AWARDS PRESENTED AT THE 2006 CHICAGO SHOW

THE CHICAGO MEDAL
 Doug Lee

BEST OF SHOW    Dave Browne - Rusted Tomb

BEST OF SHOW, runners up (given only when voting is extremely
close)

Douglas Lee - Lord of Cyrenica
Mike Blank - Crossing the Nebel

THE SHELLY STEIN AWARD    Lee Williams


AWARDS AT THE ADVANCED LEVEL

GOLD MEDALS - Open Division

 
Dan Tisoncik - Stubborn mule
 Raffaele Nalin & Campomangiana - KGL 1st Battalion
 Dave  Browne - Rusted Tomb
 Ian MacKenzie - 3rd Guard Grenadiers
 Scott Primeau - Princess Leia
 Greg DiFranco - Jackson at First Manassas
 Alex De Leon - Just Lovely
 Rick Taylor - The Blue Boy
 Doug Cohen - 1/48th scale figures
 Maurizio Bruno - Captain Edme
 Fletcher Clement - Bottom of the 5th
 Joe Hudson - Blockade Runner
 Dieter Mattingly - Monochrome Boxes
 Rod Curtis - 15th Hussars
 Alan & Marion Ball - Yoholo Micco Creek Chief
 Mike Blank - Crossing the Nebel
 Roger Newsome  - Russian Imperial Navy Seaman
 Douglas Lee - Lord of Cyrenica

GOLD MEDALS - Painters Division

 
Rod Curtis - Officer Greek Light Infantry
 Jason Whitman - Not a Man Wavered
 Lee Van Quang - Geisha
 Greg DiFranco - Entire display
 Doug Cohen - 44th
 Rick Rutter - Gladiator
 Peter Ferk - Bandito
 Marcelo Fuentes - Blood Warrior
 Jason  Green - Officer Waffen SS, 1944
 Bob  Sarnowski - Citizen Clouseau
 Barry Biediger - Napoleonics
 Jennifer Haley - Umekichi Geisha
 Jesus Gamarra - Renaissance Knight
 Rick Girardin - French Artillery Officer
 Greg Cihler - Alex the Vanpire
 Marion Ball - Napoleonic figures
 Dennis Levy - Liberty
 Konrad Schulte - Prussian Kurassier
 Raffaele  Nalin - Conducteur de la Garde Imperiale
 Hap Wolfgram - Prince of Thieves
 Dan Tisoncik - Benito Mussolini
 Ian MacKenzie - Artillerie a Cheval

Gold Medals - Ordnance Division

 
Doug Cohen - H13
 Jack Taylor - Boeing FB1
 Tony Bell - Albatros
 Curtis Knight - WWI planes
 Chris Mrosko - Iranian Jeep
 Nick Shearman - M3 Stuart
 Steve Hustad - German Armor
 Cesar Rodriguez - Panzer III
 Dan Tisoncik - Desert Maintenance
 Andy Golden - Panther G


Silver Medals - Open Division

 
Rick Harley - Photo Op
 Carlo Maria Tiepolo - Chasseur a Cheval, Gen Grouchy
 John Long - Swamped
 Didier Hachem - Vandalizer
 Mike Bedard - Peek-a-boo!
 Matt Springer - Russian figure
 Marcelo Fuentes & David Whitford - The Great Roberto Clemente
 Steve Hustad - WW II vignettes
 Jack  Muldoon - The Wizard
 Randy Meyers - Death Hussar
 John Harbuck - Mountain Men
 Bill Chilstrom - Hell in the Trenches
 Greg Cihler - WWII Display
 Susan Wachowski - Gandalf & the Riders of Rohan

Silver Medals - Painters Division

 
Dieter Mattingly - Charlies Woman
 Kreston Peckham - Verdun 1916
 Bill Chilstrom - Conan
 Jules De Raucourt - 2 Samurai
 Lee Williams - Orc
 Randy Myers - Heavy Camel Regt.
 Tim Flagstad - Sergeant 91st Argyll Highlanders
 Jon Harbuck - 6th Marines
 Bob Hickel - Dinosaur
 Sean Tobin - Gordon's Last Stand
 Vem Minkwitz - Lasalle
 Paul Marshall - WWII display
 Chris Mrosko - Waffen SS Grenadier
 Paul Kernan - Soviet Rifles
 A Akimova - Female Samurai
 Steve Durling - Bavarian knight
 Bill Gudmundson - Gappa
 Matt Springer - 3rd Cuirassiers
 Didier Hachem - Mandan Warrior
 Mike Bedard - Lafayette Pool
 Jaume Ortiz - DAK officer
 Susan Wachowski - Griffon Knight
 Noel  Meyer - Dinner Party
 John Long - Chasseur a Cehval
 Ann Forester - Female Magus & Familiar

Siver Medals - Ordnance Division

 
Marty Jurasek - Early German Armor
 Doug  Somers - M4A1
 Mark Wolf - 234/3
 Ed St. Denis - American Armor Display
 Rick Rasmussen - Communications Boat
 Doug Smith - Piano
 Didier Hachem - Muddy Day
 Larry Peters - Corsair
 Jacques Duquette - Modern Armor
 Bill Gudmundson - Markalite
 Felix Gonzales -  B5
8 Hustler
 Bob Sheldon - Brandenburg 1
 Mike Bedard - Armored Display
 Winston Vermilyea - Tigers


Bronze Medals - Open Division

 
Nick Majerus - 3rd ID in Iraq
 Randy Cross - The Sortie
 Bill Silk - Tarzan of the Apes
 Nick Shearman - Holding the High Ground
 Jim Lyne - Comrades
 Stephen Wiebe - Relon Chasseurs
 Chris Centracchio - Engineers of Imperial Guard
 Jim Thiewes - Volksturmann
 Wayne Weber - Let's Play
 Anders Heintz - Blacksmith
 Alan Burbank - Chief Joseph

