Today was the Omacon modeling convention, hosted by the Fort Crook IPMS club of Omaha, NE. The event was held at one of my favorite places on the whole earth, the Strategic Air and Space Museum.
I took part as both a contestant and a "vendor", although I wasn't selling anything. I set up a table to share the goodness of the paper modeling world. Thanks to the generosity of Dave Winfield and Ryan Short, I was able to offer a few freebies to hand out to all of the people that stopped by. By far the one that got the most interest was Dave's amphibious purple hippo bus. I printed extra copies of that one, and they all went well before the day was over. The L-5 Sentinel from Ryan's Lbirds site was also well received. One gentleman said that his father flew in one during WWII, and would build it in his honor.
Anyway, the good stuff. I entered my three models into the miscellaneous category. The event organizer said I could put them into what ever category I wanted to, but when I registered, there were only two other models in that category, compared to the 11 in the prop category, and 12 in the jet category. The misc. category ended up being split into 2 sub groups; paper, and not paper. There was one other modeler that entered a paper model of the Empire State Building, at the time of the B-25 crashing into it. It was incredible, and he took first in the paper category.
At the end of the day, my Thai Paperwork P-51D "Gunfighter" came in 3rd, and the Oddball Productions F-105 came in 2nd. My B-25 didn't quite compare to the Empire State display.
The pictures:
The first few are of my table. I had a hard time getting a shot from the front of the hand outs, as there was rarely a time where no one was at my table.
My models on display for competition
General shots of models. Some of these folks have crazy skills on scratched details. I wasn't able to get a clear picture of one, but one gal scratched the entire interior of a 1:72 scale MH-47 Chinook. It was amazing, but too small to get a shot of.
Another model that stood out was the "Huge Sub" as noted by one of the judges. It was a customized kit of the SeaView from "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". The had a fully detailed bridge, a smaller sub on the underside, and it was fully lit.
There was also a great "What-If" model. A PanAm XB-70 Valkyrie. So cool.
I took part as both a contestant and a "vendor", although I wasn't selling anything. I set up a table to share the goodness of the paper modeling world. Thanks to the generosity of Dave Winfield and Ryan Short, I was able to offer a few freebies to hand out to all of the people that stopped by. By far the one that got the most interest was Dave's amphibious purple hippo bus. I printed extra copies of that one, and they all went well before the day was over. The L-5 Sentinel from Ryan's Lbirds site was also well received. One gentleman said that his father flew in one during WWII, and would build it in his honor.
Anyway, the good stuff. I entered my three models into the miscellaneous category. The event organizer said I could put them into what ever category I wanted to, but when I registered, there were only two other models in that category, compared to the 11 in the prop category, and 12 in the jet category. The misc. category ended up being split into 2 sub groups; paper, and not paper. There was one other modeler that entered a paper model of the Empire State Building, at the time of the B-25 crashing into it. It was incredible, and he took first in the paper category.
At the end of the day, my Thai Paperwork P-51D "Gunfighter" came in 3rd, and the Oddball Productions F-105 came in 2nd. My B-25 didn't quite compare to the Empire State display.
The pictures:
The first few are of my table. I had a hard time getting a shot from the front of the hand outs, as there was rarely a time where no one was at my table.
My models on display for competition
General shots of models. Some of these folks have crazy skills on scratched details. I wasn't able to get a clear picture of one, but one gal scratched the entire interior of a 1:72 scale MH-47 Chinook. It was amazing, but too small to get a shot of.
Another model that stood out was the "Huge Sub" as noted by one of the judges. It was a customized kit of the SeaView from "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". The had a fully detailed bridge, a smaller sub on the underside, and it was fully lit.
There was also a great "What-If" model. A PanAm XB-70 Valkyrie. So cool.
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