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Northshore Modelers Plastic model contest

Saturday, June 21, 2025

American Legion Hall 2031

Ronald Reagan Hwy

Covington LA 9 AM to 5 PM

Arrivals For the Week Ending May 17,  2025 –

June 9, 2025

Return of the Creature

By Paul Olivier

My first Creature was the Revell redo of the classic Aurora model.  I did that one for nostalgia sake.

I like this pose for the Creature; it’s more dynamic than the classic Aurora pose. I sculpted a longer neck so the Creature could crane his head toward the surface.  I think he has spotted Julie Adams swimming by.

This Creature is primed in black, coated in olive drab, using black and sea blue in the shadows, and yellow chromate to highlight scales. Buttercream craft paint was used for the claws, muddied up with hull red.

The base is an aquarium rock from Walmart, painted black, with olive drab “zenithal” highlights.

I deliberately did not use a gloss coat, because under water, nothing looks glossy.

If I ever do another Creature, I will do it in black and white.

June 2, 2025

USS Tattnal

The USS Tattnal DDG19 is a Charles F Adams Class Guided Missile Destroyer. Robert MacNamara served on the Tattnal in the mid-60s.

The multi-media kit he used to replicate it is the USS Barney by Iron Shipwrights which was the 1985 configuration.

Robert back-dated it to show how it looked when he served on it.  He did extensive scratch building to retro-fit it.

The Tattnal was built at Avondale Shipyards in Avondale Louisiana in 1960.

Rosebud

Hub Hobby’s original building on Broad St in New Orleans has been demolished. Word of it being torn down spread like wildfire.

One of our customers, Jim Letten, was emailed by his friend Martin about the demolition of their childhood hang-out.

The subject line was: ROSEBUD

“Rosebud” was the dying word spoken by Orson Welles in the movie Citizen Kane: a reference to his childhood sled – the symbol of memories of youthful innocence.

Read it here