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Here are the aircraft shots from Can Am Con V.  It was held on April 17.  It was a fairly small show, only about a dozen tables. About 2/3rds of the models were from the Montreal area I think. At least, that's about the proportion of winners. The rest were from the Plattsburgh area, Albany area and a few from here and there (including me and a few others from Vermont).
There were only about 4 vendors and I think they were all representing retail shops with prices in line with regular store prices (plus they were almost all armor or auto). It was held in the Comfort Inn in Plattsburgh which also contains a Pub and Microbrewery. The beer was so-so but the Montreal smoked meat sandwich was great.

1/144 PBY-5A	1/48 Albatross		1/48 Bf-109

1/48 Bf-109	1/48 Kolibri

1/48 D-520

1/48 Gladiator	1/48 Jack	1/48 Typhoon

The 1/ 48 Lancaster won "military 3 or more engines all scales", a real beauty.

1/48 Lancaster			1/48 Sea Apache

1/48 Me-410		1/48 Seaking	1/48 Spitfire

1/48 Old Freinds			1/48 Seafire F47

1/48 P-47		1/48 Do-217	1/48 Spitfire

1/48 Tarpon			1/48 Val

1/48 Nieuport	1/72 A-20	1/72 Tigermeet Hind

The special theme of the contest was "Tiger Meet" and there were about a dozen models in the class.  The winner of the category 1/48 one or two jet was the file 48 CF118.jpg 48 Kolibri won rotorcraft; it is a truly outstanding model, one of my favorites there. 

I can't remember the other winners for sure, and I know I missed taking  pictures of a few. I believe the winner in 1/72 one or two props was a very nice Martin Baltimore that I somehow missed taking a picture. Anyway, the list will be available from IPMS Champlain Valley's site before too long.

1/48 Tigermeet CF-118

1/48 Tigermeet CF-118		1/32 Hunter

 

1/72 F-14D		1/72 F-4F	1/72 CF118

 

1/72 F-94		1/72 X-32	1/72 Candair Challenger

 

1/144 Tigermeet Concorde			1/48 MiG 23

1/48 Me 262 A1a-2U		1/144 MiG 1.44

1/48 A-6E		1/32 MiG 21

1/48 F-15DJ

1/144 Beluga			1/48 F-104

1/48 CF-118	1/48 F-4EJ	1/48 F-15DJ 2	1/35 Schwerer Gustav

I included the pictures of "Schwerer Gustav" for fun. It is a scratch built model of the Krupp 80cm rail gun made completely out of balsa wood. The thing is HUGE. It's in 1/35 scale so you can compare it to the tanks in the foreground of the picture above on the right.  Remember that the tanks are much closer to the camera and Gustav still looms over them. I read where the Wermacht didn't use a bore brush to clean it, they just sent a Private down the bore with a scrub brush and bucket. And you thought your job sucked! There were only two built and only one of them was used and only during the Crimean campaign.  It fired only about 60 rounds I believe, and destroyed all the targets it  targeted.
Dave

1/35 Schwerer Gustav