This Saturday, I will be attending this show for the second year in a row. I had long been aware of it but never made it until last year. It was great seeing all the built models, whether for a contest or just for display. I plan to take a number of photos which I will share here.
https://ipms-houstontx.org/?page_id=20
I’m not entering the contest, not really my thing. I’m also planning to scour the vendor tables for deals.
Stayed a week in Sugar Land back in 2013 while on vacation. Picked up quite a few model kits from vendors, visited the Lone Star Museum, San Jacinto battlefield, and the Houston Space Center. Good times.
Gary
Thanks ahead of time for taking pictures for us who can’t attend some of these shows. I hope that you have a fun time and find some great bargains at the vendors’ tables Aggieman.
I also learned why it is NOT a good idea to be out on the interstate in Houston during a heavy rainstorm! Although I didn’t get caught in it, it certainly was a surprise!
Gary
Big storms in the Midwest yesterday.
Yeah and it sounds like more storms are coming tonight and tomorrow too.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VurfbhgTfdTxf7Wk8
I tried to photograph everything that was on display. Please let me know if the link does not work due to authentication.
Probably my favorite build was this big Trumpeter Skyraider, looking war weary but ready to deliver some pain.
This guy on a motorcycle with the dog in the side car blew me away.
The level of detail by these modelers is quite impressive. In many ways I think I am challenged to step up my game. I’m not interested in participating in this type of show, as transporting models can be a terrifying ordeal. But I will continue to attend this show each year and take photos such as these simply to give myself inspiration to stretch my own skills (which I have been told are good but I’m not one to toot my own horn).
Here’s a few more of my favorite builds
The show’s build theme was 007 movies. The Thunderball diorama was hard to photograph, but seeing how I’ve seen all of those movies many times each, I knew it was the Vulcan bomber submerged to allow Specter agents to retrieve the nukes on board (Thunderball, 1965). Then the big tank chase in Goldeneye (1995), and finally, Bond laying down a smoke screen in No Time To Die (2021).
The important thing is you had a good time. I usually go not for the model displays, but for the vendors.
Gary
I also spent a fair amount of time talking with other folks there. One guy I ran into was carrying essentially the same kit that I’m currently building (Ju88, Revell 1/32) except that it was the A-4 variant rather than the A-1. I gave him some unsolicited advice on what to look out for based on my prior experience at building this kit.
Had a good time just talking to people. Got compliments on the Flying Tigers shirt I was wearing, and returned the compliment to someone wearing a shirt with that snarling shark mouth that Hellcats often bore.
Just a good time all around.
That is an amazing vignette! Do you know what scale it was?
Unfortunately, I didn’t take a lot of time to look at the sheets attached to the builds. I did zoom in on one of the photos that shows the accompanying sheet. It appears to be 1/8 scale, perhaps an ESCI kit, although the photo is a bit blurry in that area.
Thanks for posting these photos and you’re right, the work is amazing and inspirational. That Skyraider and the German soldier on the motorcycle were fantastic builds.
