Hello All
More updates for you. Our club drinks this year will be in the new pub in Abingdon that being the  The Narrows pub, which is a Weatherspoons in Abingdon town centre, see you there from 19.30 on 10th Decmember

Whilst thinking about our club, I have compiled the list of meeting nights for the next six months or so. If this requires any alteration please let me know.




Yes this is in the normal two tone greens honest, well somewhere. Baghdad, Iraq 2008

7th Jan

21st Jan   Club AGM

4th Feb

18thFeb   Comp  1

4th Mar

18thMar  Demo Night

1st Apr

15th Apr

29th Apr   Comp  2

13th May

27th May  Demo Night

10th Jun

24th Jun

8th Jul       Comp  3

Well done to all of the members that have helped to make our show as good as it was.

Here are the competition winners from each of the four competitions held in 2013.

5th Feb 2013
1st   Oshkosh tractor                   Laurence  
2nd  Vickers 6B tank                  Tim
3rd   Yamaha Bike                      Andy C

1st    Nimrod                                Alan H
2nd   Sea Vixen                            Laurence 
3rd   Buccaneer                            Mike I

2nd Competition of the year
1st    Coyote                                  Laurence
2nd   Tiger                                    Mick S
3rd    Motorbike                           Kiran

1st    Pup                                       Tony
2nd   Ju-87B                                 Alan H
3rd    Spitfire Mk24                      Tim
3rd    Beaufighter                          Simon T

9th July
1st     Sherman                               Kirk
2nd    Truck ???                             Laurence
3rd     Panther                                Mick S

17th Sept
1st     Wessex                                 Mike I
2nd    Airacobra                             Tim
3rd     Fokker DVII                        Alan S

Please chaps bring along any/ all of the above so that I can put forward a model in to Class 98 at the Nationals.

Abingdon IPMS Model show 5th OCT 2013 at
Larkmead School
Abingdon
OXFORDSHIRE Sat Nav friendly code OX14 1BB

10:00-16:00 £3 adult  £2 con/OAP/Child 

Plenty of parking and a Burgervan man to fill you up if you wish.

Traders that are coming to our show are................ANTICS- AVID READER- CHRIS LALOR- LITTLE CARS- THE AVIATION HOBBY SHOP- MAINLY MILITARY MODELS- OXONIAN PLASTIC FANTASTIC- MATT COY-KLASSIC KITS- PUAL DAVIS DECALS- KIT KRAZY-SQUIRES-RAF DEC-FORM-U-LAY.

Club stand that have booked space are:- Airfix tribute, Early risers, IPMS Society, IPMS Farnborough, IPMS Gloucester, IPMS Salisbury, Middleton Cheney, Mirage SIG, NORC, New City, Newbury, North Wilts, Poole Vikings, South Hants, Southbrook, Stonehenge, Thames Valley, Wallingford, West Middlesex, Wombourne. 

For further information please contact Simon Fisher at simonfisher2008@btinternet.com or 07769345271

Hello All here are the pictures from the last competition for this year held on 17th Sept. Well done to everyone who entered the competition, which is more then I can achieve. So in no order see below. Also sorry about the positioning of the photographs but I just can not seem to get them lined up.

Mike Ingham 1st place

Planes movie model by Richard Roberts

1/48 Fokker DVII by Alan Stickland 3rd place

Yet another P-40 by Bob Whittle 1/48



Airfix Landrover to 1/48 scale- Laurance Cassidy

Mortor group by Si Tomlinson

Not the best shot of this fine 1/48 model of a Airacobra Tim Flokes gaining second place

Another Hunter by Si Tomlinson

1/32 Me-163 by Bob Whittle





Tucano by AL Harris


 

Well her are the latest photographs for the third competition of the year, held on the 9th July.


The first of the competition models

Pather by Mick Scotcher



1/72 V4 rocket, Bob Whittle

 

1/72 Whirlwind by Mike Ingham

1/48 Tomahawk, Bob Whittle

1/48 Sturmovik by Alan Stickland

1/48 Warhawk by Bob Whittle 

1/72 Hunter Mike Ighham I think

1/48 Harrier by AL Harris 

1/35 Sherman by Kirk Ashley Morgan







Another shot of the Pather by Mick Scotcher

A 1/35 Tortoise tank by TIM Folkes wow big!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



1/72 Mosquito Photo recon by ????

