Mike, Give me some advance notice for next year and I'll be happy to tab along. I know David from IPMS Orange County, and would love to attend.
Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hungerford" <[email protected]> To: "Papermodels II" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 5:43 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 34802] ConDor XVI > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
