Paper Modelers at Army Heritage Days 2016

[Miles Linnabery]

Dear Don:
Here are the photos of nearly everyone's Scoring tools taken together from Ann's Sewing needle on the left to Miles Speed-o-gaphic on the right and the second photo is of Don's first home made scorer. I missed getting Ricks.
Enjoy,
Miles
If you want a high resulation Jpeg PM me

[rickstef]

Miles, mine is the 3rd from the right in the first picture

[Miles Linnabery]

Dear Folks:
Getting sorted out
From Right to left:
1.Red Handle Miles Favorite
2. Miles old dental tool
3. Ricks also Dental tool
4. Dons needle in Dowel
5. Kevin's Knife he scores with it and cuts
6. other don Rock paper scissors Linotype tool
7. Ann's Sewing needle
Next photo Don Boose first home made scorer
Miles
Now I wish that I had taken picts of how folks used the glue just about every one had a different technique getting glue from bottle to model

[at6]

Looks like it was a lot of fun.

[Don Boose]

Over the years, we have developed a great rapport and friendship with the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center.

1. Colonel Pete Crean, Director of USAHEC, came by often to talk with us and admire the models. Pete took over a few months ago and told us that when his staff told him that one of the exhibits would be of models made of paper, he was skeptical. The staffers told him “you have no idea what these models are like.” He soon became a believer. Here he is (2nd from right) with (l-to-r) Don Weeks, Jack and Anne McCombs, Miles Linnaberry, and Rick Steffers.

2. Rick: “First you score, then you cut, then you fold, and then you paste. Sometimes you color the edges.”

Miles: “Which scriber should I use?”

3. Dr. Richard Lacquement, the Dean of the U.S. Army War College came by to see us and to talk with Don Weeks and John Dell.

4. Mike Perry, the Executive Director of the Army Heritage Foundation, is another great supporter. Here he is with Rick, me, Kevin, and Anne (Mike in the middle holding my model of John Dell’s B-17C 40-2074, the first U.S. aircraft lost to enemy action in the Pacific War on December 7, 1941).

5. Karl Warner (karl.k.warner aka “Bloody Knife” in our forum) has been the Official USAHEC Paper Modelers Wrangler since 2010. Unfortunately, I did not get photos of Awesome Lindsay Strehl and Mary Kohutiak, who helped Karl and could not have been more supportive of us.

6 and 7. One of the best things about these events is talking to the passersby, especially when they say, “I flew one of those.” This is Dave Demichei, radio operator/gunner on B-24s in the 38th Bomb Squadron, 30th Bomb Group, 7th Air Force in the Western Pacific, who was glad to meet the designer and builder of the Princess B-24D, similar to aircraft he flew in (he also flew in B-24Js).

8. Lucy Cadwallader practices the Victorian art of human hair weaving (you have no idea of the delicacy and complexity of her weavings). Lucy was our next door neighbor with whom we mutually shared the secrets of our crafts. We are also trying, on the basis of a photograph, to track down the C-47 whom Lieutenant Harold C. Moore named “Tiny” after her mother sometime in 1944 or 1945 when she was living in Hawai’i.

9. It’s always fun to see the reenactors admiring the models. Kevin had a nice chat with Benjamin Franklin.

10. A couple of soldiers from von Cruikshank’s Regiment who fought at Trenton on Christmas 1776 (Washington having crossed the Delaware).

11. A group of old Union Army campaigners of the American Civil War.

12-13. A fighter pilot of the 301st Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, admires the bombers he used to protect and discusses 15th Air Force history with Kevin and John (the Bomber Boys).

14. These young women reenactors are World War II American school girls wearing their “V-for-Victory” pins. I can relate to them. I was much younger, but did have a victory garden and collected aluminum foil from chewing gum wrappers to be made into fighter planes.

15. Members of the U.S. Sanitary Commission of the American Civil War period. I believe the reenactor on the right is Dr. Mary Walker, for whom one of the rooms of the U.S. Army War College is named.

Don

[Don Boose]

The theme of Army Heritage Days this year is “Vietnam 50,”and it is my own Vietnam50, since I served in Vietnam as an infantry battalion advisor in 1966-67. I also recently found a box full of hundreds of photos, letters I wrote to Lil, cartoons, and other documents, so I conceived the idea of building models of the airplanes that supported our battalion or that I flew in. So far, I have only completed a few aircraft, with much help from Aaron Murphy and recoloring by MacSongLi and John Bowden.

Below are my Vietnam50 posters and aircraft, as well as images of my model display.

Image 11 is of a pair of North Korean MiG-21s built by Ray Smith (Texman) and John Glessner (DrLaser), who presented the set to me at an International Paper Modelers' Convention in Sterling, Virginia, a few years ago.

More models and other images tomorrow.

Don

[mbauer]

Wow, great exhibits!

Rained on, bird droppings, only thing missing would be the worm crap, Ahhhh the infantry....

Glad you all had fun. Looks like a very interesting time. Hoping to either make it next year or the Dayton meet. Would be nice to be able to do both...

Thank you Miles and Don for sharing your photos! Some great looking builds.

Mike

[AnnMcmillin]

It was nice getting a chance to talk with all of you at the Army Heritage Days! As you can see, I took your advice and joined the forum. Looking forward to participating here in the days, weeks, months to come!

Ann

[Don Boose]

Welcome, Ann! We look forward to hearing more from you and seeing images of your paper models in the Forum.

Don

[rockpaperscissor]

I don't see my scoring tool in the collection, Miles. I use the narrow end of a two sided chemical spatula.