![[Click to enlarge]](wfest2k3/veh1_015s.jpg) ^ Tony Agustin won a well-deserved Gold for his Death Star Turbo-laser Tower vignette .... ![[Click to enlarge]](wfest2k3/veh70a.jpg) ^ ... as did Terry Miesle, for this VF-1D ![[Click to enlarge]](wfest2k3/p-004s.jpg) ^ Hail, Hail, the gang's all here! Image: Friday night, in the Lizard Lounge: Joe Suttie, Jack Wendt, Emily 'PSB' Taylor (l-r) Image: Neil Prentice and Erin Lantz scribble, while Terry and Dave 'Blappy' Guertin look on. Image: Mark Yungblut and Erin hamming it up Image: Joe Suttie and Blappy hiding behind a Borg Cube Image: Relaxing on the 'balcony' Image: Saturday night, and the pool patio is jammed - at least until the cops showed up Image: When sci-fi modelers party ..... Image: Sal 'Godfather' Bravo is overcome with emotion Image: Revelry - Vince Hoffman, Erin, and Terry (l-r, front); Mark Yungblut and the Evil Speedbump are in back Image: Alfred Wong regales Michelle Lantz with tall scratchbuilding tales Image: One of these things is not like the other ones..... Image: Joe Brown's Sentinel attacking a Disney Nautilus Image: Hotel guard .... Image: ... and the maintenance guy Image: Hail, Cesar! Image: Thag's just jazzed to be in the show .... Image: Joe Brown Image: Clark Bradshaw (r) Image: Mark 'Zarkus' Koziuk and Chris 'PhD Strange' Binnet Image: PhD Strange Image: Sal Bravo and Scott 'TrekmanScott' Scariot deep in conversation Image: Erin got a dragon and Jay Chladek (right) .... got Blappy. Fair trade? Image: Larry Strickland, always smiling Image: Clark and Joe and a big Horizon Image: Erin gets advice from Mark on building the ERTL Deathstar Image: Jack Wendt, Mark Yungblut and Alfred Wong (l-r) Image: How did such a nice girl wind up with Jimi? Image: Jon 'Vir' Kunatz (r) looks over Dave 'USS Absolute' Tomita's (l) new decals Image: The Larrys (Strickland and Johnson (r)) Image: Chris Doll, Mark and Alfred Image: Dave & Dave, International Men of Mystery Image: Joe's got that 'deer-in-the-headlights' look .... Image: Scott & Jimi at the awards ceremony Image: Getting ready for the awards ceremony Image: Tony Agustin gets his gold.... Image: Terry still can't believe it ... Image: Federation Models had the new Starcraft's Romulan Bird of Prey for sale. |
By Terry Miesle - text © 2003 Another Wonderfest under our belts - along with all the lobby hot dogs, pool party beer, and club sammiches from the hotel restaurant. I don't think it's just me, I think this was the most fun Wonderfest I've attended. The guests were great, the entries were great, and there were so many new faces I can't remember people's names - at least most people have taken to the practice of placing their screen names on their name badges. I've come to think of Wonderfest as only part model show. To me it's become more like a family reunion. In one place are so many people I've not seen since the last Wonderfest, most of whom I see only once a year. I've met a lot of people the last two years, and hope to see more every year. The traditional Saturday Night pool party was as sweltering as last year, and even more fun…plus, we were kicked out of not only the pool area, but also the lounge later in the evening. Sunday the security guards intercepted us and used the spurious excuse that the chairs were needed elsewhere (the vendor's room had dozens of chairs scattered around). (Can you imagine? A bunch of mostly middle-aged sci-fi modelers striking fear in the hearts of hotel management just by talking too loud into the wee hours of the morning? -- Ed.) I'd like to comment about the guests this year. I couldn't have been more impressed with Mr. Harryhausen. I've enjoyed his work over the years, but was completely unprepared for his geniality and enthusiasm. Friday night at the Janus party, he was constantly walking around talking with people and looking at the pieces everyone had on display. He is energetic, enthusiastic and gracious - and was all weekend. He purchased items in the vendors room, scrutinized entries in the display rooms and