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![[New!]](images/smallnew.gif) February 2008 Meeting!!!!!!
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We had a great turn-out for our February Club
Meeting, with over 25 in attendance. Featured events were two
contests, model swap & bull opportunity and our famous “Friday Night
Fights” build session. A number of members modeled late into the
evening, enjoying fellowship and sharing helpful modeling tips with
their colleagues. Mac and Sock peddled their kit “wares” and we even
had some new members attend and show support by staying through to
model.
Our Quarterly Contest was an “open category”
general model contest, with voting by club members on the entries.
Randy Fuller placed THIRD for his battle worn US M2 Halftrack, Stew
Gordon placed SECOND with a sleek Phantom Jet, and Rich Guetig took
FIRST for his late war German Machine Gun “wildlife refuge” field
vignette. I swear that thing looked so real that it has to be an
environmentally protected zone these days!
The smackdown for this meeting was themed
Japanese Armor. Rich Guetig entered a Japanese Tank and Terry Hill
entered a Japanese Prime Mover Tractor with Artillery Piece & Crew.
This vote was VERY close, and the plaque and award went to Rich
Guetig.
We briefly covered some details regarding our
MMCL Invitational Model Show & Contest that will be held at the
Paraquet Springs Convention Center in Shephrdsville, KY. Our club
members have stepped up to volunteer to provide the support for
setup and execution of the show which we know will be very
successful. Vendors have already been actively reserving their
tables. Our raffle stash is off to a good impressive start! Remember
to take a look through your own stash for worthy kits or accessories
that you might be able to donate to help our club! Thanks to all
members for continuing to promote and support our show and contest!
A reminder: MMCL is hosting an Invitational contest onSaturday, May 31, 2008
at the Paraquet Springs Conference Center in Shepherdsville, KY.
Please get involved. To get involved, please contact Dr. Terry Hill,
our contest chairman. This contest helps pay the cost of running our
club throughout the year.
See the
Gallery for models from our club members!
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Sorry repeat photo!!!!!
Stu is actually still hard at work
on that very same piece you seen in the photo.
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The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 20MAR08
January 2008 Meeting!!!!!!
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I2008 is off to a great start! The January
meeting was well attended. The feature presentation for the meeting
was a discussion of “Modeling on the Internet”. As we all know, the
Internet has provided modelers with a vast resource for research as
well as an ability to communicate and share with other modelers
techniques and photos of our work. The Internet is turning a
solitary hobby into a much less solitary one.
Many of the members present shared their favorite website. A lively
discussion was held in regard to the reliability of information on
the Internet, particularly kit reviews. The discussions were
accompanied by a presentation with a connection to the Internet
showing some of the websites discussed. A list of some of these
websites will be published with a short article in the next issue of
Tactical Notes.
A reminder: MMCL is hosting an Invitational contest on May 31, 2008
at the Paraquet Springs Conference Center in Shepherdsville, KY.
Please get involved. To get involved, please contact Dr. Terry Hill,
our contest chairman. This contest helps pay the cost of running our
club throughout the year.
See the
Gallery for models from our club members! |
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The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 22FEB08
November 2007 Meeting!!!!!!
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If you missed the November meeting, too bad we
had a great time! The business meeting involved some discussion of
the upcoming show, and advanced planning for the next few meetings.
This was followed by the customary treasurer's report and then the
real fun began. After a brisk sale of raffle tickets, voting began
on the year's final open contest. This even was well represented
with about 10 entries. Taking first prize was Stew Gordon with his
1/32nd scale F4 Phantom in Iranian markings. Tom "Balki" Romanowski
took second with his BA10M armored car, and Corky Mohendano rounded
out the winners with his third place Fokker Dr.1. After the
conclusion of the raffle and contest, Stu Coxed treated up to a PC
slide show of entries from the recent invitational in Cincinnati.
See the
Gallery for models from our club members! |
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The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 15NOV07
October 2007 Meeting!!!!!!
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The October meeting is
history and the unannounced feature of the October meeting was the
weather. Approximately 30 minutes before the meeting started, a
storm with 80 mph winds roared thru bringing tornado warnings with
it. Naturally, this had a dampening effect on the attendance.
However, the 16 or so members in attendance at the KYANA meeting
location/Tornado shelter were treated to a great raffle and many
fine examples of modeling. Returning member Alberto Moreno brought
two fine 1/48th Japanese aircraft. Another new member, Josh Bowling,
was also in attendance.
