T h e
M i n u t e s
by Judge Baxojayz
August means pizza night
which, customarily, has members coming out of the woodworks! We had 21 members
and one guest who brought in 18 models to a very fulfilling yet disjointed
meeting.
August
Meeting
Holiday
Dinner: It may seem early but we
only have a few meetings before December and we need to consider this sooner
than later. The German/Slovak place was washed away by Sandy last year. The Tasty Tavern we went to
is out of business. We need new ideas! Keep your eyes open. Someplace
reasonably close to the meeting place with a good supply of parking would be
ideal. Thanks in advance for your effort!
off kilter: Special circumstances
require special handling. Due to the 59th Street Bridge
being on fire, your humble narrator had an epic four hour journey to get to the
meeting. While buying time for me to get to the BBSC the meeting was run in
reverse order. We had a raffle and voted for the third quarterly contest and I
arrived right after the pizza did, as if on cue. We held business after eating,
which was fine since a gut full of pizza always calms everyone down.
QUARTERLY CONTEST: Time flies! The third
installment of the BPMS Annual Contest is in the books. The last contest night,
and chance to get votes for 2013, will be in NOVEMBER.
PIZZA NIGHT: Yay BPMS! As usual we made quick
work of those tasty Brooklyn style pies! I’m
proud of you guys!
RAFFLE: We had a monthly raffle with an assortment of items. We had
something for everyone’s tastes.
TROOP SUPPORT: With Hugh going into retirement Jimmy Tissot volunteered to
take over the role as Wounded Warrior Project liaison. He’s gotten reports
regarding what models and supplies would be most useful. As always, donations
of any models and supplies are welcome. Jimmy mentioned in passing the cost to
ship models to Texas,
so we collected a couple dollars for a little relief for him which Jeff
presented at the last meeting. In addition, Jimmy was hoping to find some more
support amongst the group for a raffle to benefit the troops. The idea would be
to have a raffle in October of items donated by members and tickets would be $2
each. If donations are numerous enough, we might break it up into TWO raffles.
We’ll see. Don Illjes also found out more about a Wounded Warrior outpost at Fort Hamilton.
More details to come.
PHOTO ROSTER: Hugh can
provide the files and write up the process I use in PowerPoint and PhotoManager
to put the pages together. Can anyone take this job over? Contact Bobby or Jeff
at the meeting.
On the agenda: September
Using pastels and
dry brushing on your models: Hosted by Joe Bergman
and your humble narrator will demonstrate how we use pastels and dry brushing
to achieve various effects on our models. If you would like to chime in, you
may want to prepare some words and speak with us before the meeting.
SWAP NIGHT: Bring goodies to swap and sell. Cash would be good to bring
too. You never know when a treasure might show up!
Meeting date:
September 20, 2013
Same time,
Same place.
See you all at the BBSC!