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Hey Bill, more practice posting…

To those besides Bill who actually check out my posts:

Yesterday I spent the day at Orangecon, the yearly big contest held by my IPMS club here in Southern California. I had a blast! It was one of the best days ever. I won five raffle prizes; one of which I sold, and I also took delivery (finally!) of my 1/72 scale German Dora Railgun! What a monster that beast is!

The cream of the day is the fact that I also placed Third in Rotary Wing Aircraft; All Types, All Scales with my Hobbycraft 1/72 scale Piasecki H-21 Flying Banana!

This is one of the models I have started and worked on at St. Crispin’s Hobby Days on Mondays and Saturdays. Some of you may have even seen it at any one of those days if you’ve ever been down to St. Crispin’s.

I consider any award I win at Orangecon to be second only to an award from the Nationals. Then again, it is my club’s contest; and it is the premier contest in Southern California. It is also the toughest one for me to place in and that means I earned it!

Now that all that is done; I’ll be trying to finish up my armored train before I start that monster Dora. I’m hoping by the end of the year I’ll be done with the train and then I can start the New Year with the Dora under construction.

Hello all. I am relatively new here, having just heard about this site from our President Bill Witthans.  While I thoroughly enjoy a great wargame, my primary hobby is building plastic models. I know this is primarily a Miniatures wargaming site, but I also know it is a Historical site and model building also falls under the  Historical category.

I was mentioning to Bill how large my collection of finished models is, and he suggested I post pics of  my hobby room showing all of my finished models. So, for those interested, here is several pics of my hobby room:

Since these pics have been taken, I’ve built another 150+ models. Time to take new pics.

Thanks for looking, comments are welcome.