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Post by carlos on May 28, 2010 1:24:18 GMT -5
Last February the second most important model contest event in Mexico was held in Leon, Guanajuato (the number one being the Nationals held every year at Mexico City) I had the chance to have a friend living there take some of my models to the contest and surprinsingly a week a go after reviewing the just uploaded pictures of the winners in the contest website I found out that one of my planes got a first price! Here is a picture from the website of the ¨Mapaches¨ Leon´s IPMS club The category was single engine post WWII planes at 1/72 scale Here is a link to their whole set of pictures which have some really neat models.. public.fotki.com/admingml/11-evento-len-2010-/resultados-categoras/I just wanted to share this news with all of you as I have always known that this contest is a tough one full of very good modelers and models of course, so being a winner makes me feel proud of my work still there is a lot to learn and experiment but that is part of the hobby, thanks!
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Post by Daniel C on May 28, 2010 11:23:35 GMT -5
Congrats Carlos! That is a nice looking colorful aircraft, what kit??
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Post by mexmarine on May 28, 2010 12:43:06 GMT -5
Congratulations Carlos, you know I love the PC-7, Your EMA colors look great!
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Post by carlos on May 28, 2010 21:04:06 GMT -5
Thanks guys!! And sorry but I forgot to write the model info! The model is from Aeroclub 1/72 scale with white metal parts and vacuformed canopy. I thought at first that it was resin but no aparently is PS but done like a resin mold instead of injected sprue and it represents a trainer from the Mexican FAM.
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Post by Gabriel on May 29, 2010 0:39:38 GMT -5
Hey Bro !!! Nice, and congratulations !! I know is hard to get a first place in Leon, the second great show in Mexico, I have a second place with my Half track and it was hard...
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Post by slowbuild on May 29, 2010 2:31:43 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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Post by carlos on Jun 2, 2010 1:41:00 GMT -5
Thanks guys and to top it off I just got news from the front.. I have won another pirce at the newly contest held in the city of Zacatecas (in the state of Zacatecas) with another of my model airplanes, still I don´t know which one was the lucky one but for sure I have another price. The event happen this weekend and is the first event made by the newly formed IPMS ¨La Bufa¨ Zacatecas, Here are a couple of pictures from early in the show were you can see fellow friends from IPMS Mexico Beto and Jessy as well as Marco (for the ones that don´t know them, Beto and Jessy are one of the best armor modellers I know and Marco was main judge of whom I had the opportunity to work with during the National event in Mexico judging some of the airplanes categories)
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