Northern Virginia Modelers

2024

January

Contest: - Best of 2023

Program: Dana Bell discusses his new book on the TBD DEvastator

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February

Contest:   Feb 15, 2004 - 20 years ago - 46th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins exactly 6 years to the day after his father Dale Earnhardt Sr. won his first and only Daytona 500 in 1998 Build any race cars any era and any type  (Formula 1, NASCAR, street racers, etc)

Program: Haagen Klaus - Warbirds in Review

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March

Contest:  Build anything that is overly colorful

Program: Mike Monsivaiz - Gloss finishes on car & aircraft models

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April

Contest:  Apr 1, 1954 - 70 years ago -  1st US Army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC Whirlybirds - Build any variant of helicopter from the VS-300 forward.

Program: Tom Dunbar - Cleaning & Maintenance for your airbrush

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May

Contest:  May 1, 1949   - 75 years ago -   Batman first appears in Detective Comics (Model something inspired by super heroes or comics figures or vehicles)

Program: Chris Derks - working with Photo Etch

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June

Contest:  June 6, 1944 - 80 years ago -  D-Day (build something which took place in Operatuon Overlord)

Program: TBD

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July

Contest:  July 16, 1969 - 55  years ag - First man on the moon (Build something space related) 

Program: TBD

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August

Contest: Aug 3, 1954 - 70 years ago  - 1st VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown (Build a VTOL)

Program: TBD

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September

Contest: Sept 1, 1939 -  85 years ago -  WWII Begins - Early WWII (Build something from the beginning of WWII)

Program: TBD

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October

Contest: Oct 1, 1924 - 100 years ago - 1st Dutch airliner, the Fokker F.VII takes off from Amsterdam for Batavia, Java (Build any airliner , any time frame, country, and scale).

Program: TBD

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November

Contest: Nov 9, 1989 - 35 years ago -  Fall of Berlin Wall (Build any vehicle from the end of the Cold War)

Program: TBD

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December

Annual Holiday Party, Blind Gift Exchange, Food

Contest:   Build the Same Subject (BTSS) TBD