Modelpalooza2021

The start of Modelpalooza2021! Individuals setting up early Friday afternoon. 

Bill and Chris setting up their work stations. Alan in the background already at work! 

Dave and Alan with a variety of projects on the go. Covid precautions were in place to protect modellers. Dave just sat down and had the option of removing his mask to model. Anyone moving around the room was required to don his/her mask. 

Brian and Wayne busy modelling! 

Eric hard at work with his model. Plenty of light for fine details. 

Blair setting up for his work station. 

Cam and Jerry came for Saturday and got straight to work at their respective projects. 

Allan showing some of his Dungeons and Dragons snap-together buildings. These can be built in any configuration and have opening doors, windows and cupboards to keep his players busy. 

Some of the signage explaining Covid requirments before entering the event. 

Plenty of swag on hand for purchasing. These aprons went fast! 

Loads of raffles, draws and silent auction items to keep everyone happy! The local hobby shop, Express Hobbies, donated the $100 raffle item....with an appropriately sized cheque! 

Silent auction prints for sale. 

Another pic of the prints. 

Last bunch of prints for the silent auction. 

The dibond print that has become a feature of the Modelpalooza event. This is a two-sided white aluminum and plastic core substrate which is UV laser printed on. 

For Modelpalooza2021, these three styles of cutting mats were available for sale after three were won as door prizes. 

A selection of Flory products on sale from High Altitude Hobbies. High Altitude is Phil Flory's North American distributor of his fine products. 

Sponsor signage for the event. 

Although there was no "show" component to Modelpalooza2021, event attendees did bring a few items for everyone to see! 

More items for people to look at, including a diorama. 

The last bunch of show items featured figures and were a big hit! 

Saturday afternoon featured a live blog with Phil Flory. Here is a screen grab of him explaining his weathering wash and what effects the normal user can achieve with them. 

A before and after of Phil's wash on a plane model. 

After using the wash, Phil showed different techniques for taking some of it off. Use your fingers or a cloth for just taking off some excess on panels and leaving the panel lines looking as if there was a pin wash added. Here Phil shows one of his excellent high grade sanding sticks used to take off more and leave a satin finish to the panel. Many techniques were learned by the attendees during this blog! 

Artem was the proud winner of one of the door prizes! 

The speed build held Saturday evening was won by Chris. Chris beat out nine others to win first prize in which he had first pick of three different kits. Here he is seen with his choice, the Hasegawa 1/48 Spitfire Mk.IXc. The speed build kit for this contest was the excellent Airfix 1/72 Willys British Airborne Jeep kit. 

Artem came in second-place in the speed build and he chose the Aoshima 1/700 HMS Victorious. 

Third-place in the speed build was a bit of a dark-horse! The duo of Alan and Allan won! Allan clipped parts and Al put them together! 

Winner of the silent auction dibond picture was Logan! A top-bid of $20 Cdn took it! 

Chris surprised everyone when he again won one of the top prizes, the $100 Express Hobbies gift certificate! 

Late Sunday morning, everyone started their take-down for the trek home. 

Here we see Logan saying goodbye to Brian with Eric looking on.