{"id":652,"date":"2009-03-02T11:23:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T19:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2009-03-03T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T19:27:56","slug":"pasadena-modelers-societys-valley-con-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Pasadena Modelers Society’s Valley Con 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past Sunday was Pasadena Modelers Society’s annual model contest; Valley Con. I forced a good number of the model build group folks to coming out and entering. Granted the PMS club is a little bit of a good ole boys club, but I go for the inspiration of different kits and build styles.<\/p>\n

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I’m slowly getting more folks to finish competition level kits, so it’s great to see a full table of gunpla. I’m looking forward to Orange Con in October as I’m sure I can get even more folks to enter in the fall. So long as I keep the model build gatherings going and keep pushing folks to finish projects and such. I entered Dan’s (Funaka) Sazabi as he has work on Sundays, Terry entered his RGM-79[G], Travis with his Hygogg, Angel with Mega Maid(MG Perfect Zeong) and Refined Zeta Gundam, and I entered the Nu twins and the recently completed Musha Gundam.<\/p>\n

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Brandon and I entered our anime figures into the “60mm and larger figure” category. There was a Science Fiction Creatures category, so we decided that our figures fit better into the first category. I think we got snubbed because of our category choice. Oh well. At Orange Con, they actually have a fantasy or anime figure category under the “Figure” umbrella. Brandon brought his Cammy he finished earlier in the week, and I brought my Asagi, Yoko, and Kanu.<\/p>\n

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There were a few helicopters on display, but here are the two that really caught my eye.<\/p>\n

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Cars on display. One of these days, I need to build a second car.<\/p>\n

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Tons of props.<\/p>\n

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Jets<\/p>\n

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Armor<\/p>\n

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This guy came into the show very late, so I don’t believe he actually entered, but just put up his stuff for display. Looking closely, one can start to pick out the various household items he used to build his little contraptions. Very inventive and creative. <\/p>\n

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The show was a good time, I think the women folk that Angel brought were bored to tears; good thing these events only happen once every so often. I did get to leave with a little award in the Science Fiction Hardware category for the Musha Gundam – which kinda annoyed some of the other folks that entered into the same category. But the problem is that with this and a good number of other contests; science fiction is not sub categorized well. Take some of the armor and aircraft for instance, we get pre wwII, wwII, post wwII, division by props, division by tracked or wheeled, division by soft skinned, etc etc. Science Fiction is still the red headed step child. Enough people known to discern Star Wars, Star Trek, and others; some contests actually discern things with mechanical bipedal vs mechanical vehicle.<\/p>\n

The folks in the model community complain that the hobby is slowly dying, but they continue to work to stifle things that a younger crowd may be interested in, mecha, anime, science fiction, etc. A good number of sci fi modelers are excellent armor, car, and aircraft modelers. Ok enough of my soap box. Again, Orange Con actually has a good level of sub categories for science fiction, and it isn’t a blanket category to cover all. There is an actual standalone “Gundam” category within the umbrella of science fiction.<\/p>\n

I took almost 200 pictures from the event, so click here for all the pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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