PMM Twelve Minute Modelsphere:December 2025

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KitMasx (Janelle) (00:00):
Kev, tell everyone why you started Kit
Mask.

KitMasx (Kevin) (00:02):
Well, manually masking canopies sucks, and
somebody had to step in to savethose countless kits from the
shelf of Doom.

And now we've got over 400 sets and counting.
We've got old kits, new kits,forgotten kits, you name it.

Yeah.
And if we don't have it, justask.

Yeah, people don't realize we take custom
requests and we even have aservice that gets you canopy
masks for free.

We do.

Our masks are precision cut, they fit well,
they're easy to apply.
Kevin cuts and tests every set.

Several times.

Yeah.
Precision is kind of his thing.

And Janelle, she does everything else.
She cares about each customerand is the heart of our
business.

If you ever reach out, you're talking
directly to us.
Real people, real modelers.

And if you don't love your masks, we'll
refund or replace them.
No questions asked.

Visit kitmask.com, join the mailing
list, and treat yourself toeasier, cleaner masking.

Kitmask, made by a modeler for modelers.

Hey, what about me?

You're not a modeler.

Kentucky Dave (01:15):
I am too, man.
For all the smaller cottagetype companies, I know how much
of a hassle all these changeshave been.
And Janelle and Kevin are greatpeople, and they do such a
quality product.
Not being able to get it orbeing able to get it only with

(01:36):
difficulty, just it it wasn'tfair.
It wasn't right.
And I'm so happy that Janelleput the time in to figure out
how to get it done so that theycan start shipping back into the
U.S.

Mike (01:52):
Well, to encourage Americans to get back on the Kit
and Mass bandwagon, rememberfor the month of December,
they're running a discount codefor plastic model mojo
listeners, and that is Mojo30for 30% off your order.
So that's not bad, Dave.
No, it isn't.
You just can't get one of them.
Kentucky Dave, it's December,first week of, and there is snow

(02:14):
on the ground in the bluegrassstate.

How did we get to December 2025 already, man?
I don't know.
This year has gone by soquickly.
I mean, I know part of that'sme getting old, but man, I
cannot believe we are three anda half weeks away from a new
year.
I'm like, wait a minute, I gotgoals.
That's right.

(02:37):
That's my other problem.
It's like, oh, I had all the Ihad all these goals at the
beginning of the year.
What happened?

Mike (02:45):
Well, it's evaporated, my friend, and we are putting the
final book in on our sixth yeardoing this.
Yeah.
Is that right?

Yeah.
We started in January 2020.

Mike (02:59):
I think that's so, man.
That's a lot.
That's a long time.

I know.
I know.
I never thought we'd be doingdoing this.
And I've had no concept of whatit's grown into.

Mike (03:11):
But I'm happy.
I am too.
And as long as it's fun, we'llkeep doing it.
And part of fun is uh havingplaces we've been and places
we're going.
Well, I've not been reallyanywhere since the last, well,
gosh, since the October orSeptember TMM, our show.
That's been was about it forme.
Uh but you have, so we we'vementioned it before, but go

(03:33):
ahead and and let's make mentionof it again and thank anybody
we want to thank because you hada good time.
At least half of us did.

Just real briefly, as I mentioned
previously, I went to theMurphreesboro show, which is the
first time I've been toMurphy'sboro since you and I
went probably 18 years ago, orat least 15.

Mike (03:54):
Uh no, you're you're closer the first time.

Well, it could be.

Mike (03:59):
But let me let me tell you how I know.
Okay.
Because it was either 2001 or2002, because the club had an
issue with the number of prizetrophies they had.
Mm-hmm.
And if you got one and theydidn't have one to give, they
gave you the option of usingthat money to donate to an NYC

(04:22):
firefighters program.
After 2000 after So it's beenit's been more than 20 years,
Dave.

Wow.

unknown (04:30):
God.

Oh, that hurt.
I just I just I just felt alittle arthritis there.
But in any event, it was agreat show.
Got to see a friend of theshow, Bill Moore, who treated me
w very nicely as everyone diddown at the show.
It was a good show.
Got to hang out with Dr.
Geldmacher, who came up fromBirmingham.

(04:54):
Got to go have a nice steakdinner afterwards.
Uh got to do my first stop at aBucky's, which, man, yeah, if
if you have an opportunity, youhave to see it because it's kind
of unreal.
But it was a great time.
And if I can shoehorn it inagain next year, I will

(05:17):
definitely do so.
Just had a great time.
Now, obviously, in December,we're not gonna be going
anywhere because they're reallynot much in the way of contests
in December.

Mike (05:29):
It's I'm going home for the holidays, man.
I'm gonna kick back and uhrelax a little.

Well, I would like to, but there's a lot of
holiday to pack in.

Mike (05:40):
You'll you'll get there.
You got to guard against thedark side, man.
Yeah, I got it.
I got faith in you.

Uh well, uh date.
Did you get your Christmas treeup yet?

Mike (05:48):
It is up, yes.

It is mine is up and decorated, so that's at
least one thing I can check offthe box.

Mike (05:55):
And that day after Thanksgiving when the holiday
lights were already up becausewe cashed it on that warm day
the weekend prior.

Yep.

Mike (06:02):
Yeah, I was really liking that.

I'll bet you were.
Because I haven't put aChristmas light out yet, and now
there's snow on the ground.

Mike (06:11):
Well, you better be careful.
You you know, you you push thetimeline on that pool painting
in the summer.
You might not want to be toolate getting the Christmas
lights up.

Yeah, yeah, that's the truth.

Mike (06:20):
I'd be a slow start to the new year day.

That is true.
But in any event, there is ashow that we are at least
looking at trying to make.
It's in January at Chattanooga.

