Richmond Open 2025 IPMS Show

 

My 1/76th scale WWI tank on Macaw flat car got a First Place award in the small armor category

I attended the Richmond Open 2025 sponsored by the Richmond IPMS club on Feb 21, 2025. It was a big show at the Old Dominon Race Track facility with about 900 models entered and over 1,000 people attending.

Sci-fi and Gundam was one of the most popular categories. The younger people really seem to like this theme. Aircraft were also popular.

Our model figure club, The National Capital Model Soldier Society,  was tasked to judge figures, which we did.  There were so many entries in sci-fi and fantasy that the table was jammed with models. It was hard to fully examine them for judging with moving many of them. But we did the best we could. 

I entered some models in the contest and received two first place, one second and one third awards. Note this show does first-second-third vice gold-silver-bronze. 

My WWI tank on flat car was a model I built several years ago for my book on military railroads. The flat car was completely scratch built except for the trucks and wheel sets. The tank had to be modified for rail transport mode. The figure is by W^D models. They were a source for some of the best 1/76th scale model figures. Alas, the owner retired and has not sold off his masters.

Alien- Ripley's Last Battle shadow box diorama got a third place award in Dioramas

Avalynne and Orien got a second place in non-historical busts

King Konrad won a first place in 90mm and greater figures. The is a100mm flat figure, I made the shadowbox using my laser cutter to depict the Palantine Chapel in Aachen, Germany