[WWI] Columbus Nats

[Dave Calhoun]

I was also there and managed to grab a Premier medal for my Lufbery boxed
display in the miscellaneous category, saw the excellent pigeon bus, a
scratchbuilt Zeppelin and many other excellent WW1 aircraft.  Unfortunately
did not meet anyone from the list, we spent Friday at the AF museum so went
to the 94th restaurant Saturday nite.  Lots of good vendors and I picked up
a couple Karaya kits and a Copper State Nieuport 6H for 50% off so not a bad
show!  Major problem sunday morning as someone broke into our truck and
smashed the window, damaged my 1/72 Nieuport 17 beyond repair, some minor
damage to a couple of Fokkers that is repairable and stole my 1/400 Titantic
kit I picked up for my girlfriend.  We got a replacement rental car but had
to jam 5 grown men into a Dodge Charger for the 700 mile trip home and
couldn't leave until 11:30 instead of our normal 6am. So a great week ended
on a sour note, but we all arrived home safe and sound around 1:30am this
morning.
Dave Calhoun

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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:33:36 -0400
From: Karen Rychlewski <krychski at earthlink.net>
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Looks like I'm one of the first to get back to a computer.

There were 1015 modelers registered and I think 2525 models entered;
OT aircraft  put up a good showing, with both the 1/72 and 1/48
categories split into two each for judging. OT aircraft also appeared
in Vacuform, Scratchbuilt, Small Aircraft Dioramas, OOB, and there
was a Collection of 20 planes of Jagdgeschwader 1. OT armor was very
light: couple of British Mk IVs, a Whippet, and 3 or 4 others.

As usual, a good time was had by all. I think I bumped into all the
listees attending at one time or another: John of the Outer Banks,
"Tex" Huggins, and Atlanta Buz were there and Toby Young flew in from
Ouagadougou (I'm not making that up);  Mike Robinson took 1st Place
in 1/48 Central Powers with a beautiful Lohner B.II and Mike Moore
took 3rd with an Albatros in the same category. List lurkers Bruce
Simard got at least 2 1sts for ot aircraft, and Doc Tom got a 1st for
an ot tank. The 'Pigeon Bus' by yours truly received a 2nd Place in
the Armor Conversions category. My apologies if I missed someone with
the awards, as I fled the "Aris and Bill" show for the competition
room (which unexpectedly was open during the award ceremony). So I
don't know who received the Mike Fritz award either. Let's wait for a
fuller list before starting the 'congrats' deluge.

Only two Wingnuts models were on the tables: an LVG and a Bristol
Fighter: they are awesome models to see and drew a lot of attention,
but not from the judges.

As noted by Matt, the 2011 Nats will be in Omaha?can't get too much
more central than that...

Karen
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