AGM date change

AGM has moved forward to the 8th Jan 2013, due to Simon F will be away on a course for a week.

Welcome to the latest entry to our blog, shown below are next years diary dates. I have included all of the dates for the whole year, but their is no detail attached to 3/4 off it yet.  I will only be doing that at three month intervals, as things have developed over the past couple of years outside my control and therefore making the 6 monthly printed diary's useless. Please note, I will only be printing off limited copies of the diary for those people who do not have a computer.

January      8th, 22nd Club AGM
February    5th Comp night(1), 19th
March        5th Demo night,  19th

April          2nd Comp night(2), 16th, 30th
May           14th, 28th
June           11th, 25th

July            9th, 23rd
August       6th, 20th
September  3rd, 17th

October      1st, 15th, 29th
November  12th, 26th
December  10th

Events that  the club will be attending are so far
Fleet air arm 9th Feb
Milton Keynes 21st Apr
Abingdon show 5th Oct(provisional)

Simon Fisher
Abingdon IPMS Secretary

Club update from the Nationals
We have a winner or two?
Our club entry for the competition has given Lawrance a gold well done.

Plus Andy's son managed a medal as well and at only 5 years old ???????????????????
Watch out the rest of us !



Hello all
This is just a quick update just before the Nationals. Hope everybody manages to come to the largest model show in the world. I have one or two new ideas for next years events. First is that I will only be doing the diary for three months at a time, as things have been developing quickly during the past two years quickly at times and I fell that you all will get a better flow of information. Second I have a couple of different activities for us to try out, these being a visit to our neighbour club of Newbury on one of their club nights, also a trip to Pendon model railway museum for a couple of hours look around and see the operation of there model railways on one of our club nights instead of meeting in Abingdon, this may in addition to a light meal on same night?
More details to follow, when I have spoken to all conserned and hopefully taken everything in to consideration.


In addition to the above, I am not going to print off as many copies of the diary from now on, as most of you can have a look at this site for the updated version, therefore saving printing costs and the environment and you can not loose this information on the blog easily?

And lastly the template for the show labels is coming along very well indeed with a great credit going to Kiran for his input.

Simon

As promised we have some of our recent show photo's

As you can see a very good selection of models on display and in the competetion area. Superb selection

 A big Thank you to all who attended our show on the 6th Oct, it seems to be very well received indeed. I personally must say thank you to all the club member's who helped out on the day. Pictures will be along soon, well in the next couple of days at least.

Simon Fisher

Abingdon IPMS model show

Abingdon IPMS 2012 Model Show details.

Listed here are the confirmed traders and clubs that are coming along.

ADM models
Antics
Aviaition hobby shop
Avid reader
Form-U-Lay-------not coming as of 24/09/12
IPMS Stand
Klassic kits
Kit Krazy
Little cars
Matt Coy Model kits
Model display products
Oxonians Plastic Fantasic you see them on Ebay
RAF Dec
Paul Davies Decal man
Squires tools
                         
Model clubs are:~

Airfix tribute forum
Gloucester IPMS
Early Risers
Farnborough IPMS
Middleton Cheney Scale model Club
Mirage SIG
New City Scale Model Club
N.O.R.C
North Wilts Scale Modellers
Poole Vikings
Thames Valley Model Club
Salisbury ----------------not coming as of 24/09/12
Southbrook Model group
South Hants Military Modelling
Wallingford
West Middlesex

Timings opening at 10.00 till 16.00
Competition at 50p per entry
£3.00 / £2.00
Burger van on site
Plenty of parking
Leakmead School, Faringdon Road, Abingdon
Sat Nav Post code OX14 1BB

Sept 2012 Competition

Well, we had another competition on the 4th Sept and what a stunning display of models. The level of achivement and standards are becoming very high indeed, I feel that I can not compete with this, its just to good. Now below I only have one picture, that is because my phone ran out of battery juice. So I am sorry chaps. 

