Hawaii NNL 2013 - Review

The Hawaii NNL show was definitely a success in my opinion. So many fine builds and heavy competition. I had a blast hangin  with fellow builders from way back and new builder friends. The kids had a blast with the tracks to satisfy their boredom and a Make It, Take It build for the kis to build and have. There was also a small RC Crawler open track for the crawlers and the HSM Landrover crawler handled the track pretty well except for the high fall that cracked the bumper and fender. There were not too many vendors selling model kits which was a bit of disappoinment because I was really looking forward to buy some imports. 

I want to thank all the people that stopped by the booth and took advantage of what little model kits I had.  Also for the kind compliments on the builds. The kids and kids at heart surely enjoyed the 1/24 scale Action Statics '62 & '68 Impala hoppers and 1/20 scale Explorer dancer. Hopefully next time HSM will have more and better builds. 

Want to thank HIMCC, Scale Model Magazine, Gregg Hutchings, Sponsors, and all the vendors & entrants for making this event a success. Many more please...

 The Hawaii Scale Models booth with products for sale and all the different types of scale models display.

 The show table with lots of amazing builds. Very heavy competition.

  Felgood Customs line up.

 My RC4WD Katan chassis w/ HPI Racing Landrover Defender shell. Need more detail work and major suspension tweaks.

My 1969 Camaro Pro-Street dragster shell on a Parma dragster chassis. Two-tone paint job (black & chameleon).

NNL Hawaii 2013

After a year hiatus; this coming Saturday, March 24 is NNL Hawaii at the Ala Moana Hotel Gardenia Lanai ballroom from 9am to 4pm. NNL Hawaii is a scale model event with the finest builds and builders of Hawaii. There will also be a Swap Meet and vendors selling their collections. This year they will have an RC Crawler display and possibly a crawler track. Don't forget about the keiki's Make It, Take It build by Revell. See flyer for more details and information.

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Project Scaler

Here's the shell that it came with. It's from a Tamiya Clodbuster. I might use this shell for a street truck project that I had in mind for a long time.

Here's a new project of mine. Its an RC4WD Katan chassis with a few goodies. This will be a Scaler and will be adding a lot of details to this one. At the moment I can't decide on what body to use. I'm a Chevy and Toyota fan so I don't really know which way to go. I like to go the Toyota way but there are a lot of em here and its very common. So I might go with a Chevy or a GM shell. We'll just have to see. For now I'm doing all the research that I can and asking the help of fellow team member and static model builder B.Skeen.

Be on the lookout for this build. Hopefully real soon 'cus I'm itchin to crawl already.