Any IPMS members here?

Hi Everyone,

Are there any IPMS members here?

I'm a member of the Wellington branch here in New Zealand. We are the bigest/strongest in the country.

 

Not yet. I'm planning on joining after Christmas.

 

Me too ! I just don't have the space to keep plastic models ( I keep dreaming about buying a Tamiya 1/48 Lancaster but where can I display it ? ? ) - but I love reading about other enthusiasts modelling 'adventures'.

 

Thats a problem i have. I've had to put alot of my Dios in the loft.

 

Yes I was for several years. Thought the quarterly booklet was a waste of time though......

say how about putting that Lanc/Hali on the ceiling, and of course my British friends you must have a Ju 88G-6 Nachtjäger chasing it....

and yes a mossie night fighter chasing the Ju

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Problem with dangling them from the ceiling is - the upper surface gets coated in dust, someone reaches up to flick a feather duster and... crash ! More effective than Schrage Musik

( I remember this happening to an Airfix Stirling bomber when I was about 10 - the mental scars are still with me..... )

 

Good on ya Bish!

I keep my Models in a display cabbenet (sp) along with my medals, do the trick with keeping the dust off.

 

Martin :

I know this feeling all too well. Had a B-24 being chased by a heavy Fw 190. both on my ceiling. Went to clean cob-webs with my mum's broom and I knocked both against the wall....arg, I cried for two days as both were 100 %

Kiwi, I tried that back in the 1970's and still had dust accumulate inside. My model a/c have passed away long ago when I was scratch building radar sets for my German night fighters as there was nothing available then.

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Do you build dios or free standing models. The problem i have with dios is that some of them are just to big to put in cabinets. The ones i have on show are on top of the bookcase, video cabinets and any other free space i can find. Drives the wife nuts Luckly, she goes no where near them with a duster

 

I used to build dios, but now I just make free standing models. Just because of that one reason, space!

 

Question :

Can you guys post some pics of your work here on this site ?
Would like to see your work if possible

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I would, but i don't have my pictures on a site that i an link the to.

 

Bish, can you transfer them from your C drive or saved pics to the enactment society that you have a link to, then from here send to Otto ?

dang, I wish I had a scanner, etc.....

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I cannot use that site as a link. s it possable to E-Mail them to Otto, and does he have anywhere to put them.

 

Bish :

E-mail Otto directly as he then can give you an answer.....hopefully he can

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I'm going to have a go at buildng my own web page and see if i can do it that way. I tried it before, but could not get the hang of it.

Maybe i'll have better luck.

 

Thanks Otto, i'll sort them out at the weekend.

 

[ 02. December 2002, 03:37 AM: Message edited by: Bish OBE ]