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Looks better in each pic! This ship has a very interesting bow form. It'd be interesting to know if it made any difference. I've only done one ship in modern days. BUt railings were a huge pain and I did the rigging with stretched sprue. Keep rocking it, man.

So.... which Tamiya kit is it? Enquiring minds want to know. Me? I'm just nosey.

Looking good! Railings and rigging will really bring her to life.

My shipment from DMD (Dennis Miniatures Design). He was having a sale, so I went hog wild and got all but two.

I'm glad Bonsai helped you return to modelling. It still sounds like a cool hobby.

Looking good, John! Just how many models do you have on the SOD?

Wow! Thank you for the links. I had a look and was mightily impressed. Your description sounds like a very in-depth pursuit of perfection. I figured there had to be more to it than gifted pruning. Judging those....that would be hell-a difficult! I'm no green thumb, but I really hate it when any green thing dies or has to be removed. I grew up in the Michigan north woods and have always loved my time among trees. I'd rather be in the woods than on a beach. I hope you can keep up with it... your kids will be out of the house in a few years, sounds like.

Thank you, Mike! I'm glad that you enjoyed the build. Thank you for your thoughts. I can be pretty competitive... so getting over it isn't coming easy. But I don't think I will stop competing. I didn't even know there were bonsai competitions. Have you posted any pictures in the "my other hobby" thread? I think it would be interesting to see.

Thank you, Jeff!

Great job, Mark! Looks like the paintwork is flawless.

Well done, Peter!

Should be interesting, Peter. Strapping in.

Thank you, Mark!

Thank you, Martin. There are no professional judges. Just 18 guys who model across various genres volunteering their time. And a few of them were on their first go at it. The orange thing is a scratch built Tesla. You’ll have to point out the AN 22…i don’t know what it is. And I didn’t even realise the MiG decals were the wrong size. This is just another consequence of judges not knowing the subject matter.

Love those rivet lines.... How did you do that?

Welcome to the forums. That cockpit is looking very nice!

Thanks for the support Kevin. I heard about 1 guy who may have that kind of support. But he frequents the 1/32 aircraft with lots of AM. So I’ll stick to oob. I’m pretty new to the competition scene. But everybody else seems to either know each other or know of each other.

Thank you, Peter. It would have been better if I hadn’t known who the judges were. Anyway…. Time to get back to building.

Thanks Rob. The judges were 3 or my club mates. I always thought them to be tough but fair. So, I asked why and they gave me the “not enough story” BS. Later there was an observation made on FB about the judging…. And a photo of my 110 was posted with the thread among a few others.

After looking at the German helmets that friends and others have... I've come to the conclusion that most of those German soldiers were skinny little fellas.

HI fellas... and other-than-fellas... Well... here's how I went. Sorry for the small number of photos. I just couldn't make myself take pictures of the 500 or so entries. Here is how I went: In the 1/32 un-enhanced category I got silver... Losing out to the Mig. In the 1/48 un-enhanced category my Tamiya 109 lost out to the Jug. Somehow... my faultless Fokker D.VII... the pride of my fleet, as it were lost out to the Striped albatros and an-unseen... and un-weathered... Gloster Gladiator. Maybe they thought I had it too easy using Wing decals... I put my 110 into a diorama category so that I wouldn't be competing with myself in the 1/48 un-enhanced category. And I wanted some credit for all the work I did on those figures. I was told by one of the judges who judged the category that while technically faultless.... there wasn't enough of a story to classify as a diorama. Last time I enter that category. The disassembled MIG got gold while the bronze winner... while scratchbuilt... looked like shit. Apparently my Panzerjager meets Panzerjager diorama wasn't enough of a story either. The orange thing at the bottom right got the bronze. And finally the Winter Sturmgeschutz. I don't know who judged it. But the armor category always has a lot of entries and the competition is stiff. Oh well... time to prepare for next year.

Thank you, Phil. I was too busy shopping to take photos. I'm so ashamed. We did the judging last night. There were 18 of us voluntary judges. I had the sad occasion to view a couple guys from my club judging my favorite build... they have very critical eyes. I did remember to take my glasses. We worked in three man teams and had to avoid judging categories in which we had entries. Our three man team had lots of entries in historical figures, tanks, planes, and ships. So that limited us to judging Mecha, Sci-fi, fantasy figures, Gundam, and civilian cars and trucks.... All of them categories I have never built a model in. For me modelling is all about history and guns. No gun, no fun.

Yes... I was busy shopping, for sure. I actually intended to buy nothing. But then I saw cheap figures... and then the heads... and then the PE. It's impossible to buy nothing, unless you don't even look at the vendors tables. I'll learn the results when I go in later. Watching some pre-season football right now.

Judging is over.... I find out tomorrow whether I got any awards or not.