IT'S MOSQUITOCON TIME***4 MORE DAYS***

It was an awesome show, and the vendors were GREAT!!!

I got A hawagawa f6f5 with black box cockpit, eduard p-40 n profilepak, tamiya f4f wildcat, Hasegawa p-47 razorbackall 48th ,and a 35th Dragon bergtiger all for under 60.

The show room was packed with great models as well

Jason

Never imagined it'd be so packed!  I got there quite late around 2ish but still managed to grab a ton of photos, around 250 (will post them later).  Boy that T-28 was pretty sick huh.  I did manage to bump into wingnut after seeing his brail scale panzer iv.  One thing I was glad was that I kept my wallet pretty tight!  Only got a ton of old magazines for like 3 bucks and two old very much discountinued Tamiya bike kits (though I actually have both sealed in box in my stash...I did pay 5 times as much for each of them back then).  That was it though!

Jay, I think I saw you walking around with that P-40 kit.  Smeagol, I think I saw you as soon as I walked in and paid my admission and that was it.  I did have a nice little chat with Jim (don't know if you're a member here) who was selling detail sets, mostly Eduard PE but some True Details resin sets also. 

As far as scores go...For $75 I picked up:

-1/48 Tamiya F4U-1D Corsair

-1/48 Accurate Miniatures SBD-1 Dauntless

-1/48 Accurate Miniatures A-36 Mustang Dive Bomber

-1/48 Accurate Miniatures F3F-2 

-Legend Resin Cockpit for a P-40B/C

-True Details Resin Cockpit set for Tam F4F-4

-True Details Resin Cockpit set for Mauve P-40N

All in all, I'd say that it was a good day.  If my fiancee wouldn't have told me that she was home instead of at work, I would have definitely bought more.  It was hard enough getting this stuff in without her knowledge!  Can't wait for the next one.

Ack, I got bored and the pix are up.

MCon09 Pix

Sorry about the ill-rotated pix.  Some pix was taken with the camera badly tilted cuz of all the people.  I tried to fix some then photoshop messed them up even more...  Sigh

The only guy's I were able to catch were Marc and Dave O'Meara......but I did come away with Dragon's new Elefant w/zimm for $45.00 and when I got home I had to get more so I ordered Academy's new Merkava and Tamiya's 1/48 Marder.Great show though,did you all catch that rusted Gato sub Diorama ? and of course that giant scratch built tank.I liked the vendor with the DVD'S and t-shirts,turns out I have been ordering from him for years,he is agreat source of obscure war films.

Maybe see some of you in Runnemede or Danburry or next year in Wayne.

Swingr I believe I saw yiou with all the accurate kits in your hands.

Archangel great pics thanks

Anthony If you don't mind me asking what part of NJ you located? I'm just across the border in Pa

Jason

Sounds like a great time was had by all.  I picked up some stuff i've been wanting for a looong time. I got a Valkyrie $50 I've been wanting forever and a Trumpeter 1/32 SBD for $50.  Got some armor 1/35 Dragon Expo King Tiger for $40.  I also won a 1/48 Eduard Fw 190 weekend special in the raffel.  At least Smeagol won the Sherman I wanted.. 

The models were Amazing, The sunken sub, The 1/6 T-28, The Force perspective dio,  There are just toooo many to name them all.  I can only hope to make something worthy of competeing with these guys.

Steve thanks for the company on the drive. I'm glad you had a great time.

Marc, thanks for letting us participate in this event, don't know how you guys do it, GREAT JOB!

Everyone else, next time we really have to get a meeting place, sorry I missed some of you.

                                                                                             Chris

smeagol the vile wrote:

Archangel... you didnt take any pictures of the figure kits?  There were some absolutley amazing pieces there, the arkham asylum Joker, the Wonderfest Warrior Goddess piece

Ahhh... that's the other table I forgot.  I walked around first (n the vendors...=P) before starting to mass-shoot the pix.  I think I skipped from table to table several times cuz there were some people just hogging the area (you can actually see that from the messed up orders of the pictures).  Pretty sure I missed the 1/48th armor table (which is unkul of me since that's what I mainly build nowadays.) and like you said the figure table.  Went picky on some wingie stuff mostly based on the canopy finish, so some were skipped, too.  I am not crazy about ships but I do regret not capturing that gigantic yamato.  But yes, although smaller in number, the figures in that group were mostly pretty darn good.  Hopefully someone else caught something.

Medic18 wrote:

Everyone else, next time we really have to get a meeting place, sorry I missed some of you.

Next time, lets all wear big pointy hats, so we can tell whos who

Aluminum Foil too?!

I think I saw waikong too.  There weren't THAT many asians at the place.  I wonder if he brought his son with him.

