Blind Build

IPMS Niagara Frontier is now taking team reservations, 2 person teams, for our Friday night "Blind Build" competition. We have enough room and models for sixteen two person teams. We supply model, blindfolds, and glue - you supply the teams! We did this competition in 2003 and it was a "hoot"! If you want to register your team please email Bob Collignon at cjltd@roadrunner.com and let him know. There is no charge to register a team and there will be plaques for the winning team. Winner determined using "strict" IPMS/USA judging criteria! :) Register now!

Seminars

Jeff Herne, owner and founder of Modeler’s Warehouse will do a seminar on wet and dry techniques using weathering pigments for armor, aircraft and ship modeling.

Jim Johnston: Atlanta Master/Renowned Figure Painter will do a seminar on figure painting featuring completed works and works-in-progress.

Danny Egan: President of AMPS (Armor Modeling Preservation Society) will give a PowerPoint presentation on the finer points of the AMPS open judging system.

Jim Mesko: Armor Historian, Modeler, Researcher and Author presents ARMOR IN VIETNAM: 1945-1975. This presentation will describe the use and evolution of armor, from when French forces came back to Indochina in 1945 up through the fall of South Vietnam in 1975. Emphasis will be on the different types of armor used, especially the more obscure types.

The Geriatric Pilots Association - a discussion group of former WW II combat pilots (although they're starting to let the young upstarts from the Korean war into the group now) will be set up in the lobby for discussions all day on Saturday (not in the Executive Room).

First Annual Memorial Ugly Hawaiian Shirt Region 1 NorEastCon Banquet

In honor of our good friend and past President, the recently deceased Mike Miodonski, IPMS Niagara Frontier is requesting that all of the folks who plan on attending the NorEastCon 2009 banquet wear an "ugly" Hawaiian shirt in Mike's honor. The "louder" and more outlandish the better! Mike owned some godawful outlandish Hawaiian shirts and we think he'd get a good laugh out of many of us wearing those wacky shirts to the banquet. This "style" choice is a personal one but we encourage it to honor our great buddy Mike Miodonski.