Southern Expo beauties..!

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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Here’s just a few snapshots from the competition & exhibition rooms of this annual event held over the past week end in the northern suburbs of London, in the UK. I hope you’ll enjoy them.

Top get us started, a French Vautour, probably the FM kit… It’s one of those airplanes I’d really like to build… This model looked really good…

Another 1/48 bird, another favourite of mine. Another on my wish list, except that this time I have the Special Hobby kit. I thought this one looked very realistic.

Here’s one we have been lately talking about in here… A Messerspit or a Spitschmitt…! An interesting subject, here in 1/48.

Another fine 1/48 model: F-84 in Danish markings. Really fine paint job on this one!

Still in 1/48, one of most beautiful aircraft ever designed (to my eyes in any case)… De Havilland Hornet…

Superb work again, this time from the competition tables. I greatly appreciated the ‘all down’ look of this model… I know the amount of work it represents since I did build two Jumbos in similar configurations. Unfortunately, the judges did not and this one did not even got a bronze… My little Rafale got a Bronze in the same class and I felt I did not deserve it!

A 1/32 Hunter built by a friend of mine, out of the Revell kit. This one was heavily modified to represent this Royal Navy plane. It got a bronze medal in the large scale planes class. Well deserved I believe!

Not my cup of tea, but it did look good, even if the judges did not give it any metal…

Another very interesting subject, a Breguet Atlantic, a new 1/72 kit from Revell that I may purchase. It did look stunning!

Finaly, a really beautiful 1/72 Me-163 Komet…

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Thanks for the pics.
That 109 looks just beautiful.

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Thanks for the great pics. All are very impressive builds.

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Beauties indeed. Very nice models and pics. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

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nice pics. they all look like winners to me.

joe

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Thanks for posting the Pictures…excellent work…
The natural metal finished models are gorgeous!

Dan

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I am surprised that the 109 did not win any medals. All of them are great looking kits.

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djmodels,

Maybe we should have a forum just for posting pictures from shows & contests. What do you think of that idea? I love the ones that you’ve posted here. You seem to have a flair for photography.

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That 747 looks sweet! Are you sure it didn’t get any recognition at all?
Oh, and thanks for the pics!

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Gary, I think you had a great idea…! I did e-mail Ron about ‘taking over’ the day to day running of the gallery and I would have liked to have a folder for shows, but Ron has become very elusive… However, maybe a separate forum here would be good.

Shrikes, yep, that 747 did not get anything… I thought it was a winner when I saw it but judges went for other models (including my Rafale), that were good, but did not have half as much work put into it. The finish on the Jumbo was very good too! Shame!

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hey domi,
thanks for the pics![:D]
shame we didn’t get to meet up![V]
next time, eh?[:)]
regards,
nick

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I think they all deserve medals. Those were some neat subjects.

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love the Me163!!

Many thanks!

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I have that Special Hobby X-15 in my ‘stash’. Hope it looks that good when I’m done with it!

Murray

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Hi Domi, i wish i could have got there, those are great pics of great models. gotta love that Hunter, (i have one in my stash that i am plucking up courage for LoL. its going in 79 sqn markings from RAF Brawdy) pity i had to go into work that sunday but at least i earned plenty of “kit tokens”. sorry i couldn’t meet up with you guys but i am planning a trip “down south” soon so hopefully we can meet up then at hendon. (are you up for that too Nick?)i am thinking of spending the morning at Hendon and the afternoon at the Dehaviland museum / Mosquito air museum which is quite close to Hendon. please let me know what you think.
Greg

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This all sounds good Greg, but I’ll need a bit of notice 'cause with the face-painting business, I’m working most week ends! In effect, a week day would be much easier!

That Hunter was nice. My Belgian friend Serge took nearly a year to build it. He used many Black Box resin bits for it, but he also scratched many others (he also cast ciopies of the resin bits for me!). Mine will probably end up as a Belgian plane, from the Red Devils aerobatic team, or as one Black Arrow bird…