Our Friday workshops are separately ticketed and are run by their various sponsors. They are a great opportunity to learn in-depth modeling skills from masters of the craft.

Amazing Figure Modeler’s Model Boot Camp

Come for the instruction, leave with the knowledge!

This class will run from 9am to 5pm on Friday May 31st. The main focus will be translating two-dimensional painting effects onto a three-dimensional bust. Students will receive the bust and paints! In addition, students receive a free four-issue subscription to AFM! Seating is limited.  

Read the details, including how to sign up, here.

This is a separately ticketed event.

Badger/Black Heart Airbrushing and Model Finishing Class

Spend a day learning to paint on a fantastic work of art!

Registration is open for the Badger/Black Heart model finishing class at WonderFest 2019. The class will be held on Friday May 31 from 10am through 4pm. Jeff Camp and Gordon Oberman are returning to headline the class which will use Badger airbrushes, paint and compressors.

Participants will paint Black Heart’s new 1:2 scale wall-hanger, Nyarlathotep (aka N’hotep), sculpted by Greg Onychuk.

The class will be limited to 20 participants.

For more details, including payment, visit the class webpage.

This is a separately ticketed event.

Garage Kits.US Colors Paintfest Class at WonderFest 2019

Registration is now open!

This year’s class will focus on teaching gray scale painting and feature their 1/3rd scale Vampira kit, sculpted by Jim Maddox.

The class will be held on Friday, May 31st, from 9am to 4pm and will be taught by Jim Capone, with assistance from Brent Bristow, Jesse Garcia, and a few of the usual suspects that float around the show.

For more details and registration info, please visit the Garage Kits.US webpage.

This is a separately ticketed event.

Sci-Fi Modeling School

Learn airbrushing techniques at our hands-on classes!

TAG Team Hobbies and Iwata-Medea are teaming up to bring you you SCI-FI MODELING SCHOOL “Episode III: Return of the Rebels” at WonderFest 2019!

It’s a day-long workshop on Friday, May 31st, from 9am-4pm.

A primed Revell Last Jedi Millennium Falcon will be the starter kit. Learn airbrush techniques you can use for spaceships and just about any other modeling subject: aging, paint chipping and more.

Start the day with practice controlling and cleaning a double action airbrush. The rest of the day you’ll use your new and/or improved skills to paint up a pre-primed model kit in your own color scheme and markings.

Take your spaceship home with you along with the other goodies in the Basic Package from class!

Limited to the first 12 paid students. 

For more details and registration info, visit the TAG Team webpage.

This is a separately ticketed event.

Two great Dealer’s Rooms, open 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Dealers from around the world will be set up at more than 160 tables.

Early Bird tickets are available to get in two hours early on Saturday morning. See the Admissions booth.

Guest Talks, Panels, and More!

Our celebrity guests will participate in talks and panels to share their very entertaining stories. All topics and times listed are tentative and subject to change. Check the purple Pocket Guide when you arrive at the Admissions booth.

Details to come…

Learn modeling techniques from other great modelers. Because the FUN is BUILDING!

WonderFest continues our commitment to the art of model making with an expanded demo lineup!

Figure and Hardware demos: These presentations by modelers change every year and usually last from 30 minutes to an hour, (or even two). They’re planned to focus on major modeling topics and skills demonstrations. Some will allow the viewers to go hands-on and try the techniques shown.
>>See the full daytime Demo Schedule.

Airbrush 101: During WonderFest weekend, sign up for one of six FREE 75-minute, hands-on classes (limit 12 students each class), staged and sponsored by Iwata. They’re offered 3 times each day of the show. No charge for WonderFest attendees. >>Follow this email link to sign up.

Props, monsters, art and costumes

…And the stuff that (scary) dreams are made of!

Every year the WonderFest exhibits keep getting better, thanks to friends throughout the hobby.

Kogar’s Korner

Our annual exhibit tables in Dealer Room B, inspired by the collection of Bob Burns!

Thanks to collector Tony Hardy and his talented friends, Kogar’s Korner is celebrating the 40th anniversaries of ALIEN and Gerry Anderson’s UFO TV series. There will be plenty of eye candy on display.

Plus…big displays are coming from modelmakers Jason Eaton, Bill George, and others!

The displays just keep getting better!

Two ways to win & help others

Every year at WonderFest there’s a Raffle and Silent Auction to benefit worthwhile charities.

Open 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday

This incredible effort has raised more than $22,000–while hobbyists have taken home startling goodies–thanks to the generosity of many donors and friends of WonderFest.

About our Charities:

For the RAFFLE:

WHAS Crusade for Children, P.O. Box 1100, Louisville, KY 40201
Established in 1954, the WHAS Crusade for Children has collected more than $160 million and has helped over one million physically or mentally handicapped children in Kentucky and Indiana. Money collected helps fund new medical equipment, teachers, therapists, laboratories, computers, speech training and much, much more. The WHAS Crusade for Children is a 501-c (3) non-profit organization.

For the SILENT AUCTION:

Felines In Need
Your generous contributions help us continue our mission to care for the cats in our sanctuary, in feral & community cat colonies, and those we rescue and foster. It takes a village. Thank you all for your interest and support!

Felines in Need (“Corporation”) is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, as defined in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and corresponding provisions of future United States Internal Revenue law. The specific purposes for which the Corporation is formed are education and charitable acts toward people and animals, facilitating well-being, shelter, sustenance, medical care and relief of suffering, and activities consistent with such purposes and the nonprofit corporation laws of the State of Ohio and Section 501(c)(3).

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Paint a model and keep it!

In the free Make-It & Take-It Workshop, kids age 16 and under can learn how to paint a model—and then take it home.

Open 11 a.m.–Noon & 2-4 p.m. Saturday-only in the Edinburgh Room

This workshop is a great place for beginners to try model painting without fear. Best of all, it’s free!  First-time modelers age 16 and under can learn to paint a model using acrylic paints—with help from a crew of patient and experienced volunteers—and then take the finished model home!

Thanks to our sponsor, Black Heart Models for providing small resin busts this year! And to Kaiju Modeler and WonderFest for supplying paint, brushes, and hairdryers to speed the process.

There’s no better way to bring a new generation into our fantastic hobby!