We held our last meeting of 2019 on Friday, December 13 at the Girl Scouts of America campus on Upas Street. We had our annual pizza party followed by show n’ tell and a raffle! Pictures are below. On behalf of IPMS San Diego – have a happy 2020 with lots of bench time!
Members of the Contest Committee gathered for the first meeting looking towards the 2020 Model Expo
President Bob Ekstrom brings the last meeting of his term to order
Treasurer Gary Williams gives his last club financial report
Tony Beres is building this Airfix 1-48 Blenheim Mk IF, a new tooling
Tony Beres talks about his Blenheim model
Ethan Idenmill brought in this Bandai 1-100 Gundam series MS-06R-1A Zaku II mobile suit
Ethan Idenmill talks about his Zaku II model
Scott Pence brought in this Tamiya 1-48 F4F-4 Wildcat
Mike Potter brought in this Armourfast 1-72 M-18 Hellcat kit
Mike Sedgewick brought in this Monogram Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper Mk I
Mike Sedgewick also brought in this Moebius 1-32 Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper Mk II
Mike Sedgewick talks about his models
Hermann Ng brought in this ICM 1-48 Spitfire which unfortunately came with some bad decals
Hermann Ng talks about his Spitfire and asks the club for advice about repairing the decals
Scott Pence talks about his Wildcat model
Mike Potter talks about his M-18 Hellcat
John Ball brought in this Hobbycraft 1-48 DeHavilland Otter which he is building as an NV-1B, the oldest aircraft in the Navy
John Ball talks about his DeHavilland Otter model
Tim Shipley is building this Revell 1-48 Stearman Air Devil
Tim Shipley is also building this Tamiya 1-24 Honda S2000 AP 2
Tim Shipley discusses his models
We held our first club meeting raffle. President Bob Ekstrom holds up the main prize - a Takom 1-35 Panther Ausf D
Vice President Richard Abraham and President Bob Ekstrom prepare to pull tickets for the raffle
President Bob Ekstrom reads off the ticket numbers
It turns out Vice President Richard Abraham had bought the winning ticket for the Takom Panther
About The Author
Ethan
Ethan Idenmill has built scale models for the last forty years (badly for most of them). He is a past President of IPMS San Diego and is now the club Webmaster.
