San Joaquin Valley Scale Modelers

Archive for June, 2010

In an effort to enable our members to share and interact each other easier, we have created a Flickr group dedicated to SJVSM members for sharing images and video of their creations! We named it “IPMS San Joaquin Valley Scale Modelers”. All you need to “join” the group is sign up for a free Flickr account! Click this LINK to access the group!

by Bryan Finch

It all began one cool October morning….

We were helping fellow club member Bob Phillips move to his new home in north Stockton,

when tragedy struck! On the last run, John had his models in the back of his truck, you see, we were leaving for the Redding contest after the move. When we arrived at the final destination John realized that the F-105G Thunderchief had gone missing! John, realizing the gravity of the situation yelled “SHOOT!” after a pause “FUDGE!” while striking his truck, then “DARN IT!” Well we raced back along the route to see if we could find the model. We found the box sitting upright in the middle of Eight Mile Road! Did the model survive? Nope! We quickly realized after the first few cars passed, all that could be heard was the tinkle of the tiny crushed parts of the 105. As we started picking up the pieces of John’s shattered dream, club member Alan Weber found the undamaged pieces of the canopy and yelled “they punched out!” Well, we all had a good laugh, including John. We collected all of the pieces we could find, and Brad Baumgartner, who is in charge of club antiquities, has preserved the wreckage of John’s ill fated F-105G as part of our clubs history.

This is how our S.F.D. Award was born. The award will be given annually at our contests to any model built from scratch and limited production kits including resin, injected and vacuum formed kits.

Thanks again Kneecaps

The latest newsletter has ben released and can be downloaded HERE or from the link on the left titled “Current Newsletter”.

Volume 2 of the new newsletter is now available for you to download and enjoy!