Hello, everyone, David Okamura and I ran our traditional paper model fan table at ConDor XVI in San Diego this past weekend, and got plenty of attention from our display, especially David's Ares launch vehicles and his build of Steve Marshall's green dragon automaton. I had my laptop set up again, and was able to show a number of people what paper models look like as Web downloads, and direct some of them to models they found desirable.
As is our habit, I parted with several assembled models on Sunday (David wasn't able to attend that day), including my half-size build of the "Howl's Moving Castle Flying Type" which was once available through Epson Japan, but is now only found on some pirate and WMBI sites. Yes, it was hard to part with it after all the sweat that went into the build, but now I have room to build something else. <G> That model went to a couple who are huge Studio Ghibli fans, and who were new to ConDor and SF conventions in general, though they have attended similar events for ninteenth-century re-enactors and steam railroad enthusiasts; they are both active with the steam railroad museum in Poway, California *and* a group that is putting on a "Tom Swift" convention in New York this year, and hopefully one in San Diego next year. They also showed us some photos of a full-scale movie prop airship that was built for a "Tom Swift" movie in 1969 that was never completed. They now own that airship, and hope eventually to restore it to its former glory, and were very much interested in the possibility of a paper model of the airship as well (Ralph Currell, if you're reading, be prepared for an e-mail from James Keeline!). The theme for ConDor XVII is "Steampunk, Retro Future, and early Science Fiction" so anyone who might be persuaded to join David and me next year has plenty of time to build something suitable. :-) Oh, and the young lady who several years ago built Civi Cheng's "Stitch" model *at the convention* is now working on one of Ray Keim's "Haunted Mansion" models. There *is* hope for today's youth! -- Mike Hungerford http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models.html It's so moonshine that being in the emptydream. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
