Queensland Model and Hobby Expo 2015
Grand Champion build.
Peoples choice. 🙂
This a card model of the aircraft the builder used to fly in the Iranian Air Force.
The proud winner of "Peoples Choice" for the B-17G 'Thunderbird' being re engined.
This is not an uncommon sight in Australia, especially as you get west of the "Great Divide" and where the roads turn to unsealed dirt.
Stay with this for a while and see what you can't see. As there is everything here except the 'kitchen sink'. A typical 'rural' town workshop.
The same workshop, but just a different angle.
Note the cinder blocks the old Ford is sitting on.
Keep your eyes peeled for the brown snaks fellas, OH. ! And don't touch what you can't buy. 🙂
I have lost count of the number of times I have ridden out west and seen these scenes repeated on every property you pass over a distance of a 1000 miles.
Comments
1 18 April 2018, 16:10
Jensdo, seeing the development is very interesting, every year has its favorites 👍
18 April 2018, 17:29
SpanjaardSome really amazing pieces there... i am still trying to find my jaw under the table after seeing the T-62 in picture 62......
18 April 2018, 18:40
Martin OostromI like ze german wiz ze hole in ze bucket, with his crewmembers painting the StuG. And I love the junkyard.
But who's the proud bloke in the last picture? 😉
18 April 2018, 19:01
Spanjaardnew pictures? I missed the junkyard and the bloke..... he seems quite happy indeed😉
18 April 2018, 19:16
Kerry COXLOL. 🙂 Thank lads. 👍
I always get so excited as the due date for the next competition gets closer, as it seems I spend the whole time in between, building kits for just those two days of seeing friends and all that is on offer. AND.....every year brings bigger and brighter surprises. 🙂
As for the 'junk yard', I have some other images of this style of thing by the same guy that just leaves me speechless.
I will get them posted as soon as I create a folder of just them.
I am pleased you like what we Aussies and Kiwi's can do. 🙂
18 April 2018, 21:23
Martin OostromPlease correct me if I'm wrong. It seems you won in 2015. The prize seems a certain Mercedes staff car, with which you won in 2017? What was last years prize? Then we'll have an idea of what you're going to win with in 2019 😄
I don't like what you can do upside down, I LOVE it.
18 April 2018, 21:28
Mike DanielsWhat a great show!! Do you know if that is the Wingnut Wings Felixstowe 1/32? Love the Westland. Great weathering. Thanks for posting.
18 April 2018, 21:29
Kerry COXMartin. I may have a few images mixe up in all this excitement mate. LOL
It was 2016 I got 'Peoples Choice' with the B-17G being re engine, then 2017 was the G4 Merc. yes. 🙂
I have managed to haul in some bronze and the occasional silver, but the 'gold' has been eluding me for more years than I care to remember, but with the change in who judges what, it is a fairer system and far better than the same guys and clubs getting all the top awards all the time, in the sense that there are a lot more competitors now, and we all stand a better and fairer appraisal rather than the judges who are familiar with who has entered what and where, most biases and stacked, breaking the spirit of those who don't have a "club membership". Independent judges, not members of the 'big clubs' calling the shots.
But this year, my effort will be with the Chinese armour, in fact two of the same kit, but done in totally different ways from each other.
More on that as we get closer to the 'due date' as I am wanting to prevent any of my work and ideas being copied as has happened in the past after I had posted images of my builds on line. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
But one is the TAKOM 'King Tiger' cutaway. !
18 April 2018, 22:03
Kerry COXMike. I will have a look at the 'results' for that year to establish wether it is in deed the 'Wingnut' kit you are refering to mate. I personally do not know at the moment, but. Watch this space. 🙂 👍
18 April 2018, 22:05
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As many of the models on the display and competition tables I could capture. Enjoy.