1. The club is needing people to volunteer to help with Registration, Judging, Security and to help with the Raffle. Sign up sheets will be available at the meeting this friday. Please pick a job and sign up. The greatest need is for Registration volunteers.

2. Donations are also needed for the club raffle table. Please bring a kit that is either sealed or if it has been opened, please be certain that all sprue bags are sealed and the instructions and decals are present in the box. Please NO DOGS!! Bring a kit only if you would want to win it in the raffle.

3. If you had a shirt embroidered with the club logo, they will be available at the Friday meeting for pick up.

4. If you haven't already paid your dues ($12.00), please do so at the friday meeting. An updated club roster will be made available once dues have been paid.

5. Upcoming events:

2/17/2007 Columbus Ohio
Region 4 2007 Spring Invitational (aka BlizzardCon)
Aladdin Shrine Center
3850 Stelzer Rd, Columbus, Ohio 43219
IPMS/Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
Greg Harting

FEBRUARY - Record breakers - Anything or anyone that broke any record. Be creative, sponsored by Al Grimm.
MARCH - Picture collection - Bring in any hobby related pictures that you have.
APRIL - Desert Warfare - From North Africa to Afghanistan. Two categories, Ground or Aircraft, sponsord by Erik Fox.
MAY - Open (?) Perhaps someone would be interested in sharing techniques for building, painting or weathering?
JUNE - Axis (WW2) - Anything used by Axis forcers during WW2. Sponsored by Roger Dickinson.
JULY - Open (?) Perhaps a revival of the club raffle for a one time event?
AUGUST - Cheesecake - Guidelines for this contest to be sent in a separate e-mail. Sponsored by Dave Lakey.

If there are any events missing from this list or if corrections need to be made, please let me know.

7. Classified section
Vic has some items for sale. Please contact him if you are interested in buying a kit.

1/48 AIR
Hasegawa - 09633 F-8E/J Last Gunfighters.........................$25
Hasegawa - 09544 Hurricane Mk.IIc North Africa..............$10
Aeroclub - D.H. Venom FB1, Vac and INJ w/ resin seat.....$10

1/72 AIR

ICM - 72091 TB-3 w/Eduard Photoetch.............................$10
Hasegawa - 00741 F-18F VFA-154..................................$10
Tamiya - 60752 F4I-1D w/Eduard Photoetch......................$10
Academy - 12401 P-51 North Africa..................................$5
Revell G - 04229 He-70.....................................................$5
Hasegawa - 00453 A6M5c Zero........................................$5
Academy - 2176 A6M5c Zero............................................$5

1/35 ARMOR

Tamiya - 35248 Marder (2 each).......................................$10 (each)
Dragon - 3521 ZSU-23-4V1.............................................$10

1/72 ARMOR

RPM - 72308 Staghound MkI...........................................$10
RPM - 72309 Staghound MkI..........................................$10
Italeri - 7027 Morris Quad Tractor w/25 Pounder..............$5
Italeri - 7019 Churchill MkIII.............................................$5
Italeri - 7013 Valentine MkI..............................................$5
Hasegawa - 31127 Churchill MkI......................................$5
Revell G - 03130 T-34/85 w/Eduard Photoetch.................$5
Revell G - 03113 Marder 1A3 (Modern)..........................$5
ExtraTech - EXM-04 NKL-26 Russian Aerosan................$5

Dave Lakey is looking for the following items:

A. Superscale sheet #48-251, the camouflaged AC-47
B. Aeromaster sheet #48-320, Airwar over Vietnam III, the grey and white USAF A-1E.

From Erik:
I am looking for a shop or website in the U.S. that carries Real Model products. VLS (modelmecca.com) is discontinuing this line and I am looking for their BTR-T conversion. Any ideas on where to look are greatly appreciated.

8. We have received this request from the IPMS club in Pittsburgh:

Hello Gentlemen,
This is an update on the 2007 regional. We have a great venue and we are working very hard to make this years regional a great success. At our meeting last night it was suggested that we contact the other clubs in the region and ask if each club would be willing to provide one member who would be willing to help judge.
So I'm asking if each of you would be willing to take this request to your members to see if at least one person who will be attending the show would be willing to help us judge. We don't think were short on people, but were hoping that we won't have to scramble around during the show to round people up to help. I'm sure you understand what I mean.
If anyone has any questions pease let me know and I hope to see all of you on the 30th of March!

Sincerely,
Scott Scariot
President IPMS Three Rivers/Pittsburgh

9. For those of you who might be interested in a new military history website:
I got some info from DLC Dick that we would like passed along to your clubs. Read it and either send it to your members or tell them about it at your next meeting. It doesn't have to be "IPMS Approved" to be good but since it came from the Home Office that's what I'm calling it.

Thanks.
Kirk RC4

www.historicalwarfare.com is a new web site for those interested in military history.It aims to bring the different aspects of Military History together on to one site, to create a one stop web site to save those interested in military history the one thing few of us have a lot of, time.
We firmly believe that while many people are passionate about a specific period or a specific way of recreating that period, few are blinkered to the degree they ignore other areas.
Historical Warfare is a subscription web site because we believe that subscription web sites offer a better user experience that are not reliant on advertising to pay the bills. Consequently no pop up ads, banner ads or Google ads. This also allows the site to be impartial. We appreciate that www.historicalwarfare.com is not fully developed yet, so consequently, in January we are offering a permanent subscription rate of $1.95 a month. If you join in January 07, that is all you will ever pay, until you decide to cancel.
For IPMS-USA members, we are also offering 10 days free trial. Just use the promotional code MMJAN when joining. This will allow IPMS members to have alook and see if it is of interest, at no cost. We will keep this offer open until the end of February.
If you could forward this via your regional network, it would be greatly appreciated. Apologies to those I have already sent something to.

Best wishes
Adam Hill, Editor

Well, I think that is it for now. Be on the lookout for the "cheesecake" guidelines and if you have any suggestions or just wish to contribute an article to the newsletter, please let me know.

Erik
"Unencumbered by the facts, I now proceed."