The Bench Of Doom

Or, The Shelf of Doom. Since most of us intend to finish these someday....well, you know.
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:wink: Toothpicks are a wonderful tool for such work!
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keavdog wrote: Sat May 06, 2023 5:44 pm I thought I was getting weird for adding and F-4G and an F-4E after already building and F-4J. You guys are nuts... though I do have a built F-16A and a F-16N in the stash but that is for my aggressor group... so I'm normal and not disturbed :giggles:
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Stikpusher wrote: Sun May 07, 2023 7:02 pm :wink: Toothpicks are a wonderful tool for such work!
I use them for SO many things. And they're stupid cheap so I have tons of them.
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So here's a bit of a show report.

It was a huge show! The aircraft, armor and car guys came to play. There were two long rows of tables for those three categories. I don't remember seeing that many kits in this show. I didn't have a chance with the level of competition. My Viper didn't place but I wasn't expecting to.

I did judge for the first time. I did some of the aircraft sub-categories and it was a blast. Really tough to decide on what placed and what did. We also got to judge the "Best Aircraft" award as well.

One disappointment that I did have, while there were a lot of vendors, they seemed to have jacked up their prices. I get it on newer kits, but on kits that are not the best anymore, it didn't make sense. For example, there were a lot of Hasegawa F-4's and F/A-18 that were priced around the $60 when Meng, Kinetic and ZM have put out kits of those aircraft that are light years ahead. I only bought ONE kit at the show and that was a $15 Monogram F-106 with aftermarket decals included.
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Here's a video of the the show. My Viper is in there when they get to the jets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhoyXryofzg
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NICE!!

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Cool video!
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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Around 12:43 in the video Mikes Viper !

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That was by far the toughest competition in armor, cars and aircraft that I've ever seen at our show.
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Looks like a great show. Lots of competition overall.
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