The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Students will learn how to identify their skill level when selecting a kit and will be introduced to the basic tools needed to build a model.
We will also expand on doing research on the subject kit and what steps we may need to include in the construction if we decide to light the model or build it flying as opposed to sitting on the ground.Modeler University
Do you build models? If so, bring it by the Model Show and share your work with the world! Our show includes science fiction, science fact, fantasy, and horror subjects. Are you amazed by detailed artwork in miniature? Come on by and cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award! Do you want to improve your skills? Our friendly staff of qualified volunteers will be happy to talk to you about your work.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
We will be teaching techniques that will improve the model’s appearance that are not mentioned in the kit’s instructions. Students will also be introduced to more advanced tools of the trade and how they work.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Nothing brings life to your model than a proper paint job. Students will learn the differences and advantages of the types of paint available to the modeler along with masking techniques as well as a discussion on paint booths and other tools.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Nothing brings life to your model than a proper paint job. Students will learn the differences and advantages of the types of paint available to the modeler along with masking techniques as well as a discussion on paint booths and other tools.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Whether using the kit’s original base, a custom base or a diorama, students will learn how to make their model stand out from the rest.
An original documentary celebrating that legacy of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) directed by Academy Award and Emmy-nominated director Leslie Iwerks and narrated by Tom Cruise. The hour-long special has interviews with filmmakers George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, J.J. Abrams and Jon Favreau, actors Samuel L. Jackson and Robin Williams, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and John Lasseter, the chief creative officer at Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. Film and television shows featured in the special include “The Abyss,” “Avatar,” “Forrest Gump,” “Jumanji,” “Jurassic Park,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Robot Chicken,” “Star Trek (2009),” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” “Transformers,” “Twister,” “Young Sherlock Holmes” and “The War of the Worlds (2005),” which starred narrator Cruise.
Leslie Iwerks’ documentary takes audiences behind the scenes at ILM with in-depth interviews with some of the company’s top talent and showcases never before seen footage highlighting many of their pioneering milestones. From creating the first ever computer generated character in a feature film to the latest advancements in visual effects for film franchises like “Transformers” and “Iron Man,” ILM has created some of the most memorable movie moments in recent history.
This year, May 7th marks the one-year anniversary of the passing of Ray Harryhausen. For the majority of today’s filmgoers, this isn’t a significant event.
For many others, like myself who grew up in the era before science fiction and fantasy movies were multi-million dollar productions requiring entire armies of effects artists, it’s a time for sadness and reflection.
Even if you don't know who Ray Harryhausen was, you've probably seen his work. The master animator is best known for breathing life into giant, writhing serpents, sword-wielding skeletons, and marauding dinosaurs in such fantasy adventure and monster movies as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad(1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), and Clash of the Titans (1981). Harryhausen was an innovator, and in many ways the father of the modern special effects craft and industry.
Harryhausen's trademark action sequences featuring animated model figurines always pictured interacting with, or more often, fighting with human foes, or crushing them, or biting them in half or flying away with them might seem clunky and old-fashioned when measured by today's standards. But in their day, the effects Ray pioneered were cutting-edge. He painstakingly filmed his "creatures" frame by frame. The process was exhausting: The 4 minute, 37-second skeleton and human fight sequence from Jason and the Argonauts reportedly took four and a half months to photograph and he had to readjust and film around 184,800 movements of the puppets.
Then, using his patented "Dynamation" technique, those skeletons and serpents could interact on screen with actors in a remarkable realistic way. The Dynamation process combined foreground and background footage by photographing miniatures in front of a rear-projection screen. Sometimes, he shot sequences through a partially-masked glass pane. Live footage would later be superimposed on the masked portion of the frame, and voila, the creature or creatures seemed to exist in the midst of "real" human-scaled action, or even appear to move in front of and behind "live" elements. Ray also carefully controlled lighting and color balance to make sure the image quality of his animated sequences matched the quality of the live action. His effects were more convincing than the standard use of optical printing and mattes. This was before green screen, folks.
