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IPMS Great Plains Model Contest (KCCON) 9 March 2024
- Thread starter Rhino
- Start date
Good luck.
Brokeneagle
Master at Arms
Rhino
Super Moderator
It's Tomorrow!!
Arriving at The Church of the Nazarene venue at 1120, we busied ourselves with registration. A unexplained table collapse added excitement to an otherwise droll process. I entered 6 completed models I had one more model to enter, but Jay Chladek needed registration forms and I gave him some of the ones I printed from home. 6 entries seemed like plenty anyway. Dane entered 2 builds. A 1/35 vignette and a diorama.
Teresa toddled off to survey the raffle and buy tickets.
Model room:
Airplanes and a few stand-out models. Jim Triolla's F-4D Phantom II "Scat VII" was exceptional! Jerrod Booth's 1/48 ICM RAAF Beaufort is a beauty too!
Armor models.
"Shinys"! Automotive entries. I recognized the heavily chopped and channeled VW from a YouTube video. Too Cool!
Junior modeler entries.
Miscellaneous, scratch-built, conversion or kit bash.
Real Space models.
Arriving at The Church of the Nazarene venue at 1120, we busied ourselves with registration. A unexplained table collapse added excitement to an otherwise droll process. I entered 6 completed models I had one more model to enter, but Jay Chladek needed registration forms and I gave him some of the ones I printed from home. 6 entries seemed like plenty anyway. Dane entered 2 builds. A 1/35 vignette and a diorama.
Teresa toddled off to survey the raffle and buy tickets.
Model room:
Airplanes and a few stand-out models. Jim Triolla's F-4D Phantom II "Scat VII" was exceptional! Jerrod Booth's 1/48 ICM RAAF Beaufort is a beauty too!
Armor models.
"Shinys"! Automotive entries. I recognized the heavily chopped and channeled VW from a YouTube video. Too Cool!
Junior modeler entries.
Miscellaneous, scratch-built, conversion or kit bash.
Real Space models.
Rhino
Super Moderator
Vendor room:
Bill's trees are pretty cool! Nothing much for my preferred scale. Sadly, no palm trees. He's from Lawrence KS.
Frank Holzburg is still alive and kicking! One of the most affable ol' hands you'll ever meet. Larry Clausen brought his sweetheart Marcy along.
Ray Powers tasked me with finding 1/48 F-4B Ejection Seats. No soap.
Vendors were plentiful. At this point in my hobby life, there is little I wish for and not much that was truly rare. No JoHan 1/72 P-40B/C, Revell 1/125 Calypso or Monogram Tom Daniel model car kits.
Prices ranged for reasonable to just a might spendy, but if you see what plastic models sell for these days, I imagine they were bargains by and large.
Ships and Watercraft:
On the Hawaiian Islands the sea turtle "Honu" is regarded as the wisest creature in the sea. The Hawaiian Guardians protect these animals when they are out of their natural element. I liked the fishing outrigger canoe very much! Honu brings good fortune to these fishermen.
Don Joy's signature is the blue base for his waterline builds. Randy Fields' Excellent 1/72 DKM U-Boat is a sure winner!
Sci-Fi and Figure models: On the end, Dane Jerisk's 1/35 "One Shot, one Kill" vignette. The young man learned quite a lot from his Grampa Don.
Bill's trees are pretty cool! Nothing much for my preferred scale. Sadly, no palm trees. He's from Lawrence KS.
Frank Holzburg is still alive and kicking! One of the most affable ol' hands you'll ever meet. Larry Clausen brought his sweetheart Marcy along.
Ray Powers tasked me with finding 1/48 F-4B Ejection Seats. No soap.
Vendors were plentiful. At this point in my hobby life, there is little I wish for and not much that was truly rare. No JoHan 1/72 P-40B/C, Revell 1/125 Calypso or Monogram Tom Daniel model car kits.
Prices ranged for reasonable to just a might spendy, but if you see what plastic models sell for these days, I imagine they were bargains by and large.
Ships and Watercraft:
On the Hawaiian Islands the sea turtle "Honu" is regarded as the wisest creature in the sea. The Hawaiian Guardians protect these animals when they are out of their natural element. I liked the fishing outrigger canoe very much! Honu brings good fortune to these fishermen.
Don Joy's signature is the blue base for his waterline builds. Randy Fields' Excellent 1/72 DKM U-Boat is a sure winner!
Sci-Fi and Figure models: On the end, Dane Jerisk's 1/35 "One Shot, one Kill" vignette. The young man learned quite a lot from his Grampa Don.
Airspace looks busy!
Thanks for the report. How did you do on the showing?
Thanks for the report. How did you do on the showing?
Rhino
Super Moderator
A few of the Awarded Builds:
Jerrod Booth. 1/32 Whirlwind, 1/48 Bristol Beaufort and 1/144 Boeing 777. He got first in 1/144 airplanes cuz his is bigger than mine!
A couple of Larry Clausen's awards. I LOVE the Haunted Tank comic book Diorama! My favorite EVER! I forget who did the Triceratops skeleton, but it was cool! I can't recall who built the 1/35 LCVP.
Dane entered 2 models. Won one 3rd place award. 50%! Pretty good!
I went 3 for 6 in Kansas City as well. Ron's Bunnies and the 1/700 Calypso made their model show debut at KCCON.
