In Memory of Derek Penningtion

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With a heavy heart I am letting you know that Derek Pennington passed away last Friday January 17. He had a nasty fall in October and went through five hospitals since then, testing him to find an elusive infection. By the end it was found in his pacemaker, and also on a heart valve and the blood, and replacing his pacemaker one month before he turned 86 was not recommended.

Derek was a very active member of IPMS Toronto since he founded this club back in 1966. He had been coming to meetings as late as a few months ago. He had also embraced the internet as an active member on sites such as HyperScale.

Derek Pennington was born on February 18, 1934 in the East End of London, UK. He joined the RAF at 15 in 1949 as a “Boy Entrant”, and did eighteen months training in Kirkham and Cosford in Lancashire! After the training in 1951 went to Hemswell in Lincolnshire. In 1954 went to Singapore and Malaya until 1957. He then went to Watton, Norfolk, for the remainder of his career in the RAF. He mentioned to me that he handled aircraft weapons such a bomb/ordnance armourer. By the time he left the RAF he was a Corporal.

He came to Canada in 1964 at the age of 30, and founded IPMS Toronto in 1966 I recall, and met him personally in 1977 when I joined as a mere lad of 15. He served about 12 years as president of our club he told me. Derek was always happy to share his modelling experiences with club members. He was also a huge influence to Bernie Hengst – his close friend, to start the Harwood/Ajax Model Shows that went on for well over 30 years!

Derek had (then) a long career at McDonnell Douglas in Toronto, finally retiring from Bombardier at 68. He will be sorely missed.

We offer our sincere and deepest condolences to Derek’s family. He is survived by his spouse for 34 years Raquel Baranyai, his step-daughters Adriana, Nora and Patricia Baranyai, their spouses Doug Quinn, Francisco Nogueras and Kevin Conroy, and beloved grandchildren Oliver and Hailey Conroy.

Sincerely,

Harvey Low

IPMS Toronto – President

Please join us for a celebration of his life at our IPMS Toronto meeting on Monday February 3, 2020 at 730pm.

Bernie’s Typhoon and Hunter

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For the next few weeks we will be featuring the models of long time IPMS Toronto member Bernie H, continuing this week with Typhoons and a Hunter.

“My friend in Germany is associated with the Boelcke Association of JaboG 31 and he is often on the Air Base which is very close to were he lives.  The German Typhoons are always extremely clean, see photo of the display aircraft and told me that the panel lines are hardly visible because of the high quality of construction.  Revell list the colour of the landing gear as light grey but that is not true, please see the undercarriage picture.
For the Hunter F.3 conversion I used the Wolf Pack Conversion set.  What an easy spray job,  The decals came withe the conversion set and fitted very well.”
Click the image below to go to the full gallery of photos.

 

Bernie’s Jaguars

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Long time IPMS Toronto member Bernie H. will be showing some of his recent builds over the next few weeks, starting today with a collection of 1/72 scale Jaguars.

“The Revell Kit is the re-issue of the Italeri Model, it has a few additions over the Italeri kit but has the same bad canopy and speed brakes.  As you can see with some effort it is still buildable.  I tried to open up the openings on the speed breaks by drilling both ends of the openings and than connecting the holes with a mouse-tail file.  I was unable to do it successfully.  I filled the holes and sanded it down.  I phoned Ian Botaitis if he cold make the openings as decals which he did and send them to me very quickly.  He printed them in black and grey and surrounded the openings for the inside of the speed breaks in an elongated rectangle.  Please look at the ‘Sadman’ pictures 06a and 07a.”