Perhaps because of his hermetic production style and the fact that he produced half of his films outside of Hollywood (living in London since 1960), reducing his day-to-day interaction with other more traditional, but still influential Hollywood effects artists, none of Harryhausen's films were nominated for a special effects Oscar. Harryhausen himself says the reason was that he worked in Europe.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, those of Harryhausen's growing legion of fans who had graduated into the professional film industry, started lobbying the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to acknowledge Harryhausen's contribution to the film industry and he was finally awarded a Gordon E. Sawyer Award for "technological contributions [which] have brought credit to the industry" in 1992, with actor Tom Hanks as the Master of Ceremonies and long time friend Bradbury, presenting the Oscar. After the presentation to Harryhausen, actor Tom Hanks told the audience, "Some people say Casablanca or Citizen Kane...I say Jason and the Argonauts is the greatest film ever made!"
On both Saturday and Sunday morning, in Main Events, we’ll screen a very well produced documentary, The Harryhausen Chronicles, narrated by Leonard Nimoy. This gives anyone interested two chances to sit in.
Here’s a review.
This engaging 1997 documentary stands alone as the definitive tribute to stop-motion animator and special effects legend Ray Harryhausen, which is why it's been included as a DVD bonus feature on a number of Harryhausen films. Written and directed by Time magazine film critic and historian Richard Schickel (a guarantee of quality and authority), the film is blessed with the participation of Harryhausen himself, comfortable in his role as FX guru and living legend, humorously reflecting on his momentous career while offering a wondrous inspection of the stop-motion models that made him famous. From before his apprenticeship on 1949's Mighty Joe Young to his final masterwork in Clash of the Titans, Harryhausen is honored as an old-school artisan, toiling in solitude to create some of the cinema's most indelible fantasies, one meticulous frame at a time. A compilation of rare film tests and previously unseen footage among the DVD bonus features makes this must-see viewing for Harryhausen devotees of any age.
Peri Charlifu will be on hand to help the kids make fun scary spiders and creepy bats.
Here’s the NY Times review from 1949:
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
'Mighty Joe Young,' Featuring Giant Gorilla, Stars Terry Moore and Ben Johnson
T. M. P.
Published: July 28, 1949
Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack, who merged their talents as producer and director to scare the daylights out of movie-goers with the fabulous "King Kong" (1933), have fashioned another fantastic show in "Mighty Joe Young." But in the new picture, which was presented yesterday at the Criterion, the producers are endeavoring to make all the world love, or at the very least feel a deep sympathy for, their monstrous, mechanical gorilla.
The emphasis is on comedy and the huge Mr. Joseph Young of Africa, to give the star of the film full credit rating, can be screamingly funny and appealing at times, it must be admitted. But the mighty Mr. Young also has a streak of ferociousness that is every bit as awesomely terrifying as was the fury of his first cousin, Mr. Kong. Let that remark stand as fair caution in cases where younger members of the household may have a leaning toward nightmares.
We first meet Joe as a baby when he is adopted as a pet by the young daughter of a trader in Africa, who bottle-feeds the ugly black duckling and rocks him to sleep in a cradle to the strains of "Beautiful Dreamer." Ten years later, the full-grown gorilla and his friend, Jill Young, are brought to Hollywood by a nightclub impresario as the stars of an incredible jungle floor show.
The gorilla is a sensational attraction, holding Jill and a piano on a platform above his head; playing tug-'o-war with a dozen mighty athletes, including Primo Camera and Man Mountain Dean, and generally putting on a good show until a trio of drunks ply him with liquor and torment him into a frightful rage.
Poor Joe goes berserk, wrecks the nightclub, lets a herd of lions out of a glass-enclosed jungle behind the bar and is sentenced to be shot for his disregard for the laws of man. Jill, Max O'Hara, the nightclub owner, and a cowboy who is in love with the girl, concoct an elaborate scheme to get Joe safely on a boat to Africa. Their wild flight in a moving van halts as they reach a blazing orphanage where Mr. Joseph Young, in a brilliant, darling feat, helps rescue a trapped child.