spoke with everyone who approached him. John Eaves, of Star Trek fame, was a pleasant surprise as well. He delivered an engaging talk, showing the process of bringing designs to the big and small screens. It was very enlightening and entertaining to see original concept sketches and the process leading to the final design. He's a modeler himself, and a big fan of Starship Modeler. According to Lee Staton, the Grand Poobah of Wonderfest, figure entries have remained constant over the past several years but vehicle entries have dramatically increased. In fact, this year saw a record number of entries (though Alfred Wong and Chris Bennett might have been major factors). The organizers are happy - more attendees mean a more successful show. The judges relate the vehicle category has also improved in quality over the past couple years as well. The vendors room was pretty much the same as usual, many good selections to be found. There was one notable addition: Cutting Edge. They have been expanding into the real space category recently with a line of 1/144 rockets and now accessories for the Space Shuttle kits. If you're working on a space shuttle, definitely keep Cutting Edge in mind. The contest was big this year, the vehicle entries overflowed into an additional room. Next year we might have so many entries we deny Fine Scale Modeler the room in which Matthew Usher photographed numerous entries - we can hope!. Also the rule of the day were large models: a scratchbuilt Orion Clipper, a big Borg Cube, a massive TB2, and Alfred Wong's and Chris Bennett's large, imaginative scratchbuilt vehicles, Sean Sides' and Ishmael Davila's entries, as well as two Dendrobiums took up a great deal of table space. I think people have decoded the requirements for Wonderfest entries to do well in the contest. It's different from IPMS, and people are placing their entries on bases which convey a sense of context or enhance the viewing of the entry. It's an involving process, but well worth the time and effort. It's forcing a lot of us to think about more than just plastic and resin. I think you'll see a lot of inspiring entries in the photo gallery. Tony Augustin, from our Chicago group, might just take the contest to another level single-handedly with well-repsented vignettes. Alfred Wong brought 22 entries, a long period of work, and include some of the most imaginative while realistic designs I've seen. Guys like Chris Bennett, Joe Brown, Scott Washington, Jack Wendt and Erin Lantz show us lack of a kit shouldn't stop us from building subjects on our own. At the same time, entries from guys like Marc King, Scott Scariot and Dave Tomita show us how to create items with impeccable finish and skill. Finally, Emily, our beloved PsiCopBabe, brought plenty of chocolate-chip cookies. If you missed out, it's your own darn fault! For additional images, please see CultTVMan's Wonderfest Report, Jeff 'MangoMan' Alger's Wonderfest Pix and Joe 'Sparky' Suttie's Glacially Slow Website.
Below are some of the handouts provided at Sci-Fi U and the Wonderfest demos.. ![[Click to enlarge]](http://www.starshipmodeler.info/wfest2k3/kr_viperlaunch.jpg) |
Photo Gallery |
| Some of the writing on the entry cards was hard to decipher (and the guards kept us from turning over a lot of forms to even get names from!). If I've spelled your name wrong or mis-identified your model, please contact me to get it corrected! |
| Vehicles and Hardware Image: Bob Hild's 'Sea Witch' Starfury Image: Jimi Glancy's Fine Mold's TIE/Fighter Image: Jay Chladek's Battlestar Pegasus Image: Dave Guertin's Canadian Arrow Display Image: Tony Lamb's Carvorite Sphere/First Men on the Moon display Image: Tony's intrepid explorer Image: Scott Icard's Time Machine Image: A closer look Image: Beauty shot Image: Joe Brown's TIE/Lightning and Moiya Image: Joe's Rapier and McQuarrie USS Enterprise-A Image: Closer look at the McQuarrie Enterprise Image: Joe's Rapier was inspired by the Wing Commander movie Image: Joe's Eastern Alliance Destroyer and Ismael