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Finally, getting around to posting up the pictures from SCGMC 2024

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Post published:January 31, 2025
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It’s been a busy end of 2024, hell, most of 2024 was crazy busy for me. Finally getting around to posting up the pictures from the show

Here are some quick stats for the show this year. We have a total of 122 individual entrants. And a total of 310 model entries. That’s crazy.

Here is a screen cap of our winners list

Note that our Theme and Experts only have a single winner but our calculating spreadsheet shows the two runners up. Also notice how close some of the first, second, and third place winners are in points. You guys are getting crazy good! We’re also working on improving judging and going to try to do more splits for categories that are huge.

Remember, the theme for this coming year’s SCGMC is ROBOCROSS; broken down, you can see Robotech and Macross, but with any of our themes, just by name alone, we know you guys will run with that and throw us some very creative takes on the theme. See you all in November!

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SCGMC 2017!

Post author:GameraBaenre
Post published:November 5, 2017
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It’s November, and another SCGMC has come and gone. We had another great turnout this year. We added even more vendors this year and the room was filled with all kinds of gunpla goodies from vintage kits, to resin add ons, to the latest release, to non gunpla mecha and anime figure goodness! We had folks come down from NorCal, folks up from San Diego, and even folks flying in from the east coast – Virginia, South Carolina, and Boston just off the top of my head. We changed our layout a little moving our demo area to the stage which created much more space for the entry tables as well as vendor space. Our special event shirts almost sold out too. It’s great to hear people come to the show and the first thing they do is run over to the shirt table and look for this year’s latest designs. It’s also awesome to run into someone wearing the shirts randomly out on the streets!

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10 months until SCGMC 2017

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Post published:January 12, 2017
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It's never too early to start working on your SCGMC projects. Hell, work on your projects for GBWC and the various other contests that happen throughout the year. TatsuHobby is having a Blue VS Yellow contest at the beginning of…

SCGMC 2016 is over, here’s what happened!

Post author:GameraBaenre
Post published:November 13, 2016
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For those that don’t know what SCGMC is, it’s the Southern California Gundam Model Competition. This was our 6th year hosting this competition; and even though there was a big convention happening the same weekend (Pacific Media Expo – PMX) we still did quite well. We had 280 people in attendance. Of that, 87 entered the contest with 178 entries. Yes, 178 individual entries. One guy was responsible for about 17 kits. We had people travel from Arizona, Vancouver Canada, Minnesota, Seattle, and Virginia specifically for this show. Without any doubts, this is THE BIGGEST LIVE GUNPLA contest in North America. We had several live demos that had actual hands on experience with airbrushing, water slide decal application, and photography. We set up two photography booths so that once judging was done, the entrants could grab their kits and take some professional pictures of the kits after learning how to take pictures with the live demo. We had 6 vendors including ABC Toy 4 Me, Robot 4 Less, Robo Toy Fest, Tatsu Hobby, Modelers Alley Creative Studios, and Volks Hobby USA.

More details about the show after the jump!

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