Rich Rockets Etc

From the Sci-Fi Movie 'Destination Moon'
Spaceship Luna in 1/200th scale.

A Wilco Modelsİ urethane resin kit painted with Testors Model Master Buffable Stainless Steel
and the base with fours shades of acrylic gray.

A couple of weeks before, at a local hobby store model building contest, it earned a 2nd place ribbon in Sci-Fi category. 
1st time entered in a contest!

Later it earned another Second Place Ribbon at the Super Con 2005 for Models in the Movies Category. 

 

Orange Dragon aka T' Char Got a 1st Place at the Super Con 2005 in the
Fantasy Category.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While the Treasure Guardian got second in the
Fantasy Category.  At another contest it was
awarded a first place.

 

 

 

 

Reheat Modelsİ 120mm Astronaut wearing the pressure suit the SR-71 and first five crews for the Space Shuttle wore.

Here is Commander John Young of STS-01 Columbia.  A multi-media kit that I entered in a local hobby store model building competition got first in the Figure category. 

Entered in the local VA Hospital Creatives Arts competition got 1st in Plastic Model category at the hospital, went to Regionals against hundreds of other entries and made the top three places.  From there to the Nationals for a second place. 

Most recently the annual Squadron Scale Fest 04 I entered him and won 1st for 'Larger
then 54mm Unmounted Figure'.

 

 

 

 

 

At NARCON 2002 I won first place in three out of four categories for model building. 

 Lft to Rt: 
The Icarus/Saturn 5 for Concepts and Proposals of ships that could have flown between 1950 and 2002. 
From the Icarus Project, MIT's concept of an asteroid interceptor.  I kit-bashed an Estesİ Apollo/Saturn 5 to make an Icarus/Saturn 5 originally built for an entry into a NAR competition event called Future/Fiction.  It has been entered into two model building contests winning 1st and 2nd place ribbons. It has been designed to fly under a cluster of 5 motors, ejects the warhead that pops open by a Perfect-Flite^TM Mini Timer releasing colored chalk to simulate the nuclear blast for Mission Points. 

USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, Galaxy Class for Ships of the Imagination, ships from Sci-Fi shows, books, movies, etc. (See below for complete description.) 

Estesİ Mercury/Redstone 7-Freedom 7, Alan Shepards ship, Factual Ships, the ships that flew between 1950 and 2002. (See below for complete description.)

The fourth category I didn't enter were Ships of the Future, concepts and proposals of ships of the future.

You can see the main prize, the box in my left hand, Kosrox'sİ 1/70th scale Saturn 1B.

Photo by James Gatrell using my camera.

 

On the left is a Plastic Model Conversion (PMC) of the Icarus/Saturn 5 from an old Monogramİ kit the MIT's Icarus Project.  In NAR competition for PMC you take a plastic model kit and make it fly.  See: http://nar.org/pinkbook/index.html  click on Plastic Model Conversion for rules. This one I built and flew for my Team "Duck and Cover" to win 1st place.

Center is an Estesİ Mercury/Redstone flying rocket kit that I improved and entered in two model building contests to win in both 1st place and it hasn't even flown yet. (See how I made it in DARS Shroudlines http://www.dars.org/newsletters/index.htm - Issue May - June 2001  (1.4M)
Need Adobe Reader to see PDF file.

On the right is the starship Enterprise 1701D, (see below)

Along side a Klingon D7 Battle Cruiser winning 2nd place at a local hobby store. NCC 1701-D Enterprise, the first time ever entered in competition won 1st place at a convention/art contest in the Star Trek Plastic Model category and then Best of Show Plastic Model (Trophy in the center).  Other contests it has taken home two more 1st places and a third at a IPMS (International Plastic Modelers Society) Con. The main things that helped in winning is the base of Oak is engraved with the Federation of Planets logo and that the lights of the ship work. Windows, engines and deflector dish light up. The collision lights blink.  There is a total of 20 wheat grain bulbs powered by four D 1.5 volts batteries and a computer chip (555 timer). 
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Back in 1999 the Austin Area Rocket Group, AARG, sponsored a competition event called Rockemole 99.  For the first time the NAR's new event Future/Fiction was held in the state of Texas and I entered this A9.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The A9 was a German concept of a 2 stage Transatlantic Ballistic Missile Hitler was to launch at the US during WWII.  To be piloted til locked on target, then the pilot would eject to be picked up by hidden U Boat off the East coast.  My entry is scratch using patterns from other V2s that I had built and using the basic body of one already started. Added wings of styrene plastic, turned a 1/2" dowel in a drill press into the shape of a tear drop then sliced in half for the cockpit. Free hand air brushed the paint job and with decals from a Panzer tank and ME 109 plastic kits came up with my entry.  After an unsafe false launch was able to adjust the nose weight and then had a very successful flight to win 1st place.  I then took a picture of it and it was posted on the web site V2rocket.com to be seen by an author of documentary books.  His newest issue 'Target: America" is now out and the photo above with a write up of the model is in the book. 
In February received an Email with a Permission to Use Image Form to Fax back to Lou Reda Productions so that they can use it in their program for the Discovery Military Channel hopefully some time this summer (2006).
Update April 3rd: Lou Reda Productions will air the program on June the 1st, check your local listings.
Never saw it, did not hear from them again, never got a copy of the show.
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 V1 Killer

Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIV From Hasegawa in 1/72nd scale.
The pilot figure is also from Hasegawa.

Decals from Super Scaleİ are the markings of Squadron. Leader R. Newbery Co No. 610 Squadron., West Malling 1944 
Ace for shooting down 7 V1 Buzz Bombs

Won a 1st at both a local Hobby store contest as well as in the VA Creative Arts Competition for Plastic Models Category.

Marauder Titan Kitbashed Battletech playing piece.
A 'Kitbashed' Battletech mini made from a Starwars AT-ST,
Mechton and Battletech Mech parts. Also includes some
scratch pieces of tubing and wiring to make gun barrels and
hydralic pistons.
Got 3rd Place in Film & Media Fictional Ground Vehicles All Scales
because it has been in novels, comics and cartoons.