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Scale Model Challenge 2025 (Pic Heavy!!)

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October 19, 2025, 11:32:12 AM
This weekend was the Scale Model Challange in Veldhoven in the Netherlands.
The event is mostly geared towards figure modelling and painting but here are other types of models as well.
Some impressions:
















































1/700 model!


1/350 model!
















1/350 model



















TomZ
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Rheged

#1
October 19, 2025, 11:43:15 AM
I rather like the Flower class corvette.  I think J38  was HMCS  Arrowhead...........but then again I might be totally wrong!

A fine set of pix;  thank you for posting them
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

PR19_Kit

#2
October 19, 2025, 12:41:32 PM
Impressive is RIGHT!  :thumbsup:
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Glenn Gilbertson

#3
October 19, 2025, 01:46:21 PM
great pics of some incredible models - thanks for sharing them. :thumbsup:

Weaver

#4
October 19, 2025, 02:02:32 PM
Quote from: Rheged on October 19, 2025, 11:43:15 AMI rather like the Flower class corvette.  I think J38  was HMCS  Arrowhead...........but then again I might be totally wrong!

A fine set of pix;  thank you for posting them

Not 100% sure, but I don't think it's a Flower, I think it's an Australian-built Bathurst class corvette. Eight of them were transferred to the Dutch Navy after WWII, so it's more than credible at a Dutch model show. However, frustratingly, the list of them on Wikipedia doesn't show the pennant numbers so I can't positively identify which ship it is.
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Weaver

#5
October 19, 2025, 02:03:22 PM
Those crashed aircraft ones are SOOO good. The amount of work that goes into crash dioramas always amazes me.
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 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Old Wombat

#6
October 19, 2025, 08:21:34 PM Last Edit: October 20, 2025, 06:06:07 AM by Old Wombat
... [stunned silence] ... Woh!  :blink:  So many awesome builds! No way I can pick a favourite, they're ALL exquisite!  :bow:  :bow:  :bow:  :bow:





The "corvette" is HMCS Caraquet (J38), a Bangor-Class Minesweeper





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Caraquet

https://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_CARAQUET_J38.htm
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NARSES2

#7
October 20, 2025, 05:09:33 AM
Some incredible models there  :o  :o  The photography's not bad either  ;)

No, seriously, thank you Tom

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Weaver

#8
October 20, 2025, 10:56:53 AM
Quote from: Old Wombat on October 19, 2025, 08:21:34 PMThe "corvette" is HMCS Caraquet (J38), a Bangor-Class Minesweeper

Ah, thank you - well spotted. Afraid I don't know as much as I might about WWII minesweepers.

I see from the Wiki entry that there's some mystery (probably just poor sources) about her final fate. There hangs the makings of a whiff backstory...
<MODE=IN A WORLD VOICE,DEEP> Somewhere, still out there...</MODE>
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Old Wombat

#9
October 20, 2025, 05:04:15 PM
Quote from: Weaver on October 20, 2025, 10:56:53 AM
Quote from: Old Wombat on October 19, 2025, 08:21:34 PMThe "corvette" is HMCS Caraquet (J38), a Bangor-Class Minesweeper

Ah, thank you - well spotted. Afraid I don't know as much as I might about WWII minesweepers.

I see from the Wiki entry that there's some mystery (probably just poor sources) about her final fate. There hangs the makings of a whiff backstory...
<MODE=IN A WORLD VOICE,DEEP> Somewhere, still out there...</MODE>

The Flying Canadian?  :unsure:
Has a life outside of What-If & wishes it would stop interfering!

"The purpose of all War is Peace" - St. Augustine

veritas ad mortus veritas est

Rheged

#10
October 21, 2025, 08:23:26 AM
Quote from: Old Wombat on October 20, 2025, 05:04:15 PM
Quote from: Weaver on October 20, 2025, 10:56:53 AM
Quote from: Old Wombat on October 19, 2025, 08:21:34 PMThe "corvette" is HMCS Caraquet (J38), a Bangor-Class Minesweeper

Ah, thank you - well spotted. Afraid I don't know as much as I might about WWII minesweepers.

I see from the Wiki entry that there's some mystery (probably just poor sources) about her final fate. There hangs the makings of a whiff backstory...
<MODE=IN A WORLD VOICE,DEEP> Somewhere, still out there...</MODE>

The Flying Canadian?  :unsure:

Well identified!!  Although there might be a mystery about her final fate, she's most likely up against a dockyard wall as an unnamed tank cleaning hulk.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

Old Wombat

#11
October 21, 2025, 09:03:16 AM
Well, I knew she wasn't a Bathurst-class corvette, as I take a driving break in front of HMAS Whyalla, in Whyalla, every time I travel to, & from Port Lincoln to see my eldest daughter & grandsons.





(Not my photo's - I think they may be on the other computer.)
Has a life outside of What-If & wishes it would stop interfering!

"The purpose of all War is Peace" - St. Augustine

veritas ad mortus veritas est

PR19_Kit

#12
October 21, 2025, 09:06:06 AM
Phew, another few knots and she'd have made it right onto the road!  :o
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Nick

#13
October 22, 2025, 12:17:10 AM
At least the Whyalla is near the ocean. 

HMAS Otway is 3 hours drive to the nearest shore.  :lol:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holbrook,_New_South_Wales#HMAS_Otway

zenrat

#14
October 22, 2025, 02:43:35 AM
Quote from: Nick on October 22, 2025, 12:17:10 AMAt least the Whyalla is near the ocean. 

HMAS Otway is 3 hours drive to the nearest shore.  :lol:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holbrook,_New_South_Wales#HMAS_Otway

I stop there for a pie break every time we are passing.

Excellent  pics Tom, thanks for sharing.  It looks like one of those show where i'd leave thinking about giving up the hobby due to my apparent lack of talent.
I particularly like the dioramas of (Italian?) urban life.
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.  Revelling in numptytism.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed, badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry.

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