Club Members: This months meeting on April 11th has been CANCELLED due to a scheduling conflict that the Knights of Columbus just informed us of. We’re on for meeting next month on May 9th.
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MosquitoCon 23 is in the Books!
Some quick numbers:
- 94 model registrants
- 352 models entered
- 357 walk-in spectators
The numbers were down slightly this year, as the AMPS show was on the same date in Virginia, and it showed in the armor categories, but other categories made up the difference. We had one of the largest ship turnouts in recent memory.
Best Aircraft, Best WWI Subject, and Best of Show went to Adrian Davies with his 1/32nd scale FE-2b from a Wingnut Wings kit. Photos of Adrian’s build are shown here. The other Best Of and all of the show entrants will be posted as soon as I can sort through the photos (it takes some time to sort and rename over 400 photos!)
Club Members: This months meeting on April 11th has been CANCELLED due to a scheduling conflict that the Knights of Columbus just informed us of. We’re on for meeting next month on May 9th.
March Meeting: Heavy Metal Night
The March 2014 meeting theme of Heavy Metal Night saw a good turnout. The content was battleships, tanks, suits of armor, and plenty of other slabs of steel. In the end a Jadgtiger and a suit of armor took the top prizes, graciously provided by the evening’s sponsor, Martin Quinn.
Other business included last-minute information on MosquitoCon, and initial talks about the Nationals in Hampton, Va, this coming August.
February 7th, 2014 Meeting
With no set contest, the February meeting was a free-swim of whatever showed up. Lots of cool armor and figure dioramas, autos, aircraft, etc. Several in-progress builds were displayed, including Martin’s nearly-finished 1/350th scale USS North Carolina.
Meeting business was kept brief and to the point on all things MosquitoCon. Vendor tables are nearly sold out, awards are ready to go, and the location has been scouted.
March’s theme is Heavy Metal, so bring your tanks, battleships, heavy bombers and robots. Nearly everyone has their kits for the Tin Can Group Build. They’re due in September. Get those hulls in the water!
February Meeting Date Change!
The February meeting will be one week earlier. We are meeting on Friday, February 7th, at the usual time and place.
January 2014 Meeting
The first meeting of the new year on Friday, January the 11th, saw a surprisingly large turnout. Due to the weather — especially the heavy fog — it was unexpected yet gratifying to see so many of the members turn up. We possibly had better attendance than last month, when there was free food!
There was no formalized contest, as Minister of Contests, Jon Da Silva was unable to attend, but there were a lot of builds, both finished, in progress, and brand new out of the box, on display for everyone to look over.
Check back here and in the newsletter for information on the February meeting. The usual meeting night falls on Valentines Day, so we may be moving it a week earlier or later.
December Meeting
The December meeting saw the annual party, lots of food, and awards given out. Award recipients and the like will be covered in the next newsletter. Until then, here are the photos (and thank you to Martin Quinn for additional photo coverage this month):
November Meeting: WWI Night
Lots of good stuff on the table last night for the WWI contest. The in-progress table also sported some nice creations, from giant radioactive lizards and Jules Verne inspired submarines, to WWII Japanese cruisers and modern tanks.
The next meeting is December (Friday!) the 13th. It’s the annual Christmas party, and dinner will be served. See you all then.
October Meeting
A little late in posting, but here are the photos from October’s “Russian Night”. Thanks to Martin Quinn for the photos.
The next meeting is this coming Friday, November 8th, and the theme is WWI.
September Meeting: Movie Night
Movie night was a huge success. We haven’t had that many models on the contest table in a long time. And not only were there a lot of entries, there were a lot of incredibly well done entries. Judging wasn’t an easy task. In the end it came down to two winners, as it always must (well, not always, but there were only two prizes up for grabs). First place went to John Bucholz with his scratch-built Slave 1 from “The Empire Strikes Back”. I’m not sure of the scale of the model, but it was no more than an inch from top to bottom, and consisted of over 100 parts. Stunning work. Second place went to “Big Bill” Schwarz and his Bruce diorama, from the movie “Jaws”. Bill took the great white kit model from Pegasus and modified it to a surface-broaching appearance, and then put the kit’s diver figure in the mouth — and in the water (basically, it wasn’t a good day for the diver).
Next month is Russian Night, November is WWI Night.