President – Tom Finch Vice President – Steve Berguetski Sergeant at Arms – Bob Halliday Treasurer – Scott Harvieux

March 2018

“RPM is a club created for the building and enjoyment of race car and sports car scale models”

March17 RPM Meeting

Rally Cars

April14 Milwaukee NNL

April21 RPM Meeting

Auction

May19 RPM Meeting

Retired/Deceased Racers

May20 NNL North

We will be at the Edina Library for February’s meeting!

Address is:

5280 Grandview Square, Edina 55436

Tom

Hi all. Just got done plowing the driveway for what seems like the thirtieth time this winter season. Hope everyone has been getting lots

of building done during our annual hibernation. Last month's (February) meeting was a good one with tons of great Rolex 24, and Daytona vehicles (plus one out of place Indianapolis raced motorcycle) on the tables . We had quite a few new and enthusiastic faces join the club as well. The club is growing, and adding collective knowledge with every meeting. I am proud to be a part of this group of people. I wanted to also say thank you to Cameron, Jim Kampmann, Jim Allen, and Bob M. for adding their models to the display case at the entrance to the Edina library. The staff were very happy to have us display our stuff there, and want us to do it again if we'd like. I will try and put something together again for later in the year. I MN February, we voted to use the proceeds from the club auction in April for the club treasury. I would ask that everyone try and find something from their stash to bring in for auction as well, and set them aside. That said, make sure and inventory that all the parts are there, it's unstarted, and decals are good. If not just note it, and make sure the auctioneers know that as well. We have enlisted the services of the HarvEggauctioneering firm again this year, so it should be a great time. This month's (March) meeting will again be at the Edina library on St. Patrick's Day the 17th. We will as usual get together at Hub Richfield around 11:00 am, and Davanni's Richfield around 11:30-12:00. This month's theme is rally cars. Hope to see you all there!

• Lots of new faces in attendance• The club voted to have the money from the April auction go

to the club

• Remember that paid up members will get the chance to win 1 of 2 new models at most meetings this year – Scott has been bringing them in and raffling them off!

On The Table….

Tom Hoffman

Bob Halliday

Cameron Jamison

Tom Hoffman

Tom Hoffman

Lisa Czech

Well, it was the month we featured the Daytona 500 and the 24 Hours of Daytona races, but of course we had our usual display of diverse models built by 15 members. Let's get started:

• Bob Halliday had his contribution to our "NASCAR Hall of Fame display" in progress on the table this month. It is the Dodge Charger of Bobby Isaac circa 1969.

• Cameron Jamison is using a body by Andy Martin to replicate the 1980 Daytona Porsche 935K. He will be doing it in Momo markings.

• Tom Hoffman gave us two early 80's Plymouth Road Runners and a 1950 Chevy Pick-up.• Lisa Czech had her pink '71' Plymouth Cuda on the table for us this month.

• Bill Johanneck built a '39' 'Ute" out of various kits. The result was as always with Bill's models, unique.• Tyler Halliday gave us an encore showing of his tasty 1960 Plymouth Valiant, driven by Marvin Panch in

the old 'compact' division of NASCAR back in the day.

…more on the table!

Dean Kuitunen Scott Glastein

Torben RothgebTorben Rothgebe

• Torben Rothgeb dropped 4 NASCAR's on us this month. They were his recently completed '61' Chevy of Rex White, his '69' Wendall Scott Torino, and two Daytona 500 winners, the '89' Lumina of Darrel Waltrip and the '72' Mercury of A.J. Foyt.

• Dean Kuitunen brought in a new 'rat rod' for us to admire. He based this fine model on a '32' Ford sedan and mated it with a '29' Ford frame.

Torben Rothgeb

• Mr. Metal, Scott Glastein had an engine from his latest project, the Hubley Dusenberg in 1/18 scale.• Our VP, Steve Berguetski brought two in-progress Porsche's, a 959 Rally car from Gunze, and a 964

Turbo that he intends to make into a rat rod.

Steve Berguetski

• Jim Kampmann had the new Mobieus '65' Plymouth drag car, the "California Flash" in primer.

