2022 IPMS Nat. Conv Best Aircraft, Most Popular & Judges Grand Award Winner

[dr 1 ace]

The Winner of all 3 Top Awards at the IPMS National Convention in Omaha, NE was Steve Hustad with his scratchbuilt 1/72 Friedrichshofen FF 60; Taking 1st in Scratchbuilt-All Scales then the 3 Top Awards: Judges Best Aircraft of Show, Most Popular( Voted by registered attendees) and Judges Grand Award Best of Show.   Steve also had 4 other 1st place category wins, 1 Second Place and 1 Third Place all in 1/72 scale in various other Categories  There were over 2800 models by 600+ registered attendees ( + visitors) at the 4 day show.

The model can be viewed at:

https://www.svsmgallery.com/Top-level/Contests/IPMS-USA-2022-Nationals-Omaha-NE/Aircraft/i-z53Km69/A

[DaddyO]

Wowzer  That's a beauty (If such an ungainly aircraft can be called beautiful)

Stunning piece of work that you could never tire of looking at. Conrats to Steve - well deserved winner

Paul

[KiwiZac]

Congratulations Steve, what an achievement!

[pepperman42]

Great model, as are hundreds of others in that link! Thanks for posting.

Steve

[Brad Cancian]

Agree - an amazing piece of work. I've added more pictures over in the below thread (with Steve's permission):

https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=13211.15

Cheers!

BC

[dr 1 ace]

Thanks for posting Brad, and remember this is 1/72 scale !

Ed