And those are always great . I love seeing that .
You know I'm not as productive as a lot of people , but I love seeing the people , particularly the people who have modeled a great range of stuff , people who've gotten a lot finished . It just was really great . And then a lot of people are posting the projects that they're starting to get a running start into 2025 . And man , there are some great modelers
¶ Encouraging Participation in Upcoming Shows
out there . On the dojo , I could draw attention to a bunch of posts , but I want to draw attention to one that was just posted today by Joshua Scott , and he posted a Gundam .
And if you want to see what Gundam modeling can be , exercising all of the not only building and painting , but the weathering and chipping , and it's just a really , really nice model and I'd encourage everybody , when you listen to this episode , flip onto Facebook , go into the dojo and scroll back until you find Joshua Scott's post and take a look at that Gundam
that he posted .
And I'd also like to remind the folks hosting shows in January to send us a photo essay of what showed up and share that with us . It'll help encourage folks to attend shows in their geographies and might help get folks to yours , and will certainly encourage us all .
And , in addition , if you've got a show coming up in later January or early or any or all of February and you have a show flyer , please post a PDF of that show flyer in the dojo , let people know about your show . We got a lot of eyeballs in the dojo and they are spread all over the US , in fact all over the world .
So if you've got a show coming up the world , so if you've got a show coming up , go ahead , post your flyer in the dojo and you know let people know what's happening . Well , Dave , we probably wrap this up and get back to our benches for January . Yeah , yeah , we got to . We're coming out of the dark time , man , we got to get a running start .
All right , well , we'll see you around , man .
You got it .