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NimCon 9 Scale Model Show and Contest

Plenty of scale models crowd the tables at an in-person show and contest in McHenry, IL

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John Graham
Bull Valley, Illinois
Working with Trumpeter’s 1/350 scale liberty ship. John modeled the liberty ship, SS Jeremiah O’Brien, as it appeared while transporting vehicles to Europe during World War II. The decks are crowded with DUKWs, 2½-ton trucks, jeeps, Shermans, and M8 motor gun carriages from GHQ Models. He painted the vessel with Tamiya acrylics and weathered it with black-ink washes, Flory pigments, Winsor & Newton oils, and artist pastels.

There were hundreds of scale model tanks, airplanes, cars, spaceships, ships, cars, and figures to see at the NimCon 9 scale model show on Saturday, September 18, 2021. From airplanes and paper spaceships to tanks and drag cars to Gundam mecha and historical figures, NimCon drew modelers of wide and varying interests from all over Illinois and Wisconsin (and even as far away as Colorado). Here’s just a taste of what was on display.

Like so many model shows in 2020, NIMCON 9, the Northern Illinois Model Contest was cancelled. But the hosts, the Lakes Region Scale Modeler, got a chance to put it on September 18 at McHenry County College. A bunch of modelers showed up and so did FSM editors Tim Kidwell and Aaron Skinner. Here are just some of the models they saw.