Tag: exhibition
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Okay, Chase Me Around The Room With A Fire Axe
But listen to the idea first… Perth displays need a place to shine. Whether they are toy train shows, jewellery shows, or chicken butchering shows, they all need a good place to be seen. Currently the places that will host them are drafty, cold, ill-lit, and expensive. There is no support for displays that is…
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Disciplined Expectation
A phrase I would recommend to many when they go to an exhibition. I have attended an annual show and taken my own advice. I gritted my teeth at the price of parking on the grounds and for the door ticket. I noted with dismay the closure of half of the space used for other…
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If You Win Second Place
You resent the person who won first place. The third-place winner detests you both. And the further you get away from the winner’s podium, the deeper the level of hate becomes. That is the nature of contests and competition – you win dislike along with the trophy and the set of dishes. Sometimes winning second…
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The Visiting Club
Scale modellers who make plastic kits know that when an exhibition is coming up they need to steel their nerves to the sticking point for two things; the journey there and the journey home. Because the model that you spent three months carefully cementing together has a dozen points of protrusion – plastic guns, pitot…
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Model Car Sunday – Part One
Actually it is called the Model Car Spectacular now but I remember it from a decade ago with the older name. Whichever you choose, it is a good value local model show on a wet Sunday. It’s an annual, and some of the exhibitors use the year fully to make new models. Themed, of course,…
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Pride Of Place
The models displayed at my scale club are varied – aircraft, vehicles, ships, armour – even figures and Sci-Fi items. They are so very varied that there is no chance of making one-scale-only or one-theme-only cabinets – they jostle with each other for attention. But the attention they get is from dedicated model makers –…
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The Rules Of Engagement
I was a a meeting recently that set out the rules for an upcoming scale model exhibition. The briefing was from one of the chief organisers and was very well done. He was in a position to make the set-up and operation perfectly clear, as I suspect that he was able to control his committee…
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It’s All About The Show
At the show, that is. This fatuous philosophy may make my model displays better in the future. I’ve just seen a wake-up that tells me the viewers need more than what many modellers give them. My library dioramas – 300mm x 820 mm – are kept to that size by the display cabinet that protects…
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The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part Two – More Visitors
Well, that was better. Sunday, the hall was full of visitors, and we even had more to the build-a-kit section. This meant the people nearest the table needed to help with the youngsters – under the supervision of their parents. Sprue cutters were lent out; sandpaper sticks as well. Most of the really young ones…
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The Kit Whisperer
We are to have our scale model exhibition in a few months and I will be there showing some of my builds and taking pictures of other people’s efforts. I’ll also browse the trade stands and the second-hand sales that go on. Of the two, I think I’ll have the most fun with the junk.…
The Little World 