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November 2023 Meeting

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Our November meeting saw the judging process for one of the club’s time honored traditions. We have a yearly competition called Build a B*tch, which is a collection of kits kindly donated by Mark Bujega from Sprue Finders (also a club member). As per name sake these kits are chosen for their flaws or perhaps the amount of work required to build them into something as the box art suggests.

Some club members (I am definitely not one of them) like to torture themselves challenge themselves and showcase their modeling skills to turn a really bad kit into something passable. All club members judge the winner and generally have a laugh about how crappy these kits are.

A sample of some of the kits that were submitted.


This year’s winner was Martin Reid for his Yak UT-1 by Mikro-Mir in 1/48.


Jason van Lint
Web Admin

July Meeting

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This is no joke, we have actually been given the green light to host our meetings back at the library, this Sunday 5th July!

OMG this cannot be real after months of being separated from fellow members and being locked out of our club venue – we are finally back in business. So much has happened in the COVID modelling world. The truth is that most of us model alone, locked away in a world similar to COVID…..so what really changed anyway……life’s been normal for me!

Ok, we are back to hopefully a normal club schedule but we will have to monitor the news for any expansion to the current lock down arrangements. COVID has presented our club with an opportunity to host meetings via Skype, which has worked really well.  I can see this as being something we will continue to do into the future, as a way for the more distant members to attend meetings. There will more discussion on this one coming soon.

This meeting we will be having a topical discussion on ‘Coffee Table Model Displays’ which will be interesting. We will also be gathering numbers for our next Warbuild (club build weekend) at San Remo in August. There will also be the usual show and tell.

See you all there!

Michael Tabone
Club Secretary

 

 

2020 Meeting Schedule

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Please check our new meeting dates for 2020, which have been posted under Memberships & Meetings.

We look forward to seeing you all during the year and no doubt there will be a lots of new releases and modelling news along the way.

Please remember to check back here for whats going on at Warbirds!

Michael Tabone
Club Secretary

 

September Meeting

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We are meeting again this Sunday so come along and enjoy the fun. By the way this meeting was scheduled a week later than usual due to Fathers Day last weekend.

Our meeting location is currently under going audio visual upgrades but our meeting room will not be impacted. Its great to see that the library ensures that our facilities are kept functional and operational, so maybe some time soon we may make use of this equipment – movies, holiday slide shows etc.

We recently had a great weekend at our holiday retreat at Phillip Island so it will be great to recap to finer moments and modelling successes.

The AGM last month went along really well. We have a changing of the guard with Martin Reid stepping into the Presidents role and Mark Bujega taking on the Vice Presidents role. We wish both of these gentlemen the best of luck and look forward to new ideas and a fresh approach for the club.

See you all there.

Michael Tabone
Club Secretary

June Meeting

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This is a reminder for our June meeting for this coming Sunday.

As Model Expo is very close we will include a chat about whats on your wish list and what kits you may be entering. As you know Warbirds will be presenting our Jets club display and a little something to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of Wingnut Wings.

This should be an exciting meeting with the Expo build up and also an opportunity to bring along your works in progress, anything thats new and kits to work on during the meeting.

Look forward to seeing you all on Sunday!

Queensland Visit 2019

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For my sons birthday we decided to fly out to Queensland to visit Australia Zoo, but being a typical modeller I had to comb for any local military attractions. I did hear some time ago that the only surviving WW1 German A7V tank ‘Mephisto’ was sitting inside the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, so I kind of added this one in on the itinerary – lol.

The Mephisto is amazing to see up close, and to think it was abandoned by its crew and then removed from the battle filed under fire by Aussie troops! This vehicle sits as part of the ANZAC exhibition so I have also included some images for this as well.

A7V Mephisto Images

ANZAC Museum Images

A few days after arrival I found a hotel brochure advertising the largest heritage aircraft display at the Qld Air Museum in Caloundra which was close by. So what does  a true modeller do – add this one to the schedule of course. Just so you know I do have a knack for making my wife think it was her idea to go to these things – just sayin!

The Air Museum itself is massive and spread over two large hangers plus an out doors area. As the images will show the collection is impressive with nothing that you cant get real close to and touch.

Qld Air Museum Images

The Queensland Museum was also running a NASA exhibition which you guessed it, my wife came up with the suggestion we go and see that as well – hehehehe – what an understanding wife I have, she must have read my mind. Check out the image of the moon buggy wheels and I thought they were running GoodYears!

This was a great exhibition and brings to life the size of some of the space craft and the technology involved. There were some items in there that blew my mind in terms of construction and ingenuity and what it may have been like to be out there………….

NASA Exhibition Images

Hope you enjoyed the pics!

Michael Tabone

November Meeting Update

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Warbirds is officially done and dusted for another year with our last meeting of the year held on Saturday 10th .

Or club has flown through another year, with all aspects of running the club pumping like a well oiled machine.  Now that our year is over until 2019 its time to clean up the work bench and tidy up the model stash. Perhaps we can all relax a little as we prepare for Christmas and think about some new kits or tools to make our modelling sessions a little easier.

We will be back in 2019 with an even better year and the usual modelling calendar fast approaching. I hope you all have a happy and safe Christmas and I look forward to seeing you all in the new year.

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