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Presenting the semi-annual IPMS 13th Annual Southlandz Model Show Event November 10th , 2018 Dunedin (Tampa area), Florida, USA
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_________________________________________________________________________________ Special Judged Themes for this Years Show: Wild
Life Modeling Vintage
TransAm Identity
Crisis Box
Art Box Stock Dan
Gurney Tribute Salute
to the Military
Additional Special Awards are: Club
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_________________________________________________________________________________ "Modelers Choice" Classes
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Email Us bestprofessionalsales@gmail.com
Show Information: Delaun
Fifield , Secretary
If you are visiting over the weekend, we recommend:
Ask for "Southlandz" rate!
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Want to see some videos and images from past shows? Check them out!
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If you're traveling for the show with your family, and you plan on spending a few days in the area, you might want to see some of these local places as well. |
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T he Southandz Model Car Show and Swap meet is a semi annual model show. We do it twice a year. The event is to promote the scale model building hobby, but it's also a time to meet up with old modeling friends and build connections with new modelers. Car models are most popular with "gearheads", people who like real cars, but also like to build smaller versions to exact specifications, and to have fun. Here in Florida, there are multple model events across the state. We enjoy being a part of this genre and this hobby. Our shows not only have hundreds of models on display for other modelers and the general public to see, but we also have vendors who cater to the hobby and offer model kits, modeling tools, and detail parts to make museum quality models. Visiting our show is like attending an automotive museum in miniature, showing the history of the automobile from nearly every era. If you like models, if you like cars, if you like history - our event has something for everyone. ________________________________________ For those of you who may notknow a bit of the modeling history in Florida, The Southlandz Model Car Swap Meet & Show owes its early history to the twice annual Phils Hobby Shop Swap Meets (in Pinellas park, FL) that used to be held in his parking lot. He had those shows there for over 20 years! Many of us who are members today actually went to one of the last of those get togethers before Phil's untimely death, and had never before seen that many discontinued and old model cars available for sale in one place. With 12 vendor tables and hundreds of kits available, this was "model car heaven" outside in the heat of the aforementioned Phils parking lot. Fast forward a few years after that shows demise, and Frank & Gail Licordare, along with the late David Brearly, resurrected the two Phils swap meets, renaming the shows as the "Southlandz Model Car Swap Meet & Show". They held them in the 3,000 square foot firehouse civic center that was literally a block away. It had room for 36 vendor tables and even a model car contest as well. Three years later our club would take over running the "show" portion of the event while Frank & Gail were responsible for the swap meet part of the show. We did 3 shows for them. When combined with the tragic loss of David Brearly and Gail losing her father, circumstances moved these 3 show founders out of the area of the show. It happened at the same time as when Frank was hoping to grow the show into an event run inside a much larger venue such as a hotel. We we honoured they handed the reigns to us, and with a LOT of guidance from them, our club would move the show into the Largo Cultural Center (4500 square feet) with barely enough room for 48 vendor tables and our typical model display. Then soon after, we grew the show into our much roomier, current, "permanent" location at the Conmy Center (13,000 square feet) with more than enough room for our 60 regular vendor tables (although we squeezed in 65 at our last show) and a much larger contest area as well. It's in this vein that we want every member of our club, and everyone who attends and supports us, to understand the continuing great legacy of our show. It's because of the wonderful people who came before us that we have grown into the annual show that is Southlandz. Thank you !
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