{"id":22,"date":"2007-08-26T02:20:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/WordPress\/?p=22"},"modified":"2007-09-24T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T22:20:46","slug":"22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"IPMS Nationals, 4 days of fun…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Click here for IPMS National Competition 2007 Pictures <\/a><\/p>\n

It’s 1:43 AM right now. Gtetra is in my workshop priming his GP04 conversion kit. CWModels is outside sitting with Acon chatting about anime, figures, shops, history, etc; Bhop is in the dining room working on gluing parts of his resin figure together; while I’m here uploading the hundreds of pictures I took and posting a report on the event…. Another successful model build night. Gtetra has had one beer, I’ve had one, and Bhop is on to his second or third… I haven’t really be paying much attention.<\/p>\n

The organization and running of the event was fairly rough from my perspective. I did some last minute volunteer work to help out where one of our more established members ran into some personal issues. I helped out with the registration section. From my understanding, after the computers were brought up, we were never given the database of pre-registered folks. We did not have the proper forms for folks registering at the event. It was a complete cluster f. I spent most of day 1 and day 2 placating angry mobs of grumpy old modelers. The registration and other issues with the event are way beyond my level of involvement in the event, and I’m a fairly new member to the club. I heard quite a few people scream “I’m resigning my IPMS membership”. Hellp Mr Douchbag, it’s only plastic. So enough about the troubles that I saw. I at the very least tried helping out. Many folks from the club and other clubs stood up to help out, very cool things to see happen.<\/p>\n

As a result of my experience in with the registration; I was able to meet a very lovely couple from Arizona. In an attempt to entertain the mass of disgruntled plastic geeks, I bought out my MG Gyan nad started to make it dance a little. The couple immediately in front of me asked, “so, is that some kind of toy?” *sigh* I then go on to take the thing apart and show the couple that it is in fact, a model. I then tell the couple that I will be giving three seminars on gunpla and resin figure building through the next three days. They came to every presentation. Much more than this is that I have made some great new friends in the model building community. Funny enough, after the initial presentation (where I showed the crowd my newly purchased 1\/20 Brutishdog by Bandai from HLJ) I saw the couple browsing the Gundam section of HLJ. They asked for some recommendation and I suggested the new Zaku II 2.0; however, then ended up buying a Brutishdog. There is a disturbance in the force…. we just might be able to turn another one towards the dark side….<\/p>\n

There were some incredible models at the event. Some I have seen at previous local IPMS shows, some dating back to the very first IPMS show that I entered… you can probably look back at the thumbnails from the previous years’ and pick them out. One modeler even brought in a total of 133 kits built by him alone. There was a ship that took the builder 20 years to complete. It required the builder to rent a uhal just to transport the kit (yes, he is a local member as well).<\/p>\n

I got to spend time with like minded modelers. Help some modelers open up a greater understanding of gunpla models. And I met some great new friends that I hope will stay in contact. And I believe that this is the sole reason one should attend such events.<\/p>\n

As an afterthought. Bhop (Brandon) won first place for his F1 in small scale<\/a>
\n He also won a second place in the Fantasy Figure’s (anime split) for his Quattro<\/a>
\n CWModels(chi) won a third place in the SciFi Vehicles (mecha split) for his VF-19 Macross Battroid<\/a>
\n And I got to win a first in the Fantasy Figure’s (Anime split) for my dark elf<\/a>
\n(which is a surprise since I figure’d Salya Mass would have taken it…)
\n And I took second for the SciFi dioramas for my newest work “Always watch your six Mischa” dio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click here for IPMS National Competition 2007 Pictures It’s 1:43 AM right now. Gtetra is in my workshop priming his GP04 conversion kit. CWModels is outside sitting with Acon chatting about anime, figures, shops, history, etc; Bhop is in the dining room working on gluing parts of his resin figure together; while I’m here uploading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-2","entry","owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","owp-btn-normal","owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","has-no-thumbnails","has-product-nav"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t