Davila's "The Big Catch" Image: Another look at the Destroyer Image: Joe Brown's Green and Wayne Walls Arctic Camo Tron Tanks Image: Ismael Davila's other Seaview Image: Dave Tomita's USS Excelsior ... Image: ... and his Enterprise-B Image: Two X-Wings: Jay Chladek's Red-2 (l) and Ismael Davila's (r) Image: Scott Owen's Darconian Marauder Image: Matt Johnson's Viking and Orbiter Image: Scott Owen's Narcissus Image: Another look Image: Another look at Tony Agustin's Turbolaser Tower Image: The X-Wing's were made from Fine Molds' kits Image: The turbolasers were made from elctronics parts Image: Tony's Probot, from the SMT kit, took a Silver Image: Another look Image: Brian Ludden's Fine Mold's TIE/Fighter and Marc King's "Stopover" shuttle with crew (rear) Image: The start of Alfred Wong's table Image: Dave Prossler's Batcopter Image: More of Alfred's ships Image: ... still more .... Image: Alfred's B-Wing Image: Alfred's GX-8, Brian DeRienze 's Gundam Turn X and Kevin Stone's Klingon K'tinga on a nifty base Image: Alfred's Z-95 Mk2 (Mara Jade's) Image: Snow speeder Image: Joe Belding's 1/48 Y-Wing (from the Estes rocket) and Kevin Stone's KBOP (front) Image: S:AAB Hammerhead Image: Joe Belding's B-Wing and 1/100 Zaku Custom Image: Close-in look at the B-Wing cockpit Image: Kevin Stone's Next Generation Heavy Lift space shuttle Image: Closer look |
Image: I believe this is one of Scott Washington's scratchbuilds, but which one .... Image: Somewhat closer look Image: Side view Image: Another of Scott's ships Image: Side view Image: Scott Owen's TIE, Brian Ludden's AT-AT and Chris Binnett's Falcon 1 Image: A closer look at the Falcon Image: Scott Washington's Hovertank Image: A fist full of mecha Image: Neil Prentice's Gelgog Marine Image: Joe Graziano's Jerry and Krote Image: John Creed's Raiden..... Image: .... and Forest Warrior Image: Joe Graziano's ABC Warbot Image: Chris Binnett's HA/RM Prime (Hoverstone tank) Image: The interior is fully detailed Image: Crewman checking out the l;atest dings in the paint Image: Plenty of Gundams in this corner Image: One of these is Neil's, the blue MS-07b GOUF is Douglas DeRienze's Image: Neil's Core Fighter and Evan Taylor's lighted WSM-03 Gogg are in front Image: Jim James' Spindrift Image: Scott Scariot's Klingon Vorcha and a mean-looking Excelsior variant by Chris Allman Image: A closer look at the Vorcha Image: Brian Everhart's Enterprises Image: Another look Image: Chris Allman's Cardassian warship Image: Dave Guertin's Perigrine Fighter Image: Dave Tomita's Enterprise Legacy Image: Another look Image: Scott Scariot's USS Hunley Image: Chris Allman's Firebird Twin-BoP Image: Chris' USS Nautilus Image: Another look .... Image: .... and a third Image: Chris also brought a damaged K-BoP Image: Chris Doll's Saturn V and Jedi Starfighter, with April Welles' Pan Am Clipper in back Image: April's Clipper and Karim Nassar's scratchbuilt Moldy Crow Image: Though you can't see it here, Karim's model is fully lighted Image: Chris Doll's Jedi Starfighter, Steamrunner, Equinox, and NX-01 Image: Chris' Enterprise-E Image: Closer look at the NX-01, Equinox ... Image: .... and Steamrunner Image: Paul Francis' 23" Eagle Image: Another look Image: Close-up on the back end Image: Frank Lamarca's Enterprise-D with detailed shuttlebay Image: Alfred Wong's 1/48 Aliens Dropship and APCs |
Image: Frank Lamarca's “Sister Ship” Voyager and concept Image: Matt Johnson's Friendship 7 Image: Ishmael Davila's “Return to LV426” with Alien APC Image: Closer look at the troopers Image: Neil Prentice's GP-03 Dendrobrium Image: From the back Image: Pilot Image: George Venturini's 1/48 Pan Am Clipper Image: IOt's big, it's detailed AND it's fully lit Image: Space:1999 corner - Bill Early's “Flock of Eagles” and “Lunar Defense Tanks” Image: Eagle with a piggyback ship Image: One of the tanks Image: Another Image: And the third Image: Sean Sides Studio-scale X-Wing Image: From the front Image: Marc King's Fireball X-5 Image: Rear view Image: Much to my own surprise, my