Good day Gents

The October meeting went pretty well.  Of special note was Tom Lacy speaking about an airbrush class he has been taking and the new skills he has learned from the class.  The instructor has an invitation to come to one of our meetings (likely the January 2025 meeting) to speak about airbrushing and will happily look your airbrush over if you bring it to make sure it’s in proper shape.  Tom will coordinate with him to make sure what specific meeting of ours he will attend.  The instructor lives/works in Pennsylvania so his investment in time coming to see us will be much appreciated.

Congratulations to Randy for his impressive bling at ARMORCON and for Scott for IPMS Journal seeking him out to write an article about his Woody’s Garage diorama. That article should be out in early 2025 and will be Shenandoah Valley Modeler’s second article in the magazine!

The December meeting is moved to 21 December at 2pm.  Remember, this meeting is a pot luck (bring your favorite dish) and a gift exchange event like we did last year.  At the November meeting, Scott will speak to how the gift exchange will take place.  Chad will put up a tool on the site to sign up for pot luck dishes but, in general, we will need about three deserts, drinks, paperplates/plastic forks/napkins, and five or six homemade food dishes.

We can try and sell kits at the February ODO show, but I need to know by 20 October if you have kits to donate and if so, how many.  If we do not have a “commit” of at least 40-50 kits, it will not be worth reserving a vendor table.  We have 5 kits leftover from the Roanoke show.  Email me if you have kits to donate soonest so I can make the appropriate plans/decisions.

Scott is having his annual photo show in November at the Lake Frederick community restaurant building (a rather nice place!).  Show up and check out Scott’s photographs! Speaking of photographs, today was John’s last meeting with us for a long time.  In such a short time, he has been a solid club member who has ingratiated himself within our club and I certainly will miss him.  Good luck John in your hunt for that perfect place to live in your retirement!

Chris