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The November OCIPMS meeting included a presentation on making models and Christmas ornaments from aluminum cans! David Fredrick kicked off the meeting announcing the award of Newsletter and website of the year. Great job OCIPMS! Bob Penikas did a comprehensive presentation on model making using paper templates and aluminum cans. The process of making usable sheets of aluminum from coke […]

The October meeting was held a few weeks after OrangeCon, so the program for the night was a review of OrangeCon and a showing of slides of the 2023 winners. Sean reviewed the pictures of the award-winning models from 2023 OrangeCon.     The theme for October was Sci-Fi and Fantasy.  About 14 models were on the tables and quite […]

The September OCIPMS meeting was well attended and lots of great models were on display for the swinging 60’s theme. President David Frederick addressed the club members with club news and introduced the speakers for the night. The program for September was figure painting and five club members with vast experience in figure painting presented techniques for obtaining great figure […]

August was another hot night, but the fans cooled off the club members and we had a good turnout for the Panzer Theme monthly contest. Sean Fallesen started the off the meeting with club news and an appeal for members to help out at OrangeCon and the trophy sponsorships. The monthly topic was paint chipping Techniques. Julian English presented slides […]

The July meeting was a hot one – literally. we had hot club news delivered by President David Fredrick, the famous Tiki Hut night contest theme, and a presentation on scratch building by three veteran club members and master model builders, Bob, Herb and Foster.   It was hot, but the club members had a great time and a lot […]

The June meeting was dedicated to the distressed kit auction, where club members bid on kits that are either new, used, partially built, or in questionable condition. Regardless of the condition of the kit, bids are made, and everyone has a good time.  We had lots of donated kits, and the club made some money. The contest theme was the […]

The May IPMSOC meeting was held at Brookhurst Hobbies and was very well attended –  including some new members.  David Frederick reviewed OrangeCon latest news, upcoming local events and general club news. After contest voting was completed, Foster Rash did a presentation of his home-made vac-U-Form process.  The presentation showed all the steps needed to make your own car parts […]

This Month we went right into the presentation portion of the meeting.  Club member Changhuei Yang, who is a Professor at the California Institute of Technology, did a hands-on presentation of an “Anycubic Photon mono 4k” 3D printer using water washable resin from Anycubic. He went through the process steps to print an object in resin using the 3D printer.  […]

  IPMSOC president, David Frederick, reviewed the planning efforts for the upcoming OrangeCon and showed the just published contest flyer. He also went over other upcoming local model related events. The original planned presentation could not be made due to car troubles for the presenter. David and Sean came up with new topic – “what kind of glues and tools […]