Today @Dioramartin and I attended the ACT Scale Modellers Society (ACTSMS) annual model show in Canberra. Quite a busy event with lots of people there. With it being a lovely warm day, we had the strong impression in some of the busier areas that deodorant is either being rationed or is unfashionable. The swap and sell area was very busy with 50 people in the queue 40 minutes before it opened and around 100 by opening time. I may have indulged in a few cheap kits as most of the prices were very reasonable. Couldn’t say no and leave some poor kit there all alone!
With the draw cards being David Hay (figure sculpting), Greg Lester (model ship builder), Lincoln Wright (Sci-fi and anime models), Ruben Gonzales (diorama builder from AKInteractive) and Calvin Tan (doing a figure painting workshop), there are a bunch of workshops spread over the two days.
I’ve got some photos attached here with @Dioramartin sure to add some that caught his eye.
So when Sam says he “indulged in a few cheap kits” I think it was 11 or 12. I admired his hand-to-hand combat skills, not many dead.
While impersonating his wing man I didn’t see anything I wanted – a few Sturmy & KT kits beckoned, to replace the missing exhaust covers on my Sturmy build, but it wasn’t worth it so I’ll finish scratching them. But then something weird happened while he was queuing to pay, these jumped into my hands out of nowhere…
Sadly, also the hallmark of an awful lot of Brit shows. There is a particular demographic, who, despite water being a human-right (a policeman told me that, honest) flout the normal social mores and cause no small havoc, especially to short-tempered, meticulous, refined old bastards like me(!)
Historical note: During my time in a Junior Leaders Battalion (junior service from age 15-17), there was an internal ritual called a “Regimental Bath” for those boys who were less than meticulous in their personal habits. It involved the showers, bass brooms, scouring powder, and steel wool. Probably a war crime these days.
I hope that Tirpitz wreck was actually the Bismarck.
The Tirpitz was flipped upside down in a Norwegian fjord,
some sailors trapped in air pockets inside the hull were
saved by cutting through the hull bottom.
The ship was scrapped in place.
Apologies. Edited to reflect that. There was a model of the Tirpitz there and I must have conflated the names. Too much excitement or not enough coffee.
Thanks Sam and Tim for bringing this show from the southern hemisphere to my attention. While you had a sunny summer day in ACT, we had a grey, cold and misty autumn day over here in Germany.
