¶ Model Show Recap and Future Plans
Well , Mojovia , welcome to the October installment of the 12-Minute Model Sphere . Dave , how are you doing ?
Doing good . How are you doing ? I'm all right . It's nice to have power , isn't it ?
It is , it is . It's nice to have electricity . It's been an interesting couple of weeks , but I think I'm going to save that until Episode 125's what's Up in your Model Sphere , because we can go on for a while . Yeah well , I'm just glad you've got power so we can record again .
Well , we'll get to tease that a little more , because we always start this thing off with where we've been and where we're going for the coming month , and I'll let you start that one off .
Where we've been . Well , some of us have been to Shepherdsville , kentucky .
Our local club here , the Military Modelers Club of Louisville , held its annual invitational show and this year they moved back to Pariquet Springs , which is a convention center in Shepherdsville , kentucky , and it was scheduled for Saturday , the 28th , which many people will remember as the day after the hurricane hit Tennessee , kentucky , georgia , north Carolina .
So it was a little wet , it was rainy , but the facility had power and it didn't seem to hurt attendance much at all . I think there was one vendor who couldn't make it and I know there were a few modelers who had been planning to come but didn't . Yeah , I do too . Yeah , it was a great show .
Got to catch up with Inch High , Jeff Groves , warren Dickinson , lee Fogle , got to see a lot of listeners , great contest , 432 models , great vendor area . I managed to find things to buy and , as always , a fantastic raffle Frankly the best raffle at any model show that I've ever been to , and it was a fantastic time .
I had a great time and , again , we urge people to go to contests because of the fact that they're fun and it's not just .
You get to see a lot of really nice models , although you did get to see that there were some great models on the tables , but the important part was the spending time with modeling friends and making new modeling friends had a great time .
Well , I'm glad you did while I was at home keeping up morale in a house with no power and pouring rain . So I'm done shooting my mouth off about see you on Saturday . And here's where I'm going to be and what I'm going to do , because you just never know .
But the plan is for us to hopefully both be in attendance at the MMSI show in Schaumburg , illinois , up in Chicagoland , a little later in the month . Yep , the room is booked , but the gremlins haven't crept into the machinery yet .
Well , let's hope they don't . Let's hope they don't . Right , you've had your serving of gremlins for the month .
It was unfortunate , but I was not able to make good on my plans to be at the MMCL show . So hopefully you and I and a bunch of our friends will be in Chicago taking that show in for the first time in a long time .
Yep , I'm looking forward to this . Mmsi is just such a really great show and because it's figure focused , it's different , just like the same way we went to the Amps National earlier this year , and while it's a model show , it's just different because the focus is concentrated .
Same thing applies at MMSI you get to see a lot of beautiful modeling and creative art that you might not even get exposed to at a regular model show .
Well , dave , october is a two-episode month . We've got episode 125 and 126 come up , but like the ripples in the pond , it's spread ever outward . The residual effects of not being able to attend the show means our planned episode to cover the MMCL show with the on-site recording and all that jazz never happened , yep , yep .
So what we're going to do for episode 125 , since this segment or this show format has gotten kind of popular , since we've done it twice already , we're going to have another shop talk . We'll cover three or four topics at a little more depth , as we've done in the prior episodes , and hopefully we'll come up with some good ones , dave .
Yep , I think that I think we've got some stuff to talk about there . There's some interesting conversations to be had . I think we've got some stuff to talk about . There's some interesting conversations to be had .
I think so . Well , a little later in the month we're going to have episode 126 . And right now we're going to kind of cop out and we're going to call that the mystery episode .
We have plans , but we don't have them firmed up yet .
That's right .
We don't want to advertise and not deliver . We'd rather keep you on tender hooks .
I've already done that once .
Well , again , none of that was anything but gremlins in the machine .
So hopefully our plans will come through and we'll piece that together and episode 126 will be what we have in mind . If not , we'll have to pivot and no one will be the wiser . That's right . It'll look like we have in mind . If not , we'll have to pivot and no one will be the wiser .
That's right . It'll look like we planned it all .
Well , it didn't rain out , the dojo .
No , it did not rain out . The dojo the dojo is hopping as of this recording . The dojo has 4,939 members . The dojo has 4,939 members and I'd like everyone who's listening who's a dojo member go to your Facebook friends list and invite all of the modelers who are in your circle who aren't already dojo members . Please invite them to join the dojo .
We'd love to get over 5,000 . And the best way again , just like the podcast , the best way for us to get new dojo members is to have current dojo members recommend .
Well , I'll go one further , because the Plastic Model Mojo Facebook page still outpaces the dojo . So everyone who's following us on the Facebook page is not a member of the dojo , gotcha . So if you're following us on Facebook , just the Plastic Model Mojo Facebook page , not our dojo group slide on over to the dojo and join and get in on the fun .
Absolutely , because there's a lot going on in the dojo . There's a lot of good builds going on . Like I said , we're seeing regular posts from a lot of really talented modelers across the entire spectrum of modeling . Plus , we're getting and again it's fall show season and we're now getting people who attend shows to post show photos .
Our friends Evan McCallum and Ian McCauley up in Ottawa posted photos of the local show that their hobby shop up there , the Hobby Center , puts on . It's kind of car-focused but not exclusive to cars and man . There are a lot of talented car modelers out there . I mean I was really impressed with some of the photographs that were posted .
Well , along those same lines , Dave . Also we want to shout out Steve Hustad and Jeff Groves Inch High Guy , because Steve went to Nordicon , yes , and posted a crap ton of pictures from that show , yes , and Jeff Groves has done the same from the MMCO .
Yes , he did . Yes , he did , and it was nice to get to see Jeff in person . It was nice to sit down with Jeff . It was nice to go have lunch at the fish restaurant that's right in front of the convention center , which , by the way , folks , I can highly recommend the place called the Fish House in Shepherdsville Kentucky . Really good fish .
Well , I like it when the folks post those massive photo dumps because , I'll be honest , I don't like to go around and take all those pictures . It's never been my thing , because I've never been one , to go back and look at them yeah .
Although you know what's a great way to if you do take those pictures to handle that you know . I know some people put them as a screensaver and they do a slideshow on their computer , which is one good way to do it .
But now these massive digital picture frames where for $100 , you can get a 12 , 14 , or 16-inch frame and you can basically load up all of those photos and have them running hanging on your wall in your model room .
You can put them in the family room although the wife's probably going to object to that one but it's a great way to actually see all of those old pictures from old shows . And it's amazing when you look back at some of the amazing models that you saw and then you forgot about until you see the picture again .
Well , once more , I'd like to thank all those folks who are doing that and encourage you to keep it up . It's really appreciated , it is Very much so .
¶ Upcoming Projects Announcement
Well , folks , that is it for October , and hopefully we'll bring you two great episodes , and you might get surprised by a few shorts dropped in between as well .
Yep , we're working for you . We're working . We've got lots of ideas percolating , so hopefully you'll see a lot of things from us in the coming few months .
Talk to you in 125 , Dave .
You got it . I'll see you next time .