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Meetings are Politics-Free Zones
It was recently pointed out to me that our next meeting will be the day after election day. There will undoubtedly be plenty of election things to talk about, but let’s leave those discussions for some other time and place. Other IPMS chapters have a … Continue reading
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2025 Meeting Dates
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
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
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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IPMS - Capt. James J. McKinstry Chapter 