A Special Announcement: AMPS Boresight series by Nick Cortese

AMPS is pleased to announce that Nick Cortese will be writing a series of articles in Boresight, the AMPS Journal. Nick will be taking AMPS Boresight readers step-by-step through his scratchbuild of the Soviet A-20. The A-20 was the prototype for the famous T-34 tank. In a series of articles beginning in the Sep-Oct issue, Nick will give a detailed presentation of the techniques that go into scratchbuilding this important prototype using the DML T-34/76 model 1940 kit as a starting point.

This series will culminate in a scratchbuilding seminar at the 2008 AMPS International Convention at the WW2 Victory Museum in Auburn, Ohio April 10-12, 2008. The theme of this coming year's show is "Prototypes, Experimentals and One-Offs".

Even if you aren't a scratchbuilder, Nick's techniques for using styrene fabrication can be applied to detailing a kit in ways you may never have envisioned. In each issue this winter, Nick will show you how to 'train your eye' to break objects down into simpler components, using simple tools in innovative ways, and finally building complex objects up.

How do you get this series of articles? If you are an AMPS member, just be sure you continue to renew your membership as needed. Your Boresight subscription takes care of the rest. Don't risk missing a single issue of this series.

If you are not yet a member of AMPS, join us now. Visit us at http://www.amps-armor.org and sign up today. In addition to getting this series of scratchbuild articles, your membership entitles you to member-only discounts with our vendor partners and discounted admission to AMPS shows. Join us today!

Info on the 2008 AMPS Show: http://www.amps-armor.org/ampssite/conventions/showInfo.aspx?Page=Annouce&ShowID=21

Danny Egan
President
AMPS
www.amps-armor.org

Well, I'm certainly happy to hear that, and that my dues are paid.