Wonderfest 2023 Model Contest Room 

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I cant close my jaw !!!!! Just totally awesome !!!!!

Wow looks amazing Wayne. I’m very jealous

Boy u not kidding u struck gold these models are amazing

Nicely-shot video. Soothing music. Love the Planet Killer and Howard the Duck. Many others.

Holy crap the skill and patience involved in some of these builds, I'm totally awe!

Thanks for posting. Amazing skills and models. ❤

And all credit to you for the Brilliant filming! So easy to watch!

so much talent

OMG you did a great great job.the music,the picture was perfect.not to fast ,I loved it . Thank you 👍

Wow 😮😮 incredible work by everyone there

Some beautiful builds, love the Enterprise G,the standards of the paint jobs are amazing. Love the double take from Lou, lol.

As a modell builder i always feel so small when i watch those peices of art. Thanks for sharing.

I had a great time at the show. Thanks for videoing the models , I'm going to share this video with all my friends .

Truly amazing models, and the level of detail is fantastic👍👍🥇

That was amazing. Feeling very nostalgic seeing that incredible collection of sci-fi ships, characters and creatures. Allot of really talented people there. The attention to detail on some of those builds was outstanding.

This truly is the golden era of model building

Brilliant video covering such a range of models and busts I never knew existed but now will be looking out for . Thanks.

Beautiful job capturing the models Wayne. I need to upgrade my video equipment before next wonderfest.

Really enjoyed WonderFest this year, already looking forward to next years show! 👍🙂

Watching this on a big screen while house sitting. The standard of modelling is superb.

Epic builds by some amazing artists - very inspiring!

Great video. Fabulous models. LOVE IT!

Great video! Love the music as well. Thanks for sharing!

Was great to see you there. Lots of great talent.

So much talent in one room

Great video Wayne! Lots of cool models. I'd love to visit Wonderfest sometime. Thanks for making this video!

Thank you for a wonderful tour, a great diversity in subjects many of which I recognized ( must be getting old) a lot of fine builders.

Great exhibition, some nice sized Enterprises. Thank you for posting.

All of those are scratch built? Wow!! Some of the figures look like scaled down reality and that's on film!! Good job Wayne

Thanks for going Wayne and showing just amazing stuff

Ya jammy bugger lol, I hope you had an amazing time, what sold it all for me though was the kids stuff coming through from such young talent, modelling in the future is in very safe hands. Thank you.

it was nice to see you in person and find out that you are nice in person as you are on your channel.

Great works, great images!!!!!

Excellent showing! And some fine damn camera work to boot. You really can enjoy the displays without a bunch of shaker cam effects 👍🏻

Hi Wayne thank you so much for sharing this show as we cannot get there some of the models are just unbelievable enjoy your time there 😊

Fantastic job ❤

Those fully lit up Star Trek kits were amazing looking. I would live to kearn hiw theg build them and try it on the kits i have.

So many gifted and talented artists!!! Amazing work everyone!!!

Absolutely brilliant and the care and attention to details was out of this world

Really great video and whilst personally not really into ScFi modelling I love the subjects and wonderful skills on show. There is some excellent talent on show and the boundaries are certainly been pushed in terms of the imaginative use of LED lighting. Really enjoyed the watch……thanks for posting…….👍

That was some amazing modeling talent being displayed on the floor. You covered it very well and, thank you for bringing back some old Sci-Fi memories.

Some amazing builds...but the one that really tickled my funny bone was "Thomas the Tie Fighter" LOL!

Can't believe somebody made the planet eating turd probe from original star trek!😂😂I love that episode.This is the high quality model building that was once on movie screens before everything went cgi.Beautiful work.

16:44 "Thomas the Tie Fighter" made me smile. 😂

This came up randomly on opening RU-vid, and I loved it! Great to see the Universal monsters getting so much love still, and as for the skill and imagination - all I can say is Wow! Thomas the TIE fighter at 16:46 certainly made me smile ....😂

There is definitely a modelling renaissance going on. And people like you and Lou Dalmaso and Simon Mercs and Steve Neil laid the groundwork.

Amazing talent some people have and great video well done

You really captured the feeling of that room. Loads of great models built by very talented people. It was great seeing you again! See you next year!

That Star Trek Doomsday Machine...better than the one the original show used.😂😂😂 We have come a long way in 50 years with modelmaking.

So many cool things, Alien standing over newt beneath Hadley’s Hope, Lonestarr and Barf’s Winnebago, GunStar in its rack, Tron Recognizer, 2001 EVA pod, Lost In Space off-world Chariot, Hong Kong Phooey and a wild Aztec Lou.

The show looked amazing

I want that millenium falcon. It's my favorite star wars ship

There is some seriously high level awesomeness happening here. Man, Neal’s Nightmare on Elm Street diorama is absolutely jaw dropping🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

The hardest job...being a judge at this competition!

