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[Liverbudgie2]

There was was of course a much larger show going on a little further north than Warwick and here are some images from the competition side.

[Colin Bishop]

Yes LB, but they are ALL plastic! We've got builders on here as well as just assemblers and painters.

Colin

[oldernovice]

I never cease to be amazed by the skill and dexterity shown by these modellers......artists would be a better word.

Jim

[Liverbudgie2]

Yes LB, but they are ALL plastic! We've got builders on here as well as just assemblers and painters.

Colin

I thought better of you, that is such a crass remark have YOU never built a plastic model? Neither I should point out, were all the models out of a box, a fair number were scratch built

I would wager that at least five times as many people attended the IPMS show than did Warwick, the area is probably five or six times as big, people attend from all parts of Europe, US and Canada as well as other countries around the globe, a truly international show in that regard.

Young people were there aplenty and were encouraged to build models, and let me tell you, they can teach the vast majority of those who build to larger scale a thing or two or three about painting and finishing a model.

Just how do you expect the younger generations to learn and progress into the larger scales if that is the only encouragement they receive. Get you head out the sand you never know you might learn something.

LB

[gingyer]

Totally agree with you LB

I know some of the guys who display there and they can teach us a thing or 10 about model making
I know some people who spend fortunes that buy the best hulls, Running gear and fittings
Spend about 2 years building it then spoil it totaly by painting it with a bog brush

Also alot of these "assemblers" take a basic kit through out a fair portion and scratch build new
and better parts

So credit where credit is due

[Colin Bishop]

Oh dear LB! Didn't you notice my tongue was firmly in cheek? I might just as well have taken your comments as being rather disparaging of Warwick.

I have a partially completed Revell QM2 sitting in my workshop at the moment plus at least half a dozen unbuilt Airfix kits I'm saving for my old age! I also take a great deal of pleasure in collecting 1:1250 scale metal model liners which hang on a display case on my living room wall.

I certainly do admire the artistic techniques displayed by the plastic wizards and yes, I know some of them are indeed scratch built, but I believe that the majority of the exhibits are plastic kits which have been modified to a greater or lesser degree and that the main skills being brought to the work are, as somebody has already pointed out, artistic and in that respect there is certainly some superb work to be seen.

Each to his own I suppose but as somebody who has built many kits, plastic and otherwise over the last 50 years and derived a lot of enjoyment out of doing so, I still find scratchbuilding to be the most satisfying means of putting a little bit of yourself into the model. It's just my personal view, of no more or less weight than anybody else's. I see it a bit like playing sophisticated computer games where you have to put in a lot of skilll and effort to achieve a high score but ultimately, the truth is that somebody else actually wrote the thing, so to some extent you are dancing to their tune.

Just my own viewpoint, that's all. No better or worse than anybody else's.

Colin

[DickyD]

Good grief Colin I thought you had turned into Bryan there.

No offence to Bryan by the way.

[Colin Bishop]

Yeah! Close call Richard, close call.....

Thought I was going to have to find an alternative use for all those bottles of Plasweld in the workshop. 

Colin

[Bowwave]

Yes LB, but they are ALL plastic! We've got builders on here as well as just assemblers and painters.

Colin

Colin I beg to differ on the issue of ALL plastic .  At Telford  around  40% of the models in the  competition are scratch built to a level that  is on the fringes of magic . The IPMS  International at Telford is open to all scales kit and non kit .Just for interest this 1:1200 model of the Monitor General Wolf was all  scratch built and no PE.  It’s an eye opener in more ways than one ! .

Bowwave

[Colin Bishop]

Sorry, I thought that the IPMS was basically for models made primarily of plastic whether kit or scratchbuilt. Hadn't realised that 40% were scratchbuilt though - a much higher proportion than i had assumed.

Colin

[HS93 (RIP)]

Colin ,Perhaps you could go next time and do an article for your mag

peter

[Colin Bishop]

do an article for your mag

But you've just demonstrated I'm not qualified! 

(But I did use to paint wargaming model warships for others back in the late 60s)

Colin