ROCON 2012 IPMS Rochester NY USA

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September 17, 2012
My 1:72 kitbash Lightning (Tumpeter/Matchbox) took first place in 1:72 Jet category, plus the award for best aircraft of the show.
2
September 17, 2012
My last flight Tomcat, 1:72 Hasegawa F-14D, garnered second place in the same category as my Lightning.
3
September 17, 2012
The 1:72 Mustang, from Revell of Germany, took second place in 1:72 Single Engine Prop category. First rate was an absolutely stellar 1:72 Monogram Bearcat. Completely rescribed, with many scratchbuilt components, It beat my Mustang by a mile!!
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September 17, 2012
My F-4EJ Kai took first place in the Aircraft Conversion (all scales) category (the original kit was an F-4F, and the wings and stabilizers needed modification, and a whole lot of ECM bumps and fairings also needed to be added).
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September 17, 2012
I entered this 1:72 Fujimi YSH-2E Seasprite LAMPS on a lark - I built this way back in 1989. Surprisingly, it took first place among six entries in the 1:72 Helicopter (all scales) category. I never expected that!
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September 17, 2012
My 1:72 CMR resin Buccaneer kit took first place in the "Out of the Box" category (all scales). Even though it's full of traditional aftermarket goodies, they were all in the box! Nothing else needed to be added.
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September 17, 2012
My Gannet (1:72 Revell of Germany) earned the Best Aircraft award last year, so I entered it in the "Masters" category. It won the category and got this neat "Best of the Masters" plaque.

Comments

2 17 September 2012, 00:39

Vitor Costa
Hi Bill many congratulations to you my friend. I didn't saw any of the other works but looking yours i know why you got so many trophies 😉.

Can you put a legend on it saying the kit/scale/and the category?

Congratulations again.

P.S. in the end the "ugliest" was the most beautiful.

Regards from Portugal

Vitor Costa

17 September 2012, 00:46

Bill Gilman
Hi Vitor, I think I was adding the captions while you were viewing the gallery! They've all been added now, so you can see some more detail about the awards. Cheers!

17 September 2012, 00:54

Vitor Costa
😉

Thank you 🙂

17 September 2012, 01:17

Frank Krause
Congratulations, Bill! Well deserved!

17 September 2012, 04:59

Christian Lehmann
Congratz Bill

17 September 2012, 05:24

Christian Keller
Hi Bill,

congratulations from switzerland too 🙂

17 September 2012, 05:34

Philip De Keyser
Congratz Bill with your awesome models, it's well deserved, greetz Phil

17 September 2012, 06:09

Wilfried Bogaerts
Hi Uncle, impressive models and well deserved trophy's, what a result, congratulations!!

Please stay away from the contests where I want to participate ! 😉 😉

All the best,
Your Wilfried

17 September 2012, 06:10

Steve Wilson
Oh! Well done Bill, great job suitably rewarded...

17 September 2012, 06:12

Holger Kranich
Hi Bill! If we where in germany, i would say that you have "ganz schön abgesahnt!" Great to see that others like your model as me! Ok, the F-14 was not on first place but i hope it will get it next time;)! And as Willy said, what a result!;)

Groetjes Holger

17 September 2012, 06:19

Bill Gilman
Thanks everyone! It was a good day, I didn't expect all of these awards, especially the helicopter. But I'll take it, as they say. Holger, second place for the Cat was OK considering first place was my Lightning! Judges are funny, I expected the F-14 would do better than the Lightning because of the salt painting technique, and because it's an American subject. But I think they took pity on the Lightning because of all the work I did to correct all of the Trumpeter errors. 🙂 🙂

Best of show was a model of the first US aircraft carrier, the Langley. I've got to get a picture of that to show you guys - it was freaking incredible!!

17 September 2012, 11:26

Luc B
congrats Bill!

17 September 2012, 11:28

babak chalangi
cant get my eyes off that beautiful Phantom and all the other models of your 🙂

17 September 2012, 11:33

Jan Goormans
congrats Bill 🙂
all of them look excellent !!

17 September 2012, 14:32

stefan natus
Thats a lot awards congrats bill!

17 September 2012, 18:15

Mike Kryza
Congratulation - Bill. Very fine "Art Of Modeling"!!!

17 September 2012, 18:38

Duncan Cook
You deserved it Bill! Great Work.

17 September 2012, 18:54

Augie
Nice going Bill!!!

17 September 2012, 20:23

berni
hello bill, congratulations on your earn many trophies!

17 September 2012, 21:41

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Here are my entries into our local contest this year. I forgot my camera and phone so I wasn't able to get any pictures of the other entries (and there were some good ones). I'll get those pictures from our club's official photographer and post them here as soon as I can.

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