Episode 36: Mike Hilleary

Barry and Jim had a splendid chat with Mike Hilleary, the
Connecticut-based modeler they consider one of the best painters
in America today.

The boys also used the opportunity of a question left on the
show’s voice mail to discuss that recent editorial in the IPMS
Journal by the group’s president David Lockhart, which
effectively claimed that there would be no modeling shows in the
U.S. without the group, and that people who come to and exhibit
at its shows without being active members of the club are
“freeloaders.”

On a much cheerier note, Jim tells the story of the recent
auction in Beloit, WI, of some of the classic box dioramas by
Shep Paine and others, as well as some of the “super-dioramas” by
Bob Letterman and Lewis Pruneau, from the collection of the late
Ralph Koebbeman.

You can find photos and links to information discussed in each
episode at our podcast blog on  boxdioramas.com

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