The April meeting was a recap of all things MosquitoCon, with wings, pizza and beer provided by the club. Little business was discussed, yet it was revealed that a deal has been reached on the meeting place, and for the foreseeable future the club will continue to meet at the Knights of Columbus hall on the second Friday of every month.

Model turnout was light, as it often is after a MosquitoCon, but the models on display were top notch, as usual.

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Friday the 13th turned out pretty well for the club meeting. The long anticipated Tin Can Group Build wrapped up, with Marc Rocca taking top honors for his destroyer build. Marc also demonstrated using EZ Line as a super-fine rigging material by showing how to strip it down to smaller individual fibers. There was also a find display of other kits on the table, everything from Century Series fighters to in-progress plank-on-frame sailing ships.

NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS: The March meeting will be a week earlier, on March 6th. There is a conflict with our usual meeting date.

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Marc Rocca will present a workshop on the oil paint dot filter technique at the February meeting. You can see the technique in-progress to the left on his current build, a Type XXVII/B “Seehund” Midget Sub, Bronco 1/35th scale. (He’s also doing an online build of this subject on the Modelwarships.com website HERE)

Marc will also touch on rigging, using a new method to make finer strands of the popular rubberized EZ-Line.

NJIPMS kicked off the new year with WWI night. There were plenty of models on the table, mostly aircraft, but few figures and pieces of armor did make an appearance as well. Maybe we can get some ships for next year?

Jon, the contest coordinator, mentioned that most of the meetings this year are open for sponsorship. As of now July is tentatively “North Africa” night, and November will be “Number 13”. North Africa is fairly self explanatory, Number 13 has to do with, obviously, the number thirteen. If it has that number on it (race car, building address, hull number, fuselage code) or it participated in the Battle of Friday the 13th at Guadalcanal in 1942, then it qualifies.

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The December meeting saw the yearly Christmas and Holiday party party, as well as the end of the year awards. Member of the Year went to Mike Pavlo, a well earned acknowledgement considering all he does for the club.

Next month brings January and a new year, as well as WWI Night. Get your Great War builds ready and see you then.

Model photos below, and some great shots of club members, thanks to Michael Dobrzelecki.

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The November 2014 meeting was all about Sci-Fi. This is the third year in a row that we’ve had an either all science fiction themed night, or a movies and television theme, and the turnout has been amazing at all three. Obviously we all want a break from the military every now and then to do something a little different and with a little color.

Lots of entries on the table, and after dividing them all up into either the Vehicles class or the Figures class, the top two entries were a Brittania II and a Predator bust. Outstanding work by all the participants (judging the winners was NOT easy).

December 12th we’ll be at the same place, the same time, for the Christmas party. Dinner will be served at 7:30. See you all there.

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The newsletters for July and September have been added to the Newsletter page.

September 12th was the designated Destroyer Night Group Build deadline, however since only two builds were completed fully, the judging has been put off until February of 2015. Five more months! Get ’em off the ways!

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Due to the second Friday regular meeting date conflicting with the Nationals in Hampton, VA, we will NOT BE MEETING during August. For those coming to the convention, we’ll see you there. For everyone else, we’re on track for a regular meeting on September 12th, at the Knights of Columbus in Garwood.