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The annual Moson show was held on the past weekend. A truly international event and anyone following the competitions and modelling shows I am sure have heard of this event before. I have to apologise to all visitors from far away places that in mid April we had real summer weather at Moson. Temp’s reaching 28-29 in the shade and well over 30’s out on the sun. Blue sky’s and not a cloud in sight for the whole event. I believe sun tan lotion sales were high in local shops. One can find lots of reports with hundreds of photos of the different models. I have no intention to compete with them. Did some “freehand” photos of my own (so the quality is not so high) of the kits but of course mainly of aircraft. This is more on what I found in my bag when arrived home. Few nice kits and some which were not so nice. The reason I put this report here is that it is more a review of various new things than a traditional “showing the kits from the competition”. To start one kit with which I had problems. Please have a look at the photo. Guess the scale of it! What do you think??? OK, we will not have a competition here. It is in 350 scale!!!!!!! I have asked the maker to hold it in his hand so that one can get a feel of the scale. It is made of the Trump kit, well what is left of it, as little much is left from the original. It was re-scribed, detailed, engine added, dive brakes open (and they have all the holes on them), new canopy . . . I have to remind everyone this is in 1/350 scale!!! PSP plates were home-made as well as the palm trees. Suitably weathered paint scheme with panelling and all. Remember this is in 350 scale! Due to the scale and that I did not have a pod with me it was difficult to take good detail pictures of it. Sorry. Still hope the photo shows something of the kit. Congratulation to the Rober Racz for he has won a gold with this kit in his category! Back to the event. What was important for me is what I have found. What I have found in my bags after returning home. There was a German company who were selling everything that you would need to perform an open heart surgery in situ. WOW, some amazing surgical steel tools many of which are perfectly suited for our hobby. The crowd was much bigger on Saturday, but I only managed to get around taking some photos on Sunday morning. Still there were “few” visitors. To support Modelsvit companies innovative kit range I had to buy the amazing T-10-10/11 kit. Fantastic! I still hope that they will do the MiG-21F-13 kit in the near future. By the time I reached them, Special Hobby has sold out of the Mirage F-1 kits (THE most elegant fighter!!!) so I had to settle for a Folland Gnat just so that I don’t come out empty handed from their shop. It was very sad to see that the 72 nd scale Special Hobby Viggen was still only the same test sprue board that we have seen since last year and it is still almost a half year away. Sad, very sad! The Tarangus version should be out earlier somewhere in the summer but don’t hold you breath till then. Who knows . . . More soon Best regards Gabor