Bronze Medals - Painters Division

 
Chris Barrett - Grom Spleensplita
 Jim Lyne - Nelson
 Andy Gulden - US Tanker
 Alex McCutcheon - Waiting to Go Home
 Chris Centracchio - Officer Sikhs
 Joseph McEvoy - Sir Walter
 Jack Muldoon - Robert E. Lee
 Bob Nuszbaum - Robin Hood
 Pat Vess - Mountain Man
 Richard Rock - The Pursuit
 Jeff McLain - Custer bust
 Rodney Anderson - Teutonic Knight
 Paul Greene - 6th Line Lancer
 Larry Peters - Wolfen
 Brad Pruden - Rough Rider
 Carl Palm - Crow
 Greg McEvoy - French Knight
 Jim O'Connor - Briton Knight
 James Schroeder - Childrens Flats 1923
 George Mickelson - Winter Elf
 Steve Deyo - Walks at Night
 Tom Bookwalter - Bessieres
 Kenneth  Gonko - Officer 2nd Life Guards
 Scott Primeau - SS Sturmann
 Ander Heintz - Confederate
 Wayne Weber - Pawnee Warrior
 John Bailey - Private, 29th Inf Div
 Bob Bethea - German
 Joe Furioso - overall display
 Pete  Culos - Jersey Blue
 Steve Fall - Here They Come
 Warren Judge - SS Tanker
 Steve Fall - 2nd Punjab Cavalry
 John  Borneo - SS Grenadier
 Pete Herrera - Waffen SS
 Mike Cobb - Norman Standard Bearer
 Warren  Judge - Northern Scanian Regt. 1702
 Robert Blum - She Creature

Bronze Medals - Ordnance Civision

 
Don Junis - JS-3
 Michael Sanches - P51D
 Dwight Workinger - 1946 Panzer
 Wayne Gray - USMC Pickup
 George Romeno - Whippet
 Bill Chilstrom - Tiger tank
 Joe Levato - Pacific Armor
  Anonymous - M4A1 Sherman Tank
 Van Olson - LVT-A1
 Stan Buonadonna - S1-F1
 Tom Kondziolka - KV-8
 John Struck - Confederate Submarine

CERTIFICATES OF MERIT

Open Certificate of Merit

 
Charles Wertz - Scanning for snipers
 George Mickelson - Queens of the Cleave-age
 Dwight Workinger - Data's Doughnut
 Chris Barrett - Take a Number
 Randy Larch - For King & Country
 Jason Gares - Beware - here be monsters!
 Wendy Rafalski - Hobbits in the Shire
 Tom Cavanaugh - Brown Water Navy
 Greg Johnson - The Last Stand
 Leopold Slawski - Smoke Signal

Painters Certificate of Merit

 
Jason Gares - The Thing
 Bill Teoli - Prescott's Regiment
 Robin Howard - 3rd Foot Guards
 Andy Hansen - Teutonic Knight
 Robert Blum - Lakota Sioux
 Bob Stein - Colonel Krasinski
 Leopold Slawski - Napoleon
 Michael Lvedke - Just a Yorkshire Tommie
 Fred Drehobl - Ninja
 Paul Hooper - Russian Lancer Hussar
 Jose Martinez - Dracula
 David Bainbridge - Confederate in butternut
 Tom Kavanaugh - The Sentry
 Randy Brussard - 1st Barron Raglan
 Jim Swanson - Retreat from Gettysburg
 Stephen Wiebe - Negre of L'Armee Napolitaine
 Tom Surlak - 5th NY Zouave
 Doug Bedford - Mohawk Warrior
 John  Struck - Alien 3
 Bob Cotrell - 1st N Carolina
 Wendy Rafalski - Angus Austin
 John Bowery - Sitting Bull

Ordnance Certificate of Merit

 
Andy Hansen - Panther D
 Robert Blum - Union Field Piece
 Ron Hillman - Navy Fighters
 Tom Kavanaugh - M163

SPECIAL AWARD OF MERIT

Ethan Turbek - Life-size bust



AWARDS AT THE GENERAL LEVEL

General Medal

 
Alex Khokhriakov - Rus Warrior
 Yaroslew Sopel - Navy Seals
 Jay  Ruggiero - You Missed

General  Certificate of Merit

 
Mark  Wolf - Vigiliant
 Jim DeRogatis - Chapel Courtyard - The Alamo
 Peter Wagner - Driver, Royal Horse Artillery, Flanders 1917
 Wayne Gray - Herman Munster
 Andy Anderson - Tarawa
 Kelly Rafee - 1880



AWARDS AT THE BASIC LEVEL

Basic Certificate of Merit

 
Michael Lvedke - Fortress I
 George Breo - Cheech Wizard



THE SHOW COMMITTEE AWARDS

Special Award

 
Bernard Mallette, for his dioramas

Theme Award

 
Dieter Mattingly - Framed monochromes

Displayers Award

 
Bill Silk - Tarzan of the Apes

Displayers Certificate of Merit

 
Jason Gares - Beware - Here be Monsters

Antique Figure Award

 
Codi and Al Piper - Beton Circus

War Game Award

 
Doug Bedford - Bavarian Napoleonics

Junior Award

 
Kelcie Corag - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Junior Certificate of Merit

 
Dan Gordon - Robin Hood
 Dakota Knight - Whippet
 Bryce Meyer - Ogre


AWARD TOTALS

             
Open  Painters  Ordnance   Total

Gold Medals       18      22        10        50

Silver Medals     14      25        14        53      

Bronze Medals     11      38        12        61

Certificates      10      22         4        36

Totals            53     107        40       200
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