Well after one hell of a drive through all that wind and avoiding fallen trees on the freeway I arrived to Our Town Hobby Show. I was aware that this year was going to be a smaller display than usual but when I finally found out where the guys were put I was really surprised all that spare room. I later found out there had been some sort of mix up and well speaking of room, I saw enough room to swing something very large... (I'll leave that up to you to fill in) I later found out it was a shared area for large aircraft but they did a no show.
Well now for what was there. First impression was the lack of ships there but was understandable since they were told they only had a small area this year. The quality of the display was high as usual. The big surprise was seeing a rather large IJS Yamato and even up close was well worked on for fine details. On thing that surprised me is there are only a few ships you see every time, but there are always new ships or even a few under construction models. Great work guys for putting on the show.
Getting back to the Yamato, this ship and some of the other large ships I'm aware of are going to make one hell of a show if they all turn up at once. ie: X2 Yamato, Shinano, USS Enterprise, Admiral Kuznetsov and a few other slightly smaller ones. Even these slightly small hold there own also.
Today's pictures can be found at link
http://picasaweb.google.com/TF72au/2010 ... leMickElst
A proud modeler showing off his work
Allan Pew showing a member his catalog
Our Town - Newcastle Show
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https://goo.gl/photos/8HqSHheHxQd7THat5
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Re: Our Town - Newcastle Show
Anybody else have pictures to share?
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Re: Our Town - Newcastle Show
Mission report will be posted tonight.
Mike
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