Wayne, A Ginormous Thank You for sharing an early look at the Wonderfest entries, Your videography is excellent and I have downloaded it to a Wonderfest file' Thanks again, and all the best to you and the rest of the "Gang"

Very nice walk a round video of the contest room!! Nice and slow around each table is very much appreciated! Especially for us who weren’t fortunate to be able to go!😎👍👍👍

Brilliant Wayne 😀 👍

Thanks and well…just WOW!

Wow! What an amazing display of fantastic work from the builders....my hats off to all of you, you all did such a fantastic job in your builds. I think I would go a bit nuts having to decide who wins what cause I would just say hell...give everyone 1st place lmao. Thanks for posting and sharing this video Wayne.

Their is a lot of talent out there fantastic models 😊

Thank you for sharing this great video Wayne 🥹

Wonderful models, so much to take in! Sometimes actually too much in one spot, I usually find it quite hard to focus on just one model at such shows. The presentation style has not changed over the last decades, it still is "put it on the table next to the other models, maybe a piece of paper showing what it is and who built it". Arts of work, just piled up. It may be my inner Monk, but seeing the "batch of "Bad Batch"-ships" not all going into the exact same direction felt unnatural :D. Thanks for sharing!!!

I recognized aztec Dummy’s work amongst the models, and then saw his cameo at the end of the aisle😂 I hope y’all have fun!

I live in Louisville ky, and this video was the first time i ever heard of a con like this. I also enjoy your videos and the models you have done. Please keep up the videos. I am learning alot from you and adding what i learn to my own model building.

Wonderfest has come so far since Larry Johnson started it as a toy flea market "show" back in the late 1980's. It was a great way for all of us to buy and sell the kits we loved and had difficulty finding pre-internet. We joined a modeling club that met at Mr. Gattis once a month, led by Lee Staton, who had Hollywood connections, and soon Lee brought a whole new experience to the show. Not long afterwards Lee took Wonderfest over after a vote was held during one of the meetings, threatening that he would quit and take his Hollywood connections with him if we didn't give him full control. Can't blame him, as he said, he was spending a lot of his own money and time and was getting no payment in return.

I was hoping to run into you this year at the convention, really enjoy your channel. I'll keep my eyes peeled today.

A fine selection of wonderfully recreated models in minature.. I really must make it out to the States and visit this fine celebration of all things Wonder'ful

I like your videos, I cast them to the TV ,you pick loverly music thanks.

I miss going. It's been like 3 or 4 years. I hope to be there next year. Wonderfest is so awesome.

Words cannot describe the talent these folks have. 17:44 Now, this is what folk want to build via large scale modelling.

Beautiful kits by so many talented modelers! Great video of the Wonderfest models and really nice camera filming! One day I hope to be there in person!

Great Job mate, spotted Lou a couple of times....Hope you guys had a great time....

Absolutely fantastic models, i really like the Salems lot vampire figurehead with " Danny Glick" at the window also the Cloverfield monster

I wasn’t aware Bill Krause finished Excalibur NCC-1664 as well. I thought he’d only bring the Enterprise-G. Really cool builds!

Thank you so so much for this. Such beautiful art…

Just got back from Wonderfest a few hours ago. Wow! The models were amazing this year. That Metropolis Maria was incredible, and someone did a fantastic Swamp Thing bust. Been going to Wonderfest on and off for about 30 years. Still SO much fun!

That looks like a great show. And there's Lou. You guys have a great time.

Thank you.

Muchas gracias por tu excelente video, es casi como estar ahí ❤

27:31, My dad's original scratch build.

So impressive to see all these works of art. My respect for each and every builder. Great video Wayne, thanks for sharing it with us. 👍

Well done Wayne and thanks for sharing. Amazing stuff!

Wow there is some real talent out there.

I like your video very much.Keep up the good work.Have a great day. Thank You

Cool, in just watched Gorgo last night. Neat to see a diorama of it

that was soo great and peaceful

Some great models. Particularly like the Jem H'adar Battlecruiser and the Enterprise G.

Loved the King Kongs😎😎

Beautiful mate, absolutely beautiful. There's some talented people out there! Still on the Kraken i see!

Wonderful video, lots of amazing models there. I loved pausing it and identifying some of them.

Would have liked to see more of that seven of nine. And that At-St done up like a Ww2 Sherman tank. So cool will probably have to rewatch multiple times. 🤯

Que grandes modelistas y trabajos maravillosos. Y a usted gracias por compartir el evento.

I would like to think you from my heart for you making this video on wonder fest 2023 I love to come oo wonder fest but you made it make me feel like I was there I hope one of those years ok can come to wonder fest I saw your models you did a great job on them I know your great modeler and painter to good luck and have a wonderful and great 👍😃 day take care

Wow - just wow

Nice photography 😋

The figures’ painting is 1st class - possibly the most difficult genre to master.

Wow!!! Thanks for this !! I hope to attend this eventually

Lots of amazing stuff in here but that giant Star Destroyer is absolutely insane. And are Bill Krause's starship models as clean and flawless in person as they always appear in pics?

Great to see Bill Krause, Randy Cooper and others bringing amazing work.