I ran into quite a few friends, and after a few hellos, placed

I made it thru the vendors without spending too much, and at the close of the day, it looked pretty full at the model tables. A total of 430 models were entered, a great number for this show. If anyone thinks that 1/72 scale is dying, look again!..! have never seen so many 1/72 scale entries as I have this year in all the shows I have attended, including this one. (Hint to all you

Manufacturers out there!). The next day, Sunday, was the award's day. The Second, Third and Honorable Mention trophies and ribbons were already placed next to the respective winners. Only First place trophies were held and handed personally. I have seen this before at other contests and I like this method best. It saves a lot of time, and they still call out the names of the ALL the winners.  

These folks put in a lot of time and effort into making it a great contest and my thanks go out to their whole team. I managed to take quite a few pictures of the show and some of the models to share it with all of the readers at ARC, so without much further ado, let the Show begin!!. 

Sincerely,

Your Road Show Host, 

Jorge

Tables full of great models as you can see.

Vendors- Here we see John (back to camera) of John's Models trying to push plastic and Bob Hanes (The Book Man) after reading 35 magazines in a row!		Vendors- This is the CAM decals outpost!...Rick, Silvia, and son.. I'm not quite sure what the young man is trying to tell me, though...(note finger up nose)	The raffle table was full of goodies !

That's Gil, from First Coast club, in action, calling the winners of the raffle tickets ..ticket number 785 ? Hey, that's me!!	Okay, now we get into the models........... Here is a 1/32 Tamiya Zero, which appeared in an earlier ARC article,  in person. The close up shows the sandblasting to good effect!....Yes, it was sandblasted for that weathered look. Can't get any more realistic than that..done with a Paasche airbrush and Paasche sanblasting material..		1/48 scale FW-190F And  KI-84......

1/48 scale KI-84......	Me109	FW190-Dora	P40-K in 1/48 scale

Academy 1/35 CH-60S nighthawk...	Close up of CH60S- great detail job...	Something that caught my eye was the ZP-14 Airship..Very nicely done........Beautiful Biplane!.A winner

For you airliner buffs out there, here is the L-188 Electra and an A310- Airbus in 1/144 scale..		A 1/72 scale F4 Israeli Phantom and a beautiful 1/48 F-18 that won 2nd place in it's category.....

This A-4 won first in 1/48 scale jets..It sure was sweet!....The A-10Warthog  in 1/32 scale.		Being from Miami myself, I got attached to this nice looking P-51 in 1/72 scale titled "MISS MIAMI"....A 1/48 Martlet nicely done.

Let's not forget about the Juniors!....An F-18 Blue angel and a very nice B-17..		A 1/32 scale F-4 Very nice and Out-0f-the-Box!!....A 1/72 scale German x plane and first place winner in it's category.

 

A close up of a 1/48 scale F-86 , and a Naval 1/72 scale huey . Italeri kit  was modified using documentation sent by the pilot who flew it..nice.