Oliver Sacks at AMNH

Oliver Sacks will be at the AMNH in NYC on Oct 17th. I am hoping to make the talk. As I have said he is an amazing man and to hear him speak is an honor.

Amps East

I visited Amps East last Saturday. Its the only local Amps show for me here in Northern NJ. Great show, I missed last years East show and the Nationals and was looking foward to this one. I met up with a few modelers from the Model Armour forum I visit, that was a pleasure as modeling is a solitary hobby and it was great to meet other modelers and see their work. I use Tamiya,Polly Scale and Model Master paints, oil washes and pigments I make from soft pastel sticks on all my models. Having never looked into the "newer" paints, washes, pigments I visited the AK Interactive booth and looked into their products. With the help of a fellow modeler who was demoing the products I got an insight into how they are used. I ended up picking up 2 sets or washes, filters, pigments and am looking foward to trying them out soon I can see the advantage in using them over my old method. Practice will be required no doubt.

1/700 Kalinin

I have been busy with the radars and other brass parts for the superstructure, they are finished finally. Now working on the railings of which this ship has many of different sizes.