It is this spectator's opinion that "Mighty Joe Young" is not nearly as consistently funny as the producers hoped it would be, but it certainly is a most unusual show. For sheer, incredible make-believe there is nothing to quite equal the comic scramble of a group of O'Hara's cowboys attempting to capture the jungle giant by lassoing him. On the other hand, the rampage in the nightclub is violent action, unrelieved by any genuine comic inventiveness, which is what this part of the picture desperately needs.
The wonder of "Mighty Joe Young" is the mobility of the mechanical star, but even that novelty wears thin after a while. The human actors are, considering the circumstances, quite adept. Terry Moore is the girl; Robert Armstrong the nightclub owner and Ben Johnson, the cowboy. Johnson is a personable newcomer with a heavy Oklahoma drawl.
MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, based on a screenplay by Ruth Rose; technical creator, Willis O'Brien; directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack; produced by Merian C. Cooper; an ARKO production; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The players: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley, Denis Green, Paul Guilfoyie, Nestor Paiva, Regis Toomey, Lora Lee Michel, James Flavin and Mr. Joseph Young.
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2014 FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-N-Take Participants! Iwata-Medea joins Artool, Model Master and Excel in making the FREE Model Make-N-Take possible. This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Presented by IPMS/CoMMiES and TAGTeam Hobbies.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Students will learn how to identify their skill level when selecting a kit and will be introduced to the basic tools needed to build a model.
We will also expand on doing research on the subject kit and what steps we may need to include in the construction if we decide to light the model or build it flying as opposed to sitting on the ground.Modeler University
An in depth look at the infamous murders that started all the Amityville stories and myths. This documentary digs deep to find all the stories and facts about the Defeo family and the horrific crime that shocked a quiet town. Part 1: From Horror to Homicide.
Do you build models? If so, bring it by the Model Show and share your work with the world! Our show includes science fiction, science fact, fantasy, and horror subjects. Are you amazed by detailed artwork in miniature? Come on by and cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award! Do you want to improve your skills? Our friendly staff of qualified volunteers will be happy to talk to you about your work.
Be the first to own a copy of Christie's new novel, World of Warcraft: War Crimes. We'll have it for sale BEFORE it hits the stores. Get yours autographed by Christie!
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Christie Golden, comes WORLD OF WARCRAFT: WAR CRIMES (Gallery Books; May 6th, 2014; Hardcover; $26.00), the sensational new direct tie-in to the upcoming video game expansion set Warlords of Draenor from Blizzard Entertainment.
The brutal siege of Orgimmar is over.
Alliance and Horde forces have stripped Garrosh Hellscream, one of the most reviled figures on Azeroth, of his title as warchief. His thirst for conquest devastated cities nearly tore the Horde apart, and destroyed countless lives throughout the World of Warcraft.
Now, on the legendary continent of Pandaria, he will stand trial for his transgressions. Renowned leaders from across the world have gathered to witness this historic event. As the trial unfolds, agents of the bronze dragonflight present shocking visions of Garrosh’s atrocities. For many of those in attendance, these glimpses into history force them to relive painful memories and even question their own innocence or guilt. For others, the chilling details stoke the flames of their hatred.
Unbeknownst to anyone, shadowy forces are at work on Azeroth, threatening not only the court’s ability to mete out justice….but also the lives of everyone at the trial.
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2014 FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-N-Take Participants! Iwata-Medea joins Artool, Model Master and Excel in making the FREE Model Make-N-Take possible. This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Presented by IPMS/CoMMiES and TAGTeam Hobbies.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
We will be teaching techniques that will improve the model’s appearance that are not mentioned in the kit’s instructions. Students will also be introduced to more advanced tools of the trade and how they work.
