March 2007
1.) The first item on the agenda was Hamilton show (HeritageCon I) held at the end of February at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. Many IPMS London members attended, judged and came away with awards.
Great thanks are owed to all members of IPMS London who gave freely of their time and talent to give the boys from Hamilton a hand with their first show. You all did a great job, and did the club proud!
Overall, the HeritageCon event seemed well attended, with around 350 models on the table. Apparently there has been a confirmation of a show in 2008, so book your weekend off now!
2.) Continuing in the show vane, there was some discussion about our show. The show website is apparently nearly ready to go live, and will contain information regarding the show including the show flyer and sponsor packages.
Apparently, we are sitting at roughly 20% sponsorship, so the drive to find more sponsors and vendors will now be shifting into higher gear. There’s only 6 months at most until the show, so anyone and everyone is encouraged to help out on this front.
Kudos to the show committee for keeping things on track and organizing this event.
3.) The final item on our agenda this month (it was a fairly easy month, administratively) was the demonstration at the Westmount Library. A date was chosen: Saturday May 12, 2007. The timing is expected to be 10:00am - 2:00pm. Volunteers are needed, and some signed up during the break. Anyone interested in taking part in this informal ‘build and meet’ at the library is encouraged to notify myself or Doug Booth, or sign up next meeting (or at the Wednesday night build).
4.) Mario Morello gave an interesting presentation on the use of Bare Metal Foil for automotive trimming. This very thin, delicate and self-adhesive metal material also has uses on bare metal aircraft finishes, and can be quite tricky to work with. Thanks to Mario for taking the time to point out some of the finer aspects of using this medium, with which many of us were not familiar!
5.) The show and tell table included robots, aircraft and several unbuilt kits, including a resin ship, some armour, a chopper (the bike, not the whirly-bird) and an Eduard nearly-all photoetch skeleton of a Fiesler Storch! Craziness!
Next Time: Adam Rehorn and Peter Fay will discuss the wonders of sci-fi modelling!
See you then!