wildly-painted Starship Modeler Logo Ship won a Silver Image: A closer look Image: Scott Scariot's Borg Cube Image: Terry Miesle's VF-1D, Minbari Fighter are in front; Keith Klitses' TIE/Fighters are in back Image: Terry sure knows how to paint .... Image: The Minbari boasts a fully-detailed cockpit Image: Another look Image: Jon Kunatz won a Bronze for his 'Boyington Starfury'. Those are his Gear Krieg minis in front of it. Image: Jon's Longstreet walker Image: Jack Wendt's Sponopter, GEV and Liandra. Image: The Liandra, closer Image: Wunji Lau's “Art Imitates Life” -Macross fighters and the aircraft which inspired them Image: Jack Wendt's scratchbuilt Hyperion Image: April Welles' USS Canberra ... Image: ... and USS T'Pir Image: Ken Robbins' Orion Battleship Image: Mark Kozik's AT-PT ... Image: .... and Stormtrooper Transport Image: Another look at that transport Image: Mark's 1/48 Dagger Image: Another look Image: Mark's Colonial Viper Image: Ishmael Davila's BIG Seaview Image: B.P. Taylor's Ranger Survey Vehicle Image: Closer look Image: Landing gear details Image: Front view Image: Scott Scariot's TOS-era Tug USS Tionesta Image: Side view Image: Chuck George's Enterprise-D Image: Erin Lantz's Jedi Starfighter Image: Erin made his purple - it's Mace Windu's ride Image: Dave Tomita's Unfair Advantage (Dendrobium) Image: Pilot, waving a beam sword Image: Yamato in bottle, by John Osbourne Image: Neil Prentice's Alternate Shuttle |
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Dioramas
^Kenneth Tallay's Dracula and the Bride Image: Closer lookImage: Chris Binnett's NS127-D Arctic Transport Image: Another look Image: Inside the cab Image: Front view, with what looks like a study model in back Image: Another beauty shot Image: Jerry Conner's Birdseye View Image: Gamera looks peeved, doesn't he? Image: Ismael Davida's Battle For Hoth Image: Alfred Wong's Size Matters Not Image: Rear view Image: Alfred's Neverwinter Ranger Image: From another angle Image: Alfred's Desperate Image: Detail of the beast controlling the beast |
Image: Thomas Aquiar's The Treasurer, Jon Kunatz's Zaku-2 and Phil Sera's Manageries Mummy Image: A closer look at The Treasurer Image: Closer look at the Zaku Image: Closer look at the mummy Image: Another look Image: I believe this is Phil Sera's Gothic Hans Vampire Image: Another look Image: The Evil Emperor Image: Mark McGovern's And He Never Misses Image: Look out, Bond! Image: Jason Tarpley's Queen Alien Image: Another look Image: Scott Scariot's The Rescue Image: Tony Lamb's Bugs… and First Men in the Moon Image: Closer look at Bugs Image: Another look at First Men Image: April Welles' Three Against One Image: Bill Jones' Teenage Rumble Image: Prasad Cherian's Bolt Gundam vs Shining Image: Ron Sherwood's Irreperable Damage |
Image: Hulk Smash! Image: I think this is Bob Janusay's Day in Court Image: Chris Bennett 's 2067 'Vette was a crowd favorite Image: A good look at in the 'cockpit' Image: Another view Image: Frankenstien is not happy about being awakened .... Image: Another look Image: From the other side Image: Steve Harris' Jeepers Kreaper Image: Another view Image: Body snatcher at work Image: Rick Stanebraker's Frankie and the Classics Image: Another look Image: Chris Binnett's J36 Hailstorm Image: Closer look Image: Top.front view Image: Another look Image: Terry Miesle's Forward Deployment Image: A look in the cockpit of Sean Side's Viper Image: Mount Scarymore Image: Frankenstein in the makeup chair Image: American Godzilla Image: Makeup artist Image: Overmatched, it looks like |
