Or Scottcon model show...
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The Museum was amazing...but let's get to our report.
Driver of the Tundra (me) left his home at 0600 to acquire the only rider for this excursion @errains Eric from his humble abode at 0630. Our other road trip partner had pressing matters to attend to. After a quick trip through the drive thru for a breakfast burrito and hitting the cash machine we were on our way through SC and middle Georgia enroute to Robins AFB. To pass the time war stories were traded and we listened to Pierre Clostermann's exploits in his Spitfires and Tempest trying to understand what a carburetor was when spoken with an english accent (narrator was english) @paddy thanks for the suggestion of "The Big Show". We made good time and arrived at the Museum just as Google Maps predicted, 0950 hrs and we both started ogling over various displays of aircraft scattered thoughtfully around the grounds.
We found the show venue located in the Century of Flight museum, good thing the signs were there. We really expected attendance to be much greater. Only 5 vendors were selling their wares and their selection was very unremarkable.
The space was very large but as you'd expect from a museum the lighting was very bad for displaying models. I suspect there were more models up for raffle than for sale.
Speaking of Tempest
One build that caught my eye.
It would appear that your humble reporter is not the only fan of SBS Models, several examples were on the 1:72 end of the table.
Our old pal Ken Friend of the F82 scratch build fame was on hand and reported this example of Bremen was prodominetly 3D printed.
1:32 scale SEA camo pig on hand.
Sorry for the lighting, I really nice and quickly repaired F16 in a tribute SEA scheme.
Ken Friend again here did a great job with this Model Airways skinless Eindecker, he used the white metal parts as guides to 3d print the replacement parts.
The show was very light in attendance. Eric estimated maybe 150 models on the tables. I actually looked at the map to see how long it would take to get to Columbia for the show there, 4 hours, Nope, not gonna do that. So we proceeded to check out the rest of the Museum which by it self would be worth the drive.
This my friends is a Mk 53 "special" weapon.
It's actually about the same size as this example of "Fat Boy", but rest assured they were not in the same class of weapons.
Afore mentioned Carburetors...
Thought I got a better shot of the SR71 but this is it.
More in a moment.
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The Museum was amazing...but let's get to our report.
Driver of the Tundra (me) left his home at 0600 to acquire the only rider for this excursion @errains Eric from his humble abode at 0630. Our other road trip partner had pressing matters to attend to. After a quick trip through the drive thru for a breakfast burrito and hitting the cash machine we were on our way through SC and middle Georgia enroute to Robins AFB. To pass the time war stories were traded and we listened to Pierre Clostermann's exploits in his Spitfires and Tempest trying to understand what a carburetor was when spoken with an english accent (narrator was english) @paddy thanks for the suggestion of "The Big Show". We made good time and arrived at the Museum just as Google Maps predicted, 0950 hrs and we both started ogling over various displays of aircraft scattered thoughtfully around the grounds.
We found the show venue located in the Century of Flight museum, good thing the signs were there. We really expected attendance to be much greater. Only 5 vendors were selling their wares and their selection was very unremarkable.
The space was very large but as you'd expect from a museum the lighting was very bad for displaying models. I suspect there were more models up for raffle than for sale.
Speaking of Tempest
One build that caught my eye.
It would appear that your humble reporter is not the only fan of SBS Models, several examples were on the 1:72 end of the table.
Our old pal Ken Friend of the F82 scratch build fame was on hand and reported this example of Bremen was prodominetly 3D printed.
1:32 scale SEA camo pig on hand.
Sorry for the lighting, I really nice and quickly repaired F16 in a tribute SEA scheme.
Ken Friend again here did a great job with this Model Airways skinless Eindecker, he used the white metal parts as guides to 3d print the replacement parts.
The show was very light in attendance. Eric estimated maybe 150 models on the tables. I actually looked at the map to see how long it would take to get to Columbia for the show there, 4 hours, Nope, not gonna do that. So we proceeded to check out the rest of the Museum which by it self would be worth the drive.
This my friends is a Mk 53 "special" weapon.
It's actually about the same size as this example of "Fat Boy", but rest assured they were not in the same class of weapons.
Afore mentioned Carburetors...
Thought I got a better shot of the SR71 but this is it.
More in a moment.
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