2020 AGM and Plans

The club’s AGM once again took place in January of this year, with only one change to the leadership line up. The titles of Vice Chair and Secretary have now been re-combined after Matt stepped down as Secretary last year. The current leadership committee is: Position Name Chairman Sam Evins Vice Chair & Secretary RichardContinue reading “2020 AGM and Plans”

2019 AGM and plans

The club’s 2019 AGM took place on Thursday 17th January, and plans for the coming year were discussed. Compared to previous years, there’s a bit of change this time around! There have been some changes on the club’s committee. Martin Aris has stepped down from the chairman position and taking his place is former clubContinue reading “2019 AGM and plans”

New shows for the second half of 2017

Over the past few months we’ve been slowly growing our calendar of events for the latter half of 2017, so it’s time for a run-down of what we have lined up for the rest of this year. In July, we have two shows, firstly Smallspace 6 – the model show for all things space, scienceContinue reading “New shows for the second half of 2017”

It’s twins!

Not the identical kind though! We are delighted to announce that IPMS Middleton Cheney is now twinned with the Central Jersey Plastic Model Club from the other side of the ‘pond’.  Having met one of the founding members of CJPMC, John Ezzo, during Scale ModelWorld in 2016 we were blown away by his and his club’sContinue reading “It’s twins!”

Report: 2017 Poole Vikings Model Show

This one’s a bit late. Apologies! What seems like quite a while ago now, in April we made our annual pilgrimage to the south coast for the Poole Vikings Model Show. As we’ve come to expect, it was another very well organised event with a fantastic number of clubs and traders in attendance. Hosting showsContinue reading “Report: 2017 Poole Vikings Model Show”

Report: 2017 East Midlands Model Show

On the 12th March IPMS Middleton Cheney made it’s first 2017 show appearance, at the East Midlands Model Show in Hinckley. A strong contingent of seven members were there helping out on the stand and a great time was had by all. The Star Trek display was no more, replaced by a fantastic array ofContinue reading “Report: 2017 East Midlands Model Show”

First Model Shows Confirmed for 2017

We’re delighted to announce that our first two shows for 2017 have now been confirmed. We will be returning to both the East Midlands Model Show on the 12th March, as well as Poole Vikings Model Show on the 8th April. Both shows are favourites of ours and we’re looking forward to getting back outContinue reading “First Model Shows Confirmed for 2017”

Unusual Couples: Sweeney Todd and a Panzer III

Here’s a couple of recently finished kits from two club members that you wouldn’t expect to see together. First up is some German armour from Rob French: This Panzer III is in 1/72 scale. Rob’s done a lovely job with it and even included a nice bit of foliage as additional camouflage. Meanwhile, Sam Evins hasContinue reading “Unusual Couples: Sweeney Todd and a Panzer III”

The 2016 Club Trophy Winners

During our January meeting, as well as the AGM we inject a bit of excitement into proceedings by handing out the club trophies to the latest winners. There are two trophies, the first is the club competition trophy, known as the IPMS Middleton Cheney Kit Basher of the Year Award, featuring plaques with the nameContinue reading “The 2016 Club Trophy Winners”

2017 AGM Report

On the 19th January IPMS Middleton Cheney sat down for its January club meeting, as well as the club’s annual AGM.  Alongside the standard jokes, modelling and mucking about,  we had the serious business of statements from each of the four committee members, elections for 2017, and questions and suggestions for the next twelve months.Continue reading “2017 AGM Report”