Modellbrno 2006

17.07.06

This years event was held at the Brno Congress Centre, a huge venue as the photographs will soon show. There were loads of models in the competition areas, along with a lot of the European manufacturers and you had the added benefit of the model throwing competition as well - I kid you not!
Read on...

The Venue


This should give you an idea of how big and light the location was, as it shows the hall before set-up on the Saturday.












Some views of the hall once it got busy for the event.


Our intrepid reporter at the show, Mark Peacock is caught in the act of photography but not, strangley, of shopping!


Eduard were at the event, showing their test shots of the new 1:48 Fw 190 series


Special Hobby had some of the parts of the fourthcoming 1:32 P-39 on show...

...along with the wings and fuselage of the 1:48 Fairey Fulmar

ON DISPLAY
Here are some of the models on display that caught our eye.


Let's kick off with an Airfix 1:72 TSR.2 in NASA colours!

Followed by a huge display of Spitfires - who says we only do this in the UK!

And a special display of Focke-Wulf Fw 190s and Ta 152s in all scales

This should give you some idea of how many models were in the competition, this is just one table full!

1:144

Revell's 1:144 Ruslan (see our article on this kit in Issue 12)

Trumpeter's Mavis on a realistic seascape.

This is Revell's 1:144 Grumman Hawkeye

Beleive it or not, this Ki-46-II Kai is 1:144, check out the exposed engine!

1:72

Avro Rota Mk I built from the Azur Cierva C.19 kit

Bristol Blenheim Mk I built from the MPM kit

Very nicely detailed ERA-3B Elint Skywarrior built from the Hasegawa kit.

Academy's 1:72 LTV F-8E Crusader (See Issue 13 for our build of this kit)

Fairchild Metro III built from the RVHP resin kit

Gotha G.V (Roden)

SAAB J-39 Gripen (Italeri)

Italeri H-21C Flying Bannana in Aéronaval colours

Another Italeri H-21, this time a 'C' in USAF colours

Revell's beautiful little Junkers F.13 kit

Messerschmitt Me 262 V056 built from the Revell kit

This highly detailed MiG-15 is built from the KP kit!

MiG-29UM (Italeri)

Tamiya's F-84G Thunderjet

F-101B Voodoo built from the Revell kit

Nicely converted Lancaster in Mk II guise.

1:48

Beautiful A6M2 made from the Hasegawa kit

Very effective Avia, probably built from the Planet resin kit?

Un-PC colours for this Bearcat racer made from the Hobbycraft kit

RAF colours applied to the Eduard Bf 109 Taifun

A heavily detailed Bf 110G-4 made from the Revell-Monogram kit



Beautiful DH-2 built from the Eduard kit (See Issue 10 for our build of this kit)


The new two-seat F/A-18F Super Hornet from Hasegawa

FAG F-51D built from the Tamiya kit

RAF BAe Harrier GR Mk 7 made from the Hasegawa kit

HH-46D Sea Knight (Academy)

Someone was quick to build the Eduard I-16 Type 10...

...or maybe not, as there were two in the competition! Our full build of this kit will appear in Issue 15



Gavia Lysander in Finish colours


A Vichy AF Maryland made from the FM kit

Roden Mohawk

Hasegawa N1K1 George done in TIAC markings

A very nice P-47D Razorback, probably the Tamiya kit

A lovely finish on this Tamiya P-51D

You have to build the Skyraider with that artwork on the spine/rudder don't you?

Very colourful T-38 Talon

Very effective underwater diorama of an Aichi Val

P-47D in VVS markings

1:32



This stunning Macchi C.200 was on show, built we presume from the Pacific Coast Models kit

Excellent Trumpter MiG-21

We presume, because of markings etc, that this is in fact the old Matchbox Spitfire F.22/24?

1:35


This stunning Blackhawk was made from the Academy kit


While this Mil Mi-17 is made from the Trumpeter kit

As is this Mil Mi-4A

And just to prove this hobby is not taken too seriously...




The model throwing competition!

Our thanks to everyone at the event, for making Mark so welcome and we all look forward to seeing many of the Czech modellers over here later in the year for the UK Nationals, as well as at next years event.

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