6A | DECEMBER 30, 2021 |
COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Arts & Culture
Arts
bers like to participate
in contests. One of the
sporadic attendees to the
model club specializes in
tanks and makes consis-
tently impressive displays
at these competitions, not-
ed the members.
Kelley expressed an in-
terest in renting out the
Cottage Grove Armory
sometime for such a con-
vention to bring more
attention to the hobby lo-
cally.
“But, COVID has helped
the model hobby,” he add-
ed. “It’s picked up a lot.”
Kelley said he’s tried to
recruit younger hobbyists
into the group, but hasn’t
had much luck and is hop-
ing to reach out to anyone
in the community who
builds or is interested in
building.
“So, if you’re just at home
doing it, you can come
over here and just sit and
see what we’re doing and
say, ‘Hey, you know, I’d like
to get into it,’” he said, add-
ing that it has benefits for
all ages. “It’s a great way to
learn how to use all those
skills that your teachers
are talking about because
you’ve first got to read the
instructions, then you’ve
got to learn how to how to
interpret the instructions,
get how it all works, and
then you get to see a physi-
cal manifestation of it.”
The group meets at the
Cottage Grove Airport on
Tuesday nights at 5:30 p.m.
For more information, call
Shawn Kelley at 541-968-
9328.
Model citizens
By Damien Sherwood
dsherwood@
cgsentinel.com
Shawn Kelley is recruit-
ing anyone interested in
building planes, trains or
automobiles — but space-
ships, robots or mecha-
nized dinosaurs will do as
well.
Kelley is part of a small
group of model hobby-
ists in Cottage Grove who
gather on Tuesday eve-
nings to arrange plastic,
glue and paint into min-
iature replicas of their fa-
vorite crafts and vehicles.
And the group is looking
to grow.
“We’re just looking to see
if we can get some new and
some younger people in,”
said Kelley.
Kelley is also an ae-
ro-volunteer for the Ore-
gon Department of Avia-
tion at the Cottage Grove
State Airport and uses
the welcome center at the
airport as a base of opera-
tions.
His love for the hobby
started when he was young
and served as a practical
solution as well.
“They said I was ADD,
you know, bouncing off the
walls,” he recalled. “And
they wanted to put me on
all this stuff, these drugs.”
Kelley’s father reject-
ed the prescriptions and
instead handed his son a
model to work on.
“He said, ‘Here, put this
together. Focus. Put it to-
gether.’ And since then,
it’s kind of my little Zen
thing to keep my mind
focused,” said Kelley, who
added that he’s also strug-
gled with dyslexia, which
has reduced over the years.
“So, this helps me with all
those problems. It’s just
very calming.”
Also at the gathering
Tuesday night was Don
Hunter, 67, who started
working on models when
he was 12.
Fellow hobbyist Neil
Wexler started when he
was around 12 years old,
too.
“My first memory (of
building a model) was my
middle brother, myself
and my dad bought three
Batmobiles,” Wexler rem-
inisced. “We were sitting
there with three of us,
making Batmobiles.”
That was enough to get
Wexler hooked.
For each of the mem-
bers, the expression of cre-
ativity was also key factor
in what’s kept them inter-
ested.
“It’s an art form,” Hunter
explained.
“There’s a lot to it,” add-
ed Wexler. “It’s deciding
what you want to model,
weathering it, painting it,
working out what mark-
ings you want to do — then
there’s research involved in
that because whatever you
model, it’s kind of recreat-
ing a certain point in time.”
The model club is a
space to explore these in-
terests. Making time to
create in the presence of
others cures what could
otherwise be a somewhat
lonesome hobby. The men
spend their Tuesday eve-
ning casually sanding parts
or making adjustments to
their miniaturized vehi-
cles, whittling away time
with playful banter and ex-
changing model tips.
“It’s informal,” said
Hunter. “There’s no dues,
there’s no club member-
ship or anything.”
“We hassle each other,
sit back and build models,”
Kelley added with a laugh.
The group has been
meeting regularly for about
five years at the airport.
Each of the hobbyists has
their own specialty, Kelley
focusing on aircraft (World
War II and modern) and
science fiction craft, Hunt-
er specializing in pre-1970
cars and Wexler expanding
his specializations to in-
clude motorcycles, aircraft,
cars and trucks.
However, Kelley de-
scribed the hobbyists as
notoriously starting more
projects than they finish.
“Yeah, it’s been a while
since I finished one,” con-
firmed Wexler.
While most of the mod-
els are created for fun, ev-
ery now and again an op-
portunity comes around to
show off, sparking incen-
tive to get their projects
done.
A couple times a year,
some of the group mem-
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