Congrats Eric, well deserved ! Your build hit all the items necessary to win: Alignment, consistent finish-paint and decals, proper seams, all the others had a glitch or 2. To be exact there were 15 WNW kits in the category and another 2 in the 1/32 OOB category and 1 more in the diorama category. Too bad the "Chinese fire drill" to vacate the room after the awards didn't give me a chance to meet you. Next year in Columbia, SC 
Ed
Thank you Ed! I greatly appreciate that. One of the other judges spoke with me briefly as I was packing up the LVG but I don't recall his name. That meant a lot to me too.
That had to be a tough category to judge. When I saw the overall quality of the other builds I was wondering if I'd even place. My wife, who came too, will testify to my shock during the awards program!
I know what you mean. One of my favorite parts of the entire event is chatting with everyone afterwards and I'm always a little sad when the room clears out so quickly. Another of my winning entries, the 1/48 F-4B Phantom, generated a small mob scene and I ended up spending most of the time talking with folks about it.
I don't know if I'll be able to make Columbia though. We'll see.
Eric
