Heritagecon 2024

[BlrwestSiR]

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 

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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.  

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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. 

 

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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.

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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. 

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Ships. 

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One last one. Again, someone having fun with their entry form. 

[Martinnfb]

Amazing entries , hard to say which one is my favourite one, they are definitely many.  Thank you for sharing Carl. 

Cheers

Martin

[BlrwestSiR]

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. 

[Bomber_County]

Thanks Carl for the pictures, appreciated….

[Peterpools]

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.

 

 

[Spitfire]

Some great builds there, looks like a great day, thanks for taking the time to post the photos.

Cheers

Dennis

[belugawhaleman]

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.

 

[Jeff]

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]

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. 

[BlrwestSiR]

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?

[BlrwestSiR]

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. 

[HubertB]

 Very nice show. Thanks for posting the pics Carl.

Hubert

[PeteinLincs]

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.

[BlrwestSiR]

Pete, the boys had a great time. I think the only lament was they forgot to bring money to buy stuff. 

[GusMac]

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'?

[BlrwestSiR]

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, 2024 by BlrwestSiR
Fix typo

[Peterpools]

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😉

[Bomber_County]

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…….