Category: Monthly Meeting News

OCIPMS president David Frederick opened the meeting with news on upcoming events and information on OrangeCon, which will be held on Sunday, October 11th. David also presented a tribute to long-time club member and past president, Bruce Openshaw who passed away recently – RIP Bruce John Stelik presented information about his visit to the Midway Aircraft Carrier museum in San […]

We had a good turnout for the August meeting with 34 members and guests attending.  Several OCIPMS members attended the IPMS National convention in Fort Wayne Indiana in early August, and they shared their experiences with the club members along with some awards that were won. Next month we will be getting ready for OrangeCon, Mark Deliduka talked about judging […]

The July meeting was hot and fun with lots of participation from the members and many quality models on the tables! OCIPMS member and long-time friend of the modeling industry, Herb Deeks, recently passed away. OCIPMS President David Frederick made a tribute to Herb with help from Steve Taylor, who provided the pictures. David presented the tribute to the club […]

The June meeting featured the distressed kit auction, and the members were ready to build their stashes. The club did very well and sold off all the kts and supplies whether a sealed kit or severely started kit – the bids were coming in! We had a great bidding session on the “mystery box” with Cip being the lucky winner- […]

Another strong turnout this month with 34 members and guests at the meeting! Every genre is represented at OCIPMS by excellent modelers with lots of kits under their belts: ships, cars, Gundam, aircraft, armor, Sci Fi, figures, dioramas, trains – even paper models!  If you’re not a member – join now. Sean presented a group working topic on different modeling […]

Another great turnout for the OCIPMS club meeting in April with over 40 people attending. Club members presented new model kits and model accessories for the show and tell portion of the meeting. The main program for the night was a slide show of Sean Fallesen’s trip to the National Naval Aviation Museum, located at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.  […]

The March meeting was well attended with over 32 members and guests.  David and Victoria presented the new OCIPMS club tee shirts that are now available – contact Victoria Geis for details. Joe LoMusio presented a nice tribute to OCIPMS member and close friend, Terry Baylor who passed away last month, click here to read the tribute.  We will all […]

The February meeting had a strong turnout with 33 attendees along with several new guests.  The tables were filled with models of all types – see the picture gallery below to view all the fine models that were on display. David Frederick presented a tribute to long-time OCIPMS member Terry Baylor who passed away last month.  Terry was a master […]

It’s a new year for the OCIPMS and the January meeting had a great turn-out with several new members and lots of models on the tables. David Frederick discussed the plans for the club in the coming year along with new details about OrangeCon 2026. Sean Fallesen reviewed the contest themes for 2026, click here to view the list of […]

December was the last OCIPMS meeting for 2025, and as is tradition for the end of the year, we held the famous distressed kit auction!  We had a great turnout with over 35 members and new guests that showed up. Many kits were sold along with various decals, PE sets and other model making materials. The club members dug deep […]