Click here to see April Contest Results

Click here to see April Model Pictures

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March 6th, 2015 Meeting

"Open"
Theme (Points) Contest

 

Best of Show & People's Choice Winners from March's "Open" Theme Contest

Best of Show & People's Choice Juniors	Best of Show & People's Choice Basic	Best of Show & People's Choice Intermediate	Best of Show Masters	People's Choice Masters
Joshua Kinman	Jeannie Garriss	Ken Piniak	Brian Peck	Larry Glenn
Mini Cooper	Shelby Cobra	Cut-Away Tiger	F4U-1A Corsair	TBM Avenger

Meeting Pictures

    

                   

                   

                       

                     

                   

                   

   

     Click here to see March Contest Results

Click here to see March Model Pictures

   

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February 6th, 2015 Meeting

ASM Swap Meet - No Contests

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February Pictures by Joe Walters and Ken Liotta

 

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January 9th, 2015 Meeting

 

Moe Blalter's

"Sci-Fi, Real Space, Science & Fantasy"

Special (Non-Points) Contest

     

Best Entry Winners from January 2015 "Sci-Fi, Real Space, Science and Fantasy" Special Contest and 3 Sponsored Contests: "Frickin' Laser Beams" Hosted by Patrick Dick "Fanta-Storical" Hosted by Josh Pals & Patrick Dick "Battle of the Bulge 70th Annivesary" Hosted by E-Board

Best Entry Juniors	Best Entry Basic	Best Entry Intermediate	Best Entry Masters	Best Bulge Entry - Intermed	Best Bulge Entry - Masters	Best Entry Fanta-Storical	Best Frickin' Entry
Joshua Kinman	Kim Rogulich	Tom Perea	Patrick Dick	Bret Kinman	Tony Humphries	Mike Blohm	Mike Blohm
Dodge Challenger SRT8	Pirates of the Caribbean	Project Gemini Capsule	Battlestar Pegasus	M4A3 Sherman	M16 GMC	VF-1J Valkyrie Veritech Fighter	Flying Saucer UFO

 

Just Staff's Most Favorite Awards for the Moe Blalters Contest

Basic	Intermediate	Masters
Jeannie Garriss	Tom Perea	Patrick Dick
X-Wing	Project Gemini Capsule	Battlestar Pegasus

No eligible Junior entries 

 

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ASM 2014 Modeler of the Year and Model of the Year Awards

                       

                    

Awards for December's "Mustangs and Corsairs" Special Contest

                               

                           

Awards for January's Contests

                       

                        

               

"70th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge"
Sponsored Contest

       

Click here to see January Contest Results

Click here to see January Model Pictures

 

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Major ASM Events in 2015

ASM Wins IPMS/USA 2014 Chapter of the Year Award

 

By Tony Humphries

As I'm sure you are all aware, the IPMS National Convention has been held this weekend in Columbus, Ohio (July 22-25, 2015), and some of our members have been in attendance. I hope that everyone who was able to attend enjoyed the convention, and I look forward to hearing how everyone did and what your impressions of the convention were. I am sure that the hosting chapter did a great job, as they always seem to. Hey, maybe we can even host another one of these events ourselves someday?

What you may not yet know is that the National Chapter of the Year was announced at the awards ceremony and we won it.  Albuquerque Scale Modelers are officially IPMS's national Chapter of the Year.  This is a significant award and a major honor for us as a club.  As far as I know we have never won this award before and it sets the seal on a very successful 2014 for us.

The credit for this of course, goes to all of you as members of this club. As I have said before, this club is what it is because of what you all put into it. So I want to say a big thank you to all of you for all of the time that you have put in to club events, make & takes, the State Fair, last year's Region 10 convention, and everything else that you all do for this club. You make this club what it is and this award is for all of you. Thank you and congratulations.

Pictures below by Steve Stronach and Richard Engar, showing the Chapter of the Year award, the award being accepted by Dave Straub on behalf of ASM from IPMS/USA President Dick Christ, the award amongst the line-up of other presento's at the banquet, the plate at the base of the award, and the ASM attendees at the awards banquet. 

