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<\/a>Some of the figures in the busts category. In the front row my Castiga (l) got silver, Medusa (Center) and Demophilus (right with blue and white crest) got gold.<\/p>\n Rob and I attended the JAXCON 2024 IPMS meet today in Jacksonville, FL. This is the third year I have attended this meet. It is one of the premier IPMS meets in Florida. The meet was a great success despite some rainy weather.\u00a0Gil Hodges runs the event and does a great job. I enjoyed meeting many of the people from previous years. Everyone is very friendly and low key.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n <\/a>This airplane model caught my eye. Very nice, detailed workThere was some excellent work on display. I estimated that there over 500 models entered by about 110 builders. There were also many vendors with model kits and supplies.\u00a0<\/p>\n I helped with judging and that kept me very busy. I and my partner Rich were responsible for judging all the figures, all the dioramas, and about half of the ship models. As a result, I didn’t get to see many of the armor, cars, or planes. But what I did see was top notch. For example, the float plane at the left looked really nice to me. I also like the red Porsche 917 LeMans winner below.<\/p>\n\n <\/a>I liked this Porsche 917 LeMans winner with excellent details and presentation.<\/p>\n I was pleased that I received 4 gold and 1 silver medals.\u00a0 It is interesting that my figure I liked the best got a silver, while the others got gold.\u00a0 You ever know about model contests. I made an effort to provide feedback forms for all the models I judged so that the builders know what we found. However, there were no feedback forms for my models, so I don’t know what the judges found.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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![<\/a>This airplane model caught my eye. Very nice, detailed workThere was some excellent work on display. I estimated that there over 500 models entered by about 110 builders. There were also many vendors with model kits and supplies.\u00a0<\/p>\nI helped with judging and that kept me very busy. I and my partner Rich were responsible for judging all the figures, all the dioramas, and about half of the ship models. As a result, I didn’t get to see many of the armor, cars, or planes. But what I did see was top notch. For example, the float plane at the left looked really nice to me. I also like the red Porsche 917 LeMans winner below.<\/p>\n\n<\/a>I liked this Porsche 917 LeMans winner with excellent details and presentation.<\/p>\nI was pleased that I received 4 gold and 1 silver medals.\u00a0 It is interesting that my figure I liked the best got a silver, while the others got gold.\u00a0 You ever know about model contests. I made an effort to provide feedback forms for all the models I judged so that the builders know what we found. However, there were no feedback forms for my models, so I don’t know what the judges found.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<\/a>Rob’s HIMARS model got a silver\u00a0<\/p>\nRob received 1 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze medals.\u00a0<\/p>\nOur buddy, Dan Pierce, received a bronze medal for a 1\/72 German Kreigslok locomotive. I thought the model was extremely well done, but the judges found a seam that was not perfectly finished.\u00a0 That model will become a component in a joint build that several of us are working on. Stay tuned for that.<\/p>\n<\/a>Dan’s Kreigslok in 1\/72nd scale<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the figures in the busts category. In the front row my Castiga (l) got silver, Medusa (Center) and Demophilus (right with blue and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-model-railways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjOUfW0sMCwwpvVWXaLLQe5pEfEQfBcll7RWGk-lyvVSvzwBN9VVTQ4tXK91YgOF6WWv2Db2PxJFYmrJX2gtWopwNfF2T9-4QBkxgkrCkHhnrWavVRSD9F_-SHyLrqOoSGCCIjlVeenk775KZjgEpQ3W4rNc6VI2OTlRr4ddGPDOxiHRZJH0orBHF4HMOVX\/s2016\/IMG_7483.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a>I liked this Porsche 917 LeMans winner with excellent details and presentation.<\/p>\nI was pleased that I received 4 gold and 1 silver medals.\u00a0 It is interesting that my figure I liked the best got a silver, while the others got gold.\u00a0 You ever know about model contests. I made an effort to provide feedback forms for all the models I judged so that the builders know what we found. However, there were no feedback forms for my models, so I don’t know what the judges found.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<\/a>Rob’s HIMARS model got a silver\u00a0<\/p>\nRob received 1 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze medals.\u00a0<\/p>\nOur buddy, Dan Pierce, received a bronze medal for a 1\/72 German Kreigslok locomotive. I thought the model was extremely well done, but the judges found a seam that was not perfectly finished.\u00a0 That model will become a component in a joint build that several of us are working on. Stay tuned for that.<\/p>\n<\/a>Dan’s Kreigslok in 1\/72nd scale<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the figures in the busts category. In the front row my Castiga (l) got silver, Medusa (Center) and Demophilus (right with blue and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-model-railways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj9dXC0Htni0YNHP41PjBoy1YLxgXgyq01L9MIW8iDHy-KUL_3Le6RAEj8GTDNCDAm3myN3oX7CMF98c9Tk-2dBwL8P9d62DNh_JAaWqYPRp8lRGRO_JAec6g239Ju53EYrB0xAYLQfuXKnBXsLCra31Vv6kNLu91rBvq0ExP3k9FPWOgK3qaOyn-klrwuo\/s2016\/IMG_7481.jpg\"){kind=link}
![<\/a>Rob’s HIMARS model got a silver\u00a0<\/p>\nRob received 1 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze medals.\u00a0<\/p>\nOur buddy, Dan Pierce, received a bronze medal for a 1\/72 German Kreigslok locomotive. I thought the model was extremely well done, but the judges found a seam that was not perfectly finished.\u00a0 That model will become a component in a joint build that several of us are working on. Stay tuned for that.<\/p>\n<\/a>Dan’s Kreigslok in 1\/72nd scale<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the figures in the busts category. In the front row my Castiga (l) got silver, Medusa (Center) and Demophilus (right with blue and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-model-railways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh4jhVo4_fqp12I5qbXMO1ySI1xyd622yoQQB0lMnzkaajrJtXc8BZpX_TtP2d0Vl9XLuleJ3UUZEQbld9KWmUI59gc2QqJQzZtHTRgeNqc3g7CN2DMB0PCcNHLanZS0Yh01BbX48IAzca3Bf9RKq087XU0XdsNP4xTxkGFd13vv1BHMVv22tY5YrUdCE5g\/s1374\/IMG_7478.jpg\"){kind=link}
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