Man that was an awesome show. Way too many to pick any one build. Lol but my favorites are always the commercial and the racing. Those dirt cars were sweet for sure. Saw a lot of I wants in the buy sell trade section too. Thanks for an awesome video Tim. Keep up the great work!!!
Entries were down for autos this year. But still had a number of beautiful cars on the tables. Swap meet area was more active this year than last year. Great video Tim
Some MORE Good Stuff, courtesy of Throttle Power. As consistent as your events coverage is, I will always post how appreciated and enjoyable your videos are. PEACE to you and continued success.
Great builds, nice stuff in the vendors area. I noticed there was an IMC 48 Ford for sale, wondering if you picked it up in case its chosen for the USACC build? Thanks for sharing.
Hey tim you pick anything up today? That guy with like 6 tables took about 1/2 of his stuff off tables, the rest he let go 1/2 price right around 12:30. I got 4 open box kits for 30.00 total. Plus a few others on the day, never paid full price for anything.
It was good to meet you, but didn't want to bother you.. I was hoping for more car models, seemed majority was war and planes. Oh well, on to next show!!
It was nice to meet you too......... Yes, that club is heavy on Aircraft and they always draw a lot of airplanes to the show. It was a fun day!!!! I picked up a few Military models.
Hey how do I find out about model car shows in San Diego? I'm a previous builder. I've gotten away from building model cars since I was 16 but now I'm 34 and I'm currently getting back into building model cars again. How can I find out about upcoming model car shows? Thanks
@@bmck-8400 thanks very much. Time for me to make my come back into the model car world. I was published in model car magazines. A couple of man actually.
No modeler has ever built a model from 3 feet overtop (birds eye view)..nor did they intend for their work to be viewed from 3 feet overtop. I will no longer force myself to view poorly displayed art, tossed willy-nilly onto a makeshift industrial catch-all table from 3 feet overtop with a throbbing sore back from bending over a thousand times while squinting thru THE WRONG KIND OF BAD LIGHTING as I attempt to appreciate all the detail.....simply because all of these contest/display organizers have FAILED TO DISPLAY THEM PROPERLY FOR THE LAST 70 YEARS . I'm not a bird flying over a parking lot and I'm not interested in gawking at car roofs from an overtop flyby position. I look at cars from a STREET LEVEL point of view...like all humans do...not birds eye view...like the birds do. The whole TABLE FORMAT....IS WRONG. IT'S WRONG. Do you organizers get that idea already ???? IT'S WRONG. STOP ALLOWING YOURSELVES TO CONTINUE TO GET AWAY WITH DOING IT WRONG !! AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH !!!! . Tabletop display under crap lighting is WRONG. It was an inadequate HACKJOB idea from back in the 1950s that has been allowed to continue and proliferate unimproved for 70 years because, I guess the kids back then didn't think "models" were worth much more than that, and NOBODY since then has come up with a better format. ORGANIZERS....Go to an art gallery then go to the art museum. It's all displayed at EYE LEVEL, using warm, inviting INCANDESCENT "TRACK" LIGHTING, not cold ugly sterile yet economic ceiling flourescents or , EVEN WORSE...LEDs...which are in the BLUE LIGHT spectrum and make everything look like SH*T. Observe the care and thoughtfulness with which galleries "strategically" light the artwork for OPTIMUM VIEWING "EASE" AND OPTIMUM VIEWING EFFECT, Their display STYLE is literally light years beyond model contest organizers poor thinking. Hell, even DEPARTMENT STORE WINDOW DISPLAYS have more time, effort, and thoughtfulness put into them. The ONLY models that should be on the CHEAPO stacking tables are the ones too big, too heavy, too tall, or of too large a scale to fit onto a (small shelf designed SPECIFICALLY for the 1/25 scale featherlite automotive styrene kits that absolutely DOMINATE these events...as we all know, and in a democracy...it's still the 99% MAJORITY that rules...not the "one percenters". - sorry not sorry - just keeping it REAL). The problem with these organizers is that