PENNCON 2012 Central Pensylvania IPMS Show - Awards

As I wrote in previous post, on September 15th I attended Penncon 2012 Show, organized by folks from Central Pensylvania IPMS. This year I placed on the tables 6 of my models, and I brought home some awards :) In fact, each one of my models received the medal :) It was quite successful day...
Thank you guys!

Penncon 2012 - Awards

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NCMSS 51st Annual Washington Show 2012

On September 8th I attended 51st Annual Washington Show, organized by The National Capital Model Soldier Society. Like every year, it was really nice and cozy meet, even it's one of the smaller shows.
They mainly focus on figures painting, with growing number of wargaming miniatures, but they also welcome all the ordnance models and dioramas.
As usual, I spent a great time talking with some old and new friends, and of course burning some cash in vendor's area :) Even the power outage toward the end of the show, caused by massive storm (and tornado warning!), did not ruin this great day.
Many thanks to folks from NCMSS for this nice event!

This year my figures and models were noticed by the judges (in previous years as well :)) and I brought home some awards.

NCMSS 2012 Awards

32mm Agent Nina received Bronze Medal

32mm Agent Nina - NCMSS Bronze Medal

You can see her gallery here: 32mm Agent Nina Gallery

28mm Mordor Stormtrooper received also Bronze Medal

28mm Mordor Stormtrooper - NCMSS Bronze Medal

 You can see his gallery here: 28mm Mordor Stormtrooper Gallery

And finally my ordnance display with "Cat & Mouse" was awarded Silver Medal

"Cat & Mouse" gallery is here: 1/72 "Cat & Mouse" Gallery

While browsing vendors' area, surprisingly I found the figure kit I wasn't aware of... :)

Stay tuned...

1/72 "Cat & Mouse" MAUS Dragon - Gallery

More pictures from my completed "Cat & Mouse" project. I used model of Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus (Dragon), resin building walls (Tiger Dioramics), resin cobblestone street (own production), crew figures - mix of resin & plastic figures, infantry from WWII German Army with Camouflage Cape set (Ceasar Miniatures).

1/72 Maus Dragon Diorama

1/72 Maus Dragon Diorama

1/72 MAUS Dragon - Completed

Finally Cat & Maus project is finished and I found some time to get the pictures. Everyone knows why Maus (Mouse), but where is cat? Now, you'll know 
Everything assembled and mounted on the base. Here's the result (probably could be better...).

1/72 Maus Dragon Diorama

1/72 Maus Dragon Diorama

1/72 MAUS Dragon - Workbench part 8

Again, a little step forward... I did a little bit more work on city scene. I added mixes of various pigments to get more dusty, full of debris look, followed by weathering with artistic oils. The street lamp received its top and some shattered glass inside.
I also decided to add two German posters from the period (printed on laser printer). Results are below:

1/72 MAUS Dragon - Workbench part 7

At last I got to the step where more colors start to show up. All the elements received number of acrylic colors, followed by some oil washed (here and there...). Below are the results.

1/72 MAUS Dragon - Workbench part 6

Long time passed by since I did any work on this project... but eventually Little Boss allowed for some activity.
I've added some rubble and debris on the base.

1/72 MAUS Dragon - Workbench part 5

Small progress, despite constant time shortage...
I casted from resin two parts of cobblestone street with sidewalk and assembled one base from its partials. Dug out some ruins from my collection, which initiated my work on the base.

1/72 MAUS Dragon - Workbench part 3

Spending evening at the workbench, I could not abandon my little Maus :)
Maybe it's not too much progress, but at least I'm moving forward.

1/72 MAUS Dragon - Workbench part 2

 In previous part, I ended up with Maus painted with base color. Sometimes I have crazy ideas, and decided to try Digi Camo on this beast. Initially I thought it would be much quicker, but apparently I was wrong. Let me cover this process step by step...
It takes masking tape, scalpel, and lot of free time accompanied with patience. First masking layer on.

1/72 German Panzerkampfwagen VIII MAUS Dragon - Workbench

During one club meetings I bought Maus tank model kit from one of the members. Initially I was little bit hesitant, but he convinced me I should give it a shot since I already have built E-100.
Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in late 1944. It is the heaviest fully enclosed armoured fighting vehicle ever built.
The complete vehicle was 10.2 metres (33 ft 6 in) long, 3.71 metres (12 ft 2 in) wide and 3.63 metres (11.9 ft) tall.
Weighing 200 metric tons, the Maus's main armament was a 128 mm KwK 44 gun with a coaxial 75 mm gun. The 128 mm gun was powerful enough to destroy all enemy armored fighting vehicles at close or medium ranges, and even some at ranges exceeding 3500 meters.