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July 2001

Even the heat of New England summer can't keep some of the members of ECFA from being creative and showing off their stuff. Nick D. stopped by to tell about his latest projects, including the Gotham Gas Light Batman, sculpted by Mike Hill and Clare Pearson. Nick also mentioned sculpting some Aurora head conversions. Our meeting photographer and natural history buff, Robert Butler, had a Kaiyodo Whale. This is a pre-painted vinyl piece and absolutely beautiful.

Ovi Raffa brought in a classic piece of resin, the Mark Neuman Moonsinger.  Ovi continues to experiment with new techniques, and, like the rest of us, is learning something new with each piece. Our web site Guardian, Traci Briery sculpted a very cool little penguin, dressed as a British Beefeater. This piece looks like it stepped out of an Alice in Wonderland book! 

Ol' Uncle Bob had a new piece from a new company on the scene.  The Clone Factory (http://www.theclonefactory.com/) has several pieces in their line, but the piece I had to start with was "Lemned the Martian."  This is a bust that I just used pastels on and did it in about an hour. The piece has a ton of detail and was just a ball to paint.

Anthony Anese is still keeping busy, taking a Venom toy and giving him a new head and...a pet. Yep, Anthony has started sculpting a Venom-styled dog!  This "power puppy" is shaping up to be a great companion for Spiderman's biggest foe. We look forward to this piece being at a future meeting all painted up!  John Delamere continues to lop off body parts (not his own...or any other breathing creatures...that we know of) and his latest bash is The Battle Fairy, with a Nina Dolono head and leaf skeleton wings. John also changed the Ballistic Rose kit, dumping the huge rifle or cannon for pieces more befitting this lethal lovely.  We return the first Sunday in August, sans Uncle Bob, who is running the Model Contest for the ImagineNation Expo in Las Vegas.

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Some very sad news for members of our club and modelers in the New England area. Russ Norman passed away this month after a long illness. Russ joined us last year and always brought enthusiasm and warmth with him to our meetings and to IPMS area shows. Our condolences to his family...Russ, you will be missed.

- Bob Maxwell