Ok so here are the advance details of the Abingdon IPMS show which will be on      
Saturday 5th Oct.2013
Larkmead school

Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 1BB Sat Nav friendly Post code. £3.00 adult, OAP/Child £2:00 

Approximately 20 club stands
And approx. 17 trade stands
Returns are still coming in and won't be finalised until nearer the day, however I will publish a list very soon, which will be updated as and when information comes in.
it will be £3.00 adult, OAP/Child £2:00 
Food there will be as usual a Burger van selling allsorts from bacon butties, burgers, crisps, tea/coffee and sticky's from 08.30 till about 15:30 outside the entrance to the show.

Competition will be in one of the classrooms, cost to enter a model will be £1, with prize giving at around 15.30.

Parking is available for many cars. The venue will be signposted on the morning of the show.
PLEASE WATCh THIS POST FOR MORE UPDATES AS THEY COME IN.

Here are the dates for our club nights for the rest of the year.

June 11th
         25th  Down the Nags head pub on Abingdon Bridge.
July  9th    Competition night(3)
         23rd  Spray Night, bring your airbrush/model.
Aug  6th
         20th
Sept  3rd    Prep for the nationals, dry run through our stand for the nationals 2013.
         17th  Competition night (4)
Oct   1st     Competition winners contest
         15th
         29th  Video night
Nov  12th  Bring your purchases from the Nationals
         26th
Dec  10th  Club drinky's down the ??????
Jan     7th
         21st  Club AGM
REMEMBER THIS PAGE COULD BE UPDATED AS NEW INFORMATION COMES IN. SF

 We will not be attending the Salisbury show on the 5th June. The club have had the first rejection of attending a show, due to being oversubscribed.

Latest update, we know that the hall was not used by that other group on Tuesday last (30th April). Also we can now use our room for the night of 28th May.

Another update, our club meet for the 28th May will be held in the main hall.

Update for our three meeting dates that have conflict with the church, these being 30th April, 28th May and 25th June. So here is what is happening on these dates so far.

30th April meet has moved to Pendon Railway Museum on Wednesday 1st May at 19.00,OX14 4QD

28th May at the moment on answer from the church as to resolution to this problem.

25th June  meet will be at a Pub and I would say the Nags Head on the bridge over the river? please let me know if you disagree/ agree to this idea.

1ST COMPETITION OF 2013 05-02-13

Yamaha R1 Andy Collodel a 3rd place

Ist place in "other" category for Laurence Cassidy-1/35 Oshkosh M-ATV?

L/Rover Snatch-Kirk Ashley-Morgan 

Roman centurion, Mike Scotcher, my favourite



USS Enterprize by Kiran Patel

A 2nd for Tim Folkes-Vickers Mk6B



1st place for Alan Harris in the aircraft category with his 1/72 Nimrod

1/48 Meteor by Simon Tomlinson

3rd place, Buccaneer S1 Mike Ingham 

1/72 Hunter- Simon Tomlinson

Spitfire - Andy Collodel

Skyhawk by Ray Roberts



2nd place in aircraft cat by Laurence Cassidy-1/48 Sea Vixen

Hello everybody here are the latest photographs from the first competition of 2013 on 5th Feb, sorry about the poor state of the pictures, these where taken in a hurry.

Here is a further update to our blog giving the next 3 months club diary.

April
        2nd  Competition (2)
        16th
        30th Video night   (upstairs room)
May
         14th
         28th  Demo night  (upstairs room)
June
         11th
         25th down the pub the Nags Head, Abingdon bridge
July
         9th Competition (3)

Other events that are going on around our club:-
Yeovilton show Feb 9th
Newbury show  Feb 16th
Milton keynes show April 21st
Abingdon Air Fair  May 5th (you will have to pay at entrance to gain access)
Glouscester show May 21st
Salisbury show June 1st
Tank Fest at Bovingdon June 29/30th. Club outing, details later.

Simon Fisher
Abingdon IPMS Secretary

Hello all
All status quo with the club, the AGM was yesterday and following a vote myself, Alan and Tim remain in the same posts.
Our club fiances are in excellent shape with about £1500 in show account, whilst the normal club account is in the black by some 450ish. I have given the thought to some of the activity's for the forthcoming year and after some period I have up with one or two things to do. These being a trip to Pendon railway museum on a club night followed by a visit to the local pub. Next a club visit to Bovingdon tank museum on there Tank Fest day over the weekend of 29/30 June. I have also been thinking about a BBQ at my house in early to mid June, only after permission of mine frau.  Some other ideas that came from our members, are that could we have a couple of kit swaps a year, which we have one a year at the moment. Another thought came from somebody else and that is again a couple of hints and tips nights.

One thing to note we have been moved out of our normal room and upstairs for the following nights 30  April, 28 May, 25 June.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.

Simon Fisher