I have to say, I almost cried when I saw ONE mecha kit at the show, and it was an unpainted, just pannel lines, snapped job...

So, I have taken it upon myself build the best mecha kit I ever have, and enter it next year.

The last couple of years  I was able to take a couple hundred pics.  I managed to squeeze in about 40 this year.  I never made it to the figure table but as we were listening to the awards being announced the was a guy with a figure next to me that was freakin' awesome. he took it out of its box for me to take this pic...



Dude... whoever you are... That is just unbelievable.

This came in 2nd.   I wish I had seen 1st.

Here's the link to the shots I got

Hey, that was a great show! Thanks to you and your fellow club members Marc. I was there fairly early around 10AM but had to leave to pick up my son at 11Am and didn't make it back until 2:30 or so.

I did pick up 6 kits for under $80 bucks, one guy was selling Tamiya 1/48 armor for $15 a kit, I picked up 4 when I first got there.  Thought it was such a deal that I wanted more when I came back in the afternoon, but evidently it was a great deal, his table was empty when I got back! I usually go around 11AM, next time I'll know to show up earlier. Heck, There were guys already loading their cars with kits when I first got there!

Not only that, my son first 1st place in Junior and I picked up 2nd in the 1/48 or smaller armor/softskin section. Marc got the first price - Congrats!

I got some pictures too, I'll post tomorrow.

We definitely have to get T-shirts, or agree on some sign (like gardenias in our lapels ), because I missed all of you at the food court around 2:30.  Of course, it doesn't help that the clocks in the building don't match, and I don't think either of them are right.  But the one in the exhibition hall is behind by over an hour.  But I'm sorry I missed you all, we probably passed one another.

The only FSM'er I talked to was armorguy, who is the builder of that outstanding 1/6 T-32 US super heavy tank prototype model.  He said it was 4 year's worth of work, and what an amazing piece it is.  Quarter-inch plywood hull, coated with fiberglass, scratchbuilt bogeys, road wheels, track links-just absolutely astounding!

The exhibition was really fantastic, too, though a little light on figures, perhaps.  But lots of great armor, aircraft, cars and ships.  Did you guys see the scratch-built Dinah?  And the dios-someone else mentioned "A Bridge Too Far", which was a forced-perspective box diorama, from 1/35 at the front, back to 1/70, I think it was, for the background, kitbashed and scratchbuilt vehicles and figures, really, really great work!

And a scratchbuilt snowspeeder from "The Empire Strikes Back", built to the studio model's scale, that was another really impressive piece.

And the vendors-lots and lots of great deals, as many have already posted.  Not just kits, but aftermarket accessories, decals, and documentation-lots and lots of books.

My favorite was Ridgefield Hobbies-tons and tons of nostalgia kits, old Monogram aircraft, newer kits from Accurate Miniatures and others.  I got his address and website, I think it'll be worth to visit them in between shows.

Makes me regret never having visited Mosquitocon before now.

Well, AMPS is in two weeks....

wait a second, are you saying that kid who built that massive tank that was in the display room, the one that had the working cranes and such on it was one of us?  Wow, me and Chris spent a good bit of time oogling that tank and finding out that the builder was, infact, unemployed heh.

Seems I have, yet again, missed you barron.  Sorry about the 2:30 thing, I know three of us were wrapped up in judging

Ryan, that was me with my son.  Sorry I didn't see you. I stopped by the food area at around 2:35 but didnt' see anyone, thought I missed it.

Baron, I loved that forced perspective dio also, studied it for 5 minutes or so.

Hi, guys!

@smeagol-yes, he was there, you probably saw him, too, he's relatively younger (maybe mid-20's?), dark, curly hair, was wearing a green T-shirt, I think.

Here is the URL for his thread about the T-28 in the Armor forum:

/forums/780630/ShowPost.aspx

Judging from the date on the thread, the four-year period to build the model started in 2001.

I didn't know you guys were judging-my hat is off to you.  I've done it, too, at the MFCA show, and I can appreciate trying to get that done, all the while 500 visitors are in the hall to view everything.

All told, it was a great show.  We'll just have to coordinate better for the next one in the area.

I've posted my pictures from the show on my website, here's a link. You can see pictures from previous shows also, if you like big models, check out the 1/35 railroad gun in the 2008 page - its toward the middle of the pictures.

http://waihobbies.wkhc.net/ModelShows.html

In case anyone's still checking this thread, here's a crossreference to another thread about Mosquitocon:

/forums/1120543/ShowPost.aspx#1120543

The poster said he'll have pictures up eventually (or maybe he'll also have links to other locations where he'll post pics).

Regards,

Brad

Cool thanks Brad,  Sorry I missed you.

                                                        Chris