SPA Modeler

I agree John, I only got to go to one Tamiyacon and yeah, that was quite the experience. I guess I'm fortunate that I never get AMS when planning for an IPMS contest; I just keep building and bring what I've built since the last contest. Great fun! After all, I gotta lock in that Fifth Place!

They all love me at contests because I fill the tables...at least when I can afford the "Duke Surcharge" as I call it. That's when they allow a certain number of entries in for free (typically three) and charge for each one after that. Entering twenty models can get expensive!

Come on out to Modelzona and enter sometime Mark. The club could use the money…

I would love to Carlos! Unfortunately, I don't have any either!

Not to mention the cost of room and board.... And I do love buying in excess of 20 raffle tickets to increase my chance to come home with something, but you know the rest.

Stikpusher wrote:

Well yeah. I gotta place somewhere with my aircraft. I always enter the contests at our model show just cause I want to. I know that most of the time, I'm not going to place with any of my aircraft. Now I have been surprised and have two 1st place, two second place wins and none of them are aircraft. Me and my wife always joke that I have never placed in the aircraft catagory even when that's what I build 99% of the time. I try my best with my builds and if they place great, if not, no biggie. I always have fun and that's all that matters to me.