2010 i Hobby Expo near Chicago

[T Bolt]

I went to the i Hobby Expo today in Rosemont IL near Chicago with my son Jack today and thought I would post a few pictures I took that might be of interest. Sorry about the picture quality but I only had the point and shoot with me at the time.

Pictures 1 2 A test shot of a Trumpeter 1/32 Spitfire (Mk.V I think) the detail looked excellent
Picture 3 What looked like a build of a Dragon bf-109E test shot, but it might of just been a conversion. as you can see the sign didn't give much info..
Pictures 4 to 7 Some built up Polar Lights Star Trek models with incredible masking jobs. It must have taken the guy months to mask one of these.
Pictures 8 to 10 Some guy had 3 radio controlled, gasoline powered German tanks he was fireing up and driving around. One had a water pistol in place of the machine gun and he was shooting the kids in the crowd.
Pictures 11 12 There was a make it and take it event that Jack went to and got his first experience with an airbrush. I guess I can let him use mine now.
Picture 13 Jack posing with the General Lee. Unfortunately Daisy Duke was not present.

 

[N4521U]

FANTASTIC Star Trek stuff........

Only in Ahmericah could you find mini Tanks!
So now you "guess" he can use the air brush?

Looks like a bang up time you had. Good job.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Those tanks do look like they would be fun!

I like the Reliant, it's well done.

 

[Matt308]

Good pics. Any more?

 

[Airframes]

Great stuff Glenn, and looks like jack enjoyed himself.
That PzKw III is rather large - the Panther and Jagdpanther would be huge if the same scale !
Don't like the look of the Bf109E - the nose looks all wrong, especially with the 'capped' spinner being so pointed.

 

[T Bolt]

Good pics. Any more?

Afraid not Matt I didn't think about taking pictures until we were at the test shots which was near the end of our tour of the modeling section. I do have quite a few pics of the Lego section though.

Great stuff Glenn, and looks like jack enjoyed himself.
That PzKw III is rather large - the Panther and Jagdpanther would be huge if the same scale !
Don't like the look of the Bf109E - the nose looks all wrong, especially with the 'capped' spinner being so pointed.

Now that you mention it that spinner does look rather pointed. I don't know what the story behind it was. It almost looks like conversion parts for the nose. Does Dragon have a 1/32 109G? Maybe there fooling around with the idea of coming out with an E and that was some sort of mock-up. I remember about 7 or 8 years ago at the same show AMTech had a booth there with mock-ups of the P-37 and P-40Q that looked really cool. I talked with the guy and told him my dad had worked on a P-37 during the war and he got real interested, said it was going to come out in a year or two. I waited for years and never saw either of them come out.

 

[Matt308]

Well done anyway, buddy. Hope Jack had a blast. Perhaps in a few years he can peruse the site.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[T Bolt]

Hope Jack had a blast. Perhaps in a few years he can peruse the site.

He's already a member, T Bolt Jr. He did a MiG-15 for the cold war group build than his interest sort of petered out (I think the new XBox360 had something to do with it), but I think maybe the expo has him wanting to do another one. He was asking me if I had a P-40 he could do.

 

[Wurger]

Really a very good stuff here. THX for posting. Also I agree with you guys that the Bf109E looks quite odd.My first thought has been , it was P-40.

 

[Wayne Little]

Great pics Glenn...

That 109 spinner .....just looks so wrong....