For most of the last 30 years, WonderFest has been a significant event for the model-building hobby. So, a passionate collaborative of model kit producers, hobby manufacturers, dealers, retailers, sculptors, molding and casting companies, social media groups, video producers, commission painters, hobbyists and fans of the stuff that inspires our hobby are working together to create an online model hobby event during what would have been WonderFest weekend..
We even have organizers of other hobby events joining this effort. How cool is that??!!
We are calling this event “Want-A-Fest”. Why? Because we all “want a fest” and, since we can’t have a huge, in-person social gathering next month, let’s do the next best thing.
Want-A-Fest will be held during what would have been WonderFest weekend and beginning on Thursday May 28th.
The purpose of the event is to help promote the model kit-building hobby, to provide a hobby geekery outlet for those of us shut out and shut in by the pandemic, and to show how cool this hobby community is. Last but not least, this event will show support for the organizers of WonderFest, a convention that has been a mainstay of the hobby since 1990.
We are inviting you to help make Want-A-Fest weekend an entertaining, online community-building event that will strengthen and expand individual social networks, business networks, and hobby networks. And while we are doing all that cool, fun, constructive stuff, let’s have some competition!
Want-A-Fest will feature a model contest that will also be held during what would have been WonderFest weekend. The deadline for the model contest registration will be 6pm PST on Wednesday May 27. Contest details will be fleshed out and posted in the next few days.The cost to enter will be $10 for your first entry and $5 for each additional entry. Anything that anyone might enter in the contest will fit into one of four (for the sake of simplicity) categories: Figures, Dioramas, Busts and Hardware. Prizes being donated by producers, retailers, manufacturers, and suppliers will go to contest award winners.
100% OF CONTEST ENTRY FEES GO TO WONDERFEST.
A number of other items are being donated for a raffle during the weekend; those details, too, will be fleshed out in the coming weeks.
100% OF THE RAFFLE PROCEEDS GO TO WONDERFEST
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That is the meat and potatoes of what is being organized (copied from their page)
Image links to the Facebook page for this event.
Now I know, several of our members don't do FB, and I understand that.
But I think the idea behind this, and the way different parts of the modeling community are coming together for it, are great. That is why I am sharing the information here. And I am trying to come up with ideas to do at least a few things to include non-facebook member in the fun.
Weather that will be sharing information and images here from the event.
Or coming up with some area here for members that are participating to also share their stuff here for all to see.
Not sure as things are still evolving. But would love to hear thoughts and/or ideas.
