The Yorkshire Black Sheep Modellers

Now for a little break from talking about my models and onto the subject of the club. After the group of us that broke away from our old club, we set up this new club, The Yorkshire Black Sheep Modellers.

The idea of it is to return to a calm, relaxed and joyful atmosphere at our meetings. At the first meeting, there was eleven of us and the membership has grown to eighteen. We took over the local library after the old club moved to new meeting rooms down the road and still have our meetings on the first and third Saturday mornings of each month. The members come from the areas of surrounding Hemsworth, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Leeds, Selby and even one member who travels up from Luton when they can make it to meetings.

Right from the creation, we agreed to apply for IPMS(UK) branch status, which was granted soon after the club's formation. We are a fun loving bunch of modellers, that will take the Mickey out of each other. This sense of humour also carries on over to the club stand when we are at shows, with the presence of Black Sheep on the stand (sometime flatuant sheep). We just go out to a show to have fun.

Below are some photos from one of our meetings when we had a visit from David Francis, the editor of SAMI magazine. Other photos are of the stand at a couple of shows and some of our humour on the subject of Black Sheep and how we include them onto the stand.