IPMS UK Scale ModelWorld 2015/ 07 and 08.11.2015

[Hobbes]

I was wondering, can you buy a weekend pass for this event. Reason I'm asking is if I do make it back over the pond sometime, I want to make the visit to Telford worth while

Yes, you can, for £15. If you're a member of your national IPMS branch, bring your membership card as that will get you free entry. 

[Thorvic]

Well its gone 4pm UK time and the SMW halls are now closed to the public. Good luck to the gang as they pack up their models, load up their cars (struggle in some cases where aqusitions have exceeded available space!! - not a fun exercise in failing light and unpleasant weather !), strike down the tables and say farewell for another year  :-( . Hope thet all have a safe journey home and are able to get their new items into the stash without too much grief ftom those who rule the roost 

[Dork the kit slayer]

Just arrived home ahead of the weather and darkness. Good to see the gang and a fleeting meeting with Thorvic. 
Our stand  seemed to be great success and thanks and appreciation due to all that contributed.
Jims rather moreish 12 year old single malt deserves a special mention,as for a slippery bottle of cheeky Shiraz ......................best not ask.
Pics will be forthcoming shortly.

Great SMW guys thanks.

[Martin H]

The stand looked great and was in my view one of the best in terms of public interaction that we have had in a long time. And you guys and girls (must not forget Diane and Jacki) made it all work. Even more so for Saturday when I was away from the stand for most of the day to guide my old Lakenheath pal Jens around the show. Thanks for that people. I havent seen Jens in 17 years, so that ment a lot to me!

The stand tear down went very smoothly. My thanks to those who helped with that.

And last but by no means least. Many thanks to Colin for  his very generous Freightdog award for the the model that was judged to be the best example of the spirit of what if on the SIG stand.
Colin was aided in the judging by the venerable Mike McEvoy. and they chose two subjects as winners................

Kit (PR19Kit) Spackman's supersonic tandem 2 seat Hunter interceptor. And Micheal (Lenny100) Lenard's twin HP 0400 bomber.

[kitbasher]

Yes, a thoroughly enjoyable SMW, made all the better for meeting up with fellow SIG/forum members, an ex-RAF mate I'd not seen for nigh on 30 years, another ex-RAF mate I bump into at each SMW, and a blast from the LATCC past via JayBee.

Glad I flashmobbed Class 33 at the last minute and well done Lenny100 and Mr Spackman in relieving Colin Strachan of some of his wares (very generous of you Colin).

And I hope all had safe and trouble free journeys home.

Pics tomorrow.

[Weaver]

Splendid show, thoroughly enjoyed it and great to meet up with everybody.

Very nice to see the sheer number of whiff on other stands too, including IPMS Farnborough who had their whole table devoted to it!

Had a nasty drive home: tried to do a back-roads dodge, got stuck in a traffic jam and ended up doing a lot more back road driving to get out of it, all in torrential rain. Not fun, but no harm done in the end.

Cat fed, me fed, stash additions faithfully tabulated: I imagine I'll be falling asleep under a copy of VC10 Pofflers shortly....

[PR19_Kit]

Wow, WOW, I mean WOOOOOOW!  

As OGL said that was one amazing show we put on this year, and lots of people actually liked our stuff and were not afraid to say so too. The modelling world seem to be turning more Whiffward.  

I too spent lots of time seeing people I've not seen for years, in one case at least TWENTY years, to the amazement of both of us. And the most total WOW was to return from a tour around the show just in time for the announcement of Colin Freightdog's 'on stand competition' results and to find that one of the winners was ME, for goodness sake!  

To say the prize was generous was an understatement of monumental proportions and I'm very grateful to Colin, very grateful indeed, thanks so much. Just which airframe I'm going to fit out with a Swift F2/F4 conversion, Genie, Fireflash and Red Dean missiles, and TWO radomes I'm not quite sure yet, but once I've found it in up The Loft you can be assured that it'll be on the stand next year.   And thanks to the Venerable Mike McEvoy for judging me a winner too, it's a long time since the Farnborough PlastikFest in 1972 when we both showed up with what we called 'Spoof Models' back then, the amazement of almost everyone else there.  

