I was called back to duty after a long hiatus and am currently stationed in Baghdad, Iraq. I thought I might pick up the hobby again to help kill the time. Is there a club or IPMS chapter here? POC? I don’t see any notices on the bulletin boards.
I chose an ambitious first project, a 1/72 DP-2E drone carrier. I have the Minicraft kit with VC-5 decals and old S/S “P2V in Action” book, but would like to ask help in locating the Airmodel AM-063 Firebee II vacuformed conversion kit and Falcon Triple Conversion VII including canopies for the P2V-5? I will be happy to reimburse
Thanks in advance.
Paul “Dutch” Wiegman
Major, USMCR
Wow!! Sorry I can’t help, Major. But best of luck & I’ll keep my ears to the ground.
I know theres a group of people there called the Bagdad Hobby Club. They use alll donated models and supplies that are shipped over there by voulenteer groups and work out of a building maintained by MWR. I unfortunatly I dont know more than that. I will try and get up with a couple friends who have worked out it and see if I can hook you up with em. Soon as I get in contact with em Ill shoot you off an email with how to contact em.
This might help “The Baghdad Hobby Club is located in the Victory Palace on Camp Slayer , just south of Baghdad International Airport . It was founded during the summer of 2003 and provides morale support and recreation for deployed personnel.” check out this link
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal2/1901-2000/Gal1978_BaghdadModelClub_Kalina/gal1978.htm
I don’t know exactly where he is in country, but armydogdoc on the forum here is in Iraq at present and modelling, you might check with him… he’d be your best bet to find a club or whatnot…
Hey Gang, thanks for all the help! I live/work on a camp not too far from Slayer, about a 15 minute wild ride away on Route Irish. If that proves too impractical (we usually doin’t travel after dark), I’ll start my own club here and post flyers in the chow halls, MWR, etc…
Still need help with the Airmodel Firebee II drones and Falcon DP-2E canopy, if anyone is willing to part with them. I will be happy to reimburse. I know I will have to cut and move the radar dome backwards, modify & lower the cockpit as well as fit the new canopy which I don’t have yet, so it’s on hold for the moment.
I received a pkg yesterday with my first selection of cheap kits ordered off eBay. There are some subjects I usually don’t dabble in, but the price was right. So I started right in and am 25% through a Hasegawa 1/72 OV-1A Mohawk. Paints here are a little basic, so this will be the white/orange prototype/test model.
This current situation reminds me of the time I went TAD and had a weekend to kill in a new town. So I looked in the phone book and found a Hobby shop. I bought two LS 1/144 P-3 kits, an IIAF P-3F and a CAF CP-140. The IIAF camo was a little challenging, so I built the CP-140 in my hotel room SOOTB, using all sorts of improvised tools; ie. toothpicks from the resturaunt, nail clippers as sprue cutters, emery board for file, pocket knife, Q-tip paint brushes and a mix of scrap sprue and glue for putty. It can be viewed on-line somewhere. Do a Google search with my name “Paul Wiegman” and “CP-140.”
As of yesterday, I had no tools to speak of other thanmy trusty Leatherman, so I went to the BX and found a small personal grooming kit for $2 with S&L nail clippers, an emery board, small tweezers, and a wooden implement which I wil use for a putty spreader (if and when I find some). I am seriously interested to see how well I can do “roughing it.” I’ll post some photos when I’m done. Thanks again for all the support.
Semper fi!
Dutch
Heh Maj Wiegman,
Guess I would call you sir if I met you in person. It amazes me how much better the living conditions are over in Iraq now then they were when we first went over. Hell we slept in holes in the ground that we dug every night after driving for 18 hours or so. Didn’t get to bathe for 6 weeks etc etc…I am sure you have heard it all before. But its funny that now when we send off guys for the 3rd rotation that they have air conditioned trailers and internet and all that. It doesn’t make their job any less dangerous or anything. It just amazes me how we move in so much stuff to keep morale high. I guess that goes to show how good the US logisticians are getting with all this. If you need stuff like exacto knives and paint or model kits, let me know and I will see if we can take a collection up in my battalion to send out there. Shoot me an Email at embark247(atsymbol)hotmail(dot)com . You should be able to desipher that. I have to keep the spam bots at bay.
Regards
Ben