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President's Message

What a show!

The 2009 AMPS International Convention is over. Thank you to everyone - crew, guests and vendors - who made it a great success. We wanted a good show as our 'adieu to Havre de Grace' and thanks to you we did it. The show was run exceptionally well; kudos to everyone in the crew.

Show time is a good time to take stock of the club. The AMPS Constitution requires us to report on the state of the society at the annual general meeting (AGM). For those of you who could not attend that meeting, a copy of the slides will be available on this site shortly.

Club membership remains high at over 650 members. We had three new chapters form so far this year with at least one more expected shortly. The show had 174 entrants and something like 500 models. We'll update those numbers shortly; a computer failure at the show left us relying on estimates. Our treasury is in adequate shape, although things have tightened up just as they have elsewhere and we have a little less money on hand. Our costs for postage are rising and the show venue next year is more expensive than this past year. Still, there is no cause for worry.
 
Sean Lynch of AMPS-Chicagoland (the rockingist, rock-steady raptor-chapter around) has volunteered to chair AMPS 2010. The show will be at the very same WW2 Victory Museum that garnered such enthusiastic feedback in 2008. The show theme, selected by you the members, is "Stash Builds", i.e., a kit from your stash that is at least ten years old in 2010. This is meant as our little poke in the eye to the recession. Damn the economy, full speed ahead  You can pimp out your model however you like as long as the base kit is no newer than 2000.
 
Working together we will continue to do great things for the little plastic tank hobby. See you in Auburn in 2010!  

- Danny Egan, President

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A number of vendors are now offering discounts for current paid members of AMPS. To view the list of vendors and their discounts, click here.

These discounts are for paid members only. If you would like to become a paid members of AMPS, click here for more information. If you want to check your membership status, log in to the site (if you don't have a username and password, click here), and click here to go to the member information page.

Armor clubs: Special event at AMPS 2010
 
On behalf of the AMPS 2010 International Show in Auburn Indiana (April 22-24, 2010), I'd like to invite all interested Armor modelling clubs (AMPS and non-AMPS clubs alike) to participate in the first annual "AMPS Club Display" .
This mimics the tremendous turnout at IPMS-UK's Scale Model World event (their national convention) whereby every club in the nation comes out and sets up a table display, showing off their individual members' projects, having flyers and information available for prospective members, and as a central "hang out" spot for the club show attendees. For the UK IPMS clubs, it's a great source of pride and an opportunity to "show their stuff".

Participating clubs are encouraged to use their own creativity for their display. They can be a theme build (e.g. Central Virginia AMPS' great Sturmgeschutzen display at the 2009 AMPS Show), a collection of recent builds and works in progress or whatever. Club participants who enter models for the competition can, once their model has been judged, bring the kit back to the own Club Display area.

Each club will receive 4' of table space plus chairs for members. Each group is asked to place a $20 deposit to hold the table. AMPS-affiliated chapters will receive the $20 back after the show.

For more information, please contact me or Sean Lynch, the Show Chair.

roy.chow "at" aya.yale.edu
lynch.sean35 "at" gmail.com


Roy Chow
AMPS 1st Vice President 
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