Secretary/Treasurer: Membership agreed to create a post of secretary/treasurer. Members requested to consider running for the post by the next meeting.
Logo: Logo design for chapter adopted. See image above/below. Requesting final permission from Alice Bruderer/Hydrothrax for permission. Sent to Southern region rep for incorporation into regional promotional material. Membership agreed to provide Bruderer with complimentary materials wherever logo is used (e.g., T-shirts, chapter coins, etc.)
Dues: Collection of dues tabled until account can be established. Chapter POC to check on options.
New Business
Modelpalooza: Orlando, September 14-16. One member definitely going; one tentatively going. In addition, chapter sponsor will be recovering from surgery. Correspondingly, chapter meeting in September to be largely informal affair.
Website. Website is up and running. Cost is $48 annually. Membership agreed to reimburse chapter POC for start-up costs, once chapter treasury established.
Future meeting topics and chapter projects:
Group build (chapter POC will check to see what Atlanta is doing to coincide with its February 2019 show);
Modeling demonstrations (Potential topics: Application of Zimmerit; weathering techniques; shading techniques; viewing of local armor)
History topics (Chapter POC has volunteered to discuss topics of modeling interest from his books on German armored recon forces))
Parade Ground / Pass-in-Review:
Duxford slide show (John Struck)
AMPS Nationals slide show (Bob Edwards): Tabled due to time constraints.
Demo on static grass for vignettes/dioramas (Bob Edwards)
Member projects
New kits at John’s Models
Membership-approved logo for the Gulf Coast AMPS chapter, the “Armorgators.” Illustration used with kind permission of Alice Bruderer/Hydrothrax. See her web pages for more fantastic designs.
Armorgators 