The 2012 East Coast Collectors meeting was held at the Maryland Inn at Annapolis, MD, on Saturday, September 8. In addition to the regular model exhibit and sales event, SMSC members had the opportunity to visit the U.S. Naval Academy Museum model shop, courtesy of Curator of Models Don Preul, and enjoy an after-hours tour of the H. H. Rogers Collection of Admiralty dockyard models led by Education Specialist Grant Walker. SMSC members also visited the workship and repository of U.S. Navy builder's models located at the David Taylor Model Basin (NSW Carderock Division) in Bethesda, MD, where staff members Michael Condon and Brian Potter led the tour.
Annapolis Harbor (photo by John Olsen)
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U.S. Naval Academy Museum Tour
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Photos courtesy of Tom Vargas and Ulrich Rudofsky
Curator of Models Don Preul greets SMSC members in the In the model shop (L-R): John Olsen, Bob Wiringa, Bill
Museum's lobby. Laferriere, Dick Garritson, Doug Miller, Bill Long, Paul Jacobs
Collier USS Jupiter was among the many models undergoing Paul Jacobs with the USS Chicago of 1887.
A model shop volunteer works on USS Bainbridge while Bob Builder's model of USS Maine being restored to its original
Wiringa looks on. configuration with masts and sails.
Tom Vargas, John Olsen and Jim Angelis Unfinished model of Civil War ironclad USS New Ironsides.
inspect New Ironsides.
Don Preul describes an incomplete model of USS Langley to the group. USS Langley minus flight deck.
A small scale British 60-gun fourth-rate. Museum volunteer and SMSC member Dick Garritson
shows off the Museum's collection of 1250 scale models.
Second floor of the Museum, home of the Rogers Collection.
Grant Walker explains the history of dockyard models. Model of the 70 gun Prince Frederick.
Split-hull model of the 70-gun HMS Sussex. Many models of this type Model of the 96-gun St George dating from 1703,
have completely furnished interiors. still with the original silk rigging.
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David Taylor Model Basin Tour
Friday, September 7, 2012
Outside the Carderock facility (stock photo) David Taylor Model Basin from the air (stock photo).
Photos courtesy of Tom Vargas
Builders model of USS California, formerly on display at the San Francisco Maritime Museum.
Bow viewof California model. Model of 1866 steam frigate Wampanoag being restored in the workship.
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Meeting and Exhibit - the Main Event
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Photos courtesy of Harald Scheel, Ulrich Rudofsky, Bill Werner (Mia Song) and Jenny Olsen
The historic Maryland Inn, site of the 2012 East Coast Meeting.
Setting up the day before. Bob Wiringa previews the offerings.
Eric Jarvinen sets up a diorama. Ralph Allen unpacks. Ron Hartman's tables.
Bill Werner at MSM's command center. The Hartmans
Paul Jacobs and Harald Scheel. Mark Zolna of MZ Models.
Hjalmar Heinen and Matti Brocher. Ulrich Rudofsky and John Olsen.
Mark Heilenday Annapolis organizer John Reeder and SMSC VP Doug Miller
At Ron Hartman's tables (L-R): Paul Jacobs, Jim Angelis, David Haynes, Doug Miller.
Bob Wiringa at Mark Heilenday's table. Eric Jarvinen checks out Ron Hartman's offerings.
Bill Werner does a brisk business. MSM's roving photographer Mia Song (center)
The view from Mark Zolna's corner. Mark Heilenday concludes another sale.
Dick Wiringa (R) looks over some free literature at John Olsen's Jim Angelis and Doug Miller at Mark Zolna's table.
table.
The SMY Gang: (L-R) Ulrich Rudofsky, Paul Jacobs, Jim Angelis, Bill Laferriere, one of several West Coast attendees.
Harald Scheel, Hjalmar Heinen, John Olsen.
Hjalmar Heinen, John Reeder, David Haynes. Paul Jacobs and Tom Vargas.
Dick Garritson looks over Ron Hartman's Mark Geraghty attended despite a broken Jenny and John Olsen
diminishing inventory. ankle.
Saturday morning in the Duke of Gloucester Room
Jim Angelis and Mark Heilenday. John Olsen and Bill Long.
David Haynes looking over one of Eric Jarvinen's dioramas. Architect Eric Jarvinen brought several harbor dioramas like
the one above.
Offloading at pier side shown in a Jarvinen diorama. Bill Werner's collection of WWII camouflaged British cruisers.
Ulrich Rudofsky's table. Ulrich's yacht squadron sailing in the Severn.
Several of Ulrich's scratch builds. Roland Klinger's much awaited RV FLIP models.
RV FLIP right side up, showing her full length. RV FLIP "flipped" to stationary position.
John Olsen's exhibit of British ironclads. A row of rigged ironclad models from John Olsen's display.
John Olsen's Thalamegos display. John's fanciful interpretation of Cleopatra's royal barge Thalamegos.
Harald Scheel's collection of models produced by the Hai's new model of the USNA's barracks ship Reina Mercedes (top),
3D printing technique. specially produced for the Annapolis meeting, seen here with her sister
Alfonso XIII, also by Hai.
SMY's special release of the U.S. Mark Zolna's new USS Spearhead. The USCG buoy tender Juniper, one of several
China gunboat Panay. new releases at Annapolis by Rhenania Jr's Matti Brocher.
A special display of the U.S. airship Shenandoah moored to the mast of SMY's Patoka, done by Navis-Neptun.
Adding up the final sales at MSM: Bill and Mary Werner. The German visitors bid farewell to Bill Werner.
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Dinner at Cafe Normandie
Saturday evening, September 8, 2012
An impromptu dinner after the show. The overflow crowd downstairs.
