Cosford 2013

[Guest]

£65

[Guest]

Those figures !!!!! ... errrr ... wow !!

Johnny Depp and Flint Westwood are just stunning !!!!

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

That seems a great price considering its Polar Lights

Adrian

[Guest]

i thought so too......had a look in the box and its massive..

[Guest]

bloody hell, thought you was talking about the group photo for a minute

[Gern]

I've had a chance to look at the big 1/16th Tiger that Ron and Tony 'persuaded' me to buy (Tony held me down and Ron beat me with a big stick while young Ian stood in the background urging them on!).

It's apparently the old WSN/Torro R/C moulding without all the R/C motors and toys! Clearly not highly detailed but it looks a simple build (even with individual track links) and the parts are reasonably flash free.

It's about 530mm long by 220mm wide, which is roughly the same size as the biggest 'kit' that Ron obtained today (Pictures please Ron - you know you want to!) so it's quite imposing. And I'm certainly not going to argue with a £60 price tag for a brand new kit!

With the range of aftermarket parts available for Heng Long etc. and perhaps some bits of scratchbuilding I see no reason why you couldn't end up with a nice, big, cheap Tiger.

With the all-singing, all-dancing Tamiya Tiger running to about £700, you could afford a lot of aftermarket bits to improve it considerably and still show a good saving, but super-detailers may well prefer to spend the extra money on one of the uber-kits.

Gern

[Gern]

bloody hell, thought you was talking about the group photo for a minute

Colin's eyesight just can't be that bad! :lol

Gern

[Gern]

Come on Ron! We know you're back home now so where are your pictures of today's acquisitions?

Gern

[Guest]

The group photo looks like a movie promo poster for "The Expendables UK"

[spanner570]

Just to thank you lot for making Cosford 2013 another great day out and the weather played ball yet again. It really is good to meet up each year....perhaps we should try and meet up more often?.....Models or not.....

Thanks also for the nice comments about the awards Ian and I picked up. I think we were both shell shocked in equal measure!

Thanks to Tony for the raffle and Tunnocks, Dave for the Eccles cakes and Ian for the coffees. I noticed a distinct lack of coffee stirrers in the cafe...they must have got wind of S.M's invasion.

Well done 'Big Box' Dave for not letting us down. His haul was something to be seen and he blames me for the purchase of a very large Tiger tank! He had his eye on a 1/200 Bismark, but the seller wouldn't budge from the £200+ price tag, and in any case Dave wouldn't have got the box in his car......

Ian couldn't resist a particular kit and gave in just before the show ended and we rushed over to the stall to see if it was still there....which it was, and the bloke knocked a 1/4 off the price without Ian having to ask for a reduction.....Nice one mate.

But surely the bargain of the day was mine!!!!!! I entered a raffle to support the Air Ambulance....some nice kits to be won and I got lucky and had a winning ticket - 490....What did I win? A small tea tray! ****!

Justine sends her regards to 'her boys' and enjoyed meeting you all. I'll post the few pictures I took shortly.

One excellent day out with a great bunch of blokes, thank you.

Ron and Justine

[Guest]

Those figures !!!!! ... errrr ... wow !! Johnny Depp and Flint Westwood are just stunning !!!!

They were some great figures weren't they.

Andy

[Guest]

Oh bugger you mean I missed meeting you guys AGAIN this year!!!

I was up in Hanger 2 with the IPMS Farnborough stand, under the Jaguar. I did get a 3rd prize trophy for the Bar-armoured Scimitar which I was very surprised about. I think straightening the barrel finally did the trick

[Guest]

Sorry I missed out, I like Eccles cakes! Congrats Ron on the Diorama win - I thought it looked familiar but at shows like this you see so many models that look similar to something else that you don't always put 2 and 2 together!

Pleased to say that this was my main success of the day:

[Guest]

Nice result on the Scimitar Andrew, i would expect there's quite a few armour entries in the comp so third's something to be proud of

And it seems the phantom thread-mergers been at it again, hmmmm

[spanner570]

Well done Andrew, good result and thanks for the congratulations...I'm still shaking!

Colin, I too notice the 'phantom' has been at it again.....It's happened to a couple of my posts recently. It's spoilt the Cosford flow and the replies are a bit jumbled now. Very strange.....