On Saturday April 30, Brookhurst Hobbies hosted their fourth Spruefest contest at their location. They had some 581 model entries on the tables. There were more models than that as a number of them were collections.
Here's some pics I took during the show. Granted, these are the ones that caught my attention the most.
General pics of the room. This is normally the game room where gamers come to play, and on Tuesday, they have the Sprue Cutters model builders club. Yes, it is a bit small, but they made it work.
We also had a number of importers/distributors showing some of the latest releases as well as what's coming. Here's some shots of those displays:
Now, here's some of the aircraft entered:
The 1/32 Lancaster:
A chrome plane; I think he plated it. It's too smooth to be paint:
Awesome artwork on this 1/32 scale Eagle"
Navy COD. You don't see these built every day. I believe it's 1/48 scale:
a 1/72 scale Tu-142 Bear:
Here's a shot of that same Bear next to other 1/72 scale aircraft to show size reference:
1/32nd scale Swallow; the engines and nose cannons scratch built:
A close up of some of that detail:
Some helicopters:
Excellent WWI biplane:
A two-seat A-10 Warthog:
This one rocked! Love the umbrella:
More to come in subsequent posts...
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Adding to this, here is some of the armor that most caught my eye. I'll be posting a few, as I took about 175 pics at this show.
I'll start with the Braille Scale entries to get them out of the way..
These are the Braille Scale armor entered that were not mine:
First is this game set; I believe it is 1/100 scale:
1/72 scale armor:
This one placed first in category:
Now all the entries by the same guy who focuses on knocked out and/or abandoned vehicles. His ability to capture this look is uncanny:
This was found in one of the civilian vehicles categories:
Now for some well-done 1/35th scale armor:
A fully loaded StuG:
Escorted by fully loaded Panther:
1/12th or 1/16th scale Japanese Type 10:
That's all the armor I have time to post. Next up: Automobiles!
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Here are the automotive categories, starting with this interesting piece:
Some interesting Big Rig mods:
We had a surprising number of rusted out and/or abandoned cars on the tables this year. Here's one:
That's about all the cars I have. I'll add more to this by showing some of the interesting miscellaneous models.
This first one was hilarious!
The detail he did to this little ship was amazing:
Here's some more:
I love the planking on this:
I want to do something like this someday for a photo base:
This is a 1/16 scale Panther modified into a Bergepanther. All interior detail is scratch built:
A close up of that interior:
Some Ships armaments...
Curious....
This is a 1/16th scale Sheridan, fully motorized:
Gotta love Batman!
Finally a couple of collections:
All the Pearl Harbor Battleships which were on Battleship Row:
All the M-48 variants built by one guy for the SoCal AMPS Nationals Group Build:
That's all these for now. Next up: Sci-fi!
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We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
Here are the interesting Sci-Fi subjects that were entered. This first one was very cool:
This one lights up:
Interesting Warhammer diorama:
And of course, you can't have Sci-Fi without Star Wars!
The Mandalorian...
...and his replacement ship:
Finally Best of Show overall is this four-foot-long Blockade Runner fully scratchbuilt:
Now I'll show some ships, subs and a couple figures and dioramas that caught my eye:
Best Ship and Theme Award: 1/350 scale USS Langley:
This one is hilarious!
Anime Wonder Woman... interesting...
Go Navy!
And that completes this showing from the Brookhurst Hobbies Spruefest 2022.
The Duke Virtuoso of Miniatures
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That looks like a good showing, Duke. That F-15 caught my eye in particular, love it! I see only one young lad, the rest are seasoned ladies and gents. We got our work cut our for us, don't we? Thanks for posting, Duke!
Post by mustang1989 on May 7, 2022 11:11:57 GMT -6
Wow!!!! What a show that turned out to be Mark. That Lanc caught my eye as did that F-15. I noticed that too about the age demographic. Thanks for sharing this bud as I know it was a lot of work to organize and post all of this.
Thank you guys for your awesome comments. I agree about the Lanc and Eagle. What stunning work!
As for the age; there were a good number of kids there, I just didn't post the pic I took of the Juniors/Young Adult table. I should have done that. But yeah, the ratio is quite heavily skewed as you have noted. We definitely have our work cut out for us indeed!
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Post by Dukemaddog on May 11, 2022 14:35:58 GMT -6
Thank you Joe! Yes, it was a very fun show!
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Post by Dukemaddog on May 12, 2022 11:45:13 GMT -6
Thank you John! Yes, there were some truly inspirational pieces there.
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Post by Dukemaddog on May 18, 2022 15:20:08 GMT -6
Thank you Jed!
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mike: I have been looking at our posts and noticed that little blue squares with question marks inside show up instead of pictures. Has anyone else noticed this? I am using an iPad.
Apr 15, 2024 10:41:03 GMT -6
JCON: Pics are all showing for me Mike?
Apr 21, 2024 13:57:19 GMT -6