The IPMS calendar has the Hinkley show at the leisure centre on the 9th. Anybody going?
Pete
Pete
Hinkley show October 9th
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Unfortunately not Peter , sorry .
Yep, see you in the cafe at 12 Dave.
Pete
Sorry Dave, I'm going senile, that was for Scale Model World.
Found the following on the IPMS site:
Many of you will be aware that the museum is currently undergoing a major program of reorganisation and refurbishment of its displays and buildings, to improve the experience for all its visitors. This has created a situation where it will be necessary for them to close sections of the museum in turn, and move exhibits within the hangars, as work progresses around the site.
For us as organisers this means there will be no static layout around which we can plan, so regrettably we will not be able to hold a show. Hopefully once the work is completed, we will return to a rejuvenated museum to hold our model show.
Further updates will be posted at our new club website (www.shropshirescalemodellers.uk)
Shropshire Scale Modellers, ( IPMS Telford ), July 2022
So, it seem there won't be a 2023 Cosford show. :disappointed2:
Pete
Found the following on the IPMS site:
Cosford Show 2023
- Post author:Pete Readman
- Post published:August 1, 2022
- Post category:Uncategorized News
Many of you will be aware that the museum is currently undergoing a major program of reorganisation and refurbishment of its displays and buildings, to improve the experience for all its visitors. This has created a situation where it will be necessary for them to close sections of the museum in turn, and move exhibits within the hangars, as work progresses around the site.
For us as organisers this means there will be no static layout around which we can plan, so regrettably we will not be able to hold a show. Hopefully once the work is completed, we will return to a rejuvenated museum to hold our model show.
Further updates will be posted at our new club website (www.shropshirescalemodellers.uk)
Shropshire Scale Modellers, ( IPMS Telford ), July 2022
So, it seem there won't be a 2023 Cosford show. :disappointed2:
Pete
Oh Poo!! Missin' out on the highlight of my year - AGAIN!
For anyone thinkin': "Poor b****r! What a sad life he leads if that's all he's got to look forward to!" Don't worry. It may be a sad life to you, but I'm fine with it and wouldn't really want it any other way. All that peace and quiet and being able to do what I want to do just whenever I want to do it. Or the opposite of course - being able to do nothing for as long as I like. Although there is a minor problem with that. Doing nothing sometimes means it's hard to know when you've finished.
Betcha lots of you guys don't have anywhere near that freedom! :smiling3::smiling:
Peace and quiet? At Cosford?
Oh come on Pete! It's only one day a year and coping with the usual rabble there is good practise for dealing with any domestic disasters! :smiling:
G
Sorry Pete, just seen the post.
A decent show - not as busy as before the lockdown, but what is? Had a good chat with Dave (Gern) and some of the exhibitors, and even spent a bit of money!
Pete
Pete
So which one of you blokes is gonna post up some pics. of the show?
No good lookin' at me Rick. I can't hold a camera still enough!
Yeah. It was good to have a catch up. I checked with the guys on the door 'cos last time I went there were two rooms instead of just one. Apparently the organisers thought it was too expensive to hire the second room just for the limited numbers of competition entries they had last time.
There were also quite a few empty club tables in the main room where the clubs hadn't turned up.
It's at this point I normally show pics of the kits I bought at the show. Hold on to your hats folks - I didn't buy any! Maybe my 'Stashitis' is finally healing after buying waaayyy too many kits over the years. I just didn't fancy anything on offer, but one dealer managed to sell a 1/35 Dora railway gun (I assume he sold it as I saw it in the morning and it wasn't there at lunch time), so he must have been fairly happy. I only got some odds and sods of tools and they were mainly for PJ.
There is a show at the Coventry Air Museum later this year. I've been before and although it's good, it's not particularly big. This show is advertised as a mini show so I'll have to have a think about it.
Forgot to take a proper camera so just took one general view with the 'phone, from the balcony, but the phone has eaten it so I can't show you!So which one of you blokes is gonna post up some pics. of the show?
I don't remember the show being in 2 rooms last time Dave, but I agree it was fairly quiet and there were quite a few empty tables even though there were fewer aisles than last time. Still no spaces in the car park though!
I saw a couple of plastic kits of the Dora, but there was a Dora kit in a box about the size of my desk, that I saw one of the guys from a club stand dragging to his stand - someone I was chatting to at the time said it was an all-metal kit at well over £400. I didn't get a chance to speak to the buyer.
When is that show in Coventry Dave? It doesn't show on their website, which hasn't been updated for a while but states there are no upcoming events.
Pete
That Dora kit has a label on the box saying that a company called All Metal is somehow involved in its manufacture - not that the kit is made from metal. I know 'cos the box for my kit is identical. (The one on the table was the 1/72 HobbyBoss version). If the buyer got it for £400, then he got a real bargain! I paid about £450 for mine several years ago and since it's now out of production I'd expect to see the prices rising. I was really disappointed when the company stopped as they had a 1/144 Bismarck in progress. I saw a picture of their test kit on a German model show website and it looked really impressive. Wonder what happened to the moulds?
Here's the link to that Coventry show I found on the IPMS site:
https://ipmsuk.org/calendar/midland-air-museum-winter-show-2022/
Oh, thanks Dave. Must have missed that when I searched the IPMS site. I'll try to remember that date (and to take a camera for Rick).
Pete
Pete
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