NWSM Meeting last night

So, we had our monthly NWSM (NorthWest Scale Modeler's) club meeting last night. Some background on the group is called for, I think...

NWSM is a group of modelers who meet monthly at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA. We meet the first Thursday of every month (oddly enough, this is when the Museum has free admission) from 7pm til 9pm, in a classroom in the Red Barn. The group is completely informal - we have no officers, no dues, no organization past asking and volunteering, and we host no contests. In exchange for getting a meeting room once a month, we put on a big model display at the Museum in February every year. The last display was two weekends ago, and was a big hit, as usual.

Anyway, our meetings are a social event - we talk and go over things the club wants to do, our relationship with the Museum (stronger than ever), and do some show and tell. We have themes for our meetings every month - this month, it was "Something Green". If you're going to be around in April, the theme is "April Fools" - bring a foolish model, or something you were a fool to buy/build/bring.

We also do Six Questions, a quick trivia thing where The Guy Who Talks The Most (TGWTTM for short, and the only official position in the club) comes up with some trivia questions of interest to the group. This month, I did a series of war/military movies - I gave them the war, the year the movie was made, and the stars, and asked for the movie. The one that stumped everyone until I started rattling off the plot was "A Separate Peace".

If you find yourself in Seattle one month and notice it's the first Thursday, come down to the Museum and partake in the festivities - just ask at the desk where the model club is meeting, and they'll point you to the northwest corner of the Red Barn...