We have finished another successful show! To all who attended and participated in IPMS-West Central Missouri's Model Fest on April 28th, I give you my heartfelt thanks. A lot of hard work and extra effort was put into that event, and it showed. We could not have pulled it off without the collective efforts of the Club membership. The numbers are 333 model entries by 72 entrants this year.

I especially want to thank Amber Hawkins for her take charge abilities, and attitude, in running the Raffle. Well done! Also, the members that ran the registration desk. Again, well done!

I would also like to give a special thanks to Bill Pettyjohn for providing a very informative seminar on his many modeling techniques. It's not every day that a master model builder will sit down and show how they work their magic.

Ron Reynolds - Club President WCMO IPMS

We would like to thank the following companies, clubs and individuals for their generous support. Our show would not be possible without them:

VENDORS

Chris Merseal - CRM out of St. Louis. MO
Gordon Kwan - Sprue Bros. out of Liberty, MO
Winston Vermilyea - Wings 'n Treads out of Rochester, MN

INDIVIDUALS

Fred Amos of the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area
Frank Holsburg of Raytown, MO
David Smith of the Kansas City, MO metropolitan area

TROPHY SPONSORS

Tim Dike - Best Of Naval and both divisions of the Naval category (total of three packages)
Art Miller
Bill Pettyjohn
Eric Jones of HobbyTown, USA - Judges Grand Award
Carlos Padilla - trophy package in honor of our serving military forces
IPMS - Great Plains
The Slammers

DICK CLAY MEMORIAL TROPHY SPONSOR

Rick Brownlee

RAFFLE CONTRIBUTORS

Sprue Bros. - Numerous kits plus the new Italeri 1/35th scale PT-Boat
Many members of IPMS-WCMO ShowMe State Modelers<