IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter – January 2020 Volume 28 # 1 Southern California’s Premier Model Club The President’s Column In This Issue By David P. Frederick Table of Contents Page Meeting Time and Place 3 “Happy New Year Welcome 2020” Monthly Contest Themes 4 Financials 6 As I look upon the 2019 in review, we have several changes IPMS USA Membership 7 that went well. The separation of the OrangeCon event to be IPMS OC Membership 9 held in the Hotel Fullerton was a big step. IPMS has hosted IPMS OC Contest Table 10 the OrangeCon contest for twelve years at California State Tri-Motor Challenge 20 Fullerton. New out-sourced university management seem to Modeling Shows and Swap 21 look down on the vendor room as a liability for the college Brookhurst Hobbies Sprue Fest 22 and wanted to enforce a NO CASH policy, thereby Planes of Fame Living History 23 protecting the University of the possibility of theft on their There Was Always Hope 26 property. The war gamers had there gaming show First Class 1953 Corvette 31 maintaining the same facility at Fullerton on same weekend What Have You Been Working 41 as OrangeCon 2019. They had only three vendors, so the The Happy Wanderer 45 university seem to have a blind eye verses the thirty vendors Model Club Meetings in SoCal 47 that OrangeCon commands. California State University Upcoming Events 50 administrators said, “We do not think this (OrangeCon) is the kind of event that is suited for our facility.” I am glad that the IPMS club invested its time and efforts in finding a new venue and making it work. The venue should not dictate the outcome of the event. It’s the volunteers like you and me that put for the time and effort to make the event a success. IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter January 2020 President’s Column This year the challenge is to replicate what we did last year and enhance on the positive. Some of the things that proved to be positive are the following: 1. The split of the room for judging (talked about for long time but finally implemented) 2. The selling of the sponsorships for trophies. 3. Vendor room sell out. 4. Make and take sponsored by the Gundam Girl Gang. 5. Increased amount of walk in traffic. The walk-in traffic seems to be a mystery as it is hard to judge what brought people to come into the show who normally do not build models. This year we plan on making a separate line to allow those walk-ins to pay without waiting in a long line. Speculation for the larger amount of walk-ins could be the Tamiya P-38 lighting kit on presale, or the hotel patrons who had discover that the show was going and wanted to take their kids. Possibly the make and take which was offered at noon and was successful with the younger kid’s (whose parents were in town visiting California or Disneyland). In any event, I hope the IPMS Orange County can recreate the same success for OrangeCon 2020. Let’s have a great year! DF Raffle Czar Sneak peek of models for January Monthly raffle: Aircraft: 1/72 Hasegawa Hellcat Mk.II “Fleet Air Arm” Armor: 1/35 Tamiya Russian Heavy Tank JS-2 Model 1944 Chkz Auto: 1/25 AMT The fast and the Furious 1995 Toyota Supra Ship: 1/500 Renwal U.S.S. King Destroyer Mis. 1/35 Tamiya U.S. infantry weapon set 2 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter January 2020 Meeting Notice & Agenda Date: January 17, 2020 THEME: FIRST CLASS Doors Open: 7:00 p.m. or earlier Meeting: 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. Location: La Quinta Inn & Suites 3 Centerpointe Drive La Palma, CA 90623 Right Off the 91 Fwy at Valley View 2019 Chapter Officers President David Frederick 1st Vice President Sean Fallesen 2nd Vice President Position Retired Treasurer Jeff Hunter Secretary Split Duties – Nat Richards – Badges or “batches” Mike Budzeika – Scribe Gordon Zuther – Audio Contest Director Dan Matthews Volunteers Chapter Contact Mark “The Duke” Deliduka [email protected] Newsletter Editor Terry Huber (714) 544-8908 [email protected] Webmaster Julian English [email protected] Mail IPMS Orange County Club Website www.ipmsoc.org P.O. Box 913 Garden Grove, CA 92842 National Website [email protected] www.ipmsusa.org 3 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter January 2020 Orange County Contest Themes for 2020 JANUARY - First Class: Any subject that was the first or lead in its type or class FEBRUARY - Tri-Motor: any subject that through intentional design possesses three power plants. MARCH - Korea 1950 – 1953: Any subject in use during the years on or off the Korean peninsula APRIL - Black out: any subject whose paint job is predominantly black MAY - Spanish Civil War: Any subject (in