John Tapsell

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Carrier deck any use to you? https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/1950s-royal-navy-aircraft-tow-tractor-colours

O'Neal starred in many films but I think my favourite (and I know it isn't everyone's choice) was The Driver.

Can't help with documentaries, but this is an excellent read - covers the first year of the war from a Commonwealth perspective. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scorched-Earth-Black-Snow-Korean/dp/1845136195 Same Author: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Round-British-Stand-Imjin-ebook/dp/B007TV0QB6?ref_=ast_author_dp

Yes - our 'quality' is 'streets' ahead of our competitors We also allow 'Allsorts' to attend our event (IPMS North Somerset will understand that reference better than most) 👍

OK - I'll suggest this to the Executive Committee and see if they are willing to make it a mandatory display requirement for SMW 2024

We have had a reduced fee for Sunday in the past - in a deliberate attempt to try and push more visitors towards that day rather than Saturday and balance out the attendance figures. It has made no material difference over several years so we've gone back to the same price each day. The show is open until 4pm and Branches/SIGs were given strict instructions that no packing away should commence before then (unless with prior permission from the show organisers). To be honest, the vast majority of groups honoured that requirement, but a few tried to start packing up beforehand. Where spotted, they were informed (again) of the requirement.

We're working on Marc to produce an article for the IPMS Magazine - he's a member of my local club and he's already inspired a couple of my fellow club members to think about doing something similar.

Hi Terry - good to meet you as well. Also many thanks for your kind words, both on here and when we met. Mind you, we'd finished shutting down the show and the crew had repaired to the bar for food and a couple of pints, so perhaps I was feeling a bit more mellow by then. I've said this before but each year in mid-October I'm asking myself why on earth I put up with the stress and late nights preparing for the show - but come the Sunday evening after the show, I know with absolute clarity why I do it. I finally found time to spend some money on Sunday - at 4:15, after the show had closed (thank you Justin at Bookworld, for allowing me interrupt your packing up and exchange cash for some reading material). Scale ModelWorld 2023 has been a blast, it really has. The whole vibe was positive. the confidence had returned and you could feel it in the halls. As organisers we are constantly firefighting behind the scenes, from minor niggles to medical issues, lost property and occasionally a major drama, little of which can be seen from the outside. But we love what we do and you guys make it worthwhile, so thanks to everyone who attended and to everyone who has expressed their appreciation, either on public platforms or directly to the Exec Committee. We get criticisms too, some constructive and some less so, but they are important because they allow us to assess where we are and what we might need to change. And if you missed the show - there's only about 360 days to the next one

But how often do you get a new kit announcement and then find that the traqders already have it? It will be on sale at Scale ModelWorld tomorrow. Traders already have stock.

Car now packed - seem to be taking more this year than ever before but we do have a couple of new IPMS tools to launch and muggins has to transport much of the stock to Telford. I think there is still room for a couple of suitcases for me and the good lady (there had better be or I'll be in serious trouble...). We'll hit the road early tomorrow so we can be at Telford to set everything up.

Concur with heather - Leyland Martian

I'm guessing that a printed version of the membership would be OK. We should only have a small number of 'digital' membership cards to deal with. I'd also see if you can save the PDF directly onto your phone to allow you to access it without going to your email. These days a lot of phones also allow you to take a screenshot of what's on your phone screen and save it as a photo. (should be feasible on most recent smart phones. I know mine can but I've never tried it so don't ask me how)

Should do - yes.

All colour transparency films have a colour bias but it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. It relates to the dyes used to create the colour film and different companies had different preferences. Transparency film is also incredibly sensitive to mis-handling and very unforgiving. Colour tone will vary when photos are under or over-exposed. That can wash out or saturate certain colours. Very few army photographers would have been regular users of colour film - they were used to using B&W film on a daily basis, which is a far more forgiving medium. Then of course there's the processing stage. If that isn't done absolutely accurately, it too will create variation in tone and saturation. The challenge with transparency film is that once the film has been processed it can't be altered, so if any errors were made, you're stuck with them. I know that to my cost - a moment's inattention in the lab can fundamentally alter the quality of the finished film. Personally, I would never rely on contemporary colour images to judge the 'accuracy' of a colour - there are just too many variables over which we have no control.

It's all done one of them new-fangled 'puter thingies so yes, we have a full break-down of entrants per nationality, but I don't have it to hand because the basic stats were provided by the competition admin guru.

Contact Alfie Bass who runs our 'give an old model a new home' tables. I believe he will allow books as well, but best check with him first. All the money collected goes to Marie Curie. Email is: [email protected]

Some 2023 ScaleModelWorld Competition stats for you: 1330 entries 400 individual entrants. 62% are UK modellers and 38% from outside the UK 21 different nationalities. The 2022 stats were: 1240 entries 330 entrants (73% UK and 27% overseas) 17 nationalities

That option was offered this year and we did it previously about 15(?) years ago when we didn't have a team come forward to run a kitswap - near enough zero response so we haven't pursued it.

I could take credit for it but I'd be lying - it was already being organised.

You're correct in that over-priced kits tend not to sell, but then the seller has to take them home again so maybe that might encourage them to price their sale items more reasonably Mind you, I see the same at many other shows with some under-table 'bargain' sales and I do wonder how many of those kits get rolled out at show after show but never get sold. It strikes me as wasted effort to haul them to a show and then have to take them home again.

The Kitswap requires a lot of volunteers to run it - a dedicated 'leader', a core team of about 5-6 prepared to give up their entire weekend at the show and a larger team of volunteers rotating through it on an hourly/two-hourly basis. You also need to be prepared to put in several weeks of evenings before and after the events to prepare all the paperwork (real or virtual) and then reconcile all the queries and 'lost/stolen' claims that come to light after the show. If someone can put together a good, reliable team to manage the Kitswap and put a proposal to the Executive Committee, then we'd look at it with interest. We don't have the resources to run the kitswap from our existing volunteer pool but that doesn't mean we would necessarily reject a proposal if the right team comes forward. Alfie and his crew set the standard - that's what we would expect from any new team as a minimum.

The base colour would be post-war US Olive Drab - much darker and less 'khaki' than the wartime version. Won't help with your Vallejo marching but the closest match I know of is Tamiya's Japanese JGSDF Olive Drab (XF-74).

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But at least we still get a fairly steady stream of helicopters dropping by, despite some of the old 'sites' being converted to housing (in your case) or business parks like the old Weston Road site. There is also still an RAF presence there because I don't think TisWas has moved.