In the tank/other section
1st   Vickers Mk6c by Tim
2nd  U Boat by Kiran
3rd  T55 by Si T

Aircraft section
1st   P-51C by Andy
2nd  P-51D by Richard.N
3rd  Spitfire Mk24 by Kirk

Simon Fisher

show details

Hello All, we have had another competition, more of that next time.

On this post I what to talk about our upcoming model show. Listed here are the confirmed traders and clubs that are coming along.

ADM models
Antics
Aviaition hobby shop
Avid reader
Form-U-Lay
IPMS Stand
Klassic kits
Kit Krazy
Little cars
Matt Coy Model kits
Model display products
Oxonians Plastic Fantasic you see them on Ebay
RAF Dec
Paul Davies Decal man
Squires tools
And hopefully--Neomega
                         
Model clubs are:~
Airfix tribute forum
Gloucester IPMS
Early Risers
Farnborough IPMS
Middleton Cheney Scale model Club
Mirage SIG
New City Scale Model Club
N.O.R.C
North Wilts Scale Modellers
Poole Vikings
Thames Valley Model Club
Salisbury
Southbrook Model group
South Hants Military Modelling
Wallingford
West Middlesex

Timings opening at 10.00 till 16.00
Competition at 50p per entry
£3.00 / £2.00
Burger van on site
Plenty of parking
Leakmead School, Faringdon Road, Abingdon
Sat Nav Post code OX14 1BB

Latest update from March-May 2012

Very nice rendition of a P51-D by Bob Wittle, Tamiya 1/48.

A second excellent Mustang from Bob Whittle, this time with a P-51C ICM 1/48 kit.

A lovely1/72 model of a Spitfire IX by Tim Flokes.

Two photo's of Alan Strickland's model of a Kenetic F-84F 1/48, which came 3rd on the 1st May.

Two shots of Si Tomlinson's 1/32 Tamiya Mustang P-51D which came 2nd in the latest competition held on the 1st May.

The winner of the latest competition on 1st May is a model of a B-17G Fying Fortress by Alan Dagg. The model is a Hasewega 1/72 kit.

I can just feel the atmosphere with these soliders on the back of this King Tiger. This suberb model above/below is by Si Tomlinson and managed a more than creditable 2nd on the 1st May.

WOW! what a lot of detail in this Tiger. Here we see what Kirk Ashley-Morgan can produce a simply superb model and gained him a 1st at the latest competition. Well done. Below we see a further view of his Tiger tank.

And lastly a very detailed DUKW by Lawrance Cassidy. This model came in third place on the 1st May. This model was very well detailed, but alas did not take a higher place in the resent competition.

Hello all, its been a long time since the last blog on our site. So here are some photo's from the latest competition held on the 1st May. Also is the diary for the rest of the year, plus the results of the first two competitions for this year. Futher to this we will be having a summer get together(24th July) at the Spread Eagle pub to enjoy each others company and the excellent food that they do, so please come along from 7.00PM. Futher to this we will also be holding our annual club christmas drinks in the same pub, however, I will book a few tables at this popular time of the year.

Club diary
Jul 10  Comp night                                                       Oct 16
Jul 24  Summer club do                                                Oct 30
Aug 7  Demo night                                                       Nov 13  Bring your Nats buys to show others
Aug 21                                                                          Nov 27  Video night
Sep 4   Comp night                                                       Dec 11  Club drinks                                     
Oct 2   Yearly comp winners comp                              Jan 8
                                                                                      Jan 22   Club AGM

Other important dates are:~
Gloucester show   27th May
Newbury show     2nd June
Salisbury show     9th June
*Remember NO Cholsey show this year*
Club summer meet at the Spread Eagle Pub 24th July
RAF Benson family's day 23rd Aug
Our show on        6th Oct
Nationals             10/11 Nov

Winners from competitions in 7th Feb

Aircraft
1st Corsair-Si. T
2nd Sop Camel- Alan. S
3rd Meteor F8- Mike.I
Military
1st Wolf L/Rover- Lawrance. C
2nd Wespe-Si. T
3rd A.A Crusader-Tim
Sea/Water
1st Red October-Kiran
Civil
1st Moto Guzzi- Andy

And for 1st May Competiton

Aircraft
1st B-17-Alan.D
2nd 1/32 Mustang- Si.T
3rd  F-84F- Alan.S
Other/Military
1st Tiger-Kirk.A-M
2nd King Tiger-Si.T
3rd DUKW-Lawrance.C

And thats it for now, its just taken me 2 hours to do this catch up,so please have a read.

