April and May 2014 Meetings

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At April and May’s meeting we will be having Mike Slater as a  guest speaker for both meetings. Mike is a retired Captain  with  the Canadian forces  and he served twelve years as an armoured reconnaissance Officer with the 1st RCR Battle group where he was deployed to Afghanistan in 2006-07.
Within hours of taking over its area of responsibility in August of 2006,The battle group became engaged in combat operations that continued almost without interruption for the next month, including mounting operation Medusa, the largest Canadian combat operation since the Korean war, and the first in NATO’s history.
The follow up to Medusa, Operation Baaz Tsuka , saw the first combat employment of Canadian Tanks since the Korean war.
Mike will present photos and details from these engagements from a modeling perspective, as well as several tactical vignettes and suggested diorama subjects.
Due to the large amount of information that will be presented we will stretch this over the next two months of meetings.
This seminar will start at 7:30 sharp and  is free to all IPMS paid members. Non-Members will be charged five dollars to attend each session. So lets bring out our Canadian armour projects to share and discuss with the group.

March 2014 Meeting

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Please welcome Donald Nijboer as our March 3 guestspeaker! Donald will be talking about his various publications. He will also have some of his books for sale autographed! Please come out at 7pm to enjoy a meeting of modelers and listen firsthand from one of Canada’s leading aviation historians!

The title of Donald’s presentation is:  Operation Diver and the World’s First Cruise Missile attack 1944.

donaldDonald Nijboer is a best selling aviation author/historian/documentary writer-producer/college instructor and Smithsonian Speaker who lives in Toronto, Canada. Donald is the author of Spitfire Mk V vs. C.202 Folgore, Gloster Meteor vs. V-1 Flying Bomb, Seafire vs. A6M Zero, P-38 Lightning vs. Ki 61 Tony, No 126 Wing RCAF, Graphic War: The Secret Aviation Drawings and Illustrations of World War II and co-author with photographer Dan Patterson, of Cockpit: An Illustrated History of World War II Aircraft Interiors, Gunner: An Illustrated History of World War II Aircraft Turrets and Gun Positions, Cockpits of the Cold War, and B-29 Combat Missions. Currently he is writing and producing full-length aviation documentaries for the on-line broadcaster Aerocinema.com. He has also written articles for Flight Journal, Aviation History and Aeroplane Monthly.