The Instruction Sheet I.P.M.S. / Granite State Modelers Club Nashua, New Hampshire Newsletter: January, 2015 http://home.comcast.net/~vf84 Email: ipmsgsmc@gmail.com Facebook: IPMS/Granite State Modelers Club GSMC/IPMS meet the third Monday night (4 th Monday in Jan & Feb) of each month from 7: P.M. to 9:00 P.M. at the Nashua Public Library, 2 Court Street Nashua, New Hampshire. Visitors are welcome to attend. Monthly show and tell pictures are posted on our website. Website maintained by Vincent Farruggio Sr. Club Officers: President: Mac Johnston (603-359-0595) macatflandersandpatch@hotmail.com Vice President: Keith Touchette (603-578-9231) touchettekr@gmail.com Treasurer: Edward Mele 9603-626-0923) emeliv@gmail.com Secretary/Club Contact: Rodney Currier (603-726-3876) nickmatt2@roadrunner.com Meeting Reminders: 2015 meeting dates: January 26, February 23, March 16 Business Report Since the weather forecast is a bit iffy for Monday (chance of snow as I write this), I am going to start off this month with our meeting cancellation procedures. If the weather is not good, the E-board members will contact one another and decide if we are going to try to meet or not. If the decision is made to cancel a meeting, I will send out an e-mail blast to members with e-mails by 5 PM. I will also call as many of those who don t have e-mail as I can. So check your phone messages and e-mail before you head to the library. You can also call the library at 603-589-4600 to see if we have cancelled or not if you are not going to be home before heading out. Or call my house at 603-726-3876. If I am not home, my wife will know what is going on. Note: January and February we will be meeting in the Media Wing of the library. It is on the same floor as the theater, but deeper into the building in the far corner of the area where they loan out DVD s. We will not have a private area like we usually do. That said, last month we voted to buy a small collection of older aircraft kits for $120 ($5 each) and build them as a club project. Mac has the kits and has numbered them. Those wishing to participate will draw a number and take the corresponding kit to be completed for our August meeting. I have heard a rumor that a Hobby Emporium gift certificate may be up for grabs for the best build, voted on by those at the August meeting. Another gift certificate reward will be made available for our new 2015 building challenge. The member who brings in the most new build kits for show and tell for the year will take home a $25 gift certificate in January, 2016. The rules will be simple and you will be on your Scout s Honor to comply. The kits must be new builds (nothing sitting on your completed shelf for 10 years), and completed to qualify. In Progress builds presented at the meetings will not count. We are doing this to get members to build and complete kits, not just start them! We are trying this for a year to see if it is popular enough to continue after that. Good luck and happy building. I know I shall try to complete more than my usual two a year
The E-board also decided to raise the pull level to $30/pull to get better kits for the raffle. Pickings were getting slim at the $25 level. Keith and Kevin shop the deals to get the best they can for the raffle, and have been doing an outstanding job. They are excited about having the extra $5 to work with. Unfortunately, since we are meeting in the open the next two months instead of in our normal room, we have decided to not do the raffle in January and February. The library has a rule about money being exchanged and what it may look like to other patrons, so rather than risk our meeting space for the future, we will not do the raffle unless we are on our own, so to speak. Vinnie is hard at work putting a new flyer together for Granitecon so it will be available for the spring shows. Since we only had two jeep entries this past year, we decided to discontinue the Sliney Award this year and go with the Van Cor Best Ship award. We also voted on our theme. We actually had quite a few ideas tossed around, and voted to use Vanquished. I came up with it on the ride to the meeting, and it encompasses almost all categories of our contest. Anything used or built by the losing side of any war qualifies. I propose adding a line on the entry form for the entrant to explain how their entry qualifies next to the box they check to say it qualifies. That should help the judges out a bit. The E-board decided to lower the price of a vendor table to $30 in the hope of attracting a better mix of vendors and to be in line with what other clubs in our area charge. Tony and Chuck visited the Aircraft Fabricators hobby shop in Merrimack. They are mainly an R/C shop, with little inventory, but can special order. It was reported that In and Out Hobbies in the spot where Hobby Town used to be in Nashua will give us discount, but the amount depends on what you purchase. The Valley News had an article about a 91 year old veteran of Sherman Tanks from the Battle of the Bulge the Lebanon guys were talking about. The book and movie Unbroken were also raved about. On March 5 th at 7 PM, member Richard Zoerb will give a lecture about his building of card stock models in the theater at the Nashua Public Library. He invites all of us to attend if we are in the area. At this month s meeting, a demo is planned about the use of styrene stock in modeling. If Santa or one of his helpers brought you something special for Christmas, you are invited to bring it in and show us. Participating Hobby Shops These are the hobby shops that support us and our efforts year after year. They give club members discounts, provide donations for club contests, and stock the supplies and new kits we crave. Please support them, too! Hobby Emporium (978-649-5055) 440 Middlesex Rd Tyngsboro,MA 01879 The Spare Time Shop (508-481-5789) 222E. Main Street Marlboro, MA 01752 North East Trains Model Center (978-532-1615) 18 Main Street Peabody,MA 01960 Hobbys N Stuff LLC (603-298-6111) 1 Glen Rd Plaza West Lebanon, NH 03784 Elite Hobbies (603-749-0800) 90 Washington St Unit 334 Dover, NH Hobbies With a Twist, LLC (603-223-0132) 1 Depot Street Concord, NH Upcoming Region 1 Events March 15, 2015 ------ MassCar 27 Holiday Inn Taunton, MA March29, 2015 ------- ValleyCon 25 Knights of Columbus Chicopee, MA April 12, 2015 ------- Downeastcon Thornton Academy Saco, Maine April 25, 2015 ------- CAN/AM Con 13 VT National Guard Armory Winooski, VT
May 2, 2015 --------- Noreastcon 2015 Polish Community Center Albany, NY July 22-25, 2015 ---- IPMS/USA National Convention Columbus, Ohio October 17, 2015 ---- HVHMG Elks Club Lodge Poughkeepsie, NY October 18, 2015 ----- Granitecon XXIII Nashua Elks Club Raffle Winners December Show and Tell Pictures Keith Touchette showed us different methods of modeling snow on his 1/35 th DML M4A-3
Chuck Converse s 1/76 th Airfix Sherman Mine Clearing Tank Kevin Campagna s WWI German 77mm Brass shells and picture of the gun which fired them. Tony s Jeep Diorama Tony D Anjou had a 1/35 th Jeep that went bad so he made this diorama out of it!
Bob Fiero s 1/24 th Revell Tally Ho Coach, mounted on a base with a home built cover. Paul Lessard added interior seats and figures, an air tank, toolbox, and electrical conduits to his 1/87 th Northeastern Scale Models B&M Open Platform Wood Combine. Tom Shanahan built his 1/35 th Revell M48 A2GA2 out of the box.
John Walker used a figure from Miniart to show the scale of his out of the box rendering of his 1/35 th Meng Char 2C Tank. Dick Zeorb s Card Stock Apollo Lunar Lander Dick Zoerb s Card Stock Project Mercury Capsule.
Pete Davis showed off his 1/1 scale Polar Lights Vox Communicator from Galaxy Quest. Pete Davis added battle damage to his 1/1000 th NCC-1701 USS Enterprise from Star Trek Jack Sutcliffe sent along these pics of his 1/48 th A-26K Invader. The kit and conversion kit came from Andy Subbiando s Stash he gave to us when his health forced him to stop modeling.