It was good to have a catch up with Nick and Co especially after missing Wickstead this year
I was at the show with the Scottish Model Warship Assoc. and it was great to win the best stand award this year.
We have along with others displayed at this show for numerous year and numbers were going down but this year was extremely poor with regards to visitors and it was sad especially given the effort the organisers, clubs and traders put into it all
As was mentioned to me at the weekend the old saying if you don't use it, you loose it is coming into force and to all us modellers it looks like we have lost another good show.
Colin Bishop has made some very valid points, I want to highlight something else and that was the consistent lies and rumours that were put about.
since the organisers had the falling out with Mark Williams from a model world they have been plagued with this problem.
there were rumour/reports every year the show had been canceled or that so many traders/clubs were not attending every year it was the same old rubbish
Last year I had a friend contact me as he was displaying but had a message that it was all canceled and asked if I had heard anything before contacting the organisers again it was all rubbish.
why people go out of their way to do this is beyond me and things like that DO NOT help anyone in this hobby it is perhaps one of the saddest things is that there is people out there who will be happy to hear this show is no more.
The Model Boat Convention was a great show and if it doesn't come back it will be missed and it will take something special to replace it.