Melb Model Expo (2008)

[Wurger]

A very good opening.Congrats for Chris.

 

[lesofprimus]

There is a HUGE difference between 2nd and 3rd place Wayne, almost kinda silly comparing ur to his.....

Do u have a pic of the tiny model that beat ur tiny model???

 

[lesofprimus]

Oh, my bad, its different classes, Junior and Adult... The Stuka looks good but I think both of them would look better if they werent sprayed with so much gloss cote...

 

[Wayne Little]

Do u have a pic of the tiny model that beat ur tiny model???

Sure do, an F8 Crusader!. coming up soon.

 

[Catch22]

Pretty damn good for a 9 year old!

 

[Heinz]

I saw that Stuka, now I know his age he did a nice job! Nice work Wayne, you made his day ontop of his 3rd

 

[Matt308]

Way to go Chris, good job on the Stuka. And Les we went over the Japanese gloss with the Aichi dive bomber. I too was suprised that this was actually authentic. Never knew that.

 

[Wayne Little]

Here is second place for the Junior category, Aussie P40E

 

[Matt308]

Most excellent. Having done one with my 7yo, I can tell you that is not a model that has been tutored with a strong hand. Good for that young chaps old man.

 

[Wildcat]

Very nice, well done.

 

[Heinz]

Great work, young bloke has great taste RAAF

 

[lesofprimus]

Has anyone noted that neither one of the kids models has the canopy frames painted??

Wayne, still waiting to see what ur competition was putting up against u...

 

[Catch22]

I can see why. It's a tad embarrassing, but I don't do mine either. I don't know why, but my hand gets shaky whenever I need to do something THAT precise, so I have my dad do them.

 

[Heinz]

Yeah but they are only young blokes guys, takes some practise.

I can paint mine but I now just paint and cut tiny slithers of masking tape to do my framing. Touch of PVA to seal em and done.

 

[Matt308]

PVA?

 

[Wurger]

The lack of painted conopies is quite common among young modellers.Nothing new.Simply they aren't told how to paint them.The kid has to work on painting as well.Anyway, the P-40 looks very nice.

 

[Matt308]

Very nice indeed!! I hope Chris can post some more of his work.

 

[Wayne Little]

and here is First place for the Junior section.

Ok Dan, the rest of my class will follow shortly...

 

[Catch22]

Nicely done!

 

[Matt308]

And how old? Not the same age as the prior lads.