Join authors Stephen Graham Jones, Guy Anthony De Marco, Mark Stone, Travis Heerman, Carrie Vaughn and Jeanne Stein for an interactive discussion.
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2014 FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-N-Take Participants! Iwata-Medea joins Artool, Model Master and Excel in making the FREE Model Make-N-Take possible. This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Presented by IPMS/CoMMiES and TAGTeam Hobbies.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Nothing brings life to your model than a proper paint job. Students will learn the differences and advantages of the types of paint available to the modeler along with masking techniques as well as a discussion on paint booths and other tools.
Every year, The Model Show awards The People's Choice Award. This is where you get to choose your favorite model. The entry with the most votes wins!
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2014 FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-N-Take Participants! Iwata-Medea joins Artool, Model Master and Excel in making the FREE Model Make-N-Take possible. This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Presented by IPMS/CoMMiES and TAGTeam Hobbies.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Nothing brings life to your model than a proper paint job. Students will learn the differences and advantages of the types of paint available to the modeler along with masking techniques as well as a discussion on paint booths and other tools.
Our filmmakers, actors, producers, and writers talk all aspects of making indie horror. With Bizjack Flemco, Zachary Helm, The Mihm Crew, and others.
This panel will cover Bob Hall’s years working for Marvel Comics and the many amazing characters he worked on and the many industry professionals he had the opportunity to work with.
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2014 FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-N-Take Participants! Iwata-Medea joins Artool, Model Master and Excel in making the FREE Model Make-N-Take possible. This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Presented by IPMS/CoMMiES and TAGTeam Hobbies.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Whether using the kit’s original base, a custom base or a diorama, students will learn how to make their model stand out from the rest.
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2014 FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-N-Take Participants! Iwata-Medea joins Artool, Model Master and Excel in making the FREE Model Make-N-Take possible. This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Presented by IPMS/CoMMiES and TAGTeam Hobbies.
This years challenge, Scare Us! Anything Goes! Come face off against fellow make-up artists for a fabulous grand prize provided by those awesome folks at Reinke Bros. You will have 2 hours to complete your vengeful spirit make-up. Models will be provided for each contestant. You will need to bring all your own supplies and something to drape your model with. No pre-made masks allowed although we will allow premade appliances to be used. Pre-made appliances may not cover more than half the face.
Models -- we need you as well! If you are available for 2 hours you can become a model for one of our artists.
Sign up to participate in the make-up challenge or be a model in the Horror Extras room.
Kevin J. Anderson, bestselling “Star Wars,” “Dune,” and “X-Files” author tells the inspiring story of growing up as a fan of science fiction and fantasy. Like so many, all he wanted was to be a writer -- and he did it. Join the journey of Kevin building his first lightsaber, and be inspired to build your own first lightsaber!
What makes writing horror and dark fantasy different from other stories? Where does the inspiration come from? With Guy Anthony De Marco, Stephen Graham Jones, Jeanne Stein, Mark Stone, Peter J. Wacks, Sam Knight, Carrie Vaughn and Travis Heermann.
Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society Presents:
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a mystical healer? How about a famous psychic or someone communicating with the Dead with special tools? Bryan & Baxter will share their experiences to see how easy it is to make people believe you have these magical talents. They will also look into some of the more controversial claims that they have examined and discovered to be less than real.
Do you have what it takes to hang with the CoMMiES? Bring a kit, bring your tools, and sniff glue with the most unique chapter of the International Plastic Modelers Society.
Work on a kit. Ask about techniques. Share stories. And, above all, poke your friends verbally!
The Movie Presented by Bryan and Baxter and the cast and crew of the film.
This year, May 7th marks the one-year anniversary of the passing of Ray Harryhausen. For the majority of today’s filmgoers, this isn’t a significant event.
For many others, like myself who grew up in the era before science fiction and fantasy movies were multi-million dollar productions requiring entire armies of effects artists, it’s a time for sadness and reflection.
