Euro Model Expo, Lingen, DE, 26-27 March

[Gondor]

All packed and saddled for the show..FFP2 masks ready, jabbed, QR coded, filled the tank, packed some cookies, tweezers, glue and zap...

Maybe Dizzyfugu and/or Gondor will visit the show?

David aka 63cpe

No chance, I can't drive at the moment due to Cataracts and Germany is a little bit more that just down the road from Scotland.

Gondor

[Nick]

That is a great display, well done! 

[63cpe]

Somehow i figured Gondor is living in Germany.  Hobbes and TomZ told me it was Scotland...silly me. Completely understood you can't visit..

David aka 63cpe

[Pellson]

and some cash for models. Food and drinks are not essential....

Anyway here some first impressions...

Amazing!!! 

[kitbasher]

Totally agree with the others, very good display - well done 

[Hobbes]

I just got home in typical fashion. Germany: no problem, relaxed cruising at 160 km/h. Netherlands: as soon as you cross the border, the roads are jam-packed and progress is agonizingly slow.

I enjoyed the show, and getting together with Tom and David again after 2 years. There was a lot to see at the show, loads of impressive and interesting models on display. Not as many visitors as I'd hoped - things were downright quiet at times.

[TomZ]

Agree with Hobbes and 63cpe. Good to see each other again. Good to have show again after 2 years.
Could have been more visitors though. There were periods where it was very quiet.
But still, a good weekend!

TomZ

[Dizzyfugu]

All packed and saddled for the show..FFP2 masks ready, jabbed, QR coded, filled the tank, packed some cookies, tweezers, glue and zap...

Maybe Dizzyfugu and/or Gondor will visit the show?

David aka 63cpe

No chance, I can't drive at the moment due to Cataracts and Germany is a little bit more that just down the road from Scotland.

Gondor

Me neither. Too far away for just a day trip - I used to visit the show a couple of times when its site was closer to my home. 
And I had other obligations that weekend, it would not have worked out this year, anyway.

[Hobbes]

A few more photos from various stands:

there was a SIG building giant-scale models of aircraft carrier parts. This is the island of the USS Enterprise, in something like 1/32:


Then a giant railway gun converted to a tracked chassis:




With accompanying Ratte carrying a Wurzburg Riese radar:


A catapult firing Ferrero Rocher sweets:


Mercedes Group C racer as a spacecraft:




2 vehicles in 1/700:


and modelling actuality:

[Old Wombat]

Whifs!

And the greatest meme to (so far) come out of the invasion of Ukraine!


I'm wondering if the Enterprise superstructure is in 1/35, as there are Phalanx systems available in that scale from Takom.


Great pic's!

[PR19_Kit]

And I thought the Enterprise in the Smithsonian was big! 

[Howard of Effingham]

Some really good whiffs there especially the Fly Be triple engined Otter.   

[PR19_Kit]

Some really good whiffs there especially the Fly Be triple engined Otter.   

Does that make it a Trotter? 

[63cpe]

About the triple engined Otter. I called it the DHA-4 Wallaroo. The thread about the built: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=46707.msg849753#msg849753 and here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jetsonsspecial/albums/72157709612045477

I'll share the picture i took during this weekends show:
IMG_20220327_113523949 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_113500486 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_112931211 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_112903282 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_112814459 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_112622016 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_112602422 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_112428565 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_112055357 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_111839739 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_111627371 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_105726169 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_105714078 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_105702570 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_105635109 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_105242133 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_105149060 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_105117625 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_105011713 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_104943415 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
IMG_20220327_104930649 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

And this is a model kit:

IMG_20220326_162042538 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

But, why??

Cheers,
David

[PR19_Kit]

Some VERY classy models there. 

Is that really a plastic kit of a pot noodle?