History in the Making
To mark the anniversary of the Revell brand, we held a competition of any Revell kit made by a club member.
The Winner was Duncan Baird-Murray with his 1/32 Gloster Meteor
Second was Prem with his Viper and third was Andy with his Bismark.
Another good turnout. The next competition will be the main one in November which will also include the Spitfire build.
The competition is open to any kit that has a British link (however tenuous!!)
1st place – Simon James – Thundebird 4
2nd Place – Duncan Baird-Murray – Spitfire
3rd Place – Darren Turnbull – Wild Goose
The photos are not up to the usual standard of the club pro, so I am expecting a small “word” from him shorlty.
The last club meet of the year was held on the 17th December with an evening of snacks and general Christmas over eating. We also held the results of the competition from the mid November evening.
Class 1 – Aircraft 1/72 and below – Simon De Montefalcon
Class 2 – Aircraft above 1/72 – Duncan Baird Murray
Class 3 – Military Vehicles 1/72 and below – Malcolm Grant
Class 4 – Military Vehicles above 1/72 – Simon James
Class 5 – Figures – Tony Adams
Class 6 – Civilian Vehicles – Paul Adams
Class 7 – Ships – Steve Herridge
Class 8 – Diorama – Richard Stewart
Class 9 – Sci Fi, Fantasy and Space – Gray Sharpling
Class 12 – Vintage (pre 1980 tooled kits) – Matt Bourton
The overall winner was chosen on the night to be the diorama from Richard showing the Ohio limping into Malta. As it was beyond Richard’s bed time, and hes not allowed sugary stuff, he designated his Commander In Chief (Louise) to come along and accept the award and accolades.
Class 2 winner, Duncan, was awol with a holiday in Spain considered to be more important than a club night. The committee will be having words:)
| Entry No | Class | Title | Entrant | 1st’s (3 PTS) | 2nd’s (2PTS) | 3rd’s (1PT) | Total | Placing |
| AIRCRAFT 1/72ND SCALE AND BELOW | ||||||||
| 1 | C1 | A New Toy on the Field | Craig Blomfield | I (3) | II (4) | IIIIIIIII (9) | 16 | 4th (Comm) |
| 2 | C1 | F-82G Twin Mustang | Simon De Montefalcon | III (6) | IIIIIIIIIII (11) | 17 | 3rd | |
| 3 | C1 | F-84G Thunderjet | Simon De Montefalcon | IIIIIIIII (27) | IIIIIIIIIIII (24) | II (2) | 53 | 1st |
| 4 | C1 | Korean Sunderland | Darren Turnbull | IIIIIIIIIIII (36) | IIIIIII (14) | II (2) | 52 | 2nd |
| AIRCRAFT ABOVE 1/72ND | ||||||||
| 5 | C2 | Halberstadt | David Pogson | IIIIIIII (24) | III(6) | II (2) | 32 | 2nd |
| 6 | C2 | Henschel 123A | Tony Adams | I (3) | II (4) | 7 | 6th | |
| 7 | C2 | Mitsubishi Zero A6M26 | Duncan Baird Murray | IIIIIII (21) | IIIIIIIII (18) | I (2) | 41 | 1st |
| 8 | C2 | Spitfire MKXII | Will Booth | I (3) | I (1) | 4 | 8th | |
| 9 | C2 | B26B Marauder | Tony Adams | I (3) | I (2) | IIIIIII (7) | 12 | 5th |
| 10 | C2 | Whirlwind | Darren Turnbull | I (3) | I (2) | II (2) | 7 | 7th |
| 11 | C2 | F-86 Sabre | Matt Bourton | IIII (12) | III (6) | IIIIIIII (8) | 26 | 3rd |
| 12 | C2 | Lynx | Darren Turnbull | I (3) | III (6) | IIII (4) | 13 | 4th |
| MILITARY VEHICLES 1/48TH OR BELOW | ||||||||
| 13 | C3 | Where Do We Go Now | Craig Blomfield | IIIIIIII (16) | IIIIIIIIII (10) | 26 | 3rd | |
| 14 | C3 | One For the Album | Craig Blomfield | IIIIIIII (16) | IIIIIIII (8) | 24 | 4th | |
| 15 | C3 | Dragon Wagon | Malcolm Grant | IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (66) | I (2) | II (2) | 70 | 1st |
| 16 | C3 | Valentines | Martin Cooper | III (9) | IIIIIIII (16) | IIII (4) | 29 | 2nd |
| MILITARY VEHICLES ABOVE 1/48TH | ||||||||
| 17 | C4 | Panther in The Snow | Simon James | IIIIIIIIIIIIIII (45) | IIIIIIIII (18) | 63 | 1st | |
| 18 | C4 | Bosnia French GCT 155 | Chris Phillips | IIIIIIII (24) | IIIIIIIIIIIIII (28) | 52 | 2nd | |
| FIGURES | ||||||||
| 19 | C5 | Breaking Bad | Malcolm Grant | II (6) | IIIIIIII (16) | IIIIIIIIIIIIII (14) | 36 | 3rd |
