OK, the 2024 SA Plastic Modelling Expo is over & your local travelling reporter was there!
Arrived at 0930hrs on Saturday & was allowed to register all of the nine builds I took in for "Display Only", which was fine by me, I don't need to be judged. Even more fun was that they decided to distribute them throughout the categories, instead of lumping them all in the "Un-Nominated/Scratchbuilt" category (Subversion through dispersion!
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Anyway, somewhere around midday the "Deputy Chief Judge" (don't knock it, the structured organisation helped the show run more smoothly than it has for a very long time) came up to me & asked if I would mind if they judged my Ukrainian Merkava, I told him I was not opposed to it being judged, if that's what they wanted to, &, so, it was - it didn't get into the top three but I had fun hearing the judges going over the build that night.
Which brings me to the fun of being asked if I would assist with the judging that night (no real kudos on that, they just wanted more people to judge to speed the process up) & I got to judge several categories alongside a more experienced judge. It was a fun process &, I think, really quite fair & honest. Winning builds didn't have to be perfect, they just had to have less faults against a set of criteria for that category than the other builds.
And I was back at about 1130hrs on Sunday (today).
Anyway, enough waffling & on with a random(ish) selection of photo's from the show!
(If you click on the images you should get a considerably larger view.)
Here's a link to my SmugMug album with the rest of the 200-odd photo's:
https://guyplachy.smugmug.com/SAPMA-Expo-2024Have fun! Don't get lost!
Thanks for looking!
