Welcome to The Whiffies 2011

[philp]

The Nominees for Armor are:
   •   Buzzbombs 12cm Mortar Carrier
   •   Beowulf's Adder Mk 1
   •   Buzzbomb's Sd.Kfz. 238 APC
   •   ti's Turkish Mobile Atilgan Launcher
   •   Alvis Pi's French Racing Tank

And the Whiffie goes to:

ti's Turkish Mobile Atilgan Launcher

[philp]

How do you tell when a planeload of JMNs has landed at the airport?
The whining keeps going after the engines have stopped.

[philp]

The Nominess for Best Biplane are:

   •   Spad Triplane by Pablo1965
   •   Pablo1965 I-15 Cannard
   •   Radish SesquE.5A
   •   Alvis Steam Powered SBC-4
   •   Nils Fokker SD.VII trainer: Roman Flying Corps

And the Winner is:

Radish's SesquE.5A

[philp]

The Nominees for Best Propeller Airplane are:

   •   Eddie M. Wellington HG
   •   slava_trudu Focke-Achgelis Fa 269
   •   IHG Bearcat Ib
   •   Ed S, Egyptian Do335
   •   Pablo's Tribute to Sky Crawlers

And the Whiffie goes to:

slava_trudu Focke-Achgelis Fa 269

[philp]

The Nominees for Best Jet Aircraft are:
   •   Ian the Hunter Gatherer Northrop Scorpion FAW.2
   •   Zeke's Lavi
   •   General Melchet's Aurora
   •   General Melchet Vickers VC10 Skybolt Vengeance
   •   Ian the Hunter Gatherer RoKAF Rafale K

And the winner is:

General Melchet's Vickers VC10 Skybolt Vengeance

[philp]

I'm a bit worried that the carpet monster's getting out of control. I dropped a fuselage half on it the other day and it ate that. I dropped the body of a car on it, and that disappeared. And I saw the cat on my bench this morning, but I haven't seen him since!

Well, we have something for that problem.

[philp]

The Nominess for the HOG Memorial Award for the Most Original Build are:

   •   Weaver's Trackrover
   •   Hawkeye's Rocket Interceptor
   •   sotoolslingers fishy 262
   •   Sisko Fishy Starship
   •   Alvis 3.14159 HMCS Coho

And the Whiffie goes to:

Alvis 3.14159's HMCS Coho



Didn't that already win something?

[philp]

I've figured out what the RLM in 'RLM Colour' stands for.
When ever you bring them up, you get a Really Loud Melee!

The Nominees for Best Camoflage are:
   •   Swanny's BV-215
   •   Snowstang from John Howard Mouse
   •   Taiidantomcat Yakovlev Yak-43 Firebug
   •   Flyboy69's Ta-183 Night Fighter!
   •   PantherG's Czech AS-332 in Afghanistan

And the winner is:

Taiidantomcat's Yakovlev Yak-43 Firebug

[philp]

Please welcome our last Guest Presenter, Taiidantomcat.

Alternate markings are often where most of us started whiffing. Sometimes nations just don't pick what would obviously look oh so cool. Luckily whiffers are out to change that, one model or profile at a time. Sometimes lost in the insanity of kitbashes, and scratch builds, alternate markings are still highly effective at making JMNs spit venom-- and who doesn't love that? Often a simple change is enough to make a common something into something unforgettable... you can't look away, and will never get that image out of your head... why do you click when you know its just going to be Radish all made up again? Oh wait!! Back to models! This category is for the Best Alternate Markings, Radish wins every time in 1:1 scale so only his F-8 Crusader is included in this category.

The Nominees for Best Alternate Markings are:

   •   Ian the Hunter Gatherer Northrop Scorpion FAW.2
   •   Mossie's TA-7C Corsair II - Operation Granby
   •   Ian the Hunter Gatherer RoKAF Rafale K
   •   Falcon's Vought V-1601 (naval F-16)
   •   Radish Israeli F-8E Crusader

And the Winner is:

Ian the Hunter Gatherer's Northrop Scorpion FAW.2

[philp]

You know you spend too much time thinking about planes when the biggest laugh you get out of an episode of Hogan's Heroes is when they warm up the engines on a B-29, take off in a Lancaster, maneuver in a FW Condor, drop bombs from a Liberator, and parachute out of a TV studio set.

And now, the final award for the evening, The Whiffie of the Year.

Are you still out there?  Sounds quite.  Maybe this will get their attention back.

[philp]

This years Nominess for the Whiffie of the Year are:

   •   sotoolslingers Me263 Tigerhai
   •   G.Marcat Phantom SCI-FI Channel
   •   Eddie M. Wellington HG
   •   Sisko Fishy Starship
   •   Pablo1965 I-15 Cannard
   •   Thorvic's SCS
   •   Alvis 3.14159 HMCS Coho
   •   Weaver's Trackrover
   •   Hawkeye's Rocket Interceptor
   •   Sotoolslinger's Alphan Stingray

And the Whiffie goes to:

Alvis 3.14159's HMCS Coho



What, he won this too?  See what happens when he comes back to the fold.

[philp]

Well, that concludes another Years worth of fun.  Now got to go back through and see if I need to fix anything (yes, I see the PMs).

Want to thank our Guest Presenters:
Puddingwrestler
Proditor
Taiidantomcat

You guys saved me a bit of work and I really appreciate it.

Also wish to thank the rest of the Academy:
Puddingwrestler for writing the jokes and finding our sponsors.
Tojo633 for once again doing the award certificates (will the winners please give him your info when he contacts you)
Cliffy B for updating this years "I Voted" sticker.

And the staff for the forum who let me take up so much space for this.

Good Night.

[puddingwrestler]

(San Tortan national anthem strikes up, but conductor is struck on the head with a large sickle and lurches into The Red Flag)

Fraternal thankings to PhilP for creating glorious people's whiffies!
Fraternal thankings to glorious whiffing-type men who make for to be use democratic process to elect Nazi Raptor Cavalry as best figure (am for to be think I have better, but forget to nominate myself! Curses!)
Also fraternal thankings to sponsors (wait, did you not create sponsors commerade? Shutup ignorant welp of capitalist pigs! This is moment of glory!) for making the sponsorings which make for to be possible expensive and glamourous type broadcast in decadent western manner.
Finally, fraternal thankings to decadent western running dog Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for running smaller, less important companion event for to keep wives and girlfriends entertained while real men (also some real women!) are enjoy glorious Whiffies ceremony!

(I'll shut up now, if I type much more Phil'll make good on his threat to make me run the Whiffies next year!)

[Ed S]

(heavy applause & standing ovation)


Well done guys.  And a special thank you to Phil for putting this together.

Ed

[Weaver]

Gosh I won something..... I don't know what to say... luvvies, darlings...OW! where did that long stick come from?

Thanks to everyone who voted, everyone who voted for me and Phil for counting the votes and putting the whole thing on.

Just for you Phil, the one with the TARDIS in it  :