Jim Kampmann

Tim Graf

Bob Maderich II

…more on the table!

Bob Maderich II

Bob Maderich II

Bob Maderich II

Bob Maderich II

• Nick Amburgey presented us with two in-progress works. The first was the 1/12 scale Rossi "hippie" bike form 2003 and the next was his McLaren F1 GTR. Both looked fabulous.

• Tim Graf, (where you been baby?) plunked down a '62' T-Bird that he is transforming into a road racer from a magazine article…..and finally our illustrious Prez,Tom Finch, brought two bikes, and they were a story of love and hate."Love"=the Tamiya '08' Yamaha of Colin Edwards, and the "Hate" the 2013 Nicky Hayden Ducati that hewhittled out of resin, or so it seems, to make these two fine Moto GP contenders.

Bob Maderich II

• Bob Maderich II gave us four 24 hours winners and two 500 champions. (the '65' Ford of Fred Lorenzen and the '69' Mercury of LeeRoy Yarborough).

Tom Finch

Deep Thoughts by

Scott Harviuex…..

This month I want to talk about F.E.M.A. the Federal Emergency Management Association. Well to be more specific the scale model emergency division of F.E.M.A.. Arguably the two biggest disasters that can occur when building model cars is 1. Finishing the body paint job then while masking you have to do most the body in order to cover the beautiful red paint, so you can paint a small section of black. And what happens?? BLEEEEEEEEEEEEED THROUGH AAAHHHHHHHHHH! And 2. When you have paint, decals, clearcoat and bare metal foil all done on the body and you have to glue on the mirrors, spoilers or some other parts that could not be attached during painting. And what happens?? As you just maneuver the part into position it slides a little and voila! A nice glue smear on your beautiful paint! Well here is a couple helpful hints to help with both these issues! First the dreaded bleed through.

Here is the painted body of my 1/24 MFH Ferrari 488-GTE.

Now after you have thoroughly masked off…..(I mean your model, not lying in bed this morning!)

Spray a light coat of the same body color over all the masked areas. Don’t worry about the exposed area for you are painting that black anyways. Here is the end result.

What this does is seal the areas where you might have forgotten to push down hard enough on the Tamiya tape and there would be bleed through. This wont help if you have areas where you forget to cover all together, nothing will help in that case because you’re an idiot!

Now on to the black …..and here you go…Perfect!

Until I screw something else up!Now the aforementioned glue disaster. Here are 3 glue problems on this Daytona Spyder. The far left is

Zap a Gap cyano, middle Testors Liquid and right 5 minute epoxy. Now after trying to wipe them clean look at the results. Cyano and Testors have immediately eaten into the paint but the

epoxy has rubbed totally clean ! You have to do it at the right time about 4 to 6 minutes

with 5 minute epoxy. Use a toothpick with point bitten off then rub with Novus or your favorite polish. If you wait too long the Epoxy will be hard as a rock….too early and the glue will be like peanut butter and hard to remove. Also dries clear so great for clear parts! And yes I know white glue will also work for that but that stuff has the strength of an arm wrestling Allen James! Well that’s it for this part, please keep reading!

Deep Thoughts by

Scott Harviuex…..

Thought it would be a good idea to do a section like this to get to know our members better….This time its Doug Long ….Enjoy!

Doug lives in Burnsville with his wife of 35 years, who is a big supporter of his hobby and loves to drop in to the shows when she can. He has 3 grown children, one of whom does a little building himself now and then. Doug works as a Publications Coordinator for an industrial manufacturing company. Although he would love to retire and build full-time, he still needs an income to finance kits and paint (and bills), so that idea will have to wait for a while.

He started building car models when he was about 8 yrs. Old (the age when Muggsy started smoking). The first one he ever did was a 1963 Corvair convertible, an AMT craftsman kit molded in aqua, built with help from his dad. From there he went on to building many, many white unpainted models. He usually does not add all the custom parts in the box but did try to plaster on every decal from the sheets. Funny thing is that decal work now scares him! Eventually he progressed to painting the cars - by brush - AFTER he assembled them. At about age 12 he finally ventured into spray painting BEFORE assembly (Burpee just started doing that last week!).

