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March Meeting Inbound!

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Just a reminder that the next SoCal AMPS meeting is this Saturday, 3/9/19.
SOCAL AMPS MONTHLY MEETING:
Saturday
3/9/19
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) Painting Built Up Models-Part 2 (Jim Wechsler)
(2) Modeling With Resin-Kits, Conversions and Parts (Konrad Schreier and Scott Sipes)
(3) Special Show and Tell: Completed Resin Models and Resin Model Kits (all)
   Special Note:
   The April meeting is our annual Model Kit Auction Club Fundraiser.
   This is our main club fund raiser activity for the year.
    Money raised by the auction funds all of the club’s activities and helps us keep our monthly meetings Free to all attendees.

If you have any items that you would like to donate to our auction but will be unable to attend the April meeting, please do one of the following:

-bring them to the March meeting
-make arrangements to drop them off at the Frye sign Co. or
-make arrangements with another club member to bring them to the April meeting.
   Your support to Our Club is greatly appreciated.
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 h

Jan 2019 Meeting Pics up!

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Another great meeting last night, we kicked off the new year with 2 new group builds (Arty & Patton), and a online group build 6 & 8 wheels and another great painting video by Jim W. the video should be posted in a few days after editing. Meeting pis are up in our image galleries which have recently been updated. Don’t forget Spruefest is almost here!

Jan 2019 Meeting!

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Just a reminder that the first SoCal AMPS meeting of 2019 is this Saturday, 1/12/19.
SOCAL AMPS MONTHLY MEETING:
Saturday
1/12/19
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) Armor Painting and Weathering-Part 1: Painting Panel Fading (Jim W.)
(2) Kick Off Model For Orangecon: Artillery (John S.)
(3) Special Show and Tell: Artillery-completed models, kits, after market and references (all)
(4) Kick Off Chapter Group Build: Patton Tanks (John S)
(5) Special Show and Tell: Patton Tank Family-completed models, kits, aftermarke and references (all)
 
As we begin a new year full of optimism and potential, the theme of the first meeting of the year is “Inspiration”, and we have scheduled a number of activities that we hope will certainly inspire you.
To support our 2 new 2019 chapter projects, (1) Model for Orangecon: Artillery and (2) Chapter Group Build: Patton Tanks, we ask everyone to contribute by bringing in to share any completed or in-process models, kits, after market stuff or references that you may have on either of these 2 subjects.
We hope that a big showing of the potential of these 2 model subjects will lead to some inspired model projects during year.

Fun with pics!

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I have been moving all the images from Flickr to this domain so please bear with me if galleries are unavailable, I hope to have this completed within the next week or so and will result in better hosting and everything will have the same look and feel.