Terry arrived early so we can fix his airbrush. I took the airbrush apart and threw the front parts into a cup of lacquer thinner and ran the stuff through my ultrasonic cleaner. The nozzle was damaged so we went out to Coast Airbrush to pick up parts. Folks started arriving around 1:30 and everyone sat down and started building. I sat down and started working on my Kanu. We had a few new guys come out. Here are a few quick shots of folks building stuff.

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A few more folks trickled in, this was a smaller gathering, something around 15-17 people were here building. I had three racks of baby back ribs that I had dry rubbed earlier in the week. The day before the gathering, I slow cooked them for about 6 hours at 200 degrees. Brian bought over a big bowl of marinated chicken wings that I had Trisha and her friend help skewer so that it would be much easier to cook. And while I was busy cooking and helping folks out with various techniques, the jackals at my table did this to poor kanu…

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After dinner, we started up Rock Band as usual and a few folks that have heard us play so often in previous gatherings, that they made their way over and rocked out on their own….

Shun has a great voice, too bad he’s picky about the songs he likes and wants to sing…

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Shari too has a beautiful voice, she definitely should have sung a little louder and dropped the game vocals.

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Click here for more pictures from this model build gathering.

Next build gathering is gonna be a ways off due to Mikomicon (September 19-21), so the next gathering will be Saturday, September 27, 2008. See you guys there. By then, we should have the webcam broadcast/interaction thing figured out.

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