Our 2005 Model Contest turned out to be our best ever in terms of terms of the sheer number of entries and overall quality of models submitted!

We're very pleased to announce our first, second, and third place winners shown above. Congratulations to Ralph Ratcliffe (first place winner of a Truck Stop Models $200 gift certificate), Chester Fesmire (second place winner of a Truck Stop Models $100 gift certificate), and Werner Kattinger (third place winner of a Truck Stop Models $50 gift certificate). A very special thanks goes to Trip and Cheryl Aiken of Truck Stop Models for making the Busch Dodge Power Wagon available at a special discounted price and underwriting the gift certificates. We'd also like to mention Jorg Vallen and Busch Gmbh for having the faith and foresight to produce such an outstanding model of the Dodge Power Wagon in 1/87 scale and to send a special thanks to Wayne Calder who supplied the research materials needed to produce the model!

We're looking forward to the 2006 version of our contest and will announce the rules and conditions during the summer of '06! Special thanks to all our contestants and everyone who voted in this year's contest! [posted 12/20/2005]