Model Force 2015


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Date

Location

: Modelbouw Vereniging Leopoldsburg

: Sunday 3 May 2015

: Don Bosco

  Helchteren, Limburg

  Belgium  


 

This is one of the smaller local shows

 

It is about half an hour drive to the east for me

 

The contest area

 

With some interesting builds

Like this brand new 1/35 scale HobbyBoss M19 - trailering a Crusader tank

 

Very nice 1/35 scale vignette "Wahnsinn.." - based on a famous Battle of Kursk picture (see insert)

 

I loved this diorama "Die Überfahrt, Fall Gelb - May 1940"

 

It was not easy to take pictures of

 

A Panzer II making it's way through a shallow river

 

The ships categories

 

With this 1/35 scale Hungarian AN-2 Patrol Boat

 

The Junior categories

 

The naked category - featuring this 1/72 scale Ursus A

 

1/35 scale experimental M113

 

1/35 scale Minerva 4x4 1952 Belgian Army

 

1/72 scale Belgian T-15 light tank

 

1/72 scale Ferdinand

 

1/48 scale Hetzer

 

1/35 scale Tamiya Quad tractor & 25 pdr

 

1/35 scale Ukrainian BMP-2

 

1/35 scale King Tiger

 

1/35 scale Opel Protze 1T with PAK 37mm

 

1/48 T-6G Harvard

 

1/48 scale Fokker D.VII "Sieben Schwaben" (Seven Swabians)

 

1/48 scale Messerschmitt Me-109E-7

 

1/32 scale IAR.81C

 

1/48 scale A-6A Intruder

 

1/24 scale Citroën 2 CV Pick up - with scratch build bed

 

1/25 scale 1972 Pontiac GTO

 

1/24 scale Jägermeister Ford Capri

 

The Reporter

 

Viking

 

"The man and his nickname"

 

Vey nice presentation of Churchill

 

The Sutleress

 

Witch Hunter

 

Many clubs had a club stand

 

The guys from Modelbouwvereniging Zelzate (small town in Belgium)

 

Most of the space was filled with vendors though

 

Some good prices for old Squadron books

 

The latest Czech 1/144 scale model kits

 

And what I bought

 

The organizing club

 

T-shirts from a Czech vendor

 

Aha !

Sales bins

 

Where are the days a Frog Westland Wyvern costed an arm and a leg ?

 

Did I need some paint ?

 

The new Bronco BV P178

 

Maybe I should consider building a car again ... ?

 

The popular Kid's corner

 

And then the road back home in the late afternoon - with rain !

 

Another kit I bought

 

It was again a nice pleasant day, looking already forward to next year's show

All comments, remarks, suggestions and especially corrections are welcome

Thank you all

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William De Coster / Belgium

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Date created : 24 May 2015

Published : 30 April 2016

Correction translation "Seven Swabians" (thanks Jens O. Mehner) : 1 May 2016