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  1. David,

    I agree and you make a lot of valid points. I'm 40 yrs.old and have been modeling since I was 13. I grew up in the same era you have.

    The history of it I love just as much as I do the modeling and contests, but the younger generation has the world wide web and they don't feel the need to retain this knowledge like we do, when all they have to do is go online and find anything they want to know about a subject in a matter of minutes.

  2. Bill,

    Wow!!!! The overall finish on the Scorpion is looking great. You should be proud of the way it's turning out. I built one of these when I was 16 yrs. old,

    which don't seem like it but was 24 years ago. I fell in love with the F-89 and you have put me in the mood to get the one out of my stash and put it in pile

    to be built. Never tried BMF but I might now. Keep up the good work!!!!

  3. Well let’s just do this? Close the doors go home and wait on death!!!

    "We do thing that are not easy" Para phrase Jack Kennedy? Why no!? There were 34 entries among 14 Junior at this years Nats not bad considering 2100 entries and 600 entrants if the rumor mill is correct!

    To be honest a junior would have to have a great desire to enter our National contest. our standards is high! and it should be. The expense has to come out of a parents pocket/ Parents like us need to see a bang for their buck Right? So music, Baseball soccer where their is a star, a ribbon placed on a child is automatically.

    Our Junior don’t receive a “atta boy” just for showing up. I’ve heard parents and members say “Not even HM!?”

    OK lets get a handle on this and all of yall that hate kids and don’t want IPMS to expand, Stop reading and go buy a $299 kit

    Keep the Junior dues low as possible

    Junior IPMS Nats the same as the dues not 20- 30 dollars

    Give a savings Bond for the Best Junior at the Nats or a gift card to Hobby lobby!

    Make Juniors welcome with their parents don’t expect them to create award winning model just build

    Promote Junior activities in our Chapters Yes the MIT program or something?

    How many of the Board members seek out and shake hands with parents and Juniors I know not many Because Our chapter had 5 Juniors and the parent that took his children and with the others models didn’t say anything about how the Board or the host chapters made the kids and parent feel special!

    IPMS really isnt user friendly that’s what killing us off! Parents don’t want to get into chapter rivals, r disagreements. This stuff really is killing IPMS and the hobby!

    Thank you

    Tim Kirkland

    President Spartanburg Scale

    and President of 4 Juniors Champions 2016

    and 9 in 25 years!

    Tim,

    You make a lot of good points and I appreciate the passion you have. If we could get everyone to buy into a least some of the good points that have been made on this thread we might see gradual changes. This will take a little effort on everyone's part.

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    Dick,
    Here is a link to some of my 10 yr. old daughters work she has done in the last year. Once she showed interest I begin to show her
    different techniques and away she went. We have been to 8 contests and 2 Nationals in the last year and she has won in everyone of them
    including best Junior in 5 of them. I love to see her interest and it's also been a bonus for the both of us, kit collection and tool collection has
    grown substantially. :smiley14::smiley14::smiley2:
    Couldn't get the photos to upload to the thread been trying all day.

    http://s377.photobucket.com/user/tgidcumb1/slideshow/

     

    Those are some really nice models!

    I started by son off with some Snap-Tites when he was 7, and 7 years and a bunch of models later (Including a few wins at local shows) I just showed him the basics of an airbrush last night.

     

    Kevin,

    Thanks for the kind words. I let my daughter try some of the different airbrushes at some of the shows we attended, the one she took a liken to and could control the best is the one I bought for her.

  5. Dick,
    Here is a link to some of my 10 yr. old daughters work she has done in the last year. Once she showed interest I begin to show her
    different techniques and away she went. We have been to 8 contests and 2 Nationals in the last year and she has won in everyone of them
    including best Junior in 5 of them. I love to see her interest and it's also been a bonus for the both of us, kit collection and tool collection has
    grown substantially. :smiley14::smiley14::smiley2:
    Couldn't get the photos to upload to the thread been trying all day.

    http://s377.photobucket.com/user/tgidcumb1/slideshow/

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  6. The problem is not with getting the kids interested in the hobby, it's getting the parents to continue that development one the kids show interest. Most kids would love

    to spend time and have a personal relationship with there DAD but instead we sit them in front of a TV, Computer, or Cell Phone and let those devices do our jobs for us.

    I started my daughter doing model airplanes around 2 years ago and the time I have spent with her showing her all the little tricks has made her an awesome modeler just

    to be 10. You don't have to be a 30-100 year old man that has money to enjoy this hobby. I go to Hobby Lobby sometimes and just go to the aisle where they sell plastic models

    and count how many kids bring there parents to that aisle and show them something they want and they get ignored, in 1 hour on 1 particular night I counted over 40 kids

    that came down that aisle and spent time looking at plastic kits. We can influence young people to enjoy our hobby if we have the desire to. Couple of things I think we can do better

    and some things I noticed in Columbia last week listed below:

    • Figure out how to get the youth categories into a spot in the contest room so everyone is forced to walk by and see what the kids have done.
    • Personally hand the youth awards out to each winner at the awards presentation. Just clapping for them after every award doesn't really do anything for them but personal recognition in front of the whole group would make them feel a lot better about the work they put in.
    • Stop being so critical and sometimes it seems borderline jealous. I sit across from the youth section at this past Nationals and 30% of the older men that walked by and looked at my daughter's models would make comments like " there is no way that was done by a pre-teen and I'm sure her DAD had his hand in that." I did have my hand in it, I spent the time with her to show her the right way to do things and with spending time with her and not leaving her to herself she has developed a skill.
    • We can make a change in kids lives through this hobby if the parents want to invest the time and stop being self indulged in our own lives.
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