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Club Meeting 27th June 2006
(Kev Baxter - Secretary)

No new faces for the first time tonight, nevertheless there were still 19 attendees this evening with apologies from Ian B and Andrew L, who was play-acting elsewhere and hopefully with more success than some of the diving nancy-boys in the pouf-ball cup.

 EAMC

 Well, it’s been and gone!  For all the worry about attendance, the evening was excellent with 6 other clubs attending and 132 models on the table.  The Chairman thanked those club members who helped to make the evening go as well as it did and further added that he had received much positive feedback on the night and subsequently.  The Secretary had undertaken to ‘cobble together’ a write-up for the modelling press; however, he required more photographs of the event since his were more generalised and Tony Little from Guidelines Publications had apparently lost all of his individual pictures that he had taken due to finger-trouble.  Furthermore, the Secretary undertook to send a report to Nick Allen, the IPMS Webmaster for inclusion on the IPMS web-site.  Financially, the club took £169.50, gross and after deduction for half the hall hire and the magnificent Grill-sergeant Grzebien had taken his cut the club made £64.80, which was not to be sneezed at considering this was really a not-for-profit event!  It was unanimously decided that we should host the event again next year and as the evening progressed more ideas were floated to add to the uniqueness of the event, ideas that shall be discussed at the next meeting lest someone nick them when they read this on-line!  Well done to all, a tremendous success for our first effort! 

SMW - THE THEME

 A copy of the theme is attached at Annex A.  Ideas about the stand are beginning to coalesce, the Chairman even having ventured into a library to find a book on how to do mountains (clearly, the front of the Osprey Publication had a big picture on it and plenty more inside – the reason for him bringing it into the club was to decipher all of that black and white squiggly stuff apparently.)   Andrew has kindly offered the use of one of his art rooms to complete the project in, so we need to aim for the summer holidays to get this well on its way if we are to take advantage of this.          

 SIX HOUR BUILD

 Dave’s inspired 6-hour build attracted 11 entrants and was adjudged to be a great plan.  Much ale was quaffed, allegedly, and whilst this could have been expected to make proceedings slightly sillier, the final hour became strangely silent as an edge of competitiveness set in whilst everyone, except the Secretary, manfully tried to complete the task.    Robert muttered to himself constantly, we thought Marc had a weak bladder – but, it was only him going to dry his paint under the hand-dryer in the gent’s and unfortunately, Aileen, Dom’s better-half was heard to say, “It looks just like all your other models”; oh deary me Dominic – could do better!  It is believed that Jan and Marc (or it might have been Dom) won after the rigidly enforced Eurovision Crufts Figure Skating type judging – if I’ve got it wrong, I’m sure someone will put me right.  The Secretary was sanctioned by the organiser during the judging as his ploy of putting the box-art on the table as an artist’s representation of what the completed model should look like after about 6 weeks work was taken to be cheating!  The kits on offer were the Academy OV-10 Bronco and the Trumpeter AS-90, both to 1/72^nd scale; however, Dave conceded that when we do this again we will have to have different models because those on offer were a bit too complex to be completed successfully within the time-frame.  That said he did have difficulty acquiring 10 models of the same thing!  Thus come September-time, expect a single-seat, single-engine aeroplane and maybe a 4-wheel truck!  Great fun, regardless of completion issues; well done Dave for organising it and £15 to the NSPCC, knockout!

 AOB

 The Chairman remarked that he had forgotten to thank the Secretary for getting the article about the Club into SAMI last month.  In reply it was stated that we would hopefully not be becoming over-exposed if the article on the EAMC was published!

 IPMS Avon has reciprocated our web-site link.  Members are requested to forward any possible link providers to the Web-master for inclusion on the site and to enhance our ‘googlibility’.

 Brian, or is that ‘Brain’, pointed out that his comment about the Valiant might have included the wrong manufacturer.  Completely forgivable and as there was already a completed one on the table, see the web-site, most of us were just ecstatic to see one at all!

 COMPETITION

 The results for the May competition are as follows:

Photographs by David are here

 NEXT MEETING

 The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, 25th July 06.

Kev Baxter
Secretary
IPMS Ipswich

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