March 2025 Meeting Recap
Started at 6:50
New member – Walter Irie Likes aircraft, was a member in the past.
IPMS Canada is increasing dues by %50 to $56. Our rates have not gone up!
Looking for topics for demonstrations for future meetings.
How about “ how to get the most out of Scalemates?”
Dues – final date is April 1. Pay or be dead to us.
Show: looking for volunteers to help out, sponsors, vendors, etc. is the club interested in getting a table to sell kits? Six or seven members are interested – we will share the table cost amongst those who use it. We need one or more volunteers to staff the table. If you know if a potential sponsor, let us know! Also looking for volunteers for the demonstration rooms
Nostalgia Build: build for July and we will have a prize of some kind!
Swap Meet: next month is swap meet, so bring your unwanted kits!
Show Table:
Tony Jacobs – A6M Zero – 1973 kit
Dave Durette – 1/16 Sherman Andy’s Hobbies – lots of fun!
Peter Fay – Dogram BlizzardRunner in Winter scheme
Robert – 1/72 Matchbox Snowberry kitbashing project to build HMCS Woodstock for the Port Stanley Legion. Used MEK as glue, but it evaporates too quickly, but he added a few chips of plastic to slow it down.
….. – 34 Ford hot rod in Tamiya fire orange. Has sold a lot of his kits.
Frank Donati – Certi WZ34 Polish Armoured Car – rough old kit, but fun
Mike Hill – Revell 2022 Corvette – steep learning curve, but fun
Mike Hill – “sir we have the wine” diorama progress
Adam Schneider – hot rod shop van and trailer, Studebaker
George Wray – 1/72 Frog Lysander, 1967 in Finnish markings.
George Wray – 1/72 Monogram 1956 Albatross in RCAF rescue markings, as a snow landing scene
Adam – Power Master Transformer toys built up as proper models!
….. – Revell Germany 1/72 P51B in polish squadron markings
Mario – MPC Wacky Racers kit
Heritagecon:
Poker chips for the club are available for purchase from Bill Webb. $1 apiece.
Stashes:
Discussion of why, how much, what to do with them? A few have over 1,000 kits! Most have over 50. Very few have less than 20. Robust discussion followed!
Use Scalemates.com to track your models. It’s entirely user submitted data. It has history, instructions, etc. Hobby and Toy Central will also look up kits for you at Scalemates too.
What to do with built kits? Some people sell them on Facebook Marketplace. Johnny Yu.
Meeting ended at 8:18.