During the awards ceremony at the CoMMiESFest-6 Region 10 Contest (June 13, 2015), Region 10 Coordinator Mike Mackowski presented the three annual Regional awards for the year of 2014.  ASM won the Chapter of the Year Award.  The winners, rationale and citations listed below are from an E-mail sent out by Mike Mackowski after the Region 10 Contest:

Chapter of the Year (Region 10):

The 2014 IPMS/USA Region 10 Chapter of the Year is the Albuquerque Scale Modelers. They are repeat winners from last year, with good communications, many events, and an emphasis on helping members become better model builders. They are strong promoters of IPMS/USA via their website and participation in national conventions. Their sponsorship of the 2014 Region 10 Convention was very much appreciated and no small factor in their award this year. The club does a lot of outreach via Make ‘n Take events, model displays, and service projects. 

Citation:  For excellence in promoting the craft of scale modeling and the Society via competitions, displays, Make 'n Takes, and support of local, regional, and national modeling events. 

Webmaster of the Year went to High Plains Modelers:

Webmaster of the Year (Region 10):

Pablo Bauleo (from High Plains Modelers in northern Colorado) is the R10 Webmaster of the Year for 2014.  While their website may not be as extensive as other clubs, it is much improved over last years version from High Plains. They promote IPMS/USA on the main page, and the content is well-organized and easy to find. They did not provide a self-nomination but they stood out after a review of all the R10 websites. They clearly met all the main criteria:

- Promote IPMS/USA
- Timely announcements
- Regular updates
- Easy to navigate
- Easy to find contact info

Their site is at:   http://ipmshpm.blogspot.com/

Citation:  For producing links to IPMS/USA. This club's improvement over last year is notable and deserves this recognition.

Newsletter of the Year went to The Corsair, newsletter of IPMS Craig Hewitt in Phoenix, Arizona. 

Newsletter of the Year (Region 10):

The Corsair, editor Mike Pabis, from the Phoenix, Arizona chapter is the Region 10 Newsletter of the Year for 2014. This is a repeat winner from last year as The Corsair consistently has quality content, including kit reviews and modeling tips without padding it with content that is better suited to a website. This newsletter had excellent overall content, with good articles on actual modeling techniques or kit reviews, has an easy to find on-line archive, and had prominent promotion of IPMS/USA. 
 
Citation:  For publishing a easy to read newsletter on a regular basis with useful and timely content including ready links to IPMS/USA.

This report provides some information on the 2015 Region 10 Contest held in Denver, Colorado on June 12-13. The event had 87 entrants, who entered about 411 models. Overall it was a good show and a fun time, and ASM congratulates the CoMMiES for their effort and hard work in hosting it.

ASM received the 2014 Region 10 Chapter of the Year Award at the awards ceremony - see first two pictures below.  The citation for the award is as follows: "For excellence in promoting the craft of scale modeling and the Society via competitions, displays, Make & Takes, and support of local, regional, and national modeling events."  A longer version covering all three Region 10 Awards is posted on the ASM Website (http://tinyurl.com/asmarticles).

Some pictures of the awards won by the ASM members who made the drive to Denver are posted below. 

Additional information on the awards is posted on the 2015 Contest Results webpage.

