The first meeting of 2001 went pretty well, even though Uncle Bob couldn't be there...The kids played well together Bob!

The meeting started off with us going over a few things.  We discussed the May show of Wings & Wheels in Chicopee, MA on the 25th of March. Whoever's interested in carpooling should contact some of the members in your area and try to hook up.

We're hoping for a good turnout from our club to this show and any other upcoming IPMS shows. I'm getting a list together as we speak for all of the New England IPMS shows and the "Figure" shows that we try to make.  These will be up on the ECFA website https://ecfaclub.tripod.com/ecfa within a week or two....  Keep an eye out for it!

Also mentioned was the fact that the club site now has a classified section that we can list stuff that we have for sale. 5% of the sales price goes to the club fund to help out with costs.  We put off collecting the $10 annual dues till the next meeting, since Robert nor I wanted to handle it....ohhhhhh Uncle Bob.

Still waiting for word from Derek Foley about the upcoming comic shows in the Boston area. We discussed taking their offer on free advertising and table for these shows and thought it was a great way to recruit new members and get the word out about the club.

Time for show & tell...

John Dagdigian brought his winged monkey kit which he achieved a cool paint job on, doing the monkey in color and the rock base in Black & white. Cool idea John! He also brought along a The sea serpent from the movie Seven faces of Dr. Lao, Sculpted by Joe Lodttie, and The Zanti from The Outer Limits series which were in progress. Traci Briery brought along 6 Universal Busts which she's doing a production line paint job on. She also showed us her Toy-Biz Spidey and Wolverine that she's been working on and the Character Shop's Spidey that she's done some converting to and laying on some paint. She also brought along one of her original sculpts to share, Lobo's dog named "Dawg" from the comic book series.... Fine work as usual. Traci picked up the Tales of the Crypt book at the last Sunday Funnies show for a great price, which she brought to share with us. 

Club member Russ Norman had his Zaleska figure, which looked great, and his Fatman Production's The Raven kit that was still in progress, but looking good. Bryan DeConte brought along his Mad Lab's Godzilla vs. Mothra kit which he's sculpting a base for. consisting of a torn up road and demolished buildings, cool idea in a small scale. He also brought along his Rodan Robin kit from Mad Labs, Revell's Rat-Fink re-issue which were in progress. He also had his McFarlane's Rob Zombie figure with him to show.  Anthony Annese had a good Christmas by the looks of it...He brought his Polar Light's Guillotine and Godzilla kits, which I'm sure he'll be starting on soon, if he hasn't already. He also took along his Resident Evil 3 Action Figure to show us.

John Delamere showed us the two JJ models. The first was called "The Good" Which surprising to all in attendance was built almost box-stock (he did add some cloth ribbon). He also had the girl from The Beauty & Her Champion, which he built without the "Champion."  He added some wings from an angel Christmas figurine to her and placed on a wood base. He also brought along the Julie Bell pre-paint figure, and he showed us the conversions that he was doing on a few of the AMT Star Trek figures. Always impressed with the work out of John.

Ovi Raffa showed off his Billikan Mummy with the custom base from Resin Slave. Nice work Ovi! And last but not least was Jay Coimbra with the Fewture kit Liz-Spanking, which if I remember right is his first figure kit that he's working on with some guidance from Ovi. From the looks of it people, we have some competition on the rise!

We also had a raffle in which we raised $15 for the club, thanks to all that participated!