Even if you don't know who Ray Harryhausen was, you've probably seen his work. The master animator is best known for breathing life into giant, writhing serpents, sword-wielding skeletons, and marauding dinosaurs in such fantasy adventure and monster movies as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad(1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), and Clash of the Titans (1981). Harryhausen was an innovator, and in many ways the father of the modern special effects craft and industry.
Harryhausen's trademark action sequences featuring animated model figurines always pictured interacting with, or more often, fighting with human foes, or crushing them, or biting them in half or flying away with them might seem clunky and old-fashioned when measured by today's standards. But in their day, the effects Ray pioneered were cutting-edge. He painstakingly filmed his "creatures" frame by frame. The process was exhausting: The 4 minute, 37-second skeleton and human fight sequence from Jason and the Argonauts reportedly took four and a half months to photograph and he had to readjust and film around 184,800 movements of the puppets.
Then, using his patented "Dynamation" technique, those skeletons and serpents could interact on screen with actors in a remarkable realistic way. The Dynamation process combined foreground and background footage by photographing miniatures in front of a rear-projection screen. Sometimes, he shot sequences through a partially-masked glass pane. Live footage would later be superimposed on the masked portion of the frame, and voila, the creature or creatures seemed to exist in the midst of "real" human-scaled action, or even appear to move in front of and behind "live" elements. Ray also carefully controlled lighting and color balance to make sure the image quality of his animated sequences matched the quality of the live action. His effects were more convincing than the standard use of optical printing and mattes. This was before green screen, folks.
Perhaps because of his hermetic production style and the fact that he produced half of his films outside of Hollywood (living in London since 1960), reducing his day-to-day interaction with other more traditional, but still influential Hollywood effects artists, none of Harryhausen's films were nominated for a special effects Oscar. Harryhausen himself says the reason was that he worked in Europe.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, those of Harryhausen's growing legion of fans who had graduated into the professional film industry, started lobbying the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to acknowledge Harryhausen's contribution to the film industry and he was finally awarded a Gordon E. Sawyer Award for "technological contributions [which] have brought credit to the industry" in 1992, with actor Tom Hanks as the Master of Ceremonies and long time friend Bradbury, presenting the Oscar. After the presentation to Harryhausen, actor Tom Hanks told the audience, "Some people say Casablanca or Citizen Kane...I say Jason and the Argonauts is the greatest film ever made!"
On both Saturday and Sunday morning, in Main Events, we’ll screen a very well produced documentary, The Harryhausen Chronicles, narrated by Leonard Nimoy. This gives anyone interested two chances to sit in.
Here’s a review.
This engaging 1997 documentary stands alone as the definitive tribute to stop-motion animator and special effects legend Ray Harryhausen, which is why it's been included as a DVD bonus feature on a number of Harryhausen films. Written and directed by Time magazine film critic and historian Richard Schickel (a guarantee of quality and authority), the film is blessed with the participation of Harryhausen himself, comfortable in his role as FX guru and living legend, humorously reflecting on his momentous career while offering a wondrous inspection of the stop-motion models that made him famous. From before his apprenticeship on 1949's Mighty Joe Young to his final masterwork in Clash of the Titans, Harryhausen is honored as an old-school artisan, toiling in solitude to create some of the cinema's most indelible fantasies, one meticulous frame at a time. A compilation of rare film tests and previously unseen footage among the DVD bonus features makes this must-see viewing for Harryhausen devotees of any age.
Our annual coffee and donut panel with Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society. Bryan & Baxter will examine some famous paranormal hoaxes and see how they were created. They will also show you some hilarious hoaxes that they have created to shed the light on some of the bizarre paranormal claims of the media.
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2014 FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-N-Take Participants! Iwata-Medea joins Artool, Model Master and Excel in making the FREE Model Make-N-Take possible. This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Presented by IPMS/CoMMiES and TAGTeam Hobbies.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Students will learn how to identify their skill level when selecting a kit and will be introduced to the basic tools needed to build a model.
