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August Meeting

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SOCAL AMPS MONTHLY MEETING:
Saturday
8/10/19
4:00 – 8:00 P.M. (or whenever)
Frye Sign Co.
12818 Nutwood St.
Garden Grove, 92840-6312
714-537-0071
Located a few blocks south of Brookhurst Hobbies, just east of Brookhurst St. and north of Garden Grove Blvd.,
in the back of the Nutwood Industrial Park.

MEETING ACTIVITIES:
Feature Presentations/Demos/Activities:
(1) Build Night
(2) Summer Beer Tasting
(3) Swap Meet Night
(4) Special Show and Tell: Shelf Queen Models

We have a lot planned for this meeting:
First of all it’s a Build Night, so grab a kit and some tools and get in some quality model building time with your fellow armor building friends and club members.
It’s also our Summer Beer Tasting Night, so bring some favorite/new/different beer to share with the rest of the club members.
This will be our first, in what we hope will be an annual event, Club Swapmeet. Everyone has some model hobby stuff you know you will never use: kits, decals, aftermarket parts and accessories, tools, paints, books, decals, etc. Here is you chance to get rid of them at no additional cost. Just check out your model stash and grab a box or handful of stuff you want to get rid of and bring it down to the meeting, and put it out for sale while you work on your model. Who knows, you might sell the stuff or at least manage to trade some of the stuff for other stuff that you want.
And finally, we are having a Special Show and Tell on Shelf Queen Models. Shelf Queen models are models that have been started with the best of intentions but, for whatever reason, never get completed and remain on your shelf. So, we encourage each of you to either: (1) bring some (all?) of your self queen models to share and discuss why they were started and why they were never completed, and hopefully get some encouragement to complete the kits: or (2) if that is too painful, just bring in the number of shelf queen models you currently have. I think we all might be surprised with how many we have. I did a quick count and was shocked, just shocked, to come up with a total of 17 shelf queens so far. It should be interesting to see how many shelf queen models are out there among all our club members, and hopefully we can help talk each other into finishing some of them. And remember, a Build Night, provides a perfect opportunity to work on some of them.

Everyone Welcome:
Modelers of all ages and experience levels, wives, girlfriends, significant others and family members are always welcome.
As always, you don’t need to be a national AMPS or SoCal AMPS member to attend and there is no cost to buy, sell, trade or just attend the meeting.
Just bring something armor modeling-related to share and participate in the meeting.

Standard Request:
Since our meeting place, the Frye Sign Co., is an operating business with limited seating available, please bring any folding chairs that you may have so we can make sure that we have enough for a comfortable and successful meeting

Club Model Contests:
(1) 4/13/19 Kit Auction Models-COMPLETE
(2) 9/14/19 Model For Orangecon: Artillery (all scales)
(3) 10/12/19 4 Hour Model Challenge
(4) 12/14/19 Gift Exchange Models

Club Online Build Contests:
(1) Subject: Military Vehicles With 6 or 8 Wheels-COMPLETE
Duration: 1/1/19 – July SoCal AMPS meeting
(2) Subject: Anything But 1:35th Scale
Duration: 7/1/19 – December SoCal AMPS meeting
Post your entries on either/both of the SoCal AMPS social media sites listed below.
Awards will be gift certificates provided by Brookhurst Hobbies (?) and additional raffle tickets for the SoCal AMPS year-end Gift Exchange..

Club Group Build: Patton Tank Family:
Any experimental or production versions of the M26, M46, M47, M48, and M60 tank family or related vehicles.
Completed models are due TBD, depending on when the next IPMS Nationals is scheduled in the western U.S.

Club Field Trips:
(1) 3/16/19 American Heritage Museum tour, El Monte-COMPLETE-10 guys went
(2) 5/18/19 Tanks Again European Museums tour-COMPLETE-6 guys went
(3) 7/20/19 March Air Force Base Museum tour, Riverside-COMPLETE-6 guys went
(4) 8/17/19 Yank and Planes of Fame Air Museums tours, Chino
The guys who went on the March Air Force Base Museum tour had such a good time that we decided to add an additional tour of the Yanks and Planes of Fame air museums at Chino Airport before football season hits. We will discuss details of the tour at our August meeting. If you would like to go on this tour but are unable to attend our August meeting email me and I’ll forward you the final details for the tour.
(5) 10/19/19 Patton Museum, Palm Springs Air Museum and Rare Planes Detective Warehouse tour, Palm Springs