Warwick Show 2014

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Just got back from this year's show. Some superb work on display and congratulations to Kim and his Manx clubmates for winning the best stand award with an absolutely stunning display!

The other club stands were also of a very high standard so a real celebration of model boating.

I hope to put some photos up once I have sorted them out and done my Model Boats magazine report.

I seem to have spent most of my time talking to people including master modeller Brian King who is still going strong and building a Flower Class Corvette.

Colin

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Well worth a visit

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

That`s nice to know, Colin, our club is going tomorrow and will certainly look up our pal Kimmo and his Barge display

Bob

[Geoff SleathParticipant @geoffsleath41411]

I'm also all set to go tomorrow, primarily to look and learn – mostly about barges. However there's a small possibility I may bend my card or empty my wallet on some modelling trivia .

Geoff

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Ooooh. I need some snaps of Kimmo`s stand to ensure he does not upstage me in the decoration stakes at the MEX show.

Stunning display…hmmmm….barges……hhmmmm

Ashley

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Well here's the man himself.

I will put some more photos up when I get a chance – bit busy at the moment!

Colin

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Ah ha. I believe I recognise that person. Shame, someone has left a handkerchief on the barge…did he not notice??.

Must look like quite a sight all that full sail on the table.

Ashley

<adult humour disclaimer>

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Ashley

Kim doesn't need elaborate decoration on his stand………….the boats say it all.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Just got back from the Warwick show and we really enjoyed ourselves as usual, meeting old friends and admiring some of the outstanding displays and models

Had a good laugh with Kimmo

Don't think Colin's photo is the winning stand though…..I think it was the Isle of Man stand that came first?

Ashley……You ain't seen no thing yet!

Bob

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

No, Kim's stand was AMBO, the Manx MBC stand was separate.

Colin

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

A picture for Ashley

Spotted this nicely shaped James Bond Aqua Car…

Bob

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Paul. I couldnt agree more of course, and such will be the case on my stand…..

Bob. You are right, I have seen absolutely nothing !! Yes like that Lotus…looks a bit like the other Bob`s handiwork i would say and he will make a much better job of it than my modest efforts.

His is somewhat larger than mine and will be monstrously heavy. Most intriguing..wonder if the top is free flooding?? may need loads of lead if not. Be interesting to eventually hear if his dive planes work, being small…mine have absolutely NO effect whatsoever despite being much larger than the TopGear ones…I have to steer entirely by differential prop control, and then of course the car stays flat horizontal underwater, and does not "lean" into a turn like I had envisaged. Such is life. Mine needs stripping and glassing over, the weight and manhandling do not go well with a balsa body, however thick the balsa is!!!

Ashley

[David WooleyParticipant @davidwooley82563]

Hi Colin Bob wish I could have been there looks like it was a truly outstanding show and every one really enjoyed themselves but I'll have to settle for Telford .Maybe next year . Nice to know Brian King is still going strong . Telford usually attracts some of the larger scale static model builders as well as the numerous numbers of very small scales.

Dave Wooley

[Kimosubby ShipyardsParticipant @kimosubbyshipyards]

Hi Ashley and all, and nice to see Bob Abel managed to travel down too. Dave W, Telford is an ambition of mine too, shame its the Saturday of the Warwick Show.

Now, reading through this thread I think Ashley has managed to mistake my staysail as a hanky, shame on you sir, and also, the barge stand, AMBO, of which I am also a member and assisted on for part of my time at Warwick, was not the stand that Colin referred to as the winning stand. That was the Manx Model Boat Club stand shown here.

Yes, I think, but stand to be corrected, that there were two Kims present and both of us were actuality attempting to be on two stands at the same time, by that Ashley, two different people called Kim.

My vote for best stand was the official photographer, and only those that saw her know what I mean.

This is the front, from the RH side.

This is the RH side, with stand builder and designer, Jason Fleming powering up Vigilant, a C&E launch.

And this is the LH