Australian Model Expo - Some Photos

[LSP_Kevin]

Locals will already be aware the The Australian Model Expo is currently on this King's Birthday long weekend at the Sandown Racecourse. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I was only able to attend yesterday (Saturday), and have posted photos of the Kotare Bf 109K-4 and Spitfire Vb in the relevant thread. Here I'll show a selection of photos I took of some of the models on display. I didn't take many, and mainly focussed on the LSP stuff, so apologies in advance for that.

 

So, let's look at those first:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Airfix 1/24:

 

 

Airfix 1/24:

 

 

 

Kotare Spit:

 

 

Kotare Bf 109K-4 test shot build by Sam Dwyer:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quite amazing to see two 1/32 Liberators on the same table, along with 3 Lysanders! Oddly, the only LSP jet I came across was this one:

 

 

There was probably an entire table of them somewhere that I missed.

 

The stand-out LSP entry of the show for many of us (including myself), was Les Applebee's amazing conversion of the HK Lancaster to an RAAF Lincoln:

 

 

Suffice to say that my photo hardly does it justice.

 

More in the next post...

 

Kev

[LSP_Kevin]

I also took a few snaps of some other things that caught my eye, but there was a lot of stuff I missed, and many great models beyond just these ones.

 

 

 

 

This thing was gigantic! 3D print I believe:

 

 

 

 

Some civil stuff:

 

 

 

 

But the non-LSP highlight of the show for me was this gigantic-scale Back to the Future DeLorean, complete with animated lighting and a superb display:

 

 

 

I really should have taken a video of it!

 

Among all the other excitement of the day, the fire alarm went off at one point, and we all had to evacuate the venue, which ended up looking quite surreal from the outside:

 

 

So there we have it! Good luck to all the entrants with their models in the comp, and hopefully next year I'll be in a position to not only attend more than one day, but also enter something! After all, someone needs to hold down that last place...

 

Highlights: great models, great people, and catching up with the guys from Kotare;

Lowlights: the food, and the trip across town.

 

Kev

 

[LSP_Ray]

Nice pics, Kev!

You forgot the Large Scale Armor, though. 

[LSP_Kevin]

20 minutes ago, LSP_Ray said:

Nice pics, Kev!

You forgot the Large Scale Armor, though. 

 

I forgot most of it! With around 700 models in the competition, and probably 2000 when including the club displays, I really only saw a small fraction of what was there, in between gas-bagging.

 

Kev

[LSP_Mike]

Nice pics, Kev.

You forgot Large Scale Ships, though.

[BradG]

I'll get some armour and ship pics tomorrow. There's a very nice 1/350 scale Fuso and Kongo. It was good to see you Kev.

[Uncle Les]

There were at least two other large scale planes there:

Edited June 8 by Uncle Les
additional photo

[LSP_Matt]

Just so many great builds.  Wow.

[dennismcc]

Looks like a great show Kev and some pretty amazing builds on show, nice to see some Lizzies as well.

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

[Trak-Tor]

Thanks for the pictures.
It's nice to see "Matchbox" on the competition table.
Great models all around.
 

Juraj

[ScottsGT]

Fantastic pics of some amazing builds!  B-24’s were impressive.