Around 1995 he was in a closeout store and came across a model car kit (he had to fight Stadick to get it). and bought it thinking he would give it a shot just for old-time's sake. It was actually an unassembled die-cast, but he added some paint and detail. After a few more like that, he ventured into plastic kits. A few years later, he saw a poster for the NNL North (wasn’t called that then). He grabbed a couple cars he had built and went to check it out. It was fun and now he goes to almost every one after that. At some point, he started meeting some of the RPM guys. He thinks it was Bob K. that first invited him to check out the club, which he did but did not join right away. Later on he happened to be at Hub Hobby one Saturday morning about 5 years ago and Eric Z. spotted him. He said the club was meeting that day and he should stop in. He was not able to make it that day, but dropped in the next month and has been coming back ever since (odd ….considering my typical reprehensible behavior).

His favorite subjects to build are hot rods, street machines and satin black rat rods. Lately, he has even veered into Euro sports cars! (Good Idea Lord!)I have attached some pics of Dougs builds, along with a shot of his kit stash.The build photos are: Revell 57 Ford Rat Rod, AMT Bugaboo Rat Rod, AMT TeeVee Dune Buggy, Hasegawa BMW 2002, Revell 29 Ford Pickup, and a survivor from back in the day - Monogram Uncertain T converted into a panel truck (going from a how-to article in a long-lost model magazine - complete with sewing thread for plug wires).Thanks to Doug for doing this and please take the time to talk to him about some of his builds!

RPM (Real Pretty Men) Member Profile

Deep Thoughts by

Scott Harviuex…..

Scott

A Heartwarming Story….While raising my children my son Dereks best friend was named Colin. Pretty much raised him as my own so he knows me well. After high school he moved to Colorado to pursue his two passions….snowboarding and weed. Last month while watching the winter Olympics I viewed 17 year old Red Gerard win the gold in snowboarding (from Colorado) I couldn’t help but think of Colin. The next day I posted on Colins Facebook page. “Hey Colin I was thinking of you last night while watching that kid win the gold” his response was “Thanks Scott, I always think of you when I see fish or Nazis!”…….naturally a little tear rolled down my face..

And finally The top 10!! This month its……….Top 10 funny usernames I have encountered on Ebay in my career. 10. steelwoolghandi9. myfeedbackismeaningless8. Nostradumbass7. chum_bait6. sluffo5. gumbun4. scrappyappleburger3. andrewboring (my personal favorite)2. buttbandit2And the funniest username on Ebay!1. fart111That’s it for this month!

SHIT! I almost forgot the Stauffer old age insult! Don is so old that when he orders a three-minute egg at Perkins, they ask for the money up front.

Torben Challenge Projects…..

to be completed!

Name Model/Kit

Bob Halliday Petty 1964 Plymouth Stock Car

Bob Knudsen Ferrari 550

Bob Maderich BMW 635 CSI

Cameron Jamison Porsche 935

Clint Williams Elvis Speedway 1967 Charger

Don Stadick 1933 Willys Gasser

Don Stauffer KK Midget

Erik Zabel Opel Bus

Jim Allen V W Polo R Rallye Car

Jim Kampmann V W Sedan Delivery

Mark Jacques Peugeot 206 WRC

Nick Amburgey 1950 Chevy Belair

Scott Glastein Hod Rod

Steve Helfman 1969 Ford Mustang

Tom Finch Estafette

Torben Rothbeb Tim Flock 1955 Chrysler 300 Stock Car

Tyler Halliday Hairy Canary 1966 Valiant

Good Luck to everyone!!

2018 Club Themes

Here is the list of monthly themes for 2018!

January- Weathered Vehicles

February- Cars that raced at Daytona. (The 500 or the 24 Hours event)

March- Rally cars

April- The club auction

May- Retired/or Deceased racers

June- cars that ran at the 24 Hours of LeMans

July- the oldest completed model you have your collection

August- 1960's Drag cars

September- The club swap meet

October- Out of the Closet

November- The Club contest

December- The annual "White Elephant" kit exchange