202: June 2021 Monthly Meeting Minutes & Show and Tell

 17 June 2021

That was fun!  Lots of folks and the pizza was great.  

21 Modelers met at our new meeting location at High Tide Games.  We had 20 models on the tables and 7 carrier landing models.

Three new members signed up!

As a group we brought another of our COVID Theme Builds -- Not-a-German Bf-109 1/48.  The monthly theme was Anniversary.  This month marks the 22nd Anniversary of the Southern Maryland Scale Modelers!  We had 4 people confirm they made that first meeting at Charlotte Hall.  Sometimes the only person at some of those early meetings was our then-President and founder: Chuck Conner.

Carrier Landings was a lot of fun.  Even our host, Rebecca gave it a try and accomplished a great "landing".  Link to the video of the carrier landings.

Pictures of the models that attempted/made landings:

And the trophy went to yours truly fr losing the most parts off his Buccaneer.

Time for some show and tell pictures:

Pandemic Group Builds

May 1st

So over the last year we came up with four group builds (or themes) that some of us decided to do in addition to the list here on the site:

• 1/48 Scale Mustangs of the 357th -- Bene has a stack of decals and we build a P-51B/C/D with the yellow and red checkers on the noses.
• 1/48 Scale Bf-109 without German markings -- Any kit, any variant, but no Luftwaffe markings.
• 1/48 Scale Spitfires that are not British -- Any kit, any variant, but no RAF or FAA markings.  
• 1/700 Battleships -- Deviating from the trend above, we decided to go small.  Any kit, any battleship or battlecruiser from any period.  Waterline or full hull is choice of the modeler.

Hopefully we can get everyone together at once to show these off well before a show.  I'd like some photos to post here.