"Rhino, did Teresa "harvest" the the raffle like she usually does?"
She and I both spent our $20.00 in raffle tickets to support the hosting club. 15 wins, if you count each bottle of AK paint I don't use, one started "raffle turd", the Tamiya 1/24 Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti kit. The Hasegawa 1/72 P-47 Thunderbolt parts are complete, but cut off the sprue and included a True Details resin cockpit. Odd.
The Show started with 41 categories, not including splits. 99 Modelers entered 411 builds. A good turn out!
Along the way:
Fun with signs. A game of geographical puns we play.
State road H AA. Easy one!
State road DD. A thoroughfare for ONLY the well endowed woman.
Cameron = Camera On!
Lawson = Law's On!
Bethany = Bet, Haney.
Latham-Polo = Marco!
Gallatin = Gelatin! (Teresa) Gelatoe! (Minion)
KCCON "Michelin Guide" notes:
We drove all the way to Liberty, Missouri to have breakfast at their Waffle House.
Waffle House is not what it once was. The coffee is still good, the service is still cheery and speedy. The waffles are still yummy!
They no longer serve omelets, or the "Pre-strike Breakfast" of steak and eggs Aviators are accustomed to. The hashbrowns have changed. They seem almost synthetic. Exactly uniform in size with a slimy texture unlike potatoes.
Hungry travelers looking forward to a hearty, hot breakfast may be less pleased than we were.
It has been 3 years since we dined at this location, but I cain't think of a reason to return.
Stroud's:
Stopped there for $70.00 worth of the best fried chicken dinner you will ever savor. Beware Stroud's chicken fingers! They are generous enough to fill a boxing glove. The mashed potatoes and gravy were as good as I recall. The macaroni & cheese was very fine, indeed. Yankee Sweet Tea doesn't hold a candle to the "Champagne of the South" I have enjoyed before. Teresa and Dane were both well pleased.
Being this full of supper during highway travel is less than comfy.
Stroud's has "choked their own chickens" for 80 years now. They must not do that at this location. The choking of so many chickens might prove messy and noisy. No such noise or mess was evident here this evening. A Canadian Goose was hissing and biting customers outside the restaurant. In protest to the strangling of such a great number of his American cousins, without doubt.
Thanks for looking in!
Jerrod Booth. 1/32 Whirlwind, 1/48 Bristol Beaufort and 1/144 Boeing 777. He got first in 1/144 airplanes cuz his is bigger than mine!
A couple of Larry Clausen's awards. I LOVE the Haunted Tank comic book Diorama! My favorite EVER! I forget who did the Triceratops skeleton, but it was cool! I can't recall who built the 1/35 LCVP.
Dane entered 2 models. Won one 3rd place award. 50%! Pretty good!
I went 3 for 6 in Kansas City as well. Ron's Bunnies and the 1/700 Calypso made their model show debut at KCCON.
"Rhino, did Teresa "harvest" the the raffle like she usually does?"
She and I both spent our $20.00 in raffle tickets to support the hosting club. 15 wins, if you count each bottle of AK paint I don't use, one started "raffle turd", the Tamiya 1/24 Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti kit. The Hasegawa 1/72 P-47 Thunderbolt parts are complete, but cut off the sprue and included a True Details resin cockpit. Odd.
The Show started with 41 categories, not including splits. 99 Modelers entered 411 builds. A good turn out!
Along the way:
Fun with signs. A game of geographical puns we play.
State road H AA. Easy one!
State road DD. A thoroughfare for ONLY the well endowed woman.
Cameron = Camera On!
Lawson = Law's On!
Bethany = Bet, Haney.
Latham-Polo = Marco!
Gallatin = Gelatin! (Teresa) Gelatoe! (Minion)
KCCON "Michelin Guide" notes:
We drove all the way to Liberty, Missouri to have breakfast at their Waffle House.
Waffle House is not what it once was. The coffee is still good, the service is still cheery and speedy. The waffles are still yummy!
They no longer serve omelets, or the "Pre-strike Breakfast" of steak and eggs Aviators are accustomed to. The hashbrowns have changed. They seem almost synthetic. Exactly uniform in size with a slimy texture unlike potatoes.
Hungry travelers looking forward to a hearty, hot breakfast may be less pleased than we were.
It has been 3 years since we dined at this location, but I cain't think of a reason to return.
Stroud's:
Stopped there for $70.00 worth of the best fried chicken dinner you will ever savor. Beware Stroud's chicken fingers! They are generous enough to fill a boxing glove. The mashed potatoes and gravy were as good as I recall. The macaroni & cheese was very fine, indeed. Yankee Sweet Tea doesn't hold a candle to the "Champagne of the South" I have enjoyed before. Teresa and Dane were both well pleased.
Being this full of supper during highway travel is less than comfy.
Stroud's has "choked their own chickens" for 80 years now. They must not do that at this location. The choking of so many chickens might prove messy and noisy. No such noise or mess was evident here this evening. A Canadian Goose was hissing and biting customers outside the restaurant. In protest to the strangling of such a great number of his American cousins, without doubt.
Thanks for looking in!
Rhino
Super Moderator
You're right! Right! Greg builds a lot of flying model airplanes! Butch won quite a few awards as well!
You're welcome!
Excellent report.