Meetings

Club Meeting 22nd November 2005
(Kev Baxter - Secretary)

We had at least 20 people through the doors on Tuesday and we in danger of having to seek a new venue due to lack of space; again! We welcomed 2 new members, George Robinson from Claydon, an avid and highly accomplished aeroplane modeller and Bob James from Stowmarket, who finally lends some support to Paul in that he brought along some ‘pongo’-oriented plastic. To both, a hearty welcome is extended. Moreover, we welcomed 3 IPMS members from Germany who were staging through Mike’s on their way back to Stuttgart from Telford: Lothar, Jeorg and ‘I’m sorry my wife failed to take down the other name when Mike rang’ and we were delighted to reciprocate Colchester’s visit with at least 5 of their chaps making a welcome intercession to alleviate the usual armour-aviation banter! The Table actually had to be extended to accommodate all the fine models, outstanding! Apologies were received from Ray, who was being depressed by the ‘Tractor Boys’ dismal run in the Pouf-ball Championship, worse still he was inflicting it upon Joel, his son. If only they’d come to the meeting, things would have been so much rosier!

FORMAL DISCUSSION

This is usually the Secretary’s favourite part because it means that he has to write 6 pages of fatuous drivel, usually concocted by himself it must be said, to record what was discussed; however, because the meeting was ‘rocking’ we decided to say nothing other than to welcome our guests and let everyone get around the tables and talk plastic. This was the best result in Ipswich on Tuesday and clearly far better than 0-3 against Reading.

SMW 2005

Car, models, people….beer! Let’s roll!

Clearly a full report was warranted about the Nationals; however, libel precludes printing what may or may not have occurred and, speaking of warrants, Dom’s is still outstanding from the policeman from whom he tried to ‘borrow’ the patrol-car to get home. Allegedly!

Happy bunnies

Needless to say buckets of cash changed hands with unscrupulous traders preying on the meek drunkards wandering around cluelessly in an alcohol-fuelled daze looking at all the shiney resin and plastic. Free reference material was available provided you bought enough reference material and least said the better about trying to influence decisions of Airfix’s very own Trevor Snowden with whisky and ‘Korean Rules’ at the Saturday Banquet. Very messy! But hey, 1/72^nd Nimrod and 1/48^th Canberra can’t be bad can it?

We promise not to do anything silly!

It can be said that at the Branch & SIG meeting it was revealed (before it was hi-jacked for an attempted mini-AGM yawn-fest by some anorak-clad ingrates) that the Telford venue has been secured for the next 3 years. Therefore, if you’d like to experience the lack of sleep we used to enjoy at the weekend as twenty-year-olds whilst ‘partying hard’ and spending your rent money and the children’s inheritance please join us next year at SMW 06. At least next year we now know that the M6 Toll road takes us north of the M54 so we won’t have to get there via Cheshire! And Mike still managed to cram in enough work to revise for an exam on the Monday.

Can you wait for next year?

THE TABLE

Really there was too much to write about in one newsletter and the ‘vibe’ around the room was such that if a model that you notice intrigues you, ask around at the next meeting because someone will have ascertained all the details about what was on display.

Some general photographs are included and others can be seen on the web-site page at: www.ipms-ipswich.org.uk. Suffice it to say that our visitors brought with them some models of exquisite execution, many of which that had enjoyed Nationals success. The plethora of models on the table was a credit to the club and provided us with undoubtedly the best meeting we have enjoyed.

DECEMBER MEETING