jimz66 Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Okay guys, those of you who go to shows, and buy raffle tickets which is the singular best prize you've walked away with? I'll bet this one will be a doozie. Mine is a FW 190 9 Dora in 1/32 scale from Hasegawa.... $70 kit paid a buck on the raffle ticket.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crazydon Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Trumpeter 1/350th scale HMS Hood for $5.00 worth of raffle ticket a couple years ago I sold the kit though...I decided I'd never build the sucker anyway Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MaxHeadroom Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Eduard Royal Class FW-190A8. First name drawn on 20.00 of tickets. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ThePhantomTwo Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 People actually win stuff at raffles?I've never won anything at contest raffles or the online raffles,I figured after all these years my luck would change for better but hasn't happened yet. ;) Maybe one of these days,not holding my breath though! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pep Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Tamiya fw190 1/48 hasegawa zero 1/48 only things I ever got ;) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie Cheetah Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Won a Hasegawa 1/48 Seaking kit once from $5 worth of tickets. Also won a large Deployment Productions framed F-4C/D print off of about $10 in raffle tickets. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flyboyf18 Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Well I have scored 2 biggies; #1 It was at the last Canadian Nationals (IIRC), the cost was something like $5 for 3 tickets or an arms length for $10 or something like that. I had checked my 3 #s just before they announced the winning ticket and was standing by some guy who had 2 arms lengths. He was frantically searching his tickets for the number and I told him to relax the number was in my hand, he ignored me the first time but when I put the winning ticket in front of his face he deflated. He wasn't well liked within the club, so I did not feel too bad. The prize - a framed, one of, colour print (side view) of the 414 Sqn Black Knight Anniversary T-Bird, done by Mr. Ron Lowry, God rest his soul. The second was about 1 year after the 32nd Tamiya F-4C was released and that was the big prize. I had been seriously thinking about getting one, but the cost had been a factor, so was I surprised to see my number as the winner!! Woohoo! I picked up my booty and turned around from the table and some guy who had won an AMT car kit stopped me and asked if I would trade for the car????????? I looked at him and said, "I have 1.1 hour in the back seat of one of these (actually NRF-4C), what do you think?" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fulcrum1 Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 I don't ever stay at the shows long enough to raffle, but I did win an Academy 1/48 EF-111A from last year's Xmas shindig. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toadwbg Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 12-gauge 1187 Remington just last week Oh, you must mean models? Yeah, won a few of them too- some $100-odd dollar Trumpeter kits that I would never drop real coin for! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ipms33206 Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 One show I had $10 in tickets which was 10. I won 8 of the ten. I don't remember all the kits, but I totalled up the average retail of the kits and it was about $400! Not bad for the ten bucks in tickets and the entrance fee for the show! One of the kits was the Tamiya FAMO. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sanmigmike Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 (edited) Last year $40.00 of tickets and nothing. Really doesn't bother me too much (I buy the tickets to support our club) but what kind of odds was that? Not my day to try sky diving or buy lottery tickets eh? The year before $20.00 tickets and a photo op in the Spruce Goose flight deck...and several kits. The kids loved getting to see the flight deck of that beast. Edited April 9, 2011 by sanmigmike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
majortomski Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 None of the LHS plastic shops do raffles. My RC LHS gave me the monthly $50 gift certificate once At my rc club I won all 15 raffle prises including the Cessna 182 I wanted for $80 in tickets. Won a 26 inch TV from Walmart once. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
modeler85 Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 About two years ago I won Hasegawa 1/72 B-24J with the Dragon paint scheme. $80 kit for a $1 ticket. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve N Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 I normally don't do raffles, but I scored an indirect win a couple of years ago. A fellow club member won the new-tool Revell AG Lancaster, but since he's a ship builder he didn't want it, and offered it to me for five bucks. SN Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bugfan Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Well, at the shows I have won a 1/32 scale F/A-18C. While right here on ARC I have won a 1/32 scale Tamiya Tomcat, and the latest "win" is the 1/48 Academy Su-27 plus the Neomega cockpit and some LH decals during Breadboards kit give away!!! Not a bad haul! Jack aka Bugfan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crazydon Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Well, at the shows I have won a 1/32 scale F/A-18C. Jack aka Bugfan Bug won a Bug :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DarylH Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 I was stunned to win this $200 USD kit at the Atlanta Southern NNL a few years ago..... http://www.hlj.com/product/S27FR2419 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crazydon Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 I was stunned to win this $200 USD kit at the Atlanta Southern NNL a few years ago.....http://www.hlj.com/product/S27FR2419 SWEET!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
theplasticsurgeon Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 Only one I can really remember is this Minicraft Boeing 737-300. A few years later a new neighbour moved in - who happened to be a pilot training on these second generation 737s. I offered to build it for him with a white fuselage - so that I could decal it, when he secured a first office post. A few months later he did just that, with Jet2 - silver fuselage, and no decals at the time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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