Cosford is the Air Force Museum location about ten minutes by train and 15 minutes walk from Telford the site of the UK IPMS’s yearly model show.

This was my third visit with lots of Luft46 rockets etc and strangely enough I received email notice from Airfix as I had just finished photographing the full scale Me 410 that they would be doing a 1.72 kit that would be available at the show.

This was rather weird.

Saturday was a full day from 9 to 6 spent at the show and a half day on the Sunday.

Lots of people with far better cameras and abilities have posted photos and videos so I’ve only attached a few of my favourites that I took.

This was my third and probably last Telford but I walked away very satisfied that I had the fullest possible experience including the social experience.

I must also say that the head judge was a master of diplomacy and was clear in that what was being judged was art and hence would always be subjective. I also liked his statement that some people would be over invested in their model winning.

I can only agree as I don’t always agree with the judging decisions but mostly I feel the judges do get it right and in some cases some people will never be happy unless they win.

The above two were part of a club competition for a model on a beer mart sized base with no overhang permitted and a height limit.

Next week will be the last holiday post but it will likely be low in modelling content and lastly some books etc. I bought.