IPMS Prison City Modelers

Region 5 Convention, May 2012

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:25:45 +0000

Here’s the flyer for the IPMS Region 5 contest in 19 May 2012, hosted by the IPMS West Central Missouri chapter. See the flyer under Modelling Links for more details, and we hope to see a good turn out!

Also, thanks for the great turn-out for the January meeting. Shane has straightened out the room reservations, and for the rest of the year we’ll be meeting in the East Room (through the children’s section to the east wall of the library). hope to see you at the February meeting.

If you are interested in doing a demo, or have ideas for things you would like to see done, please post your ideas.

Next meeting, 18 Jan at 7:00 p.m.

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:44:54 +0000

Our January meeting is right around the corner on Wednesday, 18 January at 7:00 pm at the Leavenworth Public Library. Congratulations to the new club officers– president Ron Reynolds, vice president Shane Curtis, treasurer JW Dirske, and secretary Mark Gerges. Joining the board is a new position– newsletter editor Gary Ruhnke.

Thanks go to last year’s board, particularly outgoing president Ed Burgess and vp Rick Brownlee. Ed was the president for the past two years, and gave the club some continuity as we grew as well as a dry sense of humor.

The 18 January meeting will have the normal “Show What ya’ Brung” as well as a demo on the hairspray technique for chipping paint on heavily weathered models. We hope you can make it.

NEW meeting date- 14 Dec

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:09:04 +0000

Hello all, just a reminder that this month’s model club meeting will be a week earlier than usual, on 14 December because of the holidays. Business for this meeting will be club elections. We’ll be in the Jahn Room (our … Continue reading →

Meeting 16 November

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:29:48 +0000

Hello all, just a reminder that our monthly meeting will be held on 16 November at 7:00 p.m. at the Leavenworth Public Library. Bring what you are working on; the only major piece of business is the nominations are open for … Continue reading →

Thanks for coming to the contest!

admin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:36:01 +0000

The special theme award for the best Desert Storm subject being presented to Scott Johnson for this 1:35 Iraqi T-55.

It was a beautiful fall day in downtown Leavenworth, and we had a good turn out of models and modelers from across the region come to the show. The header across the page shows the USS Massachusetts, the Judges’ choice for Best in Show. Check back in the next few days as we add photos and captions of the winners in the various categories. Save the date– we have the venue (Heritage Center again) and IPMS just approved our 2012 show date– Saturday, 22 September. See you at the regional shows coming up in the next few weeks.

Thanks again to all the modelers who came out, vendors who filled our vendor room, and member of other clubs who volunteered to help judge. We couldn’t have done it without you all.

IPMS Prison City Modelers

Tommorrow is the day!

admin — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:25:43 +0000

Hope to see you all in Leavenworth for the model contest. The venue is looking good, and we’ve expanded into a separate vendor’s room due to the turn-out. Doors will open at 0900 for registration, and to save time you can fill out your forms tonight (go to the contest pages for the blank forms).
Parking will be a little tight in front of the building due to a bicycle race in town this weekend, but there is plenty of parking a block west and around back (south side) of the Heritage Center. There will even be a live band next door beginning at 1:00 p.m. (due to the bike race, not us!). Hope to see you in Leavenworth enjoying this beautiful fall weather.

Leavenworth model contest around the corner

admin — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:38:22 +0000

We had a good turn-out for the 17 August Leavenworth model club meeting, and want to welcome the new CGSC students who took time away from studying to join us. Andy Prawitz gave us vacuforming and thermoforming demonstration, and I’m sure I wasn’t the only one looking at Mattel vacuform machines on eBay the next day.

A small sample of the awards to be given out at the contest. Thanks to Rick Brownlee who designed the awards.

Biggest order of business was final prep for the 24 September model contest here in downtown Leavenworth. Trophies have been ordered, but it isn’t too late if you want to sponsor a trophy package or be a vendor at the show. More info is available on the contest pages.

We have one more meeting on 21 September before the contest. Hope to see you there, and if not, then at the contest on Saturday, 24 September.

If you have noticed the banners on the club site, they are photos taken by some of our members. Brooks Lyles contributed the photo of the P-38 that has been up the last month, and John Curatola took the inflight photo of the B-17 engines when the aricraft visited Kansas City in 2009. Thanks to both of them for sharing.

Upcoming meeting, 17 August

admin — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:48:14 +0000

Hello all, just a reminder that we’ll have our monthly meeting on Wednesday, 17 August at 7:00 p.m. at the Leavenworth Public Library. Discussion will include bragging from Rick on the Nationals, a vacuform demo from Andy, and seeing that we are only a little more than a month away from our contest, some final coordination and planning to make sure all goes smoothly.

Andy Prawitz's scratch built wings for an early seaplane.

Hope to see you all there– bring anything you are working on.

We’re back!

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:44:39 +0000

IPMS Prison City Modelers are back! You’ll notice a new website (without much content right now) but keep checking back over the next few days for more information on our 24 September 2011 contest. Until then, finish your projects- the Nationals are just around the corner.

Our next meeting is 17 August at the Leavenworth Public Library. We’ll be discussing the upcoming contest in September, as well as having a technique demo and “show what ya’ brung” to show off what we are working on. Modelers of all ages are welcome. Hopefully we’ll have some trophies and war stories from the Nationals to share too!