AND THE WINNERS ARE…
I’ll get right down to it…
To no buddy’s surprise… Drum Roll Please
2016 Mik’s Build Challenge Grand Prize Winner.
John P.'s Yankee Girl Mine
1st Place: Eric Slade’s Section House
2nd Place: Todd H.'s Irish Barn
3rd Place: Daktah Johns Wall Street Station Platform
4th Place: Three way tie…
Devon S. Two Bay Engine House
Randy L. EBT Freight Shed
Travis D. Fire House
Spirit of Mik Award for 2016 goes to:
Matt K. for his Log cabin.
Congrats to all.
congratulations to everyone!!!. Everything was awesome and inspiring to this beginner. Watching this Challenge makes me want to get out there and build something. Looking forward to next years Challenge.
Congrats to all!
The Winner of the
BEST USE OF TIN
Award
Goes to...........................................Dave Taylor
He wouldn't let us vote on his build (which I personally would have voted for first prize) but by posting on the Final Photo Entrant thread made himself officially eligible for an Award, which in this case is an ink drawing, medallion, and map of the Colorado & Southern, all double-matted and oak-framed with glass.
First Timers Award
OK So I guess its time to reveal the best first timers award. What a tough choice. I may not have ranked him in my top three and I did rank another first timer in that group based on my personal grading criteria, but for this award I am giving it to Daktah John for the Wall Station Platform. The detail on this thing rocked. I mean the creative way he got all that architectural pizzazz in there with all the little repetitious fiddly bits just made it a great build.
So John PM me and we will work on a set of metal trucks. I have a mold already for a set of wood bolster arch bars but I am open for making something else. Let me know what era and scale or particular design and we will go from there.
Almost forgot today was the announcement of the winners…Again this was a really hard decision. You guys all did a awesome job on the builds. This years scale wood bundle goes to…John Passaro’s “Yankee Girl Mine”. For “The best Use of Wood” prize… Pm me John to work out the details…
Thank You John.P… BUT Please pass it along to the next in line.
Random Drawing Figure Awards.
Names have been scribbled on note pads and drawings held. The winners are:
Category 1: Participated in the build - Randy Lehrian … Alan “Mik, Just Mik” Bupp figure
Category 2: Voted in the challenge - Devon Sinsley … Bob “Benevolent Dictator” McCown figure
Category 3: Organizes the annual challenge - Dave Taylor … Dave “Tin Man” Taylor figure
Congratulations to all the participants and to the winners listed above. Randy and Devon please message me with your mailing address. Dave I already got yours so just accept graciously or I will have to send it to Larry and have him sneak it onto your layout. 
Wow Boomer! I’m both excited and very honored to win this prestigious award. To have Mik/ Alan on my layout will be truly fantastic. I’ll make sure he always has a good home. I’ll get a pm out to you. Thanks again!
Where will I put Bob? Thanks Boomer.
Nice. Congrats to the real winners, which is really everyone who participated, including those who voted.
Devon Sinsley said:
Where will I put Bob?
There’s a couple of guys Bob banished from our midst who might have a suggestion or two!?
p.s…sorry Bob, I couldn’t resist!
John Passaro said:
Devon Sinsley said:
Where will I put Bob?
There’s a couple of guys Bob banished from our midst who might have a suggestion or two!?
p.s…sorry Bob, I couldn’t resist!
Ok that was funny I don’t care who you are(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
I’m guessin’ John means a shady spot (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)
I really don’t think I deserve the awards, but Thank You all. I’m just happy to participate. Soon I’ll post some picture of my lighting experiment (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Ok Larry. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Seriously, he should be put in revered place, somewhere special.
Daktah John said:
Soon I’ll post some picture of my lighting experiment (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
David Maynard said:
Ok Larry. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
Seriously, he should be put in revered place, somewhere special.
Larry who?
Larry the Cable Guy. He does the “That’s funny, I don’t care who you are.” thing.
that would be the Larry
