Welcome to the 2024 Whiffie Awards Show

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Kerick's "A submarine of sorts"
Nönöbär's Santa Maria Steamship 1492
Seadude's Super Arleigh Burke Class DDG
Robomog's UH-1 Huey River Taxi
Seadude's US Navy Stealth Hydrofoil

A total of 41 members cast their votes in this category.


And the winner is:

UH-1 Huey River Taxi by Robomog

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Wardukw-NZ's 'Gun Truck'
Buzzbomb's Churchill BARV
Kerick's "A submarine of sorts"
Hobbes's Handley Page HP.111
Zenrat's Tophe Air Peace TF-1651 Falcstang
Robomog's Agusta Westland SkyHook UAV
Smeds' Phixen FAW.2
CammNut's Project Blueflash
Vostoc7's Triple Defence Vulcan
Killnoizer's Me 262 reverse
Vostoc7's Me 262B V-Tail Reverse Recon
Vostoc7's Gloster Meteor V-Tail High Speed Recon
Ericr's blimp & DC-7
Vostoc7's BAC Lightning Flying Wing
Vostoc7's XP47 Thunderjet
OldWombat's Avro Winchester BI/III
Vostoc7's De Havilland Vampire (Bat)
Killnoizer's Messerschmitt - Horten 383
Vostoc7's DH Vampire Bat Mk2
Killnoizer's Heinkel 2211 - killer moth
TheChaos's Tiger 1 E with Minecleaner Anzio 1944
Robomog's UH-1 Huey River Taxi
TomZ's Grumman F13F-1 Lion
Ericr's Corsair & Beaufighter
Vostoc7's Avro Woodford
Zenrat's jet powered Airco DH2
Vostoc7's Arado Ar238 High Altitude Recon H-Wing
Killnoizer's Stuka 2 " Stachel"
Smeds' Phuccaneer GR.1
MadHatter's Space fighter
Killnoizer's F4 Red Corsair twin jet
Killnoizer's Flying sub
McColm's BAC Nebulous FGR.1
Wardukw-NZ's P-89 Ultra Lighting.
LostCosmonauts's Bristol's F.18/37

A total of 45 members cast their votes in this category.


And the winner is:

Phixen FAW.2 by Smed

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Flappydaffy's KA-58 of the Mongolian Army Air Brigade
AeroplaneDriver's Royal Marines Cobra AH.2
TomZ's Lockheeed-Dornier CV-14
Robomog's Agusta Westland SkyHook UAV
Devilfish's Rescue Lynx
Sandiego89's Pegasus powered Rotodyne
Wacek85's Polish BK-117 A-3M

A total of 46 members cast their votes in this category.


And the winner is:

Pegasus powered Rotodyne by Sandiego89

[TomZ]

The nominees were:

Wardukw-NZ's 'Gun Truck'
KiwiZak's Skycraft Scout
OldWombat's Post-Apocalypse Diorama
Kerick's "A submarine of sorts"
AeroplaneDriver's Royal Marines Cobra AH.2
Hobbes's Handley Page HP.111
Smeds' Phixen FAW.2
Vostoc7's Triple Defence Vulcan
Wacek85's ID4 Captured Alien Fighter
Robomog's UH-1 Huey River Taxi
Zenrat's jet powered Airco DH2
TomZ's DH-120 Vixliner
MadHatter's Space fighter
Killnoizer's F4 Red Corsair twin jet
Frank2056's Daihatsu Midget

A total of 51 members cast their votes in this category.


And the winner is:

Phixen FAW.2 by Smed

[TomZ]

And that concludes the 2023 Whiffie Awards show.

As always we hope you enjoyed the show and give our congratulations to all of this year's winners.

A huge well done and pat on the back goes to all members who were nominated.

A special congratulation to Sandiego89 for winning three awards.

Finally a big thank you to you the members who nominated and voted. This year the number of voters was well in excess of the numbers in the last few years, in some categories reaching 50. It is good to see more and more people participating in the whiffies.

The Academy will send out a link to the winners to download their winner's certificates shortly.

The Academy hopes to see you all again for next year's 2025 Whiffie Awards.
Keep on nominating your favourite builds.
We are already looking forward to all the great models you will produce.

Keep on dreaming your builds and building your dreams!

Good night.

TomZ

[Spey_Phantom]

and what a wonderfull show it was, congratulations to all the winners and nominees 
and a big thank you to TomZ for hosting another great show 

[The Rat]

Congratulations to everyone, another great year. I just have one complaint: I was removed from the premises after only 12 whiskies, at which point I donned a Godzilla costume and headed toward the dioramas. Your bouncers have no sense of humour! 

[DogfighterZen]

Tom, thank you for another great event!   
Congrats to all the winners and everyone else as well, excellent show! Everything was just fine... till i remembered there was a fountain at the entrance of the venue and decided to go front flipping my BMX into it AFTER my bottle of Licor Beirão was empty... Good thing i kept my helmet on the whole night...

See y'all next year! 

[sandiego89]

What a great show! Thank you so much for putting this on, I know it is a lot of work.

Honored that the B-29 Washington and the Pegasus Roto-dyne were appreciated by the academy.  Thank you,     

[PR19_Kit]

What an event, as usual, thanks to your efforts Tom. 

Was it you who arranged the troup of dancing girls stretching all the way down that looooong corridor from the entrance hall? I suspect it was an attempt to minimise the number of us who actually REACHED the main hall, as some were definitely 'distracted'! 

[NARSES2]

Many, many thanks indeed for organising this Tom   

And very well done to all the nominees, let alone the winners 

As Tom says it's also extremely satisfying to see more and more members contributing to the event 

Thanks to everybody 

[ericr]

    

[kitbasher]

Many, many thanks indeed for organising this Tom   

And very well done to all the nominees, let alone the winners 

As Tom says it's also extremely satisfying to see more and more members contributing to the event 

Thanks to everybody 

Exactly.

        

[Pellson]

What a lovely show! 

[TomZ]

What an event, as usual, thanks to your efforts Tom. 
Was it you who arranged the troup of dancing girls stretching all the way down that looooong corridor from the entrance hall? I suspect it was an attempt to minimise the number of us who actually REACHED the main hall, as some were definitely 'distracted'! 

Who? Me?
If I had wanted less people in the hall I would have put shelves with kits in the corridor, not dancing girls.   

That reminds me of an experience a number of years ago at the Dutch Nationals. An airbrush shop wanted to promote their airbrushes and brought a young lady to do a demo on body painting.
The lady with only a pair of minuscule panties on stood there and was being airbrushed. The vast majority of the people just walked past it, never giving her a second glance, focused on the sellers offering kits and the like.
Only one boy of around 15 or 16 stood there the whole time, literally open mouthed looking at the naked girl.
The lesson here: If you want to distract modellers, then naked women are of no use whatsoever   

TomZ