The Bagram Hobby Club

Honorary IPMS/USA Chapter


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August 2005: Maj. Ross is rotating home, and Maj. David Johnson will be replacing him. Read Maj. Ross' Farewell Letter here... The Contact Address remains the same, with updated Email
 

July 2005: SSG Turner brought by a 1/35th Panther and a 1/48th MIG that he has built here at Bagram.

We also wanted to send a thank you to the Twin City Aero Historians, an IPMS chapter in Minnesota. They recently sent a great box of hobby supplies including a couple of books I wish I had before I started building kits. Thanks,  MAJ Bryan J. Ross

 

 

Photos from June 2005:

Our club is now up to 50 members and we are growing. Unfortunately, due to conflicting work schedules, not everyone can make it each week. We had 29 show this week, of which a few left before we took the photo.


 

The tall gentleman centermast in the back of the group in the picture above is Mr. Chuck Younglove, the head of MWR. He has been instrumental in getting us the building where we currently meet and he recently was able to acquire a separate building for us to use. This new building will be set up with individual work stations, five airbrush stations, and will be open 7 nights a week and manned by myself and a couple of other volunteers during the evening hours.
 

To date, we have received approximately 275 models and have given out over 150 of them! We have also received dozens of tools, paints, magazines and books that the members can check out a week at a time.

We have confirmed donations from Minicraft, MRC/Academy, Revell-Monogram, Cobra Company, and Squadron Mail Order. Some of these were organized through IPMS-USA 1st Vice President John Noack and the rest of the IPMS-USA gang. The Las Vegas IPMS chapter went above and beyond the call with a huge monetary donation in the way of providing us with a credit at Squadron! Squadron's donation was an amount equal to the LV chapters and will provide the BHC members with an opportunity to purchase those supplies, kits, etc., they want that don't get donated.

This venture has been a huge success and the word is rapidly spreading throughout the base. We are even getting requests from some of the Forward Operatings Bases and from individuals in Kabul! However, I must say again that none of this would have been possible without the unselfish and generous donations of everyone back home.

From all of us in the Bagram Hobby Club.....THANK YOU!!

Semper Fidelis,

Dave Roof
SSGT USMC

Contact information is on the Supporting The Troops page.

 


Text and Images Copyright 2004 by Dave Roof
Courtesy of HyperScale
May 2005