Mike Warner
Penn Yan, New York
Mike spent five years building his 1/700 scale diorama of the battleship USS Colorado in floating drydock with USS McCord, PT boats, and other support vessels alongside. The Colorado is from Trumpeter, the McCord from Skywave, and he scratchbuilt the drydock using wood and styrene with photo-etched metal railings and cranes from Five Star Models. The work paid off when the model won Best in Show at IPMS Rochester’s ROCON 39.