Volomir's Blog: III Encuentro de Modelismo Estático de Leganés (Photos)

Monday, March 11, 2013

III Encuentro de Modelismo Estático de Leganés (Photos)

This weekend Leganés held "III Concurso de Modelismo Estático de Leganés" (in English, the third edition of their modelling contest). I hadn't been able to attend in previous years and in my profound ignorance, I thought that this contest was quite local. When I arrived at the venue where the event was celebrated, I could verify how wrong I was...

The event was celebrated in a local sports centre, with lots of space for the different activities celebrated and numerous stands for commercial brands. There we could see a Z brush sculpting demo in the stand of Scale75, Pedro Fernández's demo on tradional sculpture at the Origen Art Stand, painting demos by Elías Alonso, gaming demonstrations... And of course, I could meet again with tons of friends and acquiantances from the modelling world, and seriously, I wasn't expecting to run into so many!

I leave you some photos that I took, shamefully they are very few and quite bad. If there is something that I didn't like of the event was the way they exposed the painting works. There was a great contrast between theme, quality and size of the figurines, and the quantity of participants was huge. Even though the shelves for the expo where large and broad, the figurines were piled against each other and there was a security lanyard of about a meter between public and miniatures. Also, the height was very low so if you happened to be a little bit tall you would end with back pain. This way, the paint works that were the most appealing were the big dioramas in the historical section while the individual ones were not so evident. I think this is very important, so it should be fixed in next editions of this contest, a great one in my opinion.