Considering the hour I went to bed, I woke up at a decent hour. Around 9. After a shower and food I was feeling great.
Time to go hit the contest room and see how I did. I was pleasantly surprised to see that most of my stuff didn't get anything. Yes, you read that right, I was happy to not get awards.
The last few years they were pretty free with the merits. So much so it seemed like everything that didn't medal got a merit, which for me makes those merits meaningless. I am not saying there is any right or wrong way to do things, but for me, personally,
I like it better when you have to work hard to even get a merit. It makes them more meaningful.
That said, I was still scratching my head a bit at the results. One I didn't care much about, and wasn't happy with the eyes on got a silver. One I just hurried to finish just to add to my total earned a merit. And one I was extremely proud of got nothing.
The only one that made sense to me was the Satan's Pit that got a bronze. I thought that was fair. It's a good thing I don't put a lot of stock in the contest results or I might be upset. Sure, it's nice when your hard work gets recognized, but I don't honestly care if I get anything or not.
The contest is a deadline I use to motivate myself to actually finish kits. Then I can bring them to the show, put them on the table and show them off. I am much more interested in the conversations with people about the kits, how I did this, or how they did that.
The results in no way affect how I feel about the kit, or what I did with it. The kit that didn't get anything, is still one of my favorites, and the one that got silver is still gonna get sold off in a few months.
Anyway, enough about the contest for now. By now, it was getting close to 11 and I needed to get upstairs to see Jeannine's demo.
That was fun watching her show some stuff with the 'help' of Crazy Joe. :-)
After that I hit the dealers rooms to see if there were any different pieces. Then, I planned on grabbing a sandwich in the hallway for a quick lunch. But sadly, they didn't have ham croissants, only turkey. [sad face]
Cannot remember exactly what I ended up eating out of my supplies I brought, but I do know it wasn't as filling a good sandwich would have been.
Then it was back to the contest room, while there was still time to look things over and get more pics. That was when I learned what the system this year was for getting awards and such. At 2 you could take the one form, from under your kit and go to the awards room to collect your award.
Since it was just about 2, that is what I did. I got the two forms I needed and got in line with a bunch of other people. It was a decent line, but it was moving quickly. They had, I think, 3 people working the room. So, I got my awards and took them back to the room. Maybe half an hour total for that. Not bad at all.
Then back to the dealers room. I headed to Steve's table to see what was left of the Rick Evan's collection And I was right, my options thinned out drastically. Which is what I had hoped for. I couldn't afford to buy all the ones I wanted on Saturday. So I grabbed his PL Trex painted like Devil Dinosaur. Took that back to the room. Thought about picking up my contest entries after that, as it was now ofter 3. Then I saw the line taking up most of the hallway, so I opted to go back to the dealers rooms. That is when I stumbled on another kit I wanted. Elric from Resin Dust. Don't know I how I missed it the whole weekend up until that moment, but I got it. I also got the last one, his display as a mater of fact. After more visiting, and looking around, I took that back to the room and grabbed my box for contest entries.
The line was almost non-existent at that time so I figured it would be a good time. There were like 3 people ahead of me by the time I got back down.
Got my kits and took them back to the room.
Back to the dealers room as there were a couple other kits I was eying and I still had money in my pocket. Sadly by the time I got back down there, those dealers had already packed up, even though there was still almost an hour left of the show.
Oh well. Guess it wasn't meant to be. If I really wanted them, I would have bought them earlier.
Then, it was over. They were kicking us out of the dealers rooms. The show was closed.
Seams she and Michael had already eaten. They were starving earlier and had a late lunch. [another sad face]
I know, I could have driven myself there, but that was too much effort to eat alone. So I looked to see what my options were for something close. Originally was thinking subway, until I realize there was a Charlie's right down the road.
Went and got some great food and chowed down. Packed up my contest entries and my purchases and loaded those into the car.
Then headed down to hang at the doors by the dealers room to see a few people before they left. A lot of people head home on Sunday and don't stick around.
It had rained a few times earlier in the day, but thankfully for those packing out after the show, the rain held off and they stayed fairly dry for most of the load out.
I got rained on a bit taking my contest entries back to the room earlier.
I think part of it was the Embassy got really loud and crowded. I don't remember if I left on my own, and found Scott and Chinxy and then Britny showed up with Ross. But that seems about right. Anyway, we were there for a while.
Just shooting the breeze and having fun.
