Mastercon III, September 3rd, 1994, a day to remember Part IV
This Last part of Mastercon III contains pictures of the banquet, demonstrations, registration and other activities. This is where many will see pictures of themselves from way back when!
Here we see Gerald Paddock, who is now 90 years old and going strong! John Bowery, who has grown into a great figure painter.
OK, some of the people we see here Del and Christine Miller, Susan, Wes, Don Kanaval, Verlinden, his wife Lilliane, Bob, Jim Stephens and Fritz!
Francois Verlinden.
Verlinden and Lewis Pruneau giving a demo.
Ditto with David Manter.
Mort Schmitt taking pics, Gerald Paddock and John Bowery.
Registration, Brock Hopkins, Wes and Susan.
Gerald Paddock, John Bowery, Don Kanaval and John Guarke.
Brock, Wes, Gerald, John Bowery and Kanaval.
Dave Manter and Lewis Pruneau.
Registration.
Julie Noah and Tom Gerringer at the checkout lanes of the warehouse sale. Scott Sheltz in the stripe shirt.
Pat Hutchens and his registration form. The guy on the right is Tawn Snyder who came to several Mastercons with Mort Schmitt and Don Kanaval.
Registration. Wes, Susan, Brock and John.
Verlinden, Joe Porter and Letterman.
Lewis, Shep Paine and Eric Tripke.
Left to right, Shep, Sandy, a VLS sales representative, Kim Eads, Tony’s wife, Tom Gerringer, Susan, Bob, Wes, Francois and Lilliane Verlinden and Chuck Stuckenberg, our Operating managerat the time.
Shep Paine presenting an award to Tawn Snyder.
Shep and Al Presley.
Shep and Pat Hutchens.
Gil Gonsoulin and Shep Paine.
Fritz Swanson and Lewis Pruneau.
Another shot of the dais.
Gil Godfrey and Bob Saxton. Gil was 6 feet, 8 inches tall. He was a Mastercon regular and one of the nicest men you would ever meet. A true “Gentle Giant”, Gil passed away in the early nineties of an aneurysm. All the Mastercons afterwards had a “Gil Godfrey” Award. It was for people who gave their all to make others enjoy the hobby. We are proud to say that he was a very close friend! On the right is Larry Labeda, another Mastercon regular.
Richard Mitchell and Shep Paine.
Buck McKlin, a close friend of Lewis Pruneau and one of the best car modelers we have known, John and Maureen Bowery, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Paddock, in the white shirt on the right, Mastercon regular, Bob Kita.
Bryan Joslyn, a good friend and great modeler, Herb Rigg, a long time VLS employee and known to all as the Mastercon Bus driver! Herb is still a good friend and visits us regularly.
Joe Porter working on his diorama.
Ernie Petit, Vice President Of Testors Corporation, checking out one of the entries.
The Contest room.
Wes, Eric Tripke, Bill Taylor, Bob Kita and Don Kanaval.
Brock, Wes, Jon Baker and John Guarke.
Susan and Andrew Hutchens.
John Guarke, Brock, Joe Porter, Gil and Sydney Gonsoulin and Alleyn and Judy Kinney.
Bob Letterman and good friend Jim Stephens. Jim was a Chicago cop and a fantastic modeler. His work was featured in How to Build Dioramas and How to build armored vehicles, both by Shep Paine. He was known back then as the master of pastels!
Tony Eads, VLS’ Sales manager presenting an award to Bob Waltman, a very young looking Bob Waltman. Bob has grown into a fantastic Modeler since!
Left to right. Joth Kinney, ?, Gil, Joth’s wife, Sydney, Alleyn Kinney. Back row, Brock Hopkins, Joe Porter and Troy Jordan.
Gordon Stronach, (Gordy), of Planet armor, figure, diorama and aircraft fame, also a great pattern maker for both VP and later, VLS, and Tom Gerringer.
John Bowery and Chuck Stuckenberg. Chuck started work at VLS when 17. He worked his way up the ranks, went to night school on VLS college program and is now a manager of programers in one of the largest Hospitals in the American midwest!
Brian Joslyn and Tony Eads. Brian is an attorney in Florida. Tony worked for VLS for many years. He eventually went on the Reuters News, and after meeting his wife, Melodae, took a golden parachute and now they have a Yacht in the Caribbean, where they do charter cruises for the upper class and have the dream life they worked for!
Here is a young Joe Hudson receiving an award from Tony Eads.
Andy Meyers, who has became an incredible commercial/industrial modeler, worked for the largest special effects companies in Hollywood, Stan Winston Studios. Andy is still a good friend. Tony is seen here giving him an award.
Winner of the $500.00 VP 120mm Panther kit in one of the Mastercon raffles.
Herb Rigg, a VLS Icon, and Richard Mitchell.
Bill Konn, a good friend of ours accepts an award from Tony.
The Round Table Discussion, Verlinden, Wes, Lewis and Shep.
A totally stressed Bob at the end of the show!
Wes and Francois.
Bob, Francois and Lillian Verlinden.
Susan and Don Kanaval.
The show is over! Bob and Susan are totally stressed out but had a wonderful time. Here is Susan preparing to move all the displays and equipment to the awaiting trucks to take it back to VLS until next year. I hope everybody has enjoyed this.