Dennis Sparks and many of the Lexington gang braved the weather.
Dennis brought an impressive collection of 1/48th scale P-40s. Randy
Fuller brought some of his photography equipment and shot photos of
several models. In President Basket's absence, the meeting was ably
run by Vice-President Cox who reminded the members present about the
upcoming November "quarterly" contest. He also urged the members to
write articles for the newsletter and to continue to collect
aluminum and bring it to the shop since Skippy has made an
impressive contribution to the club treasury thru recycling.
See the
Gallery for models from our club members! |
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The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 15NOV07
September 2007 Meeting!!!!!!
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September saw two MMCL
meetings. The regular meeting was held on the third Thursday of
September. Approximately 24 members were in attendance. The
highlights of the meeting were the "Pimp my Kubel" contest and the
DR.1 smackdown. Rich Guetig won the Kubel contest and Dennis Sparks
won the DR. 1 smackdown. At the short business meeting, it was
decided to hold the next quarterly contest in November. Also, a
Panther smackdown is on tap for December, along with the traditional
Christmas meeting/party.
The main feature of the meeting was Stu Cox's slideshow on seams on
full scale AFV's and how that might translate in modeling. Stu's
presentation was well put together and well received. The PowerPoint
meeting presentations continue to be popular. More of those are on
tap for future meetings.
See the
Gallery for models from our club members!
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The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 18OCT07
August 2007 Meeting!!!!!!
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The August meeting was the
second Friday Night Fight of 2007. Over 20 members showed up to
build and share building techniques with their fellow modelers. The
highlight of the night was the return of long time member Alex
Restrepo. Alex, a high mufti in the UPS global conspiracy, was
transferred from Louisville to the hell known as Rockford, IL
several years ago. Apparently he had offended one of his superior
and was thus exiled. Well, he has been forgiven, and has returned
from Rockford. He has moved back to Louisville, and thus should be a
fixture at MMCL meetings in the future. Welcome back Alex!
Much building went on at the meeting. So much building was going on
in fact that no member managed to take pictures of the proceedings.
Well, either that or all photos were confiscated by the authorities
to protect the guilty, or the ugly!
See the
Gallery for models from our club members!
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Apparently the lights went out at the last
meeting. This is a group picture of the club members with the
Hooters Calendar girls. Too bad about the lights!?!?! |
The next meeting of the MMCL will be the picnic.
July 2007 Meeting!!!!!!
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The MMCL
July meeting saw our first modeling roundtable of the year. After a
brief business meeting and the monthly raffle, the roundtable
discussion was held. The subject was groundwork, and Dr. Terry Hill,
Rich Guetig, Corky Mohedano, David Stokes and President Mike
Baskette lead the discussion. Each contributing member brought
different tips and talents to the discussion. Each person had
different techniques and much was learned by the 24 or so members
who attended.
In addition
to the roundtable, July was the time for the quarterly contest.
There were 9 entries, which is the largest number entered in quite
some time. Mark Cable took first prize with a Trumpeter RA-5C
Vigilante.
See the
Gallery for the Quarterly Contest winner
and other models from our club members!
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Terry Hill (club founder) shares some of his groundwork techniques
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The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 17AUG07.
- June 2007 Meeting!!!!!!
Well, the auction is over. The MMCL raised $940
according to Mike N. That is pretty much in line with our "budget" of
$1000 raised from the auction. The general meeting
went well. There was also a "Smack Down" event during this months
meeting! A Smack-Down is when a member poses an open challenge to the
club in building a specific subject. Any member who wishes to accept the
challenge is entered into the pool. (Of course the pool is for bags of
M&M's) It was the "Spank Your Willys" smack-down. There were 4 jeeps
entered into the smack-down. It was a 4 way tie until the last vote was
cast. Rich G. won the M&M's. There were some great
deals to be had at the auction. Special thanks to Dr. Hill and Scale
Reproductions for their donations. Brian of Scale Reproductions also
made a number of purchases and you can expect to see those items on the
shelves of SRI soon.
We had one new member attending. His first name
is George. I am not sure what his last name was. (Ask Stu Cox, I
believe he may have gotten the guys last name.)
Randy Fuller brought his photo equipment and took
photos of all of the Jeep entries. I am sending him a copy of this
email to ask him to email me copies of the photos. See the
Gallery for "Spank your Willy" smack down
participants.
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The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 19JUL07.
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- May 2007 Meeting!!!!!!