Simon Fisher
Abingdon IPMS Secretary

Further update to the blog including a few photo's

Hi all
Here are a couple of photo's from the first off our model club competitions. Both are from the Si Tomlinson stable and very well done to him gaining a couple of prizes.
The other winners are;

Aircraft
1st Si Tomlinson - Corsair
2nd Alan Stickland - Sopwith Camel
3rd Mike Ingham - Meotor F8

Military
1st Lawrance Cassidy - Wolf Land Rover
2nd Si Tomlinson - Wespe
3rd Tim Folkes - AA Crusader

Sea/water
1st Kiran Patel - Red October

Civil
1st Andy - Moto Guzzi

As you can see we have split down each class of model. this will not be divided down so far next time just perhaps two classes.

1st for his Corsair in the Aircraft Catogaery

Si Tomlinson Wespe which took 2nd in Armour section

Also her are two photo's taken at the excellent
Yeovilton show on the 11th February. It shows some of our stalwart members namely, from left to right Tony Clements, Alan Stickland, Bob Whittle and Alan Dagg.

                                                                                              

 Till next time, bye for now 

 Simon Fisher

Latest Photo's from last club meet on 24th Jan 2012

Hello Chaps here are the latest photographs from last Tuesday nights(24th Jan 2012) meeting. Not much was talked about apart from the next time that some of us will meet up is at the Milton Kenyes model show, I will be arriving there about 08:30 to set up and have a goood day.

Here left and below is Alan S's  1/72 F-16 in an interesting camouflage scheme. The strips are not sprayed but part of the decal sheets, otherwise it would of been difficult to spray.

Kirk's 1/72 Spitfire IX in Danish markings, looking very impressive and would look even better on suitable backdrop.

British tank by Tim Folkes, but I don't know which type it is, sorry Tim.

Neuport 1/48 by Alan Stickland.

Here are two shots of a special forces Land Rover by Lawrence, one of our established Armour modellers.

Here shows the start of Tony Clements Wing Nut Wings Pup, very nice. No doubt we will see more of this model as it progress on. Also we should see more of Tony's 1/24 Arado 196 this year, it should be almost finished in 2012.

LATEST UPDATE POST OUR CLUB AGM

Hello All

We had the Club AGM on the 10th Jan 2012. All of the committee have agreed to stand again for the next year.

Items of note that came up during the AGM are the following

1)The Newbury model show has changed its date to June 2nd.
2)Possible invite to the Oxford airshow to display our club. Date not known yet-does anybody know?
3)Competitions should we have separate category's for say land,sea and air- this must be discussed in detail by Myself, Alan D and Tim.
4)Demo's for this year, scratched surfaces using Maskol or Salt and another where everybody comes along with a tip to share for all.
5)Guest speaker, some people would like to see a guest speaker to attend- will have a look in to this by myself.
6)Paul Tuckey has been asked if we could have a tour around his work place- not saying on here where he works, but you should know.
7) From item (2) we could also get a look around Kidington airport some time over the summer months, I must ask Richard N when we next see him.
8)Remember Abingdon air fair is in early May time.

First Photo is of a Spitfire I from I think Tim, but not sure.  Second photograph shows club members enjoying themselves talking about the models on the tables in front of them, just before the boring bit of having our AGM.

Simon Fisher, Club Secretary

Abingdon IPMS diary

On here I would like to show our first six month diary however I don't how to achive this yet.

To start with her are the dates for the start of the year-

10th Jan AGM
24th Jan
7th Feb Competition night
21st Feb
6th Mar Demonstration night
20th Mar
3rd April Video night

Hope this helps members, Simon Fisher

some photographs related to the club