Hello fellow scale modelers!

At this month's meeting, the annual "Tony Bartozek 'I'm Not A Modeling Loser' Contest is officially due. For those of us who agreed to accept this challenge, it may be a time to "sweat it out" at the last minute, or comfortably bring in your completed entry because you didn't wait until the last minute.

I'm proud to say I finished mine a full two weeks early, which is a first for me. In fact, I may even be able to complete a scratch built display base for my entry.

If you are an entrant, and cannot attend the meeting, you are allowed to have anyone drop it off at the meeting for you.

In other news, the IPMS-USA National Convention was held this month in Hampton, Virginia and a few of our members made the road trip. The Hannas (Justen, Samantha and Renaldo), Frank Blonski, Tony Gliszczynski, and Joe Sczygielski will give us all an update on their experiences (and awards!) of this event. I have not attended a national convention myself, but it is being held in Columbus, Ohio next year and that is a "do-able" trip for me.

IPMS Niagara Frontier also sponsored a field trip to the Buffalo Pierce Arrow Museum to the delight of about 30 participants. A big thank you goes out to Larry Osolkowski for handling the logistics of the event. You can check out many pictures taken there on our website or our page on Facebook.

We're going to resume our club demonstrations this meeting. I will show anyone interested in how I apply decals to a model.

So, that's about it for news this month and I hope to see everyone at the meeting.

Keep on building,


John R. Zaranek
President
IPMS Niagara Frontier
IPMS USA No. 47993


Model Table Round-up from the July meeting

Apologies, but due to an unfortunate technical glitch, we have no descriptions of the items on the model table this month. Enjoy the photos anyway.


Thanks to Bob Collignon for the photography.



CLUB OUTING TO THE PIERCE ARROW MUSEUM

The club outing to the Pierce Arrow Museum was a great success, with around 30 people in the group who enjoyed a fascinating description of the cars, motorcycles, bicycles and memorabilia provided by museum curator, Jim Sandoro. A photo tour can be found at The Pierce Arrow Museum Tour.



2014 - 2016 Officers and E-Board Members
President John Zaranek 544-3444 buffalomodeler@yahoo.com
First Vice President Justen Hanna 824-1049 justennhanna@gmail.com
Second Vice President Larry Osolkowski 695-1224 larryo@ipmsniagarafrontier.com
Secretary Dick Schulenberg 934-2161 dick.schulenberg@excelco.net
Treasurer Tom Faith 683-4897 tkebj5@roadrunner.com
e-Dizpatch Editor Larry Osolkowski 695-1224 larryo@ipmsniagarafrontier.com
Internet Coordinator Larry Osolkowski 695-1224 larryo@ipmsniagarafrontier.com
Chief Judge Tom Brown 655-6480 lbrown52247@roadrunner.com
E-Board Members Frank Blonski 681-3703 frankie@quixnet.net
Ed Button 860-4562 ewbutton@yahoo.com
Bob Collignon 837-2204 cjltd@roadrunner.com
Paul Hines 681-3760 ggandpoppop@gmail.com
Brian McFee 773-4404
Joe Szczygiel 828-1102 mother31762@yahoo.com
Chapter Contact Bob Collignon 837-2204 cjltd@roadrunner.com



The Next Club Meeting:
The next meeting of the Niagara Frontier Chapter IPMS will be on Monday, August 18, 2014 at 7:00PM at the Columbus Club Hall, 2735 Union Rd., Cheektowaga, New York, near Union and William.



Important: All submissions to e-Dizpatch must be received by the Monday of the week before our scheduled meeting night.
Printed articles and pictures can be mailed to:

Larry Osolkowski
561 Orchard Place
North Tonawanda, NY 14120
Attn: e-Dizpatch

Digital files can be emailed to:
larryo@ipmsniagarafrontier.com



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