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Model Mania 2019
Re: Model Mania 2019
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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Re: Model Mania 2019
Nice! I'm sure you'll place with those. Looking forward to seeing pics from the show.
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
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Re: Model Mania 2019
Ok sorry for the delay on the show report. Finally got some time to get it done.
So I got there at opening, registered my models and took them to the display tables. With the Y-wing, I joked with SWMBO that if someone brought a big Starship Enterprise, I was screwed. The A-10 was just in the completely wrong category and no one said a damn thing about it. If I had moved it down a few categories it might have had a chance. Unfortunately it got lumped into a category with starships from other TV/Movie series. The vendors were decent this year. There was plenty for me to spend money on. I did miss out on a couple and I couldn't figure out why. Then while coming back inside after making a run to the truck to drop stuff off and smoke, I noticed a guy with a cart that had several of the models I had thought about getting. Apparently he was buying up a lot of the high end or very sought after kits as I heard him say that it was his third load. Asshole.
Well when they finally got to the judging, they split the "Star Wars/Star Trek" category up. They do that when there's a ton of kits for in it. SO they split it up into large scale and small scale. I was happy with that cause it gave the Y-Wing a chance. Well it won First Place!!! I was shocked. Yes I know my Y-Wing is a great build but still. They said that they had a record number of entries in the contest (600+ models) and there was some great work there. Here's the link to the album with all the pics I took. Let me know if it doesn't work.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmCTANuM
So I got there at opening, registered my models and took them to the display tables. With the Y-wing, I joked with SWMBO that if someone brought a big Starship Enterprise, I was screwed. The A-10 was just in the completely wrong category and no one said a damn thing about it. If I had moved it down a few categories it might have had a chance. Unfortunately it got lumped into a category with starships from other TV/Movie series. The vendors were decent this year. There was plenty for me to spend money on. I did miss out on a couple and I couldn't figure out why. Then while coming back inside after making a run to the truck to drop stuff off and smoke, I noticed a guy with a cart that had several of the models I had thought about getting. Apparently he was buying up a lot of the high end or very sought after kits as I heard him say that it was his third load. Asshole.
Well when they finally got to the judging, they split the "Star Wars/Star Trek" category up. They do that when there's a ton of kits for in it. SO they split it up into large scale and small scale. I was happy with that cause it gave the Y-Wing a chance. Well it won First Place!!! I was shocked. Yes I know my Y-Wing is a great build but still. They said that they had a record number of entries in the contest (600+ models) and there was some great work there. Here's the link to the album with all the pics I took. Let me know if it doesn't work.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmCTANuM
Mike
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- Medicman71
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Re: Model Mania 2019
Mike
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Re: Model Mania 2019
It's a beautiful build and earned that win, way to go medic! This guy did he happen to have a thick Russian accent?
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Hold the lines! Move as one! In unity our victory's won
Our shields will form a mighty wall
United we shall never fall
Odin's sons... Attack!
Unleash hell! Do not repent! Warfare grants us no lament
Let your weapons slash and tear This is no place for fear
Hold the lines! Move as one! In unity our victory's won
Our shields will form a mighty wall
United we shall never fall
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Re: Model Mania 2019
It’s a Y-wing... They’re supposed to win...
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Re: Model Mania 2019
Thanks guys!
You mean the guy buying all the kits? No he didn't.
You mean the guy buying all the kits? No he didn't.
Mike
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Re: Model Mania 2019
A well deserved win on the Y-Wing. Great... another Turk hoarding all the kits before anybody had a chance to buy them.
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- Medicman71
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Re: Model Mania 2019
Thanks Blacksheep! He didn’t horde all of them. I still got some good ones.
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Re: Model Mania 2019
Fantastic Medic, congratulations for the Win !!
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