Hi all,
It's time for our ship club meeting this Saturday.

Location:  Rockler Woodworking
Address:  2553 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 108, Denver, CO  80222
Time:  October 22 (this Saturday) 10:00

Before I get to the meeting agenda I want to make sure that we get to Blake's project.  He's been working hard on a T-Shirt design for us.  This would be through Custom Ink.  It will be silk screened as well.  If I understand correctly we have the option of long or short sleeve.  We need a minimum order of 6 per color of shirt to justify the silk screening.  Below are the designs Blake worked up.  Personally I would like to see the logo on the front and back raised up some.  I do like the color but we do have an option for a gray shirt as well.

What I would like to do for the meeting is get a count on how many you would like.  If you would like blue or gray shirt.  If you want long sleeve or short sleeve, remembering we can mix long and short sleeve in the same color.  And do we want logo on the front only or the logo on front and back.  My vote would be for front and back logos.  Blake, please correct me if I have that wrong.

by the way, that's the USS Colorado on the back.  Love the design Blake!  Let's sort this all out Saturday.  If you're not going to be there send me an email and I'll keep you posted on what we come up with.

There are opportunities for discount.  I have about $25 that was sent back to me by Custom Ink on the last order.  I'm pretty sure by mistake.  It was all a bit confusing but we can put that money towards this order.

If we have enough interest here is a breakdown of discounts depending on volume and design..

Shirts with Colorado logo only(either front or back)

15 shirts $16.26 ea.

25 shirts $13.74 ea.

Shirts with life ring logo on chest & Colorado logo on back.

15 shirts $22.53 ea.

25 shirts $18.57 ea.

Blue shirt:

Short sleeve (Royal)     Quantity____

Long Sleeve (Navy)      Quantity____

Gray shirt:

Short sleeve  (Ash)       Quantity____

Long sleeve (Heather)  Quantity____

Thanks for your hard work on this Blake!

Okay, on to the agenda....

The Gator Grip glue is in and I'll be bringing it to the meeting. With shipping it worked out to be $5.60 per bottle. Please bring exact change.  :-)

Sam will be delivering a two part presentation to compliment the anniversary of Pearl Harbor build we've been working on.

1.  How the Japanese arrive at the decision to attack Pearl Harbor

2.  How the US arrived at the decisions that led there.

I always learn something new during Sam's presentations.

Jerry Beasley is going to have something special for show and tell relating to ship cases and lighting.  

The Cruel Sea
Last meeting I overheard one of you sea dogs talking about the book, The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monserrat.  I needed an audio book for my commute to work so I picked it up.  This is a fictional account of British sailors and their adventures escorting convoys.  I immediately got hooked on the first ship in the book which is an early Flower Class Corvette by the name Compass Rose.  Doing some research I learned more about these escort destroyers and decided to pick up a 1/350 early war flower class.  This one is from Mirage but there are also offerings from a couple other companies, L'Arsenal and Iron Ship Wrights.  This is injection molding and more affordable than the resin products out there.  White Ensign Models has a very nice photo etch set for this class so I got that as well.  I'll bring them to the meeting to show you.  Mirage makes quite a few of these ships in a variety of configurations.  The one I chose was the Anchusa... but trust me she will be K-49 Compass Rose.  

As always...

• Bring anything to share with the group, finished, in progress, or something that you're adding to your collection.
• Bring any challenging issues you're having.  Let's work on the problems together.
• Bring ideas for meetings.  Hugh was suggesting a discussion on dioramas.  What do you think?