Plastic Winter 2019

I could not visit this show the past two years ... due to overlapping dates with the Euro Scale Modelling show in the Netherlands But not so this year   Good timing ! ... as Plastic Winter celebrated its 15th edition   I arrived in Prague the evening before     ... and on Saturday morning I took the 05:52 train to Bratislava   Direction south... Plenty of time to wake up during the 4 hours train trip   Arriving in Bratislava train station at 10AM ... where our friend Miro was so kind to pick me up   Together we drove to the event   ... on the outskirts of Bratislava   Entrance was free - as usually   I'm old I don't like to carry a tripod and camera with me all the time anymore So all pictures are snapped with my smartphone   Starting with the 1/72 scale aircraft categories                   The beauties from the 1/48 categories...                 1/32 scale...   There were about the same number of military vehicles in the contest   Starting again with the smaller scales...             The bigger scales...                   The figure categories               Other categories               Of course we also did some shopping My first spending was on another Academy Storch     Special Hobby and Eduard shared a room   With Special Hobby at the right hand side...   ... displaying work on their new projects   And I could already fondle the new 1/32 scale Westland Whirlwind   The surprise of the show was the availaibility of the brand new NF.12 ... while this was in fact not yet released ... because the instructions were not yet printed   But you could buy a pre-release - without instructions (These would be available for download from the website later...)   Eduard was on the left hand side   Plenty of high quality temptation... ... including Overtrees   I got me another cheap Fokker D.VII   But I was most interested in the small scale Platz reissues       There were plenty of other vendors     A Kora Models distributor...       Big scale nostalgia   Small scale nostalgia     Armory was visiting from the Ukraine Showcasing their brand new 1/48 scale Fairey Flycatcher...     AZ Models...   With the brand new MiG-19       And Kingfisher... ... which I didn't buy - yet...           Miro took me back to the station in the afternoon   ... where I took the train back to Prague     ... arriving in the evening   My girlfriend dragged me around the city for a few days     Luckily a quick model shop visit was permitted     ... before heading back home on Tuesday evening   Thank you for your interest and attention ... and especially Miro for the company & the taxi services All comments, remarks, corrections, suggestions are welcome   Previous reports on Plastic Winter :   by Date Location     Images Plastic Winter 2016 : KPM Bratislava : Saturday 26 November 2016 : Dom Kultury, Ruzinov, Ruzinovska 28   Bratislava   Slovakia   : 121   by Date Location     Images Plastic Winter 2015 : KPM Bratislava : Saturday 28 November 2015 : Dom Kultury, Ruzinov, Ruzinovska 28   Bratislava   Slovakia   : 74   by Date Location     Images Plastic Winter 2014 : KPM Bratislava : Saturday 22 November 2014 : Dom Kultury, Ruzinov, Ruzinovska 28   Bratislava   Slovakia   : 100   by Date Location     Images Plastic Winter 2013 : KPM Bratislava : Saturday 30 November 2013 : Dom Kultury, Ruzinov, Ruzinovska 28   Bratislava   Slovakia   : 89

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