Model Expo is upon us.

One week to go to the event of the year, Model Expo 2014.
Remember all volunteers welcome.
Friday Set up begins at 11am. Booking in at 5pm to 9pm.
Saturday doors open for entries at 9am, judging starts at 6pm. Dinner is provided.
Sunday is show day help is always required for door and raffle sales.
Monday is swap and sell in the morning, presentations at 4pm, tear down from 5pm (we especially would love some help with this part)...
Look forward to seeing you all there.

May Meeting

The May meeting is upon us this Tuesday.
Look forward to seeing you all there at Ashburton Library.
Bring your in progress works and for something different bring along your toolkit.
Just a set of clippers, knife, sanding stick and some glue will do. This is to build our mystery display for expo this year. It should be a blast and nothing too difficult. If you have a small cutting mat you can chuck that in to.
Also up for grabs if you help out is a special anniversary gift celebrating the clubs 50th year.
Look forward to seeing you there.
I have posted a few of the pictures of the fine models at W&T 2014 this year.

Meeting night. 15th April 2014

Tuesday night is almost upon us and this week is club meeting night.
Following on from a great day on Sunday with Wings and Tracks, will be a summary of events. Pictures will be posted shortly.

The Prez has a nice Easter challenge for everyone. Bring your most brightly painted and garish models along for display this month and win a prize.

Look forward to seeing you at Ashburton Library this week.

Wings and Tracks 2014

The weekend has arrived and with it Wings and Tracks this Sunday. Be sure to come down to Ashburton Library 152 High St Ashburton to check out the great models on display and do some model shopping.

We have plenty of traders in attendance including Hobby HQ, Firestorm, Brunel hobbies.

Doors open with the Library at 10am and presentations will kick off at 3pm.
$5 entry, kids under 14 free, $5 competition entry for unlimited models.

Don't forget the Golden Sprocket and the Gold Wing Theme model awards, with Out of Box T34''s and derivatives and Out of Box F16's and derivatives being the themes this year.

Of course we would like to see people come in to help out with judging, as the golden rule of many hands making light work always rings true.

So come down for a look, a shop, a chat over a cup of coffee and a great day, see you there.

March Meeting

Tonight is our monthly club meeting.
Come along to find out the latest news from around the club.
Full report will be posted later this week.
Look forward to seeing you there.

Febuary Meeting

We have kicked off the new club year with the AGM last night. The committee was elected and we now steam full ahead into the special year that is 2014.
Committee Members are:
Andrew Perren - President
Mic Bradshaw - Vice President
Jason Steinwedel - Treasurer
Mike Rennie - Secretary
Laurence Farrugia - Committee person.

We have 2 positions currently vacant, so if you have some free time and would like to help out please feel free to contact Andrew.

We had a very good turn out last night and the models on the table were excellent, showing people had been busy over the last couple of months since end of year.

Wings and Tracks was announced, and this sees us return to Ashburton Library in April for this event, we have a pending announcement for a new venue for the Swap and Sell which we hope will be a lot better than previous venues. Andrew also announced that the club display build weekend has been relocated and rescheduled due to availability of the "special" kits. We will announce further news here.

The whole committee is looking forward to the coming year, where the club will be celebrating it's 50th anniversary with numerous events for members.

Here are some photos of the models on the tables and congrats to Andrew P for his model of the month Mig29.

Prospective member Nick had this very nice Porter on the table...

Rene had his Choctaw on display....

Uncle Les had these upsized space marines to show off...

Graham and Alex had Harrier fever...

and Laurence is still working on his devils chariot....

But to my mind the best piece of the night was Faz's car awesome work and detailing. Looks almost real.

Until the next post happy modelling.

Welcome to 2014

We start the new year for club meetings tonight with a return to our old meeting address at the Ashburton Library, 152 High St Ashburton.
Meeting time as usual at 7.45pm. It is a casual evening, so bring your models and come along for a yarn and a catch up.
Look forward to seeing you there.