[Don Boose]

Mike – I think the sight and sound of the good old Huey brings back memories and emotions for a lot of us.

Bernie – It would be wonderful to see you at this event. If you have an extra day, we could add the Maryland Campaign (South Mountain, Harpers Ferry, and Antietam) to your repertoire. I will have retired from teaching next year, so won't be trying to run my on-line elective forum the same week and weekend as this event, so we could do it.

Everybody - In this post, I will focus on three of the Paper Modelers who participated in the event.

Images 1-7: Peter Ansoff, in addition to being a long-time participant of this event, is, along with Pete Heesch, the orchestrator of the annual October International Paper Modelers’ Convention in Sterling, Virginia. His Empire State Building as it should have been, Peter Zorn Spirit of Saint Louis, and Johan Scherft birds are well-known at these events.

Images 8-11: Rick Steffers, the heart, soul, and public face of our Forum, and one of the founding members of Paper Modelers at Army Heritage Days. Image 11 shows some of his geological models. Rick loves interacting with the visitors and talking up paper models, as we all do. In image 8, he shows a paper model of a volcano (potential science fair project) to a parent and her son. Incidentally, where else but at Army Heritage Days do you find people with Kevlars casually slung over their arms?

Images 12-20: Kevin Stephens, another of the founding members of this event in 2009. He is also the builder of the famous Dragon Wagon, which would never have been built had not Rick Steffers at an IPMC a decade or so ago not seen Kevin purchasing the GPM Sherman tank and then handed him the model of the Dragon Wagon, saying, “You’ll need this for the base, Kev.” Now Kevin is working on a 1/24 model of a 1920s Mack tank truck, to which he is applying his exceptional engineering and modeling skill. Maureen Stephens joined us on Saturday.

I’ll post more images of modelers and models tomorrow.

Don