IPMS UK Blog - ScaleModelWorld

Nick · May 07, 2020, 02:31:22 AM

Not many of us are aware but the IPMSUK site has a section for a blog. It hasn't been used much but can be found under the News menu and is called Viewpoint.

Last Sunday John Tapsell wrote about the situation on planning for SMW2020. It's a good read.

https://ipmsuk.org/viewpoint/planning-for-scale-modelworld/

zenrat · May 07, 2020, 04:28:56 AM

Hope it goes ahead.

It struck me yesterday that it's only 10 days and only just over four weeks to when the Ballarat NNL and Model Expo would have been held.
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PR19_Kit · May 07, 2020, 04:53:06 AM

Good heavens, have we been going to Telford for 22 yrs?

It seems like only a few years ago we moved there from Donnington. Does anyone on here remember the other sites for 'The Nationals'?

In order I think they were Maples store in N London, RAF Museum Hendon, Stoneleigh Agricultural Centre, the singular (and disastrous) one at Peterborough (but that was where the UK WhatIf Sig started) Donnington Motor Museum, and then Telford.

andrewj · May 07, 2020, 10:26:03 AM

My first Nationals was at the NAC Stoneleigh , so that must be going back a few years now

JayBee · May 07, 2020, 11:22:16 AM

I did a couple at Stoneleigh, even took a first in miscellaneous dioramas.

Gondor · May 07, 2020, 11:26:48 AM

A simmilar movement has happened years ago with the Scottish Nationals where I first got to meet some of the retrobates on here back in the day when it was held in Stirling. We moved to Perth shortly after then and have now expanded into two halls of the venue. No idea how long ago the move to Perth was but it must be something like 20 years ago

Gondor

The Wooksta! · May 07, 2020, 11:51:18 AM

First Scots Nationals at Perth was 2001 - 2000 was the last one at Stirling. What a god awful place that one was.

Nick · May 07, 2020, 01:51:51 PM

My first big show was Telford in 2001 where I met some of you guys. No idea what was on the table back then but it certainly caught my eye.

PR19_Kit · May 07, 2020, 02:03:31 PM

I remembered the venue for the first Nats, it was Maples, a big furniture store.

The reason it was there was because the IPMS President at the time, Bill Mathews, was the MD of the company.

The Wooksta! · May 07, 2020, 02:54:00 PM

Quote from: Nick on May 07, 2020, 01:51:51 PM
My first big show was Telford in 2001 where I met some of you guys. No idea what was on the table back then but it certainly caught my eye.

I can only remember two particular things on the table that year - my Black Arrows Huntsman C.1 and Martin's 56 Sqn Hawker P.1121, which annoyed me as I was about to start decalling mine in 56 Sqn markings.

My first Nationals was '94 at Donnington. I joined the SIG, having noticed them a year previously at the Northern Show when it was held at the Guildhall on Newcastle Quayside, and met Kit for the first time.

PR19_Kit · May 07, 2020, 03:05:52 PM

Quote from: The Wooksta! on May 07, 2020, 02:54:00 PM

and met Kit for the first time.

And it's all been downhill from there on.

The Wooksta! · May 07, 2020, 04:08:35 PM

For the rest of the universe? Yes! See them tremble before the might of whifdom!

Martin H · May 07, 2020, 04:11:50 PM

I did my first nationals (as a paying punter) in 1996. Thats when I first saw the SIG stand and realized that I wasnt the only one building spoofs. MY then best mate (another martin!) had spotted a Twin Spitfire model on display. Ive seen it several times since. The culprit behind it was one Kit Spackman..............
The following year I got talking to Terry Campion who was manning the SIG stand at the time.
And by the time I left to see the rest of the show Terry had signed me up. Despite not being an IPMS member.
I have done every telford since. With my first time behind the stand being the 2000 Nationals when it was mainly Lee and myself on the stand with a six foot double depth table set up.
I was commuting to the show from home in Northampton back then, so on the Sunday I brought along the aft 3 foot long section of my old and long since scrapped carrier flight deck. It gave us someware to park our small collection of naval aircraft.

And then in 2004 I took over from terry as SIG leader, And you lot have been stuck with me ever since

The Wooksta! · May 07, 2020, 06:24:00 PM

You were behind the table in '99, I think. So was Kit. I've a feeling that was his first Telford.

'96? That was a late one (December?) and it was cold in that hall - Donnington is basically a BFO shed in the middle of nowhere with sod all heating. I was coughing my lungs up the entire weekend. And we were were right down the back at one end.

PR19_Kit · May 08, 2020, 12:14:41 AM

Quote from: Martin H on May 07, 2020, 04:11:50 PM

........ had spotted a Twin Spitfire model on display. Ive seen it several times since. The culprit behind it was one Kit Spackman..............

Why is it always MY fault? $:-\$