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                        ModelMania 2012 in Stafford, TX

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                        GeneK
                        • Member since
                          November 2011
                        • From: Near Houston, TX
                        ModelMania 2012 in Stafford, TX
                        Posted by GeneK on Saturday, April 28, 2012 7:29 PM

                          Anyone else make it by ModelMania? This was my first time to attend, and I really enjoyed it. There were some great builds in the contest room (wish I had brought my camera!) but the one that took the prize for me was a 1/350 USS Texas. Detail work etc was just incredible! Like I said though, there were a lot of really great builds, but I couldn't stay for the judging. Didn't stay for the door prizes either so my ticket probably got picked.Stick out tongue

                           One thing I have to ask though, is there anyone out there would pay $1000.00 for a model, no matter how rare the kit is? No way I would I know that, but one vendor had one for that price. There were some good deals though like the Revell PV-1 for $25.00. Anyway, any comments?

                         

                        Gene

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                        Cadet Chuck
                        • Member since
                          April 2009
                        • From: Longmont, Colorado
                        Posted by Cadet Chuck on Saturday, April 28, 2012 9:39 PM

                        Don't know about that, but in 1985, I won a "Champion Cow Chip Thrower" trophy from the "Regal Ranch" in Stafford, Texas, while on a business trip there! 

                        A proud accomplishment to this day!

                        Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...

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                        DoogsATX
                        • Member since
                          June 2010
                        • From: Austin, TX
                        Posted by DoogsATX on Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:03 PM

                        Wait...a model contest in Texas that actually had a 1/350 ship entry? Usually ships = barren wasteland of empty display table. 

                        On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

                        On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

                        Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

                         

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                        tigerman
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA
                        Posted by tigerman on Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:39 PM

                        What? You have a Monitor competing with a PT Boat and WWII destroyers in not even the same scale?

                         

                        http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/wing_nut_5o/PANZERJAGERGB.jpg

                         Eric 

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                        GeneK
                        • Member since
                          November 2011
                        • From: Near Houston, TX
                        Posted by GeneK on Saturday, April 28, 2012 11:58 PM

                        DoogsATX

                        Wait...a model contest in Texas that actually had a 1/350 ship entry? Usually ships = barren wasteland of empty display table. 

                          Actually, in 1/350 they had the Texas, the England, and another Destroyer. Then some guy had three fairly nice ones there for sale but they don't count. Only the three in the contest. 

                        Gene

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                        DoogsATX
                        • Member since
                          June 2010
                        • From: Austin, TX
                        Posted by DoogsATX on Sunday, April 29, 2012 8:29 AM

                        tigerman

                        What? You have a Monitor competing with a PT Boat and WWII destroyers in not even the same scale?

                        That'd be "ships > 1/400"...

                        Honestly entries in any scale in the few Texas shows I've been to are so few they could probably just all be lumped into "ships" and nobody would notice...

                        On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

                        On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

                        Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

                         

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                        andy_usa
                        • Member since
                          April 2012
                        Posted by andy_usa on Monday, April 30, 2012 11:03 PM

                        What model was he selling for $1000.00. I just finished a build of Lindberg's 1/16 Wells Fargo stagecoach and got $750.00 for it. Selling a model for ANY price depends on finding a client  that really wants the sunject badly and has the money laying around they can spare. this is becoming a rare thing however.

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                        GeneK
                        • Member since
                          November 2011
                        • From: Near Houston, TX
                        Posted by GeneK on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 9:24 AM

                        andy_usa

                        What model was he selling for $1000.00. I just finished a build of Lindberg's 1/16 Wells Fargo stagecoach and got $750.00 for it. Selling a model for ANY price depends on finding a client  that really wants the sunject badly and has the money laying around they can spare. this is becoming a rare thing however.

                          This wasn't a built model, just a kit still inthe box. There was a nice built Japanese aircraft carrier there (1/350) for $750, but that I acn understand with all the work he did on it. My real question is, is there any kit, unbuilt in the box, taht you would pay that much for? I just can't see it even though I know this one is really rare. I'll wait a day or two before saying what the kit was.

                         

                        Gene

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