Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are held Friday evenings from 7:00 to 8:30 PM*** at:
Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Hendricksen Room
500 N. Dunton Ave.
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
2023 Meeting Schedule
*** NOTE: Until further notice, meeting time changed to 7:00-8:30; the library closes at 9PM, (If/when the library hours return to a 10PM closing time, we’ll resume 7:30-9:30 meetings.)
Jan. 20 – Open theme – bring anything you’ve been working on lately!
Program: Dave Kopielski will demo model masking techniques using Kapton tape.
Feb. 3 – Bad models – something you’d never build again!
Program TBD
Mar. 17 – Big model night – bring your biggest model.
Program TBD
Apr. 14 – Sci-fi and Fantasy night – Movies and TV.
Program TBD
May 12 – Old kit builds – Lindberg, Aurora, Hawk, Pyro, etc.,
or modern incarnations (e.g. Atlantis, Moebius, Glencoe, Phoenix)
Program TBD
Jun. 16 – Small air force vehicles and aircraft (i.e., not USAF, USSR, China, etc.)
Program TBD
Jul. 7 – Dino night
Program TBD
Aug. – Date TBD – WW I; any operational vehicle, ship, or aircraft
Program TBD
Sep. – Date TBD – 50s era aircraft
Program TBD
Oct. – Date TBD – P&W night; anything powered by a Pratt and Whitney engine
Program TBD
Nov. – Date TBD – Operation Torch anniversary;
anything from the Allied invasion of North Africa
Program TBD
Dec. – Date TBD – Holiday party
Annual holiday party
2022 Meeting Schedule
Jan. 14 – I built it in 2021
Anything you built (or started, or worked on… – some of us have a hard time finishing anything)
Feb. 25 – Twin boom night
P-38, P-61, C-119, etc.
Mar. 25 – USCG night
Anything US Coast Guard – ships, planes, helicopters
Apr. 15 – Miscellaneous
This was originally ‘Jugs’ night, but that got postponed to October… So it became whatever anyone wanted to bring in.
May 20 – “Something I shoulda finished a long time ago” night
What have you got that’s been sitting around for a long time waiting for you to do something with it? Let’s see it!
Jun. 24 – Missiles & drones
Anything without a pilot in the seat.
Jul. 8 – Movies and TV
Anything seen on the big or small screen.
Aug. 19 – Armor & artillery
Stuff on tracks and wheels, wings get a rest this month.
Sep. 23 – Ships
Stuff on the water, wings get another rest this month.
Oct.14 – Jugs
P-47 Thunderbolts. Postponed from May. Probably a few new builds (and likely a few old ones, as well).
Nov. 25 – Jets
Wings, put no props – though I guess turboprops would technically be on-theme. Yeah, day after Thanksgiving, but it was the only Friday available from the library in November. And December is meeting-less, holiday party instead.
Dec. 10 – No meeting
Annual holiday party.
Meeting History – Past Years
2021 Meeting Schedule
Jul. 24 (Saturday) – No theme or program
No theme or program – just bring anything you’ve been doing for the last year or so to while away the time during the pandemic
*** NOTE: Meeting will be held Saturday, 12 – 2 PM in conference room “I”
Aug. 14 (Saturday) – No theme or program
No theme or program again – just bring anything you’d like
*** NOTE: Meeting will be held Saturday, 10 AM – 12 PM in conference room “I”
Sept. 25 (Saturday) – No theme or program
No theme or program again – just bring anything you’d like
*** NOTE: Meeting will be held Saturday, 11 AM – 1 PM in conference room “H”
Oct. 22 ( Friday!) – No theme or program
Planned discussion of suggestions for meeting themes starting January, 2022. Bring anything you’d like.
*** NOTE: Meetings will resume in Hendricksen Room, time change 7:00-8:30
Nov. 19 – No theme or program
Bring anything you’d like.
*** NOTE: Meeting time change 7:00-8:30
Dec. TBA – Christmas Party
2020 Meeting Schedule
Jan. 3 – Airliners and private planes
Civilian aircraft
Feb. 7 – Brushfire Wars
Little wars in forgotten corners of the globe
Mar. 27 – Twin booms
(CANCELLED – click for details)
Lightnings, Black Widows, C-82’s or -119’s, like that
Apr 10 – Gulf wars DS and OIF
(CANCELLED – click for details)
Modern Mideast conflicts – Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, etc.
May 15 – Dirty Rotten Commie Pink-o Rat night
(CANCELLED – click for details)
The “bad” guys – Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, etc. (not PC, but all in good fun -and besides, they had some nice hardware, too)
*** NOTE: Meeting will be held in the Cardinal Room on the first floor near the Dunton entrance
Jun. 5 – USCG nite
(CANCELLED – click for details)
Coast Guard ships, planes, etc.
Jul. 3 – Trainer nite
(CANCELLED – click for details)
T-anything; Texans, Trojans, Tiger Moths, Stearmans, …
Aug. 14 – BIG model nite
(CANCELLED – click for details)
The bigger the better – what have you got?
Sept. TBA – FockeWulf nite
(CANCELLED – click for details)
FW-anything (190’s, 200’s, 189’s, etc.)
Oct. TBA – Movie and TV nite
(CANCELLED – click for details)
Anything related to the film industries
Nov. TBA – Mustang nite
(CANCELLED – click for details)
P-51’s and variants
Dec. TBA – Christmas Party
(CANCELLED – click for details)
2019 Meeting Schedule
Jan. 11 – Yellow Wings
Between the WWs aircraft
Feb. 8 – 1943 the year
Anything from 1943 (you’d have to ask Steve K., why this year? It was his idea…)
Mar. 15 – Thunderbolts (again)
No retreads – new builds only
Apr 19 – Utility and Liaison Aircraft
Non-combat military aircraft
May 3 – Dinosaur Night
Since nobody in McK ever builds these, the Tick decided to throw a curve and see who can connect
Jun. 14 – D-Day, 75th Anniversary
Builds of the planes, ships, armor, etc. that were involved in the invasion
Jul. 19 – South American Aircraft
Western hemisphere subjects, Panama and countries north don’t count
*** NOTE: Meeting will be held in conference room “I”
Aug. 30 – Oldies Night
Lindberg, Aurora, Hawk, Frog, and other kits from the past
Sept. 6 – CANCELLED
Oct. 25 – Small Combatants of WWII, the other guys
The smaller players in the last great war
Nov. 22 – 50’s PARANOIA
Bad sci-fi subjects? Duck and cover? Make up a reason and build it.
Dec. TBA – Christmas Party
2018 Meeting Schedule
Jan. 19 – Missiles
Missiles and rockets (nothing Estes)
Feb. 16 – CBI WWII
China/Burma/India Theater, WWII
Mar. 16 – Viet Nam War
Any subject related to the war in Viet Nam
Apr 20 – Army Aviation
Anything related to army aviation
May 25 – MTO WWII
European Theater of Operations, WWII
Jun. 15 – Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain, all combatants
*** NOTE: Meeting will be held in conference room “I”
Jul. 20 – Air Force and Navy 1950’s
The early jet age for the USAF and USN
*** NOTE: Meeting will be held in conference room “I”
IPMS - Capt. James J. McKinstry Chapter 
The Tick approves