November 2014 Meeting

   Happy Holidays To You! 

       High Plains Modelers met once again under a chilly, starry winter sky to huddle in the warmth of our meeting room and talk all things plastic. We held elections as we do every November, ushering in a new vice president and treasurer. Let's give those guys a big hand for helming the ship:

   TonyW. --returning as President for 2015

   Chip C.-- Vice President

   Michael A. -- Treasurer

   Chris N. --returning as Secretary for 2015


     Early reminder: Club dues will be coming due (ahem, pardon the pun) by February, 2015 for the new year. Help support HPM's operations for another year of great modeling.

   There will be a regular monthly meeting on Dec. 30th at 7pm in our usual room at The Ranch. We will forego business and dedicate the last meeting of 2014 to an informal Build & Bull session to close out the year. 

    Not much else to report for now. We hope everyone has a great Christmas with happy and healthy family and friends and lots of packages that rattle under the tree. ;)

   Check out these great appearances from the November monthly model contest:

Cody's Mercedes race car. Finally, something yellow!

New Scott flies in with this great looking Swordfish. Say, sunk any Bismarck's lately?

Michael brings the big guns to bear with his Tiger I.

John C.'s 1/72 AB-40

72Scott's 1/72 ammo trailer. 

Gary rules the high seas with HMS Empress Of India.

Tomasz' Ki-84 Frank in 1/72.

October 2014 Meeting

    Hello and happy Autumn to you!

    Actually, as I write this, it's snowing like crazy outside. If you're anything like me, wintry weather puts you in the mood to build kits with winter camouflage schemes, or skis, or something that fought in a winter campaign. Recently I picked up Revell's GMC Pickup kit with the snowplow. I also have a ski-plane and a few pieces of armor I could whitewash. My bench might get busy!
 
   For our October meeting, the High Plains Modelers converged on The Ranch, our usual haunt to discuss any and all modeling related things. In a debrief on our annual show, everything seemed to have went well with only a few hitches. We had some great vendors and a lot of models to ogle for the day. If you attended, vended, or got commended, we thank you again for helping us make it a great show. Also a big thanks is in order to those sponsors who helped us send folks home with a nice award for their trouble. We couldn't do it without you!

    You can find galleries to everything seen in our show here.

    Here's a gallery of the latest models to hit the 'Done Shelf' by HPM members. Check it out:

Cody's Mustang.

Gary's hot rod Willys.

John C.'s Fockewulf.

'72 Scott's truck.

New Scott's Zero.

Tomasz' Zero.

High Plains Con XXV-Summary and pics

   Well!

    October 13th has come and gone. Did you make it to the show? 

    By all accounts the 25th annual High Plains Con was a success. There were lots of models, lots of SILVER, and lots of good times.

   Some sample pics for you to ogle. Hey, we all need that instant gratification sometimes. Check out the link at the bottom for the complete album on our Contest Coordinator's Flickr page:

You can find the rest of the show pics HERE.

   Lastly, High Plains Modelers would like to send a huge shout-out and thank you(!) to our many vendors and to those folks who sponsored an award or otherwise contributed to the success of the show. So...

 THANK YOU!

That's all folks! Thanks again and see ya next year!

We WILL be back next month for regular business, so don't think we're abandoning you!  ;)