Welcome to the 2026 Whiffie Awards Show

[TomZ]

Best Kitbash /  Scratchbuilt

The nominees were:

Killnoizer's Ancient Egytian Starship
Ericr's Super-Tiger & Viscount
Wardukw's Viggen Plus
Wardukw's Single-Engined Blackburn Buccaneer
Ericr's Concorde & YF-12
mat's Fiat G.81
Nönöbär's First Reban FTL-Ship, "Ukumka"
Nönöbär's Saab 100 Airliner
Nönöbär's PZL-237 Duzy los
TomZ's K-Wagen
63cpe's Fokker T.XI (geschakeld)
63cpe's Fokker GV Light Bomber
Killnoizer's Junkers Nachtmowe
Killnoizer's Ju 588 "Fafnir"

And the winner is:

Wardukw's Viggen Plus

[TomZ]

Best VTOL

The nominees were:

Seadude's Anti-Submarine SV-22 Osprey
Dizzyfugu's Bell AH-1-4BW 'SuperCobra' Phase III; WTD 61, Deutsche Luftwaffe
Wacek85's Tigermeet Bo-105
PR19_Kit's Alternativer Antriebsflugel
Zenrat's Fairey Tinydyne
Wacek85's FV-1 Kraken
CaptainCanada's RN CH-CH53 Sea Stallion

And the winner is:

Zenrat's Fairey Tinydyne

[TomZ]

Best Real World

The nominees were:

Robomog's Bristol Boxkite
Zenrat's '66 Chevelle Wagon
Madhatter's Mini Cooper "Sport Pack" edition

And the winner is:

Robomog's Bristol Boxkite

[TomZ]

Best Finish / Paintjob

The nominees were:

UhuFin's Estonian AF KAI KF-21 Kanankull
rv20100's GRUMANN G36
Scautomoton's English Electric "Super" Lightning P.8 Concept
OldWombat's RAM M1128 LMS
Wacek85's Space Jet Glador
Madhatter's Mini Cooper "Sport Pack" edition
RAFF-35's Breguet Br.552 Faucon

And the winner is:

Madhatter's Mini Cooper "Sport Pack" edition

[TomZ]

Special Award for Outstanding Services to Whiffery

To the Dutch What-if team for the what-if table at Euro Scale Modelling 2025

[TomZ]

TopGun 2026

The nominees were:

Killnoizer's Ancient Egytian Starship
OldWombat's RAM M1128 LMS
Nönöbär's First Reban FTL-Ship, "Ukumka"
Wacek85's Flying pirate ship
Robomog's Bristol Boxkite
Seadude's USS United States
Madhatter's Mini Cooper "Sport Pack" edition
63cpe's Fokker T.XI (geschakeld)
TomZ's USN Gannet A2E-2
RAFF-35's Breguet Br.552 Faucon

And the winner is:

Nönöbär's First Reban FTL-Ship, "Ukumka"

[TomZ]

And that concludes the 2026 Whiffie Awards show.

As always, we hope you enjoyed the show and we give our heartfelt congratulations to all of this year's winners.

A huge well done and pat on the back goes to all members who were nominated.
Finally, a big thank you to you the members who nominated and voted.

The Academy will send out a link to download the whiffie-certificates shortly.

The Academy hopes to see you all again for next year's 2027 Whiffie Awards.
Keep on nominating your favourite builds.
We are already looking forward to all the great models you will produce.

Keep on dreaming your builds and building your dreams!

Good night.

TomZ

[scautomoton]

Yet another fantastic evening courtesy of The Academy. And a fantabulous effort by TomZ yet again. 

I am humbled by the 2 (3?) wins, thank you to all those who voted. You are most kind.

[UhuFin]

   Congratulations to the winners!

[Spey_Phantom]

congratulations to all the winners and nominees, they put out so many great creations that its getting harder to pick a winner every year 

[Steel Penguin]

congratulations to the winners
and a most hart-felt thank you to TomZ, the academy and all the contributors,
Every year i am impressed with the collective imagination and out put.

[Rheged]

Thank you Tomz!! You deserve a brisk lie-down with a glass or two (at least) of your favourite relaxant.  Don't worry about the tidying up, we get that sorted later.

[perttime]

Congratulations all - both winners and the ones that I voted for 

[Dizzyfugu]

Congratulations to all winners - and many thanks for organizing all this! 

[Madhatter]

Thankyou very much for this prestigious award!
I am appropriately humbled     
Thanks Tomz for going to the enormous effort of running this event