Early in the meeting, club president Rick Keasey presented my mother Joan Delaney with a $50 Target (https://www.target.com/) gift card, in appreciation for her work opening the Fellowship Hall for the club these past few years. She was pleasantly surprised by this gesture, and thanked us for the card.
After discussing other club business, we had Show & Tell. I told of my T-34/85 model taking a Bronze in Armor at KC CON (http://www.ipmsgreatplains.org/KCCon2020.aspx) in Kansas City, Missouri the previous Saturday. There was some other interesting items shown off by a few of our members.
After Show & Tell, Jim Triola, with assistance from Jim Victor, presented a demo on photo etched (PR) metal parts. They used ship models they are working on--Triola, a 1:200 scale USS Hornet (CV-8); Victor, a 1:200 HMS Nelson--to show the PE parts installed to this point, and the tools, techniques, and adhesives they use. It was quite an interesting demo and welcome by club members not experienced at all in PE parts.
The next day, word came that the Affton Elks Lodge is closed for now, which means we may not meet there on 21 April as planned. Hope to hear back on this soon. Already, several IPMS/USA (http://ipmsusa.org/) contests have been cancelled or postponed, and many chapter meetings have been cancelled due to their venues being closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. It's the right decision under the circumstances, though not welcome for those who worked hard to get these shows on and to meet their fellow modelers.
Stay safe everyone.
Later.
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