Rivercon Scale Model Competition

Paying it Forward!

As you may be aware, our club voted to give 10% of the proceeds from RiverCon 2025 to the Gary Sinise Foundation.

As part of being accountable, Red River Modelers donated $450 to Gary Sinise Foundation: Families of Fallen Heroes (Snowball Express)

https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/

Donation’s basis
Donations & Sponsorship: $125.00
General Admission: $332.50
Contest Registration: $1,381.00
$1 Raffle Ticket: $915.00
$5 Raffle Ticket: $370.00
$10 Raffle Ticket: $230.00
Vendor Tables: $905.00
Total: $4,258.50
10% $425.85

Home At the Gary Sinise Foundation, we serve our nation by honoring our defenders, veterans, first responders, their families, and those in need.

Well, we had a few eagle eyes who caught a few errors due to tagging an image or two (the MiG-19 versus a Learjet), one transpose error (160a versus 106a), and two miss spelled last names that had a ripple effect on the slide show.

The errors corrected, deleted the old images, and upload the correct images.

Enjoy!

The Results – 2025

WOW! Another show in the books!

Thank you to all who attended as our guest – for without you, it wouldn’t be a show.

A heart-felt thanks to the Red River Modelers! It is a pleasure to be President of the best group of modelers who rose above the challenges and put on another wonderful show.

As we are still crunching the numbers, cross-checking winners with images, and making sure we have all the information correct before publishing everything.

However, here are the basics.

We had 84 contestants and 518 entries from across our region, and even outside our region too!

2 came outside Region 6 (Mobile AL, Crossville TN)

5 came from Arkansas (Conway, Redfield, North Little Rock, and Little Rock)

38 from Louisiana (Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Benton, Bossier City, Calhoun, Denham Springs, Hammond, Haughton, Keithville, Lake Charles, Leesville, Lafeyette, Mooringsport, Westlake, Wisner, Oscar, and Monroe & West Monroe)

3 from Oklahoma (Mustang, and Harrah)

25 from Texas (Austin, Bedford, Canton, Conroe, Dallas, Edinburg, Forney, Houston, Howe, Ingram, Katy, Little Elm, McKinney, Mesquite, Saginaw, Selma, San Antonio, Sulphur Springs, San Marcus, Spring, Boerue, Magnolia, Uvalde, Sugar Land, Texarkana, Rowlett)

We had 78 Main Categories with 12 splits (5 in Aircraft, 2 in Armor, 1 in Ships, 2 in Auto, and 2 in Sci-Fi)

The breakdown by Division or Class:
1. Young Modelers = 6
2. Aircraft = 125
3. Military Vehicles = 109
4. Figures = 44
5. Ships = 26
6. Autos = 102
7. Sci-Fi = 46
8. Dioramas = 19
9. Miscellaneous = 37
10. Grand Masters 2
11. Gauntlet Challenge = 2
(RRM Annual Club members to build outside their Comfort zone)

Standby for the final posting of images & those who garnered awards!

Send a message to learn more

Special Bulletin #4

T-4 days, 20 hours, and less than 10 minutes

March 15, 2025 – RiverCon: “Call of the Wild”.

All our vendor tables are - SOLD!

https://www.ipmsredrivermodelers.org/contest-pre.../

See ya this Saturday at LSUS University Center!

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T minus 6 days, 15 hours, and counting down…

Yepper, final week before the big event! If you pre-registered, your Invoice is being sent via PayPal

March 15, 2024 – RiverCon: “Call of the Wild”

Trying to put the finishing touches on my 82’ Corvette! How’s yours?

You can still preregister at our website of download the forms and instructions. Invoices for Pre-payment are going out as well.


https://www.ipmsredrivermodelers.org/contest-pre-registration/

Or come by Friday Night, March 14th, from 6:00 pm to 7:30Pm to register and drop off your entries.

Or show up on the day of the show, Saturday between 8am-noon to register

As for the venue…

Our venue is the LSUS University Center; plenty of space, parking, and easy access! Not to mention plenty of good food joints to choose from within a short distance of the Center.

And as mentioned, the elevator works!

LSUS University Center is building 18 on the map below.
https://www.lsus.edu/why-lsus/campus-map
One University Place Shreveport, LA, 71115

Directions
LSU Shreveport's address is One University Place Shreveport, LA 71115.

How to Get to LSUS from:

I-20 from West (Dallas)
From I-20 take Exit 11 towards Alexandria (3132)
Go South until you come to a red light at Bert Kouns
Take a Left on to Bert Kouns
Go East until you get to Millicent Way
Take a Right at the Red Light
Stay on Millicent Way until you enter the University

From the North:
Follow I-49 SOUTH; Merge onto I-220 W via EXIT 210B on the left toward Dallas;
I-220 W becomes Inner Loop Expressway;
take the Bert Kouns-Ind Loop/LA-526 exit, EXIT 9;
Keep RIGHT to take the Bert Kouns-Ind Loop ramp;
Turn LEFT onto E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop/LA-526;
Turn RIGHT onto Millicent Way;
When you reach the traffic light, LSU-S is straight ahead

I-20 from East (Monroe)
From I-20 take Exit 19A (US-71 NORTH/LA-1 NORTH/SPRING ST) keep left and merge onto LA-1 South
Stay on LA-1 (Youree Drive) at the next split
Go south on LA-1 (Youree Drive) for 8 miles and you will see the University on your left

I-49 from Central/South Louisiana
From I-49 take Exit 199
At the bottom of the exit, merge Right onto Bert Kouns
Go East until you get to Millicent Way
Take a Right at the Red Light
Stay on Millicent Way until you enter the University

For those looking for hotel rooms, there are several close by whether a Hilton Gardens Inn to one of the Casinos. If you need more info, please message us.

Still have questions? Please feel free to contact us!

So make the journey on March 15th to the LSUS University Center and spend a day with us!

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Special Bulletin #3

T-8 days, 19 hours, and less than 53 minutes

March 15, 2025 – RiverCon: “Call of the Wild”.

THE ELEVATOR WORKS!

Yes, folks, the elevator does work - they fixed it over the summer!

Pre-registration is still on going. Visit our website for all the details & instructions.

https://www.ipmsredrivermodelers.org/contest-pre-registration/

See ya on March 15th to the LSUS University Center!

Contest Pre-Registration | IPMS Red River Modelers Contest Pre-Registration RiverCon XIV – 2025 Countdown 08Days 19Hours 52Minutes 17Seconds UPDATED: February 3, 2025 We’re Live! Red River Modelers are offering contestants the opportunity to pre-register their model entries for RiverCon XIV – 2025! Download the Registration Summary Form and th...