Jack Wendt and Chad Ryan do IPMS/Nats 2000

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2000 IPMS/Nationals

By Jack Wendt (additional images courtesy of Chad Ryan)


^ The mother of all vendor's rooms.
Every year, the International Plastic Modeler's Society (IPMS)/ USA Branch holds a convention that attracts modelers from all over the world. At each, you'll see more models under one roof than just about anywhere else on Earth. Most are historical, but sci-fi usually has a strong showing.

This year's event was held in July in Dallas, TX. Jack Wendt and Chad Ryan were both there, and sent along these photos. As always, if you know you made these models, please drop us a line so we may properly credit the builders.


^ Not sci-fi, but still cool - reproductions of US Navy blimps.

Image: Trophies worth hanging in the living room

Image: A very cool Whitestar, scratchbuilt from balsa wood primarily by Skip Harris of San Antonio Texas, on sale in the vendors room.

Image: These three Star Trek ships swept their category.

Image: Some of the many entrants.

Image: Shark-nosed fighter

Image: I think he'll need a bigger box ....

Image: Larry Strickland's Battlestar Galactica

Image: Paul Rutherford's award-winning Trade Fed tank in interesting camouflage.

Image: Gundam entry.

Image: Hypothetical WW2 floatplane fighter - as if anyone would have been crazy enough to fly the GeeBee with floats!

Image: Aqua-fighter

Image: Interesting Star Trek variation

Image: Drago

Image: Runway full of eggplanes


^ Not sci-fi either - can you believe the Russians actually deployed this in WW1?

Image: Timberwolf

Image: Heavily weathered Battlestar Pegasus

Image: Some of Michael Walker's award-winning collection of 1:1 Star Trek phaser replicas.

Image: More phasers

Image: Yet more phasers

Image: A Ruatan aircraft design

Image: Robby the Robot

Image: Rob Ervin's female Starfleet officer

Image: Hypothetical space shuttle

Image: John Douglass'wildly painted scratchbuild spacecraft

Image: Jay Chladek's Starfury

Image: Is it sci-fi or is it real? What is it?

Image: Heavily weathered Narcissus

Image: More of those wacky egg planes

Image: Paul Rutherford's Klingon Bird of Prey

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