We will also expand on doing research on the subject kit and what steps we may need to include in the construction if we decide to light the model or build it flying as opposed to sitting on the ground.Modeler University
This is what Rotten Tomatoes says about Jason and the Argonauts.
Greek mythology is done up brown by the special-effects expertise of Ray Harryhausen in Jason and the Argonauts. Jason (Todd Armstrong), rightful heir to the throne of Thessaly, is spared from death through the intervention of the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman). The other celestial inhabitants of Mount Olympus watch in amusement as Hera surreptitiously aids Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece. Obstacles to this goal include a giant come-to-life statue named Talos, the screeching harpies plaguing blind prophet Phineas (Patrick Troughton), a set of huge clashing rocks, the seven-headed hydra, and an army of skeletons (this bravura climactic sequence assured Harryhausen's place in the hearts of 13-year-old boys of all ages). Supporting characters include Nancy Kovack as a pre-infanticide Medea and Nigel Green as a pacifistic Hercules. Bernard Herrmann's surging musical score was icing on the cake for this greatest of all Ray Harryhausen creations.
The Orphaned Entertainment Podcast invites you to come and watch the creepy, psychological horror film, Carnival of Souls! First released in 1962 by a group of independent filmmakers in Lawrence, Kansas, Carnival of Souls is recognized today as a cult classic and an influence on the films of David Lynch and George A. Romero. Join us for a screening, then stick around to discuss the making of Carnival of Souls with Matt Jacobson, filmmaker and professor at the University of Kansas (who works at the studio where Carnival of Souls was produced).
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2014 FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-N-Take Participants! Iwata-Medea joins Artool, Model Master and Excel in making the FREE Model Make-N-Take possible. This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Presented by IPMS/CoMMiES and TAGTeam Hobbies.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
We will be teaching techniques that will improve the model’s appearance that are not mentioned in the kit’s instructions. Students will also be introduced to more advanced tools of the trade and how they work.
Once again our trivia host Peri Charlifu will help you embarrass yourself for fun and prizes! Sign up your team of 2 in the Horror Extras Room.
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2014 FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-N-Take Participants! Iwata-Medea joins Artool, Model Master and Excel in making the FREE Model Make-N-Take possible. This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Presented by IPMS/CoMMiES and TAGTeam Hobbies.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Nothing brings life to your model than a proper paint job. Students will learn the differences and advantages of the types of paint available to the modeler along with masking techniques as well as a discussion on paint booths and other tools.
The Model Events Team is pleased to announce the 2014 FREE Model Make-N-Take at StarFest.
Once again, we will have some of their most popular kits for the Make-N-Take Participants! Iwata-Medea joins Artool, Model Master and Excel in making the FREE Model Make-N-Take possible. This event is for members from 8 to 16 years old.
Presented by IPMS/CoMMiES and TAGTeam Hobbies.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Nothing brings life to your model than a proper paint job. Students will learn the differences and advantages of the types of paint available to the modeler along with masking techniques as well as a discussion on paint booths and other tools.
More on the DeFeo family murders and the investigation.
The Starfest Model Show is proud to announce it’s first Modeler University. Regardless of your age, skill level or topic of interest, our professor’s will be hosting a range of classes that include all aspects of model building. Classes are free and we encourage you to attend all of them.
Each class will be held once a day each day of the convention. Classes last approximately 50 minutes.
Whether using the kit’s original base, a custom base or a diorama, students will learn how to make their model stand out from the rest.
Combining the use of the written word and images to tell a truly horrifying tale. With panelists Guy Anthony De Marco, Peter J Wacks, Kathryn S. Renta, and Stan Yan.
Every year, the outstanding modelers in the show are presented certificates and prizes. Come and help us celebrate their accomplishments at our awards ceremony!
We will also have the door prize drawing. Here’s where your participation in the modeling events pays off. You must be present to win.