BlrwestSiR Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Today was the annual Heritagecon model show held at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. I went with my two sons and we spent the day there looking at the vendors' tables, the contest entries and the museum aircraft on display. Here's some pics of the contest entries. Overall, I'd say they was a great variety across the different categories and scales. Starting with the aircraft: Meng Apache Lukgraph Fly Hurricane Kitty Hawk Voodoo kit. HK Lanc Trumpy Avenger looking very pregnant Halberd Seahawk Nose presentation of the Dauntless. Lovely looking dorama Halberd XP-47 conversion 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 More aircraft Met the navigator of this Herky Bird. He was hosting the tabletop gaming demo that my sons both tried out. Nicely done Swoose. It had working lights and props. Black Buck Vulcan. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 Time for some armour There were a decent number of 1/16 builds including this scratch built Stug IV. Takom 1/16 Jeep with working steering. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 Sci-fi/fantasy looked to have a decent turnout and a huge variety of subjects. Macross A creative diorama showing a dogfight from Macross using the novelization of the fight as a base. Being Canada, we had to have at least one snowblower diorama. The losing entry when Canada bought the CF-18 Note the posters being put up by the Storm Trooper A cool MCRN ship from The Expanse. Apocalypse tank. A nice sized Mig-31 Dune spice harvester Fun entry form to go with the build. Some dioramas. I believe they were done by Alfred Wong who's a huge sci-fi modeler and has done masters for many garage kit makers. Hellhound gunship from Patlabor 2. One mean helo. Sorry it's out of focus. A couple Star Wars builds. 40K mech. This thing is huge. A fun racer. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 There were a lot of cars but I wasn't able to get pics of most as the tables were quite busy. Here's what I did manage to get. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 Ships. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 One last one. Again, someone having fun with their entry form. 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Amazing entries , hard to say which one is my favourite one, they are definitely many. Thank you for sharing Carl. Cheers Martin 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 Martin, the show is always fun. There's a good turnout of vendors, the contest tables tend to be fairly full with quality builds and then there's the environs. You're surrounded by various aircraft, most in flying condition and that just adds to the enjoyment. Andy from Andy's HHQ came up this year. Of course we had some snow just in time for his arrival. I got a chance to chat with him briefly and he seemed like a nice guy. He raffled off the very first publicly available 1/16 M8 Greyhound and announced they're going to have a Canadian website soon. Hopefully that'll mean cheaper shipping for those of us living in America's hat. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Thanks Carl for the pictures, appreciated…. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Carl Thanks for posting the competition photographs - the level of the modeling was outstanding for sure. So very hard to pick a favorite but for me it was: The C-130 Herky Bird - perfect in every detail. Glad you and the boys spent a fun day together attending the show. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Some great builds there, looks like a great day, thanks for taking the time to post the photos. Cheers Dennis 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belugawhaleman Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Thanks for posting. I would like to attend such an event.... I'll have to check if any are nearby. Lots of interesting builds! The snow blower build made me chuckle! It's cool that you met with Andy. If I had met him , I would have suggested a big-scale M3 Lee for his next release, but hey, that's just me. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Carl was the Bras d’Or scratch made? That is very cool of a little known Canadian subject. Your pics are great. Thanks for getting them and thinking of us. Jeff 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 1 hour ago, Peterpools said: Carl Thanks for posting the competition photographs - the level of the modeling was outstanding for sure. So very hard to pick a favorite but for me it was: The C-130 Herky Bird - perfect in every detail. Glad you and the boys spent a fun day together attending the show. I have to agree with the Herc model. It represents our Air Force when we had an Air Force and when we had the nicest , sharpest, cleanest Air Force anywhere. Instantly recognizable and proud personnel. Our birds were beautiful. Not just blah grey like today. It was very rare to see a dirty RCAF/CAF ever. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 3 hours ago, belugawhaleman said: Thanks for posting. I would like to attend such an event.... I'll have to check if any are nearby. Lots of interesting builds! The snow blower build made me chuckle! It's cool that you met with Andy. If I had met him , I would have suggested a big-scale M3 Lee for his next release, but hey, that's just me. I asked him if he'd consider doing a Sherman Firefly. He said if there was one in Georgia, (where his research team is) he would. So maybe that will help narrow things down for future releases? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 3 hours ago, Jeff said: Carl was the Bras d’Or scratch made? That is very cool of a little known Canadian subject. Your pics are great. Thanks for getting them and thinking of us. Jeff Jeff, it was scratch built. There was a couple brochures/booklets with the model, one had plans and the other was the history of the ship. Definitely a little known subject. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Very nice show. Thanks for posting the pics Carl. Hubert 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteinLincs Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Great set of pictures, Carl. Many thanks. I love the comments on the spice harvester build and the Cockpit build. I've found quite a few favourites to look at again. I hope the Boys enjoyed themselves too. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 Pete, the boys had a great time. I think the only lament was they forgot to bring money to buy stuff. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 8 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said: Pete, the boys had a great time. I think the only lament was they forgot to bring money to buy stuff. Dad didn't sub them a loan? Or was that a 'teaching moment'? 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 (edited) 18 hours ago, GusMac said: Dad didn't sub them a loan? Or was that a 'teaching moment'? I ended up giving them a bit of funds. They entered a raffle and actually won a model. The IPMS club that was the host club gave out models to the kids in attendance so they each got one from them. So they ended up with a couple models each. And a UV flashlight for some reason. Edited March 27 by BlrwestSiR Fix typo 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 22 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said: Pete, the boys had a great time. I think the only lament was they forgot to bring money to buy stuff. That's what Dad's are for😉 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, Peterpools said: That's what Dad's are for😉 Hmmmmm, I would have been given a one word answer, tough………. I never ever asked for money / loan because it would have been no…………….fond memories……. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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