Tacoma Green Dragons

Minutes of the meeting of the Tacoma Green Dragons, Les Sundt Memorial Chapter IPMS, held on

18 June, 2009

 

  OPENING: President George Haase opened the meeting at 7:28 with 18 members present.  Dave Griffon made an appearance and was well received.             

 

  TREASURER’S REPORT:  We currently have about $692.84 in the Treasury.     

 

  MINUTES:  The minutes were available and made a name change.     

 

  OLD BUSINESS:   No old Business was discussed.       

 

  NEW BUSINESS:  The NOPMS is this weekend along with the Olympic Museum of Flight Airshow.  The following plan is established:  JUL-Build, AUG-Jim, SEP-Raffle/SwapMeet, OCT-Build/Elections, NOV-Thanksgiving, DEC-Randy.  Also, on 23 July we are doing a Make-N-Take with the Pierce County Cub Scouts.  I would appreciate as many volunteers as possible.  Upcoming meeting dates are:  30 July, 27 August, 24 September, and 29 October.  All dates are at the Parkland Library Distribution Center.   

 

 LECTURE/DEMO:  Anthony Froh gave a great demo on the use of colored pencils for weathering.  He uses oil based pencils to achieve a variety of weathering techniques.        

   

SHOW and TELL:  

Will Thorson

1/35 Tamiya – Panzer IVH early

1/35 DML – Panzer IVH late

Rick Coombs

1/35 Dragon – Sherman III DD

Bob Neuharth

1/35 Dragon – 15cm SIG33 Gun

1/35 Dragon – 105mm Howitzer M2A1

1/72 Dragon – Firefly Ic

Tony Granata     

1/48 Monogram – A-1H Skyraider

1/72 Revell AG – Mig-31 Foxhound

Jim Walker

1/72 Hobby Boss – T-6G Texan

Tony Froh

1/35 Tamiya 0- JS-3

1/35 Dragon – Panther F

1/35 Dragon – Panther D

Steve Russo

1/48 Dragon – DR1

1/48 FM – PV-1 Ventura

Ralph Andreason

1/68 hawk – F4U (circa 1954)

1/68 Hawk – F3A

1/72 JoHan – F4U-1A

Jim Nakauchi

1/48 Dragon – Me-262A-1A 

 

CLOSING

The meeting ended at about 9:39 with the usual suspects (including me and Randy) heading over to Shari’s and the rest heading home.      

      

Mark Aldrich

Secretary