PMM Twelve Minute Modelsphere: March 2025

Well, all right, Dave, we are into March.

Yes, I know, man, it is hard to believe that we are two months in already. It flew by.

I think it's going to slow down. That's my personal opinion.

God, it's got to man.

Well, march is in like a lion, out like a lamb right.

Yep.

I hope we flip that around. That'd be our goal.

I'm just happy that we've got sunshine and warm occasionally.

Occasionally. Well, I just got back from Atlanta. It was a little nicer down there than it was here today. Yep, could have been any sunnier in Kentucky today, but it was not particularly warm.

No, it was not Not in the shade. We're supposed to get some rain and warm weather coming up.

Well, the daffodils are poking above the mulch. So it's coming, man. Spring is coming, it's coming hard. Well, along with spring is show season. Yep, yep, and I do not. Folks, I'm sorry I've yet to make it to a show, but my illustrious co-host, kentucky Dave, has made it to a show. Dave, where you been Went?

to the Columbus show BlizzCon. There was no blizzard, so that's always good news. Yeah, that was last year. Yeah, really. Um, you know, there was snow on the ground and it was cold, but there there, there was no snowstorm driving up, no snowstorm driving back. It got to. It's the first show of the season that I've gotten to, but not the first show of the season.

You made that mistake, that's right. No, no, first show of the season that I've gotten to, but not the first show of the season. You made that mistake already. That's right.

No First show of the season that I have gone to, and what was great was I got to see a bunch of friends and listeners. Got to see Inch In fact, I had lunch with Inch. Got to see Ben Pluth, got to see a number of listeners, had a great time with lee fogel, and then got to meet some listeners and talk modeling. In fact, one of our listeners wanted to try photoetch. So, oh yeah, I gotta follow up, don don't I? Yes, you need to reach out and send him that article, because I talked to him about the article that you used as your guide. I'm impressed you remembered that.

What can I say?

Well, let me ask Any show we've been to in the last year, we've been behind the table for a fair amount of time. You freelance this one.

Yes, I did not have a table, because by the time it became obvious that I, at least, was going to go, the tables were sold out.

So that's good for them.

So yes, absolutely. And boy, there were deals to be had. It was a good show, the great models on the table, good turnout, the vendors were really good. I spent some money, picked up a few things and had a great. I mean it's rare that you go to a show and have a bad time. I mean it's just fun. You have to break your model or something.

Yeah, exactly, and even then I'm not sure that's the worst thing that could happen to you and we keep emphasizing on here if you're a modeler and you don't go to shows I'm not talking about entering, but just at least go to the show, Look at the models that are entered, even if you don't enter. I didn't enter a model, but the social aspects of modeling are just so good and it's so much fun and, like I said, I had a number of conversations with folks, listeners all modelers, obviously and just really interesting conversations that I wouldn't have had, experiences I wouldn't have had had I not gone. So, even though I had to drive three hours up and three hours back, all by my lonesome, I had a great time and I got to catch up on some podcasts.

Well, good for you, man, Glad you went. I'm sorry I couldn't go.

It's all right, life intervenes, man, life intervenes.

On the vein of sorry, I couldn't go. Where are we going?

Well, I'm going to Canada, that is, if they'll let me in. Heritage Con is the last weekend. Is it the last weekend or second to last weekend? It's at the end of March and it's on a Sunday and Heritage Con is. This will be the third time I've gone. It is one of my favorite shows because, among other things, we get to see all of our Canadian friends. The Hamilton Club really rolls out the red carpet for their niceness and hospitality and it is absolutely true. And the guys in Hamilton really go out of their way to make us feel welcome when we show up. And it's a model contest inside an aircraft museum. I mean, you just can't beat that.

No, it's pretty nice, and we've talked about that a lot. Well, keeping my fingers crossed, man, it's a day-by-day thing.

Maybe something will happen. Maybe there will be a schedule reshuffle. You know you can up until the night before we leave, or I leave, I know I've got a lot of runway.

I do have a lot of runway. You do.

You've got a lot of runway. I do have a lot of runway, you do. You've got a ton of runway. So hopefully something will change and you'll get to go, because I know it's one of your favorite shows too, mike, how many episodes do we have in March?

We have two feature episodes, dave. Episode 136 and 137 are coming up. All right, 136 is going to are coming up. All right, 136 is going to be another Shop Talk episode, and apparently this is getting some legs Pleasantly surprised. Yep, yep.

I enjoy them, I mean.

I do too, and I guess after how long 40 plus years for each of us in this hobby.

Yep.

Maybe we learned a thing or two, one or two things, one or two, not that we're experts, but you know we got our opinions and we've had experiences.

What I like is the responses that we get, because whatever subject we happen to touch on, you'll get listeners who will respond with their take on it or a tip or something we didn't know, or a pointer to a website. It really is great the interaction we get off of those Shop Talk episodes.

Well, after that episode 137, we are, for the first time in 2025, we're bringing the Wheel of Accidental Wisdom back. All right and hopefully to be confirmed yet. Hopefully tomorrow, Dave. Mr Ed Barath, out in California is going to be joining us in third chair to offer his wisdom, and he's been at this a lot longer than we have, so really anxious to see what he might have to say on some of these questions.

So yeah, that'll be fun.

If that's not what's going to happen for 137, you'll hear about that in 136, but hopefully we're on track to make that work. Well, Dave, we had a call to action last month and it has manifested itself on the dojo.

Yes, it has.

Would you remind folks what that was?

I was doing some reorganization in my model room because it had become so cluttered that I was feeling claustrophobic and kind of getting to the point where I didn't want to come down into the model room. And so I talked about clutter and I talked about my hobby space and I asked people to share a photo of their hobby space, their model room or whatever, wherever they did their building. And boy did people respond, that's for sure. I mean, we got to thank all of you who posted a photo of your model space. I enjoyed the heck out of seeing them. The ones that were on the messy side made me feel a little bit better about myself. The ones that were super neat and clean, that gave me something to look to make as a goal.

Yeah something to strive for, something to strive for Very, very well put, but all of them were great to see put, but all of them were great to see. It's amazing how everyone is different, but they all have many of the same features. I love the uniqueness of each of them. It was great. We may have to harvest all those and put them in a gallery somewhere.

We may have to. Once we get to the gallery stage, we can just ask folks to redo it Exactly, send us a photo. But some of those that were pretty messy, I was like, yeah, it looks like me about half the time. Some of those that were super organized, I'm like that's me, maybe never the time.

Yeah, that's me never.

At the old shop in the old house. Yeah, maybe, probably a little bit, but yeah, that's what I want to get back to, because I like being able to set my workbench up for whatever I'm doing and then move all that off the workbench to get ready for whatever's coming next. So that's the way I like to work. So, thanks a lot, folks. We appreciate it and look for some new call to action coming up in one of the next two episodes. We've got to do it again, Dave.

Yep, and, speaking of the dojo, we've been adding members steadily and people have been not just posting photos of their workshop but posting photos of what they finished, what they're working on, et cetera, et cetera. And, guys, I love it. It makes my day every day, no matter what's going on, no matter if I got plumbing woes at home or clients that are a little bit difficult at work, every day I can look at the dojo and I know it's going to bring a smile on my face. So thank you all and please keep contributing.

Well, I second all that, Dave, and let's get on with March man.

That's right, it's time, man. I'll see you next time.