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Midwest Furfest (plus)
18 years ago
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I thought it was probably worth mentioning that, barring any major mishap, I will be at Midwest Furfest this year, mainly in the Artist Alley when there is space available. (It's too bad the con is outgrowing it's location and moving next year. A con hotel across the street from a mall is hella-convenient) I'll have the usual complement of prints, CD/DVDs, comics, and T-shirts for sale, as well as doing con drawings as long as I'm not too burned out. Rough estimates for con drawing prices are $10 for pencil sketch, $25 for inked drawing (as long as we're not talking anything too heavy to draw, like large groups or intricate environments.). If you're going to MFF, I suppose I'll be seeing you there.
On an unrelated note, I've been doing what is dangerous for collectors to do - find other items to collect. (other than Transformer toys in my case). I've had dalliances in the past with Zoids kits and some action figures, for example. This time around, it's Star Trek ship toys and models. I've got a group of small ships, and am in the process of gathering a few larger ones, after discovering the DAMN PRETTY ships from Art Asylum and Diamond Select Toys. My problem is I like to try to get items that are in scale with each other, to show off the relative sizes of the ships - a feat which is somewhere between difficult and impossible, so there's a lot of "close enough" going on here. Still it's fun, and odd, to pair up an 18-inch long Enterprise 1701-E with a (Deep Space 9) Defiant at under four inches long, and realize the Defiant is still technically too big (depending on what info you use to judge size)
On an unrelated note, I've been doing what is dangerous for collectors to do - find other items to collect. (other than Transformer toys in my case). I've had dalliances in the past with Zoids kits and some action figures, for example. This time around, it's Star Trek ship toys and models. I've got a group of small ships, and am in the process of gathering a few larger ones, after discovering the DAMN PRETTY ships from Art Asylum and Diamond Select Toys. My problem is I like to try to get items that are in scale with each other, to show off the relative sizes of the ships - a feat which is somewhere between difficult and impossible, so there's a lot of "close enough" going on here. Still it's fun, and odd, to pair up an 18-inch long Enterprise 1701-E with a (Deep Space 9) Defiant at under four inches long, and realize the Defiant is still technically too big (depending on what info you use to judge size)
And of course there were all the AMT/Ertl kits. Most of those were nice, but one or two sucked Cardassian buttock knobs... The Defiant in particular. A friend of mine had one -- glad I never bought it. I'd really have liked a Ferengi Marauder, but there never was one... other than a minature that seemed to have been an "extra" with the Romulan Warbird kit. (It was maybe three inches long, four wide.)
Things like the Smithsonian hand painted mahogany and Franklin Mint pewter editions, and other such exotic reproductions have always been too rich for my blood.
Always wanted to get a drawing from you but never get there in time!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/294211/
Most of them are now sitting a self and in box collecting dust along with ships from the old Traveler RPG. One of my favorites was a Gorn vessel I made based of the design they had from the Interplay Star Fleet Battles computer game.
I also still have a couple ST ship models I built, including a kit-bashed Larson class destroyer from the FASA classic ST game setting. If I didn't have enough junk I'd still be tempted to hunt eBay looking for more of these figures.