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2009 ECLSTS Model Contest
Apr 1, 2009
By Noel Widdifield
LSOL.com Managing Editor |
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There were a large number of entries in the model contest and the judging began at 11:00 on Saturday. The models were all very good again this year so it was difficult for the judges to rank the offerings.
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There were a large number of entries in the model contest and the judging began at 11:00 on Saturday. The models were all very good again this year so it was difficult for the judges to rank the offerings. The winners were announced and the ribbons place on the winners entries around 3:00 in the afternoon.The "Best of Show" was awarded to Mike Peterlin who entered in the Kitbashing Self-Propelled category. The model was of an open cab two-truck Shay.  
The "First Place Overall Show" award went to Craig Zehner for his diorama of "Captain Hook's Repairs" repair facility. Like all of his dioramas, it was filled with detail.  
  
Taking "Second Place Overall Show" was Dean Sleeper with his reproduction of a Boston & Albany turntable and pit with a fully detailed and weathered Ten-Wheeler. His entry was in the diorama category.
 
 
 
Third Place Overall Show" was captured by Matt Vogt with his Logging Caboose in the scratchbuilt rolling stock category. The caboose had a fully detailed interior with a railroad man warming his hands at the wood stove.   
An entry that caught our eye was a Warren Truss Bridge built by Louis Steffenhagen. The bridge won First Place in the Kitbashed Structure category and started with a Plastruct kit in 1/24 scale. Louis bashed it into a highly detailed 1/29 scale bridge. This was Louis's first attempt at modeling in Large Scale. He built it because he needed a bridge for a place on his outdoor railroad that he is in the early stages of construction. The details and painting were phenomenal. Louis even supplied a mirror placed under the bridge so that the detail on the underside of the bridge was visible. He told us that the complete rivet detail was done by cutting them from the sides of boxcars and gluing them in place on the bridge.            
2009 ECLSTS Model Contest Winners
Dioramas
1st Craig Zehner Captain Hook's Repairs
2nd Brian Donovan O'Brien Mining Co.
Kitbashed-Self-Propelled
1st Mike Peterlin Open Cab Shay
2nd Turk Russell Fire 1
3rd Tom Bowdler McDavis Millwork
Kitbashed-Rolling Stock
1st Carl Weaver Combine
2nd Wayne Yancey PRR Mail Express Car
Kitbashed-Structures
1st Louis Steffenhagen Single Track Truss Bridge
2nd Jan Golding Red Barn
Scratch-built Self-Propelled
1st Tim Porterfield Climax Engine Class AT Boiler
Scratch-built Rolling Stock
1st Matt Vogt Logging Caboose
2nd Carl Weaver Explosives Car
3rd Kevin Yutz Conrail Class G52M
Scratch-built Structures
1st Dean Sleeper Train Turntable
2nd Gerald Humston Coca Cola Factory
3rd Richard Weatherby Zero Waste
Whimsical
1st Tim Porterfield Rail Truck Ford
Best of Show - $500 from Aristo-Craft Trains $500 from St. Aubin Trains
Mike Peterlin - Kitbashed Self-propelled - Open Cab Shay
1st Place Overall - $250 from Aristo-Craft Trains $250 from St. Aubin Trains
Craig Zehner - Dioramas - Captain Hook's Repairs
2nd Place Overall - $100 from Aristo-Craft Trains $100 from St. Aubin Trains
Dean Sleeper - Scratch-Built Structures - Train Turntable
3rd Place Overall - $50 from Aristo-Craft Trains $50 from St. Aubin Trains
Matt Vogt - Scratch-Built Rolling Stock - Logging Caboose
| Warren Truss Bridge |
| Thanks for the compliments Noel. There was alot of 1st's here. 1st Large Scale model, 1st time entering, 1st time winning (1st place in the category)1st time being published on line. It was also my grandsons 1st birthday. Just need to clarify one thing. The gusset plates rivets were done by hand using a punch. The simulated bolts on all the handrail posts were cut from old Aristo craft box cars. (all 456 of them) |
| Louis K. Steffenhagen - 04/01/2009 - 09:35 |
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