appropriate paint and markings) actively involved in the Spanish Civil War July 17, 1936 – April 1, 1939 JUNE - Russian Road to Berlin: Any subject in use by any parties in the engagement zone covered by the Russian advance to Berlin. JULY - High: Any subject, auto, armor, aircraft etc. in a high visibility colorful or predominately white and bright paint, no greens or greys AUGUST - Low: Any subject, auto, armor, aircraft etc. in a low visibility paint scheme; primarily grey or green, no hi visibility colorful white etc. 4 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter January 2020 Orange County Contest Themes for 2020 SEPTEMBER - From a Picture: Any subject made to replicate, in detail, (i.e. same marking, vehicle number etc.), a picture found in a personal collection or from a published source (including internet) showing an adequate portion of the subject to make certain the model represents the subject in its entirety. The model does not have to but may if you so wish, include the background in a diorama/ vignette format; or it may be just the subject. The picture used as reference must be included with proper reference citation and presented itself in a format no larger than 5”x7” and placed on the table along with the entry detail sheet and model. OCTOBER – BUILD NIGHT - NO Contest: Bring in your newly acquired kits from OrangeCon or grab that shelf of doom kit for next month’s meeting, anyway you want, come and enjoy an evening of building models together. ORANGECON 2020 October 10th, 2020 Hotel Fullerton NOVEMBER - Shelf of Doom: Any subject you’ve had on your shelf of doom or recently acquired thru the distressed kits auction DECEMBER - Non-Traditional: Vacuum, Resin, Paper “Non-Injection” media any subject JANUARY - Tribal: Any subject with a Native American or “nonwestern name”: i.e. Iroquois, Pontiac, Apache, etc. 5 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter January 2020 From Our Treasurer Financial Statistics for the meeting in December 2019 Admission Distressed Kits $ 397.00 Members 25 Monthly Raffle $ 0.00 Non-Members 5 Juniors 0 Total Income $ 789.00 Paid in Full 3 Total Expenses $ (494.98) Guests 0 Profit / (Loss) $ 294.02 Total Attendance 33 $ in Checking $ 3761.72 $ in Savings $ 5852.92 Memberships / Renewals $ in PayPal $ 267.02 Regular 4 Total in Bank $ 9881.66 π Youth 0 Full Year 2 6 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter January 2020 Or use Form on next page…. 7 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter January 2020 8 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter January 2020 Club Membership Renewal Form Print this page, fill it out and bring it to the meeting. It is also available on-line at www.ipmsoc.org. 9 IPMS ORANGE COUNTY Newsletter January 2020 IPMS OC Contest Table By Dan Matthews Contest Entries and Results, December 2020 Theme: "Hot and Cold" Total number of Modelers: 12 Total number of entries: 15 I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and a Happy New Year. 2019 was a great year for our club and an interesting year for me in my first round as contest director. I want to say thank you for all the support I received in this role from everyone throughout the year and that I am excited to continue as Contest Director into 2020. Our contest tables once again were covered with great subjects for December’s meeting and I would like to say thank you to all who not only brought subjects, but to everyone who took the time to review and discuss them with all the other builders in the room. Congrats to Julian English for his first place in the Advanced division, Herb Deeks for his first place in the Masters division and for receiving the Judges Choice selection and congrats to Richard Nicoletti for winning the Dec. Theme category. Congratulations are also in order for the 2019 IPMS OC “Modeler of the Year” who with a total of 46 points cruised to the front of the line amid a field of very tough competition (all in good fun of course). Please join me in Congratulating Mr. Julian English as the IPMS OC 2019 Modeler of the Year. For 2019 we had some impressive year-end totals. We had 174 instances of modelers entering subjects into the monthly contest for a total of 310 models! What’s more impressive is that this total doesn’t even include the many more models that were brought in throughout the year for the display only section. Well done IPMS OC! ADVANCED MASTERS JUNIORS 2019 Modelers Entries Modelers Entries Modelers Entries 94 171 78 137 2 2 Be sure to check out the list of monthly contest themes for 2020 which was put together in part from some of the great suggestions and contributions from the membership at our December meeting.