IPMS Scale Modelworld 2014

[major_clanger]

I've been a bit inactive in my occasional hobby of scale model aircraft making of late, in part because of being busy with work and other stuff but also because my current project hit some fiddly bits that I've been putting off doing. So it was perhaps rather in the spirit of trying to reignite my enthusiasm that I headed over to Telford today for

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[ffutures]

Looks VERY impressive.

circa 1969-70 Century 21 did a display of models etc. at a department store where I was working after school. As I remember it, things that actually had to accommodate full-sized puppets (e.g. FAB 1) were very large, most of the other models were much smaller. E.g. Moonbase Alpha was about 4ft across. I think Skydiver was about 2ft long.

[gummitch]

Some seriously impressive stuff there, thanks for the photos. Couldn't say which I liked best, but the Skydiver got the biggest 'Oooh!'.

[major_clanger]

It was the single most visually arresting model for me, because of its sheer size. Bigger isn't always better (and can rather defeat the point of a scale model) but sometimes, as the saying goes, quantity has a quality all of its own.

There was one table display by a special interest group focussing on 1/144 scale models, which require a lot of fine work if you want to make them detailed.

They had a model of the R-33.

[hano]

some great stuff there. Was that a VC-10 'Poffler' in with the various cancelled British projects? Great to see an Avro 731 done properly as well.

[major_clanger]

Yes - I'm pretty sure it (and the missile-equipped Concorde) were these ones:

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/57686-1144th-vickers-vc10-skybolt-poffler/

[hano]

good stuff. And Im glad to see he credits Chris Gibson's excellent book on the subject. (get hold of it if you haven't already)

[whotheheckami]

All fabulous stuff, but what fevered mind did the TSR2 conversion with, what looks like WWII turrets?

[major_clanger]

You know, I didn't actually spot that when taking the pictures! I think that may have been a rather, uh, less-than-entirely-serious proposed configuration...

[beamjockey]

Belatedly I remark that this was a wonderful, wonderful post.