SCGMC 2017

Attention gunpla modelers as well as all anime/scifi related model builders! The 7th annual Southern California Gundam Model Competition. Date: Saturday November 4, 2016 Time: 9:00AM – 4:00PM Location: Grand Hall Fullerton Community Center 340 W Commonwealth Ave Fullerton, CA 92832 The theme for this year’s competition is RX-78.  

SCGMC Less than 10 days away!

There are only 9 more days until the first annual Southern California’s first Gunpla Competition, a little over a week away! Saturday, November 12, 2011. Time for a little update to the event. Other than the contest, there will be vendors: There will be raffles with some very nice prizes donated from various sources. There will be live demonstrations on various gunpla building techniques that cover almost everything from start to finish. And other than the really fantastically cool coin trophies, there will be some special awards. The first annual Southern California Gundam Model Contest (SCGMC) Saturday November 12, 2011 9:00AM – 4:00PM Holiday Inn Fullerton Crown Room Holiday Inn Fullerton 2932 East Nutwood Avenue Fullerton, CA 92831 General Admission: $5.00 Admission includes 1 model entry. Additional model entries will be $1.00 per model Entry Forms Contestant Entry Forms Model … Read More

Vendors at SCGMC

For the upcoming Southern California Gundam Model Competition in November, there will be vendors selling gunpla as well as gunpla related resin conversion kits. Robot4Less and TatsuHobby will be vendors at SCGMC, so all your plastic AND resin gunpla needs will be met. Additionally, there will be tools, paints, and various aftermarket items for sale at this event as well. For our friends in Northern California, TatsuHobby is also holding a contest as part of their 2 year anniversary celebration: Tatsu Hobby Anniversary Event #3 Northern CA Gunpla Competition! Our last event for this anniversary is the Northern California Gunpla Competition! We made this event mainly to express our gratitude towards our local customers and to show the builds of Gundam fans of the Northern California area. In addition, we made this event in conjunction to the Southern California Gundam … Read More

SCGMC Trophies

I received a box on my front door step today, inside are the trophies for SCGMC. There is a local miniature figure contest that gives out coin trophies, and I’ve always thought that this was a very cool method for an award. Then again, I’m ex-military, so I just like the idea of having the challenge coin style trophy. Having the choice of colored finished, we went with black metal, silver, and bronze, which will be the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd awards respectively. We will also have a separate awards for the five special theme awards. Currently the categories we have setup are as follows: Universal Century (CCA, 0079, 0080, 0083, F91, etc) 1/100 and larger (1/60, 1/48, etc) 1/144 and smaller (1/220, 1/400, etc) Alternate Universe (seed, 00, Turn A, X, Wing, etc) 1/100 and larger (1/60, 1/48, etc) … Read More