I should say some of the thanks should go to OGL himself for being instrumental in brokering the manufacture of the fuselage of my Hunter T12 and for moulding the second stage master, for Brian Rickshaw for manufacturing the fuselage itself way down there in Oz, and for Jim JayBee for moulding the canopy in Scotland too. All I did was the have the idea in the first place and to assemble and paint the bits. A truly international Whiff.  



Congrats also to my joint winner Lenny for his amazing HP U/500, a Tophe Special for sure, and to Dave Kitbasher for getting a 'Commended' for his Beaufighter in Class 33 this year too.

Like Weaver my journey home was pretty awful, it took over an hour to crawl the few miles down to Jct. 8 on the M6, but then a lot quicker down the M5 to get home, but it took well over 2.5 hrs altogether. I don't envy Jaybee as he was expecting a SIX hour journey home!

What a terrific couple of days.  

[overscan]

Very good show guys, I seemed to have no time to hang out though. Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of my book, hope you find it interesting. We left around three and got stuck in a vast series of traffic jams all the way to London and arrived home 3 hours late  

Special thanks to Joe for his P.1121 engraving and Geoff for giving me two beautiful P.1121 models. I think I am going to gift one to Chris Farara at Brooklands (Hawker Archive) as a thank you for his assistance on my book, and the other will accompany me to New Zealand.

[kitbasher]

Some pictures from the show:

The SIG and Project Cancelled stands fairly soon after 9 a.m. on the Saturday:



Random selection of photos from the SIG stand taken over the weekend:


Competition Class 33:

[Dork the kit slayer]

First of the many. Im not the best smudge artist in the world and hopefully others will have taken pics that do the subjects true justice.

[lenny100]

I have to echo the previous comments and say thanks to all who turned up, and got sick of people talking photos and answering questions about that space 1999 eagle i put up....
The prize i got was very unexpected and i take it as a grate complement as is come from my friends, and means that much more than a official trophy, now i just need to figure what Gerry Anderson would of done if he been able to use some of Colin's parts? Got to say the return home was a nightmare, it took me 3 hrs to do the last 70 miles home due to roads being shut, and a extra 120 miles down small back lanes.

my hp u/500

[Dork the kit slayer]

Well deserved my friend

[Steel Penguin]

 
congrats to our prize winners.  the stand was once again a very high standard.
Glad to hear every one got home ok, though sorry to hear reports of the diversions and such.

so similar again next year yes? 

[JayBee]

A great show, there are too many memories still buzzing around in my head (which really does not have enough room for them all!!!!!).
Loved every minute of it, I could even see the humour in Narses destruction of the first bottle of wine.

Anyway here are my photos


Well I have uploaded all my photos from this year's Telford to Photobucket and just for a change I have sorted them into four different albums.

The What If SIG and Project Cancelled collection.







There is always two isn't there!!!!!!


The rest of the photos are here :


http://s652.photobucket.com/user/JBricknell/library/SMW%202015%20WhatIf%20SIG%20and%20Project%20Cancelled?sort=3&page=1


The other WhatIf's collection


This one really caught my eye on the Keighley modellers stand :




The rest are here :


http://s652.photobucket.com/user/JBricknell/library/SMW%202015%20Other%20WhatIfs?sort=3&page=1


SciFi and Fantasy.
What can I say!!!!





The rest are here :


http://s652.photobucket.com/user/JBricknell/library/SMW%202015%20SciFi%20and%20Fantasy?sort=3&page=1



The rest :





The rest :


http://s652.photobucket.com/user/JBricknell/library/SMW%202015%20Other%20Stuff?sort=3&page=1

[Dork the kit slayer]

Posted my other pics here. Trying not to overload the site and get that red warning.

Please feel free to drop in and peruse at your leisure.

http://plasticnostalgia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/scale-model-world.html