May continued the string of excellent meetings in
2007. Even with the beautiful spring weather, attendance at the meeting
was excellent. After an admirably short business meeting and very
productive raffle, the main event of the evening began. A number of in
progress models were brought by various members. The many members
present enjoyed viewing the models displayed. Our intrepid president,
Mike Baskette presented a talk on uniforms and equipment of the Russian
army infantryman 1939-1941. Mike illustrated his talk with many items
from his own personal militaria collection. For those who do not know,
Mike has a excellent collection of WWII militaria, with a particular
focus on Russian equipment. The next few meetings
should be the highlight of the MMCL year. The June meeting will feature
the annual club auction. Please remember to bring kits to donate, as
well as plenty of cash to buy donated items. Someone else's trash can
be your treasure. The July meeting will feature a diorama groundwork
roundtable with several members of MMCL sharing their secrets. Don't
miss these meetings.
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Sorry, no new pic this month :-( |
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- The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 21JUN07.
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- April 2007 Meeting!!!!!!
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WOW! If you missed the April meeting, you missed a lot. The meeting
was held on April 19th, 2007 at 7 p.m. About 25 members were in
attendance, including many faces that have not been seen in some time.
Member Tim Pivonka traveled all the way in from Kansas to attend our
monthly meeting. A short business meeting was held. Most of the
discussion was about MMCL plans to hold contests in 2008 and 2009. The
contest committee is investigating venues and prices. It was also
decided to hold the annual club auction in June. Scott "The Can Man"
King presented the club with checks for the recent aluminum recycling
effort. He urges everyone to continue to bring aluminum cans to the
workshop.
After the business meeting, the "quarterly" contest was held. Rich
Guetig won first place with his 48th scale Schwimmwagen. The monthly
raffle was held with many great models. After the raffle, Mike Baskette
presented the main event for the evening, his "Extreme Show and Tell" on
the construction of his 1/35th scale SiG 33. The presentation was done
via a Power Point slide show. The many "under construction" photos were
very informative, and the presentation drew much discussion from the
audience.
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The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 17MAY07.
- March 2007 Meeting!!!!!!
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Despite March madness being in full swing and the
meeting falling early in the month, approximately 20 members of MMCL
attended the meeting on Monday March 15th, 2007. After some discussion of
the possibility of MMCL holding an invitational contest in 2008, the
monthly club raffle was held. After the raffle, the main event of the
evening was Randy Fuller and his part 2 of the discussion of digital model
photography, the first part of which was presented at the January meeting
by Mike Baskette and David Knights. Randy is a professional photographer
and he was able to provide many interesting hints and tips for producing
top quality model photographs. Randy also brought his photo setup to the
meeting and photographed several models that members had brought in. The
crowd was highly interested in what Randy had to say and the meeting
finally broke up around 9:00 p.m. The next meeting is Thursday March
19th, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
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The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 19APR07.
- February 2007 Meeting!!!!!!
February was MMCL's first Friday Night building session of 2007. The
meeting was held on Friday, February 23rd, 2007. Over 20 modelers
attended and built everything from armor and aircraft to flying model
rockets. There was much model fellowship shared. A VERY short business
meeting was held, during which it was decided to explore holding an
invitational contest in May of 2008. The usual meeting raffle was held,
which raised over $90 for the club coffers. Skippy presented a check to
the club for over $30 from the aluminum can collection efforts. He urges
all members to keep saving aluminum cans and bringing them to the workshop
on meeting nights or Saturday mornings.
As is usual with the Friday night build sessions, the meeting, sharing
and building went on late into the night. You can see some of the models
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The next meeting of the MMCL will be on 15MAR07.
We start at the regular time (7
PM) and go until the last modeler submits to exhaustion.
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- January 2007 Meeting!!!!!
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MMCL starts out the new year with a well attended January meeting. 21
members were in attendance. New President Mike Baskette laid out his
agenda in a short business meeting. The business meeting was followed
by a well stocked raffle where many kits were won, including some of the
latest DML figure sets and the new DML U.S. Halftrack.
After the raffle, show and tell was held with 7 models shown, from
Noel Walkers figures to Corky Mohedano with a Triceratops. After the
show and tell, Mike Baskette and David Knights conducted a round table
discussion of digital photography techniques and equipment. Several of
the show and tell models were used as photographic subjects to
demonstrate different digital photography techniques. A spirited
discussion was held with most all of the members present staying till
past 9p.m.
If you missed January's meeting, you missed an excellent time. Don't
miss February's "Friday Night Fight" on Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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