their THINKING is in the wrong paradigm...they think like weekend flea market types...yard sale types....when they should be thinking like art dealers. Organizers...your audience is mostly ADULTS and most are male, Do I really have to spell it and yell it to you in all caps ??? OK then. Here it is. ART GALLERY. EYE LEVEL...TRACK LIGHTING...3 SHELVES RUNNING THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE ROOM. 3 foot high shelf-=juniors-- 4 foot high shelf=intermediates, and the 5 foot high shelf...that's THE BIG BOY SHELF reserved for the BIG BOYS TOP SHELF BUILDS. NOTE : being as your TARGET AUDIENCE is the North American adult male...who is SIX FEET TALL ON AVERAGE....a display height of NO LESS THAN FIVE FEET is acceptable for TOP SHELF proper grownup viewing. "but what about the kids" ?? you say..."a five foot high shelf is NOT INCLUSIVE to the kids"...so what ! Driving my dad's car wasn't INCLUSIVE to me as a kid...I got over it when I grew up....They'll grow up to proper grownup height sooner or later, just like I did. But until they do...why should I, and all the other adult males who DOMINATE these events... have to ruin our backs bending over all day to tabletop height squinting to get a PROPER look at something other than roofs and spark plug wires, why ?? How is doing that INCLUSIVE to me or any other adult who should be viewing artworks in a STANDING POSITION at EYE LEVEL ?? It's NOT. Case in point. At timestamp 4:21, I count 17 people in the frame. None are children and 2 are women. The other 15 out of 17 are adult males. Get this stuff up off the tables and onto the only proper eye level viewing height of 5 feet. Tabletop contest/displays like this do not bring any real legitimacy to the genre, with their makeshift slapdash tabletop displays and crappy energy efficient industrial ceiling lighting...and as a result...modelmaking is still not taken seriously as an artform by John Q Public.... It's still seen, by the world at large, as being some silly thing that kids do on a rainy day. One contributing factor is organizers insistence on keeping the cheap ineffective tabletop flea market vibe alive. it's an ARTFORM and needs to be treated as such. The kits, the aftermarket, and the builders themselves, have all EVOLVED IMMENSELY over the decades, yet the tired contest/display format of mass tabletop display with crap lighting has NOT EVOLVED ONE LITTLE BIT IN 70 YEARS. THAT SUCKS. I feel bad for the modelers. They need better venues. They need to have their artworks displayed as artworks, not on the same rickety or beat up tables using the same crap lighting used to hawk dusty one dollar parts bags...because it's DISRESPECTFUL to have your artwork afforded exactly the same level of fuss...as a dusty 1 dollar parts bag. !! INDEED. How is it that I'm the only one who knows just how DISRESPECTFUL this is ??? how do I know this. ??? What qualifies me to be so bold ?? Because I am an artist and have been one since I was discovered to be a prodige at age 3...THAT'S HOW. Organizers ...get your act together already...you're the only holdouts still failing the artform by LAGGING 70 years behind in your display thinking and in your presentation style. As an artist, I would NEVER TOLERATE having my artwork tossed onto a cheap industrial table under florescent ceiling lighting in such flippant fashion. Thumbs up for the models. Thumbs down for the TYPICAL LAZY THOUGHTLESS BORING UNINSPIRED UNEDUCATED AND DISRESPECTFUL way in which this artwork is simply tossed willy-nilly onto cheap tables under,...whatever crap lighting is there. Nice tablecloths don't fool the discriminating eye. Old saying...you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear. No self respecting gallery would dare use industrial plastic tables. No self respecting artist would allow them to either. Scrap this failed display style already. Forget me showing up...and leaving with a throbbing back from all the needless bending over....I can hardly even watch this stuff at home anymore...too many roofs and spark plug wires...not enough cars shown from the side (their overall stance), and it's not the cameras fault. How can anyone get a nice close look at these models without bashing their head or camera into several other randomly placed models.??
