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.

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We had good attendance at the August meeting for Pearl Harbor night.  The entries skewed heavily in the favor of the Japanese with multiple Zeros, Vals, etc. on the table, and only two U.S. subjects (U.S.S. Arizona and a hula girl).  Art Doran, the sponsor of the contest, awarded the prize for the Air category to Pat O’Connor for his 1/48th scale Val dive bomber, and Jerry Rinaldi took the award in Land and Sea for his hula girl figure.

The next meeting is in September on Friday the 13th.  There will be a grill set up in the parking lot for a cook out, and the eboard will be cooking for the club members.

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