RiverCon XIV – 2025 Countdown
The Event!
WOW! Another show in the books!
Thank you to all who attended as our guest – for without you, it wouldn’t be a show.
A heart-felt thanks to the Red River Modelers! It is a pleasure to be President of the best group of modelers who rose above the challenges and put on another wonderful show.
As you may have heard, we had 98 contestants and 595 entries from all across our region, and even outside our region too!
2 came from Alabama (Mobile)
11 came from Arkansas (Beede, Greers Ferry, Jacksonville, Redfield, Little Rock, North Little Rock, and Vilonia)
36 from Louisiana (Shreveport, Bossier City, Haughton, Mooringsport, Keithville, Calhoun, , Boyce, Abbeville, Wisner, Baton Rouge, Houma, Lake Charles, Mandeville, and Monroe & West Monroe)
5 from Oklahoma (Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Harrah, and Yukon)
41 from Texas (San Antonio, Athens, Selma, Longview, Edinburg, Burleson, Forney, Detroit, Little Elm, Plano, Howe, Edinburg, New Boston, Magnolia, Kilgore, Katy, Waco, Wichita Falls, Midlothian, Ft Worth, Houston, Sugar Land, Orange, McKinney, Saginaw, Humble, Ingram, Uvalde, Spring Branch, Texarkana, Rowlett, North Richland Hills )
We had 75 main categories with 19 splits for a grand total 94 (1 in Young Modelers, 6 in Aircraft, 3 in Armor, 4 in Auto, 2 in Sci-Fi, 1 in Diorama, 2 in Miscellaneous)
The breakdown by Division or Class:
- Young Modelers = 14
- Aircraft = 121
- Military Vehicles = 124
- Figures = 46
- Ships = 27
- Autos = 153
- Sci-Fi = 53
- Dioramas = 26
- Miscellaneous = 44
- Grand Masters 12
- Gauntlet Challenge = 2 (RRM Annual Club members to build outside their Comfort zone)
To those who garnered an award: Congratulations…well done!
Click on RiverCon XIII- 2024 Results or click on the image below
Click on the Winner’s Circle showing who won and their entry.
Click on Photo Albums to visit the entire library of RiverCon XIII – 2024 images.
If your entry didn’t earn an award, I hope you were inspired by other entries to challenge yourself to explore new techniques and “push the envelope” as we say in the Air Force.
For me, the most rewarding thing about contests is seeing the variety of models. Some were so unique and generated lively and interesting conversations with other modelers, which is always fun.
What I most enjoy, is the camaraderie among fellow modelers. It’s wonderful to reconnect with friends scattered across our region and share stories.
As I alluded to, a special thanks to our registration team:
With Bo, once more came out of retirement – Lol, Sid, and James H. Cockrell kept things moving along.
Della, Bo’s wife, bagged & tagged all 101 contestants with their 622 entries in our system!
Maria Hall joined the team as our Cashier allowing Tommy to oversee the Vendor Hall plus, she allowed James & Sid to put out fires as they came up. Jason, Maria’s husband, also helped with the Registration team.
To the setup crew which was everyone: thanks for getting all the tables set and ready to go!
Kudos to Lee Evans, his wife Edie plus Paul Lewis & his son for running the raffle throughout the day.
To our photographers who documented our show, thank you Frank Laudrus and Roger (Clif’s friend)!
Hat’s off to Colten Flaherty! Without his IT expertise, the data processing would not have been complete ensuring we would have the Major Awards Presentation!
As well as Jeannie Street making her first appearance at the request of James to help with the bookkeeping after the judging was complete.
If you enjoyed the YouTude videos in the theater, we have Sean Taylor to thank as he put together the Playlist and handled our AV Support.
To our head judge, Mike Reeves and judging teams: Thanks folks! You had the most difficult job selecting the best of the best to receive one of our coins as well as our trophies.
On that note, I encourage those of you who haven’t yet judged a contest to consider volunteering to do so. By understanding the judging process, you can appreciate even more the skill and experiences of other scale model artists. Knowing what goes into judging can also help you improve your techniques.
I need to give a shout out to the Alamo Club from San Antonio for the generous donation to our raffle as well as Adam-David Stephenson – thank you!
I hope everyone had fun, had a chance to view each other’s work, meet new friends, and picked up some neat raffle items, or had a chance to barter with the vendors.
In a few days we should be ready to upload images of the contest, winners, etc. We’ll post here and on our Facebook pages.
Until we meet again…great job and great effort by everyone!
Cheers!
Andy Bloom
Red River Modelers, President
Or visit on Facebook Competition Page of images too…