Well I'm back like a bad dream...

Some time ago I returned from the Chattanooga Nationals. I did see Mike Budzeika and Mark Glidden there so I felt good knowing I wasn't the only Orange County member there. There were a number of guys from San Diego too, but nine from AMPS Pendleton that I could see.

Here are some shots from the Nationals of a number of the models I saw.

I'll start with some overall shots here:

This is one half of the contest/display room. Strangely enough, I did not get the other half. But you can see from just this half; how huge this room was:



The display table are the ones in front; the contest tables were in the back positioned perpendicular to the display ones.


Then the models, in no particular order. This one in particular I wanted to show as this is what I want to do with my Ratte P.1000 in 1/72 scale. I'll be able to carry more in mine:



There were a lot of hilarious ones in the Humor category. Here's some of them:



Read the sheet next to this. Explains everything....

Some clever Osprey eggs:





I love that one 'nesting'!



This is what happens when you use hot glue:



This won "Best Humor":



This one is hilarious! Mike put 40 different Redneck stereotypes on this Redneck Houseboat based on Jeff "You Might be a Redneck if..." comedian whose last name escapes me:



Moving on, someone else built a 1/72 scale Dora too:



Another great 1/72 scale rendition of a very famous photograph:





Here's a great "What if?" with a Pancake flying over a modified Arizona class battleship:











This was viewed through a window set up to give you the feeling that you were on board this watching it happen. Most impressive!



Sailing ships were very well represented this year. Quite a few incredible masterpieces showed up!





This was a Junior sailing ship made from the Revell snap-tite model kit. They were ten:





Great fireboat. I've been wanting to build one of these:

Here's some more pics, this time some Sci-fi and Real Space. Again, I'll try to post things that haven't been posted before, but there may be some repeats.



I really love the copper shine on this!



1/72 scale Millennium Falcon:



Great interior on it too, all lit up:





















This one was close to four feet long... and lit up:









See if you can identify some of the models that went into doing this one:

That's all for now so far. I hope to have more later.