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Post by coopdad on Feb 1, 2010 9:54:59 GMT -5
Smoky Mountain Mini-Con 2010 Knoxville, TN Sat. March 27, 2010, 9 AM-1 PM (judging at 4PM) Knoxville Civic Coliseum $10 (includes entry fee for 3 models, $1 for each additional) General admission: $3 adult, $1 child (12 or under) Raffle tickets: $1 each flier: www.magazinepublisher.com/models/2010MiniCon.pdfSee ya'll there! John
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Post by coopdad on Mar 22, 2010 18:05:00 GMT -5
Hope to see you guys in my neck of the woods this weekend. I am trying to get more cars, trucks, etc. The majority of the builders in our local club is military... if I can get more cars there than them, I will consider it a success! John
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Post by coopdad on Mar 27, 2010 21:15:01 GMT -5
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Post by coopdad on Mar 27, 2010 21:21:33 GMT -5
Here are a few tiny trucks/dioramas. Note my car key beside the first diorama: This one, called "Redneck mobile home" had tons and tons of fun stuff hangin' off it. And I remembered to put out cards: The big surprise was my haul for the day (all for my son's birthday so don't tell him!). Bronco was $5, Land Rover $10, Gone Fishing was $15 and Land Cruiser was $20. Not too bad I think. Enjoy!
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Post by jeffs396 on Mar 28, 2010 1:03:05 GMT -5
Looks like some good stuff at the show John! Maybe we'll pick up a few new members from the solicitation cards...
You got some bargains there, too! Kit prices seem to be down, not a good time to sell, but to buy!
How did your Bronco racer do???
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Post by wtsf150 on Mar 28, 2010 12:46:09 GMT -5
Thanks for the pics John i got to see some of these at the last two i was at some nice stuff there it looks like do you have a link to more pics? wish i could have made it Willie
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Post by Big Ed on Mar 28, 2010 20:10:00 GMT -5
Looks like it was a good show John. Some nice builds. Only show we got anywhere close to me is NNL East (N.J.), which we try to make. And that Land Rover score would've made my day!
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Post by coopdad on Apr 5, 2010 15:24:12 GMT -5
It was a great learning experience being a judge (only showed the Bronco, did not enter it because I was "head judge"). Which brings me to something I want to mention. My judging experience might lead us to more awards in the future.
When our team was going around judging we would sorta look at all the cars in the category and first decide which even needed to be judged and which didn't. Often there was only 3 that would make it, to be picked to pieces with the fewest issues being the winner. It was agreed up front that we wanted to reward the car that looked most like the real thing. But I realized we were really picking the model that was put together the best... all about the quality of the build. One judge had the pet peeve of injection marks under the hood. Mine was the seams: across the top radiator, through the oil pan/tranny, and through the master cylinder. Orange peel was always a big turn off. And all agreed that tires not being absolutely vertical/straight was a big no-no.
Other interesting observations as I was analyzing my fellow judges... Occasionally a judge would have built the kit being displayed and if it was particularly difficult we would be a little less hard on it.
If a car had its hood down it was at an advantage to others in its class as it was presumed that it was meant to be judged that way. No engine to see meant we had fewer areas to find fault with.
And very often the car with large $ of photoetch lost out to a car without (I am sure that really angered the builder). Often the PE was a big distraction and rarely put on well.
So to all you future contest entrants... keep it simple, stick to the basics and have well-applied paint. You will bring home more blue ribbons. John
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