Author Archives: Frank R

2025 Meeting Dates

Posted on October 5, 2024 by Frank R

We’ve set the dates for the IPMS McKinstry monthly meetings for 2025. The meeting location and time will not change. For the most part we were able to book the standard 1st Wednesday of each month, with the exception of … Continue reading →

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Applying Decals

Posted on July 5, 2024 by Frank R

For a pdf version of this post, click here. Applying Decals Ed Mate – September 2019 What follows are the techniques I’ve developed for applying decals. I’ll start with telling you that I hate decals (yes, hate; that probably should … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Wayback Machine

Posted on June 23, 2024 by Frank R

OK, so now I’ve done it! I started scanning old newsletters and posting them to the website! I have a pile (literally) of old newsletters that were passed on to me, and I’ve begun scanning them and adding them to … Continue reading →

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A Point System for an Annual Member Participation Award

Posted on December 4, 2023 by Frank R

There are lots of ways that members of McKinstry participate in our group, such as attending meetings, bringing models to display and discuss at a meeting, building models, writing kit reviews, presenting a program at a meeting, etc. We’d like … Continue reading →

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