10 August 2012

IPMS Annual Modellers Retreat

The 'Motley' crew
July was a busy month for me, hence why I haven't posted anything new here for a while. On the weekend of the 27-29 July 2012, IPMS Australia held its annual modelling retreat which this year took place at the YMCA's Lady Northcote recreation camp, located at Glenmore just outside Bacchus Marsh. Essentially, this is nothing more than an excuse for a boys weekend away and allows those who attend to model not-stop - if they wish to do so - without any fear or interference from their domestic responsibilities. The weekend usually kicks-off around 2:00pm on the Friday afternoon and then goes through to around 2:00pm on Sunday, which equates to somewhere in the vicinity of 36-38 hours of pure modelling time, depending on ones need for sleep. This years retreat also included full in-house catering, which meant that we didn't have to venture to far for our meals and proved to be a real bonus.

Apparently this is where all the real action was happening
Splitters table or as we were referred to over the weekend - the UN

Although I'd promised not to take any of my current commission builds along with me, as these have increased in quantity of late I saw it as to good an opportunity to pass up, to make some badly needed progress on them. My weekend started off by assembling a Moebius Moonbus, which surprisingly took me the better part of two days but is now at the interior painting stage, and concluded with the assembly of one of my own kits, an Academy 1/144 scale B-58A Hustler, which is a real gem.



This is the second of these kits that I've built to date and when finished will make a nice addition to my Academy 1/144 scale B-47 Stratojet, which I completed some years ago.