ThisWeek Community Newspapers Dublin Villager
August 4, 2011
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Model emergency vehicles coming to Dublin By JENNIFER NOBLIT
pecting 21 displayers that will tion of people that used to build Midwest to get more people from have built things and put decals the event also will have the real
ThisWeek Community Newspapers have 35 tables of trucks they model kits and used to have a local areas like Michigan, Ohio, on trucks because there are a lot thing on display.
Emergency vehicles big and small will be on display Aug. 13 in Dublin. Fireengines.net, a forum for emergency-vehicle model builders, will hold its third annual showcase at the Embassy Suites Hotel. Columbus resident Joe O’Brien is organizing the event and has been building models for 30 years. The showcase, which is free and open to the public, will feature models of fire trucks, police cars and ambulances. “A lot of guys build from scratch, from plastic and metal they cast trucks out of,” O’Brien said. “Others take existing models or die-cast models apart and build something new. We’re ex-
built.” Some of the models displayed next weekend will be from locals. “It’s really a show that’s open to the public, with a good display of fire trucks and ambulances,” O’Brien said. “For kids, there’s a lot of wow factor, but you’d be surprised that it’s not just kids who have the wow factor. People have built fire trucks from Washington Township, … Norwich Township and Columbus. There are local fire trucks.” The Internet made forums such as fireengines.net possible to help connect people with common interests. O’Brien said he has been involved with the forum for four years and uses it to show off his work and trade ideas. “This is kind of the genera-
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railroad set. They continued by building trucks,” he said. “A lot of people do it for entertainment. Some of them create gifts for people that may be a retiring police officer or firefighter.” In fact, fireengine.net members from all over the nation and even the world are expected to attend the Aug. 13 gathering. The convention previously has been in Los Angeles County, Calif., and Meriden, Conn. “I offered to bring it to the
Indiana, Wisconsin and Virginia,” O’Brien said. “But we’ve done enough advertising that people are coming from Germany, Canada, California and Arizona.” While longtime model builders will get an opportunity to display their work and check out the labor of others, demonstrations will be offered for those interested in getting into the hobby. “We’ll have demonstrations on showing how other modelers
of people afraid they’ll break something or do something wrong,” O’Brien said. The hobby could have a lot of good lessons for children, O’Brien said. “A big thing about it is that it’s true handcrafted models being built,” he said. “We’re always trying to keep young people interested in it because it shows them how to engineer and design things.” If the models aren’t enough,
“We’ve invited members of the Central Ohio Antique Fire Apparatus and have a lot of interest there,” O’Brien said. “They have older fire vehicles. We also have Washington Township and Columbus bringing active fire trucks to display.” The show will run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 5100 Upper Metro Place. jnoblit@thisweeknews.com www.ThisWeekNEWS.com
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