.. first post taking in the SIGs at last week's IPMS West Norfolk show. These fine 1:72 models are all the work of Mr Steve Cox. Note that Steve doesn't rig his builds - his philosophy is that building model kits should be 'for fun' and rigging is not fun! Note that some of these 72nd scale models like the Friedrichshafen and Gotha bombers are vac-forms!
Held every year at the Community Centre in Hawkinge, this is our small local club show. Arrived at 08:00 on the dot to find that set-up was well underway. Bacon roll and teas at 09:00, and the show opened at 10:00. Plenty of clubs and traders present and the competition tables soon started to fill up. We (Shepway) were opposite the Gravesham and East surrey clubs...
and some views of the competition tables. Best in show was this U-boat with Steve's Airfix Spitfire also in the running. Alan's Antonov was very nice too...
On Saturday we made the short trip to Hawkinge for the annual Shepway show. More on that soon. The next morning we drove up to Littleport near Cambridge for the West Norfolk IPMS show, or, as they call it, the 'West Anglia Scale Model Show'. The West Norfolk/Anglia show is a comparatively large one, filling Littleport leisure centre - around 50 clubs and SIGs exhibiting and 20-30 traders and stands. We were located next to IMPS Rivenhall, Thurrock Model Club and the Sherman SIG opposite Marilyn's East Anglia Books and the incredible 'Models for Sale' stand. Theme of the show as the 90th anniversary of the Spitfire. A few views of the table and some models from the shows.
John's Trumpeter 1:48 SM.79 was awarded 'Best Aircraft' (on the right) at the West Norfolk show. My Dr.1s and Udet's red Me 109 lurking in the background below and my Jaguar in the middle of the table in the first view above.
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Simon's competition winner from the Trumpeter kit at the IPMS East Kent June club meet.
Ade's (Shepway Military Modelling Society -SMMS) on-going Tamiya Tiger dio. Identification of the Tiger I, unit, location and time frame is proving difficult. Kharkov, s.Pz. Abt 505 possibly but the Tiger is 'white-washed', it appears to be late winter and s.Pz. Abt 505 was not deployed to that region until summer 1943. Note the Tiger is devoid of markings. The roof tiles were individually 3-D printed.
This model blog has just finished a Revell G-6 in 32nd scale OOB - a first build of this kit that has been in the stash for some 13 years now! It's a decent kit, goes together reasonably well - except for the horrible spinner arrangement - and is here finished in AK Real Colors. The spinner spiral was masked and painted as were the fuselage 'Bauchbinde'. As usual I bought some Quick Boost add-ons (bulges, charger intake) and then decided that really the kit parts were just as good so the model was finished OOB in the kit markings - this is a late-war machine with the tall tail and Erla Haube to represent the machine as flown by the Gruppenkommandeur III./JG 5 ace Franz Dörr. Dörr achieved around 120 victories, his last in late October 1944 in the Eismeer Geschwader flying over the Far North.
below; essentially the same kit - in the G-10 version - as built by Auguste Kleinpeter to represent 'yellow 8' of 9./JG 300
