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  • Birthday 04/16/1954

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    Tampa, Florida
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    Scale model building of all types; American and world history; science; religious studies; flight; grandchildren; travel; antique car and motorcycle restoration

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  1.    CDW reacted to a post in a topic: 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
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  4. CDW
    With the exception of the Sherman tank at the bottom left, these are all the kits I won in the raffle drawings at the Pelicon 2025 model show last Saturday. The Panther and Crane kit has a ton of plastic sprues inside. The vendor selling the Sherman was asking a price I could not turn down, so I brought it home via a purchase.
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  13. CDW
    Decals are Cartograph, clear coat is Mr Color Super Clear III lacquer reduced with Mr Color leveling thinner.
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  15. CDW started following Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden "George" by Javlin - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1/32 - PLASTIC
  16. CDW
    Outstanding model Kevin. I really love the chipping affects you achieved.
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  23. CDW
    Instrument panel. Not a lot to work with, rather spartan.
  24. CDW
    Managed to get the piping laid down on the seats. Tedious. Seatbelts next.
  25. CDW
    Best of Show winner at Pelicon 2025
  26. CDW
    Not exactly sure but guess most are from Florida perhaps with a scattering from other nearby states. One thing is for sure, the members of our hobby, for the most part, are becoming more advanced in age shall we say. Not more than a relative handful of youth attended. Mist of my photos were taken early in the day. Many more models showed up later but taking photos was complicated by all the traffic around the display tables. Easily there were a hundred or more contestants and even multiple more models on display.
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    Thanks for the kind comments, all. The small raffle tickets were $1 each, I bought 20. The big raffle tickets were $5 each, I bought 6. After you bought your tickets, you could drop as many as you wanted into each category bucket. The categories were divided between automotive, armor, aircraft, ships, or supplies. All the proceeds from the raffle go to support the host club while the prizes were donated by individual members and local businesses, some national businesses. I don't know why, but I'm mostly always lucky when it comes to these type raffles. Lotto, not so much. Here are some select photos of the myriads of scale models that were on display.
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    The Pelicon 2025 show was a blast! Many, many, high quality models on didplay. Hundreds of people attended. There were raffle drawings every hour in numerous categories with a grand prize raffle at the final hour with some excellent prizes. I managed to win six of the smaller hourly raffles and two of the grand raffles! I felt like a bandit. I managed to win one silver and two bronze medals with my four entries, for which I was grateful. I took a ton of photos but won’t post all of them now at this late hour. What I will post are photographs of Nestor Espinoza’s Nationals winner, the Maserati 250F by MFH. An extraordinary, beautiful build. Nestor is a resident of Tampa who has published work from Mig Ammo.
  32. CDW
    Will do! I'm bringing a wagon. 😁
  33. CDW
    Along with the Porsche Carrera GT, Kawasaki Ninja, Honda RC166, "Betty" the Bugatti T35B will be going with me to Pelicon 2025, an IPMS regional show, here in Tampa, Florida, tomorrow. I always look forward to this event as it is a wonderful display of modeling talent from all over the southeastern USA. Not to mention a mountain of vendors. So much to see there!
  34. CDW
    .3mm Plastruct rod to simulate the white piping used on the red leather seats of the Testa Rossa.
  35. CDW
    Sometime long ago I bought this very small gauge insulated copper wire for ignition wiring on 1:24 scale models. I cannot remember who I bought it from. I’ll look for more this coming Saturday at the model show. That’s probably where I bought it the last time.
  36. CDW
    Test fitting engine to chassis for fit. Everything looks positive. This is the kit engine.

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