Tag: WASMEX exhibition
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A Big Round Of Applause

For the organisers of this year’s WASMex show. Not for the weather or the parking or the fences. For the lighting in the competition hall. It was vastly improved over previous years, and deliberately so. The windows at the sides of the competition hall in the Liddelow Pavilion do let a lot of light in…
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Dewoitine D.500 – Part One – Escapee

In this case, this kit has done a runner from the hobby shop’s stand at the WASMex show. When it was on the stand – and neglected by the crowd – it was priced down from $ 35 to $ 15. To be honest, I missed it as well, so it is just dumb luck…
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Big People Look For Little People

And so do little people. Every scale model, whether alone or as part of a diorama, needs some sort commonality with the viewer. This can be finer points in the case of something seen by an expert, but the rest of us need a different post to hitch our horse to. Most often it is…
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The Big Local Model Show And The Big Local Model Shows

Actually there are about four Big Local Model Shows during a year…some of them at the same venue as next year’s April/May affair for scale models. The business might be a bit confusing if it were not for the fact that Perth enthusiasts of the various hobbies generally have the things sorted in their minds.…
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Oh, Spit…

I knew I’d do it. I made a report about our group’s stand at the recent WASMEX scale model show and I missed out one of the photographs I’d taken. That’s it in the heading image. It’s a large scale model of a Lancaster bomber that was made and finished by two other chaps in…

