Meetings are relatively informal and include Show-and-Tell sessions about our latest work and frequent demos that are put on by our members. We welcome modelers of age and all experience levels and we look forward to meeting you!
With the war clouds gathering over Europe, the British were looking to America to fill its squadrons with aircraft. The brand new Spitfire was working through its teething problems and production lines getting up to speed.
One of the things that I brought to Walt's is a background in painting, and a particularly useful thing that I have learned over the years of painting models and working on various paintings on canvas, is that I always tend to under-size the brush that I use for a particular task. What I mean by this is when I am painting the eyes of a particularly fiddly model, my first instinct is to grab a teensy weensy brush and use that to get into the nooks and crannies. The fact that the paint dries in the brush before I get it to the model didn't dawn on me until I started using a better grade of paints such as Vallejo. Now, I always upsize the brushes that I tend to use on a particular task. I don't remember a time in the last year where my 10/0, 5/0 or even a 3/0 brush has gotten used by me. My base coating tends to start with a 2, my detail work is a 1. I also have an array of types of brushes for certain tasks...such as metallics, or soaking the kit with a wash. If anyone has any questions about the care and feeding of their brushes I would be more than happy to answer any you may have!