| 20 | C5 | US Marine | Tony Adams | IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (51) | IIIIII (12) | I (1) | 63 | 1st |
| 21 | C5 | Beefeater (Burt) | Chris Phillips | IIIIII (18) | IIIIIIIIII (20) | IIIIIIII (8) | 46 | 2nd |
| CIVILIAN VEHICLES | ||||||||
| 22 | C6 | Nascar Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 | Paul Adams | IIIIII (18) | IIIIIIIIIIIII (26) | IIIII (5) | 49 | 2nd |
| 23 | C6 | Mercedes AMG Evo | Paul Adams | IIIIIIIIIIIII (39) | IIIIIII (14) | IIII (4) | 57 | 1st |
| 24 | C6 | Subaru impreza WRC | Duncan Baird Murray | IIIIII (18) | IIII (8) | IIIIIIIIIIIIII (14) | 40 | 3rd |
| SHIPS | ||||||||
| 25 | C7 | King George V | Steve Herridge | IIIIIIIIIIII (36) | IIIIIIII (16) | II (2) | 54 | 1st |
| 26 | C7 | HMS Rodney | Steve Herridge | IIIIII (18) | IIIIIIIIII (20) | IIIIIIII (8) | 46 | 2nd |
| 27 | C7 | USS Maine SSBN | Martin Cooper | IIIIII (18) | IIIII (10) | IIIIIIIIIIIII (13) | 41 | 3rd |
| DIORAMAS | ||||||||
| 28 | C8 | A Moment’s Rest | Craig Blomfield | – | ||||
| 29 | C8 | A Moment of Peace | Craig Blomfield | I (3) | I (2) | II (2) | 7 | 5th |
| 30 | C8 | Waiting | Simon James | IIIIIIIII (27) | IIIIII (12) | II (2) | 41 | 2nd |
| 31 | C8 | Country Rhodes | Chris Phillips | III (9) | IIIIIIIIII (20) | IIII (4) | 33 | 3rd |
| 32 | C8 | Operation Pedestal | Richard Stewart | IIIIIIIIIII (33) | III (6) | II (2) | 41 | 1st |
| 33 | C8 | A Cold Winters Start | Craig Blomfield | II (2) | 2 | 7th | ||
| 34 | C8 | Long Tan | Luke Hayes | I (2) | IIII (4) | 6 | 6th | |
| 35 | C8 | Tea With Monty | Martin Cooper | I (3) | IIII (8) | IIIIIIII (8) | 19 | 4th |
| SC-FI AND REAL SPACE | ||||||||
| 36 | C9 | Klingon Bird Of Prey | Simon James | IIIIIII (21) | IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (32) | – | 53 | 2nd |
| 37 | C9 | Poe’s Boosted T70 X-Wing | Gray Sharpling | IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (51) | IIIIII (12) | – | 63 | 1st |
| VINTAGE | ||||||||
| 38 | C12 | Barracuda on Deck! | Craig Blomfield | II (4) | 4 | 6th | ||
| 39 | C12 | M8 | Luke Hayes | IIIII (15) | IIIII (10) | II (2) | 27 | 2nd |
| 40 | C12 | Desert Patrol | Craig Blomfield | II (6) | II (4) | IIIII (5) | 15 | 5th |
| 41 | C12 | Von Braun Mars Rocket (1958) | Gray Sharpling | II (6) | IIIIIII (14) | IIIII (5) | 25 | 3rd |
| 42 | C12 | Hawker P1127 (1963) | Malcolm Grant | II (6) | IIIII (10) | IIIIII (6) | 22 | 4th (Comm) |
| 43 | C12 | P61-B Black Widow (1974) | Matt Bourton | IIIIIIIIIIII (36) | II (4) | IIII (4) | 44 | 1st |
| 44 | C12 | Saddle Tank J94 (1963) | Martin Cooper | I (2) | II (2) | 4 | 7th | |
| Entry No | Class | Title | Entrant | 1st’s (3 PTS) | 2nd’s (2PTS) | 3rd’s (1PT) | Total | Placing |
| 2025 JOHN COX MEMORIAL TROPHY RESULTS | ||||||||
| 3 | C1 | F-84 Thunderjet | Simon de Montefalcon | I (2) | II (2) | 4 | 9th | |
| 7 | C2 | Mitsubishi Zero A6M26 | Duncan Baird Murray | IIIIIII (21) | II (4) | IIIII (5) | 30 | 2nd |
| 15 | C3 | Dragon Wagon | Malcolm Grant | III (9) | II (2) | 11 | 5th | |
| 17 | C4 | Panther In The Snow | Simon James | I (3) | I (2) | IIIII (5) | 10 | 6th |
| 20 | C5 | US Marine | Tony Adams | I (3) | 3 | 10th | ||
| 23 | C6 | Mercedes AMG EVO | Paul Adams | II (6) | IIIIII (12) | II (2) | 20 | 4th |
| 25 | C7 | King George V | Steve Herridge | II (4) | 4 | 8th | ||
| 32 | C8 | Operation Pedestal | Richard Stewart | IIIIIII (21) | IIII (8) | IIII (4) | 33 | 1st |
| 37 | C9 | Poe’s Boosted T70 X-Wing | Gray Sharpling | I (2) | III (3) | 5 | 7th | |
| 43 | C12 | P61B Black Widow | Matt Bourton | II (6) | IIIIIII (14) | I (1) | 21 | 3rd |
Last night, 19th November, we held the annual competition. A slightly smaller turnout this year with the junior section unfortunately having no entries. It was still a good turnout with some excellent kits on display.
