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Yvonne Carpenter will be back, presenting her ever-popular demo on photo etch and soldering. Yvonne puts PE motorcycle chain together for her model motorcycle builds, so she knows whereof she speaks!

yes, the moon landing, but so many other things as well. your favorite 1969 model year car? military vehicles in service that year (best of these went into service that year, but what the hey…), movies out that year? current events?

Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Golden Colorado
registration – 9 AM to Noon
judging approx 1-4
awards approx 5 pm

how’s your build going?

I want to announce that Death Star Creator Colin Cantwell will be joining us at CoMMiESFest! I’ve met and talked with Colin on several occasions, and he’s the definition of Renaissance Man. I encourage everyone attending to stop by his booth, and purchase a print and photo with him. Colin’s biography:

Death Star Creator, Colin Cantwell, was the original concept artist and modeler for all things that flew in the first Star Wars movie, “A New Hope”. His designs include the X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Death Star, Star Destroyer, original Millennium Falcon, Y-Wing and others. Developing the process of “Kitbashing” to build the ships, he revolutionized the modeling industry by tearing apart model kits of cars, boats and planes and re-constructing the pieces into objects such as the Star Wars ships. In addition to his contribution to Star Wars, Colin has been involved in several other iconic projects. His credits include: working closely with Stanley Kubrick to design the space scenes and suggest the memorable music for “2001, A Space Odyssey”; sitting behind Walter Cronkite as the “Hal 9000 Computer” and giving Cronkite the flight progress to broadcast live on national TV during the first moon landing; designing the first OmniMax theater in San Diego; developing the first multi-color computer monitor for HP, and much more. He also worked on several other movies including, War Games, Close Encounters of a Third Kind and more. You can learn about Colin and his other projects on his website http://www.colincantwell.com

We are going to try something a little new this year. Online registration. This should speed up our registration lines. This week, we are going to pre register attendees. Please try it and let me (Dan danielh @ holmesonics.com ) know how it’s goes for you. http://www.commiesfest.com/cf18 . We will be adding in model registration next week.

I thought I’d posted this earlier, but for some reason it didn’t publish. Here’s the new 2018 forms:

2018 Registration Form

2018 Entry Form

I also plan on having electronic registration this year, please keep watching this website!

We are continuing the long hallowed tradition of holding CoMMiESFests. This year, our theme is “At The Movies”. This means anything represented in TV or Film is eligible. You need to tell us, on your entry form, what movie or TV show. It doesn’t matter the episode, or what scene, and it doesn’t have to exactly reproduce the original. Don’t overthink it, and just have fun with it!

As usual, it’s at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Golden Colorado, on March 31st, 2018. Everyone and anyone is welcome to attend.

If you’d like to fill out your registration forms early, here are 2 to a sheet. Print them out, fill them out, and bring them with you.

CoMMiESFest 2016 Entry Form