Mike (06:35):
Yeah.
They canceled either snow orthreat of snow last year, move
their show to the summer.
So they're like coming upbarely six months on their prior
show.
They're keeping their timeslot, which is probably a wise
move, actually.

It is.
It is.
And weather permitting and ourschedules permitting, we're at
least trying to wedge that intoour travel schedule.
I like Chattanooga.
It's a lovely place.
There's the squadrons not faraway, and uh, we know a lot of
people down in that area.
So if we can do it, we'relooking at least to make the

(07:11):
attempt.
No promises at this point, butwe're looking to make the
attempt.

Mike (07:36):
Well, Dave, December is a month that is busy always, yeah,
for just about everybody.
And we got a couple episodes tokick out and maybe a short.
And I don't know.
We're gonna kind of do it alittle more casual through
December because we're bothgonna be busy.
But yeah, we're gonna bringfolks two feature episodes and
possibly another short.
I hope we get that in.

(07:57):
But uh the first one's gonnacome up is gonna be feature
episode 153.
And you know, we're gonna dokind of in the shop talk vein a
a year in review and throw acouple of our other little
perennial nuggets in there, likemaybe our list of what we hope
to do in the coming year and uhhow the last year went, etc.
And then from down under inepisode 154, our great friend

(08:20):
Paul Glosser is gonna come backon the show and I don't know
what we'll talk about.
He's been to a lot of places.

We'll talk about his Spitfire.
We'll talk we'll talk aboutscale ACT.
We'll talk about how beautifula summer he's experiencing,
meanwhile, we're up herefreezing our butts off.

Mike (08:39):
That's right.
And then hopefully we'll getaround to kicking out this local
club's short.
We we had promised forNovember, but had a little
change of events with KitMass,so we want to get those folks on
to let folks know they've gottheir shipping issue to the
United States figured out.
So we appreciate everybody whosubmitted information about
their local club activities, anduh we encourage other others to

(09:01):
keep doing that.
We'll maybe we'll get anotherone on a little later.

Yeah.

Mike (09:04):
Especially during the slow club show season, and uh give
us something to talk about andlet you guys promote your clubs
because you know we had onelistener who was looking for a
club.
Where was he?
Terre Haute area.
Yeah.
Hopefully he's made someheadway into finding some folks
up that way.
I would hope so.
Well, Dave, the dojo continuesto grow.

(09:26):
Lots going on there, man.
Give us a give us an update onthe dojo.
The dojo continues to grow.

Uh, there's almost 5,600 members in the
dojo.
Right now is 5569 is the countas of this evening when you and
I, right before you and Istarted to record, we're gaining
about 60 members a month.
What I'm really encouragedabout is the activity on the

(09:58):
dojo.
Not only the the number ofposts that we're getting, which
is almost 500 a month and hasgrown substantially over the
last few months, but also thequality and variety.
We're getting everything fromshow reports, which I expect to
slow down now, now that we'reout of show season.

(10:20):
But you all have done a greatjob of when you go to a show
posting on the dojo.
So those of us who aren't closeenough to go to that show can
actually get some experiencefrom it.
We're getting posts of flyersfor upcoming shows.
Mike and I, as you all know,we're big, big supporters of

(10:44):
shows, particularly local shows,and getting modelers to go out
and even if you're not intocontests, go to shows, interact,
shop in the vendor room, meetmeet your fellow modelers.
In addition to show contestreports, show flyers, upcoming
shows, etc.

(11:05):
One of the things I'm seeing onthe dojo that I'm absolutely
loving is people posting.
Here, here's my build progresson my first helicopter ever.
Here's my build progress on myfirst wing nuts wing kit.
Here's the first time I'mtrying a bare metal finish.

(11:27):
Absolutely loving the fact thatpeople are trying new things
and posting it on the dojo andletting people see what they're
doing so that not only can theyget encouragement, but they can
also get input.
Hey, you want to watch out forthis on Wing Nuts kits, or hey,

(11:50):
on helicopters, I found X or Yor bare metal finishes, whatever
it is.
So many of the modelers postingin the dojo are not only
building, which you and I arebuilding slowly, they are
putting us to shame.
And we did this foraccountability, so you and I
both need to step up and getbetter and faster.

(12:12):
But in addition to that, we aregetting a lot of building out
there, and people are stretchingtheir skills, stretching their
comfort zones, stretching theirboundaries.
And man, I am super encouragedby that.
I'm loving that.

(12:32):
Please keep doing it.
We're getting a lot ofencouraging and helpful comments
on the post.
So if you've got constructiveinput for somebody, please feel
free to give to give it becausemodelers helping modelers is one
of the main things that we canaccomplish with the dojo.

Mike (12:56):
Man, it's like we've been friends for 30 years, Dave.

You really it does.
Speaking of which, we need togo out for Mexican again
sometime.

Mike (13:08):
We do.
Yeah.
Aside though, my call to actionfor this last segment of the
12-minute models for Dave wasfolks for the month of December,
please show us your in-progressstuff.
Yes.
The the more raw the better.
Show us to the whatever you'redoing, cutting styrene, fitting
parts, scratch buildingsomething.

(13:29):
Let us see it in the month ofDecember.
You know, we don't do theformal group build things here,
but we like what Dave's beentalking about there on the dojo.
And I would just like to seesome some more in progress stuff
because it's really ramped uphere lately, and we really
appreciate it.

And it's cold outside, and we all have plenty
of times now to get to our benchand do some building.
So Mike has posted a fewphotos.
I've posted a few photos.
We're both doing in progress.
Hopefully, we're both going tomove a little faster.
But please post what you'reworking on.

Mike (14:03):
All right, Dave.
We'll see you in episode 153.

Looking forward to it.
Looking forward to happyholidays.

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