OrangeCon 2021-Winners gallery: Ships: Submarines: Allied Tanks: Axis Tanks: Tanks – Patton: Tanks – Non Patton: Artillery & Open Top Self-Propelled Guns: Wheeled, Half Track, Tracked, Armored Vehicles: Wheeled, Half Track, Tracked, Un-Armored Vehicles: Medium Scale Military Vehicles Allied All types: Medium Scale Military Vehicles Axis All types: Small Scale Military Vehicles All types: Small Scale Military Vehicles (All types, […]
Read moreChanghuei Yang’s incredible scratch built Star Wars Sphyrna-class Hammerhead Corvette won Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy model and Best of show at the 2021 OrangeCon model contest.
Read moreThe November OCIPMS meeting featured a slide show of the models from OrangeCon. The OrangeCon gallery is posted Here The November contest Theme was the “shelf of doom” – where many examples of models that had been rescued or remade from distressed kit purchases were displayed. Contest results: Contest Results- November 2021 Another great meeting for the OCIPMS – remember […]
Read moreOctober was a build night for the OCIPMS club. The members brought models they won at the OrangeCon raffle or have been working on in the past few weeks. Dave started off the meeting and got the group going on their builds Build night is a good time get some work done on those backlogged models and discuss building […]
Read moreOrangeCon 2021 contest results: 2021 OrangeCon winners list To view pictures of the winning models click Here
Read moreOrangeCon 2021 was held on Saturday, October 2nd starting at 9:00 with model registration, and completing with awards at 4:00 The final numbers are now in – there were 114 entrants and 570 models on display. With 54 categories available (including splits), there were 156 OrangeCon medallions handed out along with 9 special awards Click here for the list of OrangeCon […]
Read moreThe September meeting was used to prepare for OrangeCon which will be held in two weeks on October 2nd. No contest this month, but several models were on display and some were used for judging training provided by our contest director Dan Mathews and helped by Mark Deliduka. Club members spent time discussing their roles at the contest and what […]
Read moreThe OCIPMS held its second face to face meeting and our first model contest since the beginning of the pandemic! The turn out was good and the contest tables were filled. The theme was “from a picture” and we had many theme based entries. Contest results: IPMSOC Winners List Aug 2021 The meeting topic was the IPMS National contest in […]
Read moreDue to the Nationals in Las Vegas, the usual 3rd Friday OCIPMS meeting, (8/20/2021) will be moved to Friday the 27th starting at the usual time. Update your calendars, set your alarms, make a note of the change!! Check the Newsletter for details about the meeting topic and contest theme See you on the 27th
Read moreWe finally had a real face to face meeting with about 40 OCIPMS club members in attendance! After 16 months of canceled meetings and zoom meetings, we were able to meet at the Hotel to see old friends, talk about models and have the biggest distressed kit auction ever for the OCIPMS. The table was piled with models, 10 kits […]
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