Overcoming the odds
Welcome to 2021 Contest Cars! In September 2020, FineScale Modeler Editor Aaron Skinner and I had a discussion with Wayne Webers, president of the Atlanta Car Model Enthusiasts (ACME). The club, like so many others, had to cancel the 25th annual Southern Nationals. Instead of going without, FineScale Modeler partnerned with ACME and moved the show online for November 2020, where we saw more than 2,000 models entered. We called NNL West’s Andy Kellock and offered to help put on a similar event, which went live in March 2021 and included participants from the UK and Europe. What’s more, by midyear, a few in-person model shows were able to secure venues. What you have here is a snapshot of a time when scale modelers, despite a pandemic and long odds, came together to…