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Figures, Humor & Juniors Image: My, gramma, what BIG teeth you have!Image: Scary Image: Gollum Image: Creature Image: Another tough lady Image: Another take Image: Busts Image: Scorpi ... or Harvey? Image: Not something you want to run across in the woods .... Image: Countess Karenstein bust Image: Straight from the latest headlines Image: Faye Valentine Image: Spidey Image: Two if by sea .... Image: Kong vs. T Rex Image: Ape-onauts Image: Looking at the world through flies' eyes Image: Huey Image: Bug Image: Elvira Image: Predator Image: Desperate Image: Yet another tough lady Image: Deja Tharsis/Tars Tarkis Image: Another look Image: Mekon Image: Screecher Image: Barbarian and Wolfman Image: Entries Image: More Image: More Image: More Image: More Image: More figures entries Image: Creatures Image: Busts Image: Pretorious bust Image: American Werewolf Image: Vignettes Image: Frankie and ABC Warbot Image: More figures Image: Caged Image: The claw! The claw! Image: Canned |
Image: More figures Image: Spock and Frankenstein's monster Image: Tough gals Image: Another, and Hannibal Image: Jason, revealed Image: Johnny 5 Image: Alfred Wong's ladies Image: Mara Jade Image: Talon Image: Dragons Image: Busts Image: Aliens Image: Anubis? Image: Alien skulls Image: Penguin & Dracula Image: Alien warrior (juniour) Image: He's back Image: ? Image: Frankenstein's monster Image: Purple and scary Image: Outer Limits creature Image: Someone get this guy a napkin Image: Wolfman Image: Green and scary Image: Turkey Vulture? Image: The Fly (II) Image: Devil Image: Half the man he used to be Image: Vampire Image: More busts Image: Bad guy gets the girl Image: More entries Image: Grey Image: More entries Image: Shiny Image: More entries Image: More Image: More Image: Monsters is such INTERESTING people... Image: Yet more entries Image: More Image: You guessed it - more entries Image: Bride of Frankenstien Image: Gremlin Image: Gun-totin Alien Image: Screech & Mekon again |
Image: More figures Image: More Image: Bride of Frankenstien bust Image: More figures Image: Godzillas Image: More figures Image: Apes and Huey Image: Two of Terry Miesle's miniatures are in front Image: Humour: Pull Up, Pull up! Image: Lightcycle Roadtrip Image: For show-and-tell Image: Jimi Glancy's Mr Hankey Image: Beaker Image: Cartoon Heroes Image: More humour entries Image: Devilbaby Image: Stooges Image: Hamlet under glass Image: More cartoon figures Image: Batcrew Image: What, me worry? Image: More humour entries Image: Frankenstien Image: Adventurer Image: More cartoon figures Image: Godzuki Image: Mean missile Image: She's not bad, she's just drawn that way Image: Caged Image: Juniors Image: More juniors Image: More Image: More Image: More Image: Next Gen crew Image: Cyclops Image: Shiny Image: SD Nosferatu Image: Hunchback Image: Alien Image: Gundam Image: Crouching tiger, leaping lizards Image: Iria and mech Image: More juniors Image: Ceti Eel Image: Discovery |
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Anime, Superheroes, Dinosaurs and Kaiju Image: MechImage: Anime entries Image: Deadly ladies Image: Gundams Image: Dave Tomita's Dendrobrium Image: Priss and Asuka Image: More heroines Image: Chii and Katsuragi Image: Huntress Image: Vampire Hunter Image: Gally Image: Rei Ayanami Image: Catgirl Image: Asuka Image: Rei Image: Chii Chobits Image: Riddler Image: Vampirella Image: Caped Crusader Image: Catwoman Image: Superheroes Image: Joker Image: Wolverine Image: Flash |
Image: Clint Image: POW! Image: Shaken, not stirred Image: Another Joker Image: Pale Batman Image: Spidey, redux Image: Emma Peel Image: Tony Agustin's Tomb Raider took a Silver Image: Tough guy Image: Again Image: Superheroine Image: Does whatever a spider can Image: Tony Agustin's Batman Image: Hulk need bulk Image: More of Alfred's ladies Image: Supergirl Image: Polar Lights' Hulk and Superman Image: More superheroes Image: Dapper Joker Image: Charge! Image: Joker bust Image: Mettalic .... Image: Ming? Image: Spidey Image: Another Batman |
Image: Gentle Fortress Image: A boy named Sue Image: Looking for lunch Image: Stegasaurus Image: Big fish Image: Mighty Joe Young Image: Evolution in action .... Image: Dino Image: Confrontation Image: Brontosaurus Image: Dinosaurs Image: Down in the weeds Image: Harryhausen Gallery Image: Fight Image: Pre-armadillo Image: Basil Image: Venusian |
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