The SEMA Pre-SEMA Post…
Monday, October 30th, 2006Here we are - LAS VEGAS! What a day. Kathy and I helped Iwata Medea set up part of their display, and the day was like a who’s-who of the airbrush and kustom art worlds, starting with breakfast with Wiil Naemura and Gary Glass (from Iwata Medea) at Lucky’s at the Hard Rock. We ran into Tom Prewitt on our way into the LV Hilton Convention Center and throughout the day, airbrush luminaries Mike Lavallee, Steve Vandemon, Mark Remling and a ton of others stopped to help set everything in place for the big show, which starts bright and early Tuesday.
Later, we all broke for dinner and Kathy and I spent some quality time with Donn and Pamela Shanteau, who I haven’t seen in person since the 1995 Airstorm in Atlanta, Georgia. As a side note, I’ve been working diligently on her new soon-to-be-released book. I can’t share the details quite yet, but hang in there and we’ll bring you up to speed soon. All I can tell you now is that this books rocks! I’m proud of our part with it, but the real credit goes to the Shanteaus who have poured their hearts and soul into this project.
Later, while delivering some new display signs to the Iwata Medea and House of Kolor booths, I ran into Dennis Mathewson with the crew from Alsa Paints. Pics - not yet, but tomorrow we’ll shoot plenty.
Speaking of Dennis Mathewson, he’s the featured artist in the new Iwata Medea Kustom brochure that I just wrapped up over the weekend. Hot of the press - seriously so. This brochure just printed today, so it it doesn’t get more fresh than this. We’ll have fresh copies at SEMA for the show.
2 PDF files - Click to download outside cover art, or inside pages for airbrush details and specs on the new Kustom series airbrushes from Iwata.
Well, that’s it for tonight. Tomorrow we’ll post pics of hot cars and cool motorcycles - lots of them. if it’s been touched by an airbrush, we’ll post it here. Stay tuned.
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