Here are the entries
Class 1 Aircraft – 1/72 and below
Class 2 Aircraft Above 1/72
Class 3 Military Vehicles 1/72 and below
Class 4 Military Vehicles above 1/72
Class 5 Figures
Class 6 Civilian Vehicles
Class 7 Ships
Class 8 Diorama
Class 9 Sci-Fi, Fantasy and space
Class 12 Vintage (pre 1980 tooling kits)
The results will be announced on the 17th December, when the class winners will be judged to pick the Best In Show.
Scale Model World 2025 was held on the 8th and 9th of November at the International Centre in Telford.
Seven of us travelled up on the Friday meeting at Warwick services on the way and all of us catching up at the Holiday Inn near the Centre.
Due to entry band system only 4 were allowed in the hall to start the set up whilst the rest of us could carry the kits to the door to get collected. This was completed quite quickly with the rest of us being able to get our wristbands that evening.
Firstly we must congratulate Paul and Luke.
Luke won Gold in the Class 83 (Diorama – Civilian Vehicles.) for his Locomotive and Paul gained a Silver for his Corsair in Class 16 (Aircraft – 1/47 scale and larger ASD, ASC.). Considering the competition and the quality overall of the kits, this is some achievement.
This was my first time at the show as a whole weekend club visit and was surprised on the Saturday to see the size of the queue (IPMS Members) at 09:00 reaching some distance. Thinking that I already had a wristband I confidently strode to the front of the queue hearing some muttering. I have since found out that I should have queued with the rest. Oh well!
Saturday morning was a blur of people trying to get to their favourite traders to grab any bargains. It reminded me of an old fashion Christmas Sale
On the Saturday we also welcome Sheridan, Grey and Dan to the table as well as the Travelling Willbury’s (Darren, Luke and Simon) on a day trip to the show.
Saturday was a busy day that slowly turned round to the inspection of the club tables with numbers in the hall reducing as we reached the close of show at 18:00. Sunday was certainly not as busy as the day before but a good amount came through the doors.
You could see the trades were seemingly doing well with a lot of shelving beginning to look quite empty.
Sunday arrived with the queues for entrance not so long and much quicker. I did not have to confidently flounce to the front this time. Numbers were still going well with a bit more interest in the clubs being shown. The main morning topic on the table was of the park run, of which 2 of our number constantly kept on about best times and how great it is to be able to run at these events. They spent an amazing amount of time waiting for the times to appear on the app, by this time however, we had zoned out and left them to those tales of one foot in front of another. More purchases were made and a continuation of meeting others was in full flow. David spent an hour or two at the presentation ceremony to collect Luke’s award, only to find that you just picked it up at the competition table. How he came bouncing in laughing and full of the joy’s.
It’s a bit of a trip to reach Telford, but overall, well worth it.
There a few few YouTube videos to watch if you do a search for Scale Model World 2025. Be warned though, they are quite long!
Quote of the weekend:-
Paul – Do I get to collect my Silver from the award ceremony
Richard – I don’t know Paul. Iv’e only won Gold before
The Club Cube Awards went to the following people who we thought were worthy of the prize from around the 3 halls
This is a gallery of pictures from the show and competition area.
Well done to Prem for getting the Gold in the Ukranian competition
More details can be found in the News section.
Once again the show was held in the 3 halls at Thornbury Leisure Centre on the 3rd August 2025.
4 of us stalwarts turned up for the day for some serious shopping and perusing of many clubs displays. A large amount of gaming was also in evidence.
Paul put his Corsair in the competition as well as Duncan with his Zero. Simon entered his Nashorn in the Armour section but was put in the diorama area as it had a tree and 3 figures.
Simon came away with pride of having entered and bot Paul and Duncan got first place.
Although a fair distance, this is a good enough size of show to make the journey worthwhile.
Yet another good show with no issues of the previous fire and the cafe running well from the temporary portacabin.
A good selection of clubs and traders with the museum exhibits always worth a look at.
Congratulations go to Paul and Duncan for coming first with the Mercedes and Japanese Zero.
We also had a visiting number in the shape of an Alex Payne.
This years winner was Prem with his M3A3. More info in the News section
Another good show with 5 attendees and a few visitors. It was good to see Mark Husband visit.
The unveiling of the cube “Long Live The Cube” went well with team though the response from the hall was not the major stampeding and chanting as we had hoped. Lesson learnt was that a bigger stand is required and probably a bit higher.
Congratulation go the the Great War SIG who got best disply.