ASM members conducted a group field trip on Saturday, June 20, 2015 to two different museums in Albuquerque.  These included the Nuclear Museum of Nuclear Science & History, and the Defense Nuclear Weapons School's (DNWS) Nuclear Weapons Instructional Museum at Kirtland Air Force Base.  Approximately 12 ASM members participated, accompanied by some family members and friends.  Andy Rogulich conducted an excellent, in-depth guided tour of the Nuclear Museum that included both the inside and outside displays.  There are a large number of aircraft and missiles to be seen in the outside "Heritage Park" area.  This was followed by the tour at the DNWS Museum conducted by Erik McIntyre and Bret Kinman.  This was also an excellent tour, and included the models built by ASM that are in the Nuclear Weapons Heritage Model Display.  The models do enhance the displays, and we encourage ASM members to participate in this project.  You can help by entering a model for the museum's display in the Nuclear Weapons Heritage Model Display Sponsored Contest in October.  Some pictures of the museum tours are included below; more are available on the ASM Website.  We hope to conduct another "double-tour" later this year.  Pictures below by Mike Blohm and Josh Pals. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ASM conducted a Make ‘N Take with Cub Scout Pack 336 on May 20, 2015 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints in Rio Rancho.  Some members of Troop 336 also participated.  There were 32 Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts present and six ASM members: Tony Humphries, Frank Randall, Victor Maestas, Larry Glenn, Josh Pals, and Mike Blohm.  The purpose of the Make ‘N Take was to give the Cubs an introduction to modeling, have fun building a model, and then let take it home with them afterwards.

Mike Blohm started the program by discussing "What is Scale Modeling" using a large group of models - 49 total - in different scales, including aircraft, armor, automotive, ships and science fiction models.  The discussion explained what "scale modeling" means, what the different scales are and the pro's and con's of each, and gave a quick overview of going from what was in a typical model kit box - sprues, instructions and decals - to getting a finished model.  Tips and problem areas to avoid were also discussed.  Lots of finished kits were on display to show what could be built and there were a lot of good questions.  The scouts were encouraged to enter their models from that night, and anything else they build, in the 2015 New Mexico State Fair Model Contest coming up in late August, as well as entering their Pinewood Derby cars in the Automotive Model Contest at the Fair. 

The next step was the fun of model-building.  The kits included the F-14 Tomcat and the Pontiac GTO automobile.  The set-up was very well organized with six tables each with one ASM member, four to five scouts, and a couple of parents.  ASM members provided coaching, tips, and recommendations as they worked their way through their kits.  The kits each had their own little challenges to work through, but the Cubs persevered and had a lot of fun.  Feedback from the group was that the Cubs enjoyed the Make N Take and had a lot of fun.   Hopefully we'll see some of these scouts decide to take up the hobby and have some great fun while doing so.  Please check out the pics below.  Thanks to all who helped out. 

  

   

 

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ASM Super Model Challenge Build

The "ASM Super Model Challenge Build" was launched at the April 3rd meeting.  A large amount of model kits were donated to ASM under a specific set of "Rules of Engagement (ROE)."  The intent was to have the models be built by the members and to have fun doing so - they were not to be sold by the club or the members.  The E-Board mulled over a bunch of options and decided upon the "Challenge Build" approach that we have been doing for years, just in a very large way in this case.  There are multiple 2015 ASM contests that the donated models could fit into.  So the plan is to offer the kits to the members with the intent to build them for those contests.  These include the "Rotary Wings" (June 5th), "1945" (July 10th), and "Nuclear Winters" (October 2nd) contests.  ASM is building models for the Nuclear Weapons Heritage Model Display at Kirtland AFB and there are a large number of kits that can be built specifically for that display.  There is a Sponsored Contest for the Nuclear Weapons Heritage Model Display on October 2nd. 

There were about 77 kits out on the tables for members to choose from, and 27 challenges were accepted during during the meeting.  Pictures were taken of the members holding their selected kits.  The "ASM Super Model Challenge Build" - info and pictures - will be updated each month here in the Major Events section of the 2015 Meeting Pictures webpage.  The remaining kits will be brought back to the next several ASM meetings.  A couple of items that have come up since the April 3rd meeting:  These models can be completed and brought in for any contest - it does not have to be at the suggested contests, i.e. at the Rotary Wings contest, if you already had three entries being built for that.  The Nuclear Weapons Heritage Model Display is also interested in non-nuclear-related Cold War era models, so all those Cold War armor vehicles are a player to be displayed there too.  Please get with Erik McIntyre to confirm if your kits are desired in the display. 

April 3, 2015 Meeting

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