Airfix Model World – July 2018

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OUT AND ABOUT

POOLE VIKINGS MODEL SHOW

L

ooking back through the

records, Poole Vikings Model

Club members recently

discovered their first ‘official’

model show was during 1987.

Therefore, the recent 2018

incarnation of this well-known

event was officially the 32nd Poole

Vikings exhibition – although some

members still claim the history of

model shows in Dorset’s Poole area

has a much longer tradition.

Whatever the exact total, the

Vikings’ annual gathering has

long been established as one of

Southern Showcase

southern England’s premier model

events. Held on April 14, this year’s

get-together was fortunate in

dodging the awful weather around

that time, and duly attracted large

crowds. Taking place at the local

girls’ school, Parkstone Grammar,

so many visitors flocked to the

show that parking in the immediate

vicinity was completely full and

spilled over into adjoining streets,

at the height of the day’s activities.

As usual the exhibition proved

to be a showcase of talent from

across southern England, with

model clubs visiting from as far

afield as Oxfordshire.

Further details of Poole

Vikings Model Club events and

activities can be found at https://

poolevikingsblog.wordpress.

com/ Malcolm V Lowe

If there was a prize for the show’s

most distinctive model, it would

have been won by this eye-catching

1/72 MikroMir Kalinin K-12, built

by Poole Vikings’ Jim Smith.

 With Airfix’s 1/48 kit as a basis, Nick Williamson of IPMS Salisbury exhibited this very

smart Sea Hurricane in Fleet Air Arm markings. (all photos Malcolm V Lowe)

 Large and eye-catching, this F-4J Phantom II in US Marine Corps markings was made

from the 1/32 Tamiya kit, and graced South Somerset Model Club’s table.

 Made from the 1/35 Dragon kit, this Sherman III tank was finished in Royal Wiltshire

Yeomanry markings by Les Clancy, of the West Middlesex Scale Model Club.

 The ISCA Model Club’s display featured the Japanese pre-dreadnought battleship IJN

Mikasa (a warship that still exists as a museum), built from the 1/700 Hasegawa kit.

 Poole Scale Modellers member Ralph Dodds displayed this 1/600 HMS Intrepid, a ship on which he served during 1981. It is a major

conversion of Airfix’s vintage HMS Fearless kit, and involved much scratch-building work.