The new meeting venue was a smash hit with room enough to have Donovan show off his Royal Navy ship!  Many thanks to Tom for getting us his Church to have this and future meetings at.  Big improvement.

It was great meeting Joe and his son and meeting Marcin’s son too.  Sniff sniff; fresh young blood!

As mentioned, if you are also a member of IPMS/USA please send me your IPMS number.

Two members bought the new club shirts.  I have 10 left so please send me a email if you would like one or more of these shirts.  Folks expressed an interest in another color and/or short sleeves. If I can get enough to support an order of grey shortsleeved polos I will do that order.  Let me know or answer the survey at the bottom of the post.

An informal poll on what to do for our December meeting.  We can 1) do a normal meeting; 2) have a potluck social meeting or 3) someone else’s neat idea meeting.  Again let me know your ‘druthers.

Marcin is taking lead on youth engagement with his son’s school and possibly other organizations and he is going to create a FB version of our website and will look into some possible free advertising with the press in Front Royal.

We will do another sales table at the Richmond show.  Please bring kits, tools, reference material to the December and January meeting as donations.  These sales events are money makers for us so be generous!

-chris

Tom has provided a map showing the location of the church where we’ll be meeting next weekend. See below. If anyone has any questions or concerns about where to meet just reach out to Chris or myself and we’ll get you squared away.

-Chad

Good day gents.  The October meeting was very good in that there was a lot of shop talk; with the main conversation and many side bars going on.  It was great to see (or hear?) and shows we are melding together.  We are now over 20 members and we grew by an amazing 5 brand new members from this meeting.  Say hello to the new members Randy and Martin, Ed, Andre, and Daniel.  Welcome aboard, sprue bros.

Speaking of Martin, he raised a neat opportunity for the club to teach the kids at Randolph Macon Academy in Front Royal.  Martin’s task is to chat with the administrators at the school to work out a schedule, number of kids, and so forth.  To start off with, he, Randy, and myself can be mentors but it would be great to have as many club members participate and lend your expertise and time to the kids.  This will be a great opportunity to create new modelers for the future and the health of our hobby.

As I mentioned, we are not ready or in a position to host a show in 2024.  If we do, in fact, want to host a show, it needs to be deferred to 2025 or later.  The head of the chapter that hosted Paxcon made that point his first one when I talked with him about what it takes to host an event. 

Tom earned bonus points for us by securing a new venue for us to use – hopefully for a long time.  It is at his church – the Church of Christ at Mountain View.  The address is 153 Narrow Lane and is in the lot next to the Virginia DMV that is on US Hwy 11.  We will meet there for the 11 November meeting at 11.00 am.  I will try and get our page on IPMS/USA’s site updated with our new meeting venue but IPMS/USA’s web page is not easy to use so wish me luck on that score.  As well, now that we have funds from our kit sales at Penncon, I will be doing the submission to IRS to get our 501 status secured.  I also had membership cards but I forgot them for the October meeting.  I was too focused on getting donuts!

For November, let’s hold a chapter raffle to raise additional funds for the club.  Please contact me to donate your kit(s) before the meeting.  New member Ed started off by donating 5 kits at his first meeting with us so you can’t be upstated by the new guy! 

Good building all; Chris