Airfix Model World – July 2018

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OUT AND ABOUT

YEOVIL MODEL SHOW

A

completely new model show

was held on March 24 this

year, deep in the heart of

south-west England at Yeovil

in Somerset.

For many years a highly

successful modelling event

was staged in the nearby Fleet

Air Arm Museum at RNAS

Yeovilton, but sadly that show

was discontinued two years ago.

March’s new event, in Yeovil

itself, had no connection with the

former exhibition, and took place

under private management at

Buckler’s Mead Academy.

As an inaugural event, the

new show was an outstanding

success. It was well supported

by members of the public, and

the car parks were overflowing

during most of the day. The

gathering’s organisers received

so many requests for attendance

by traders and model clubs, that

eventually three large rooms in

the Academy’s sprawling complex

of buildings were used to house

the exhibition. Fortunately, the

weather was kind...and no one

got wet transferring from one

building to the next. The show

turned out to be one of the

largest meetings of model clubs

from the south and south-west

of England for many years, with

a wealth of modelling subjects of

many different kinds on display.

Its success has encouraged the

management to already begin

planning for a similar event

next year. Malcolm V Lowe

West

Country

Classic

 Representing the iconic ‘Little Grey Fergie’,

Heller’s popular 1/24 Ferguson TE-20 tractor

graced the display of IPMS Salisbury via this

neatly portrayed rural vignette.

 This highly detailed 1/24 working model

of a World War Two Vosper MTB (Motor

Torpedo Boat) numbered MTB 89, featured

in the impressive display of Weymouth &

Portland Model Boat Club.

 Robin Powell of Poole Scale Modellers displayed this

beautifully finished Bf 109G-10; Revell’s 1/32 kit was the

basis but with many resin upgrade parts from Barracuda Studios.  IPMS Gloucester’s extensive display featured many esoteric subjects, including this

X-20M (AS-3 Kangaroo) Soviet cruise missile, made from the 1/72 Amodel kit.

 Members of Cotswold Scale Plastic

Modellers fielded one of the largest

displays of 1/48 aircraft models at the

show, including this Hasegawa USAAF

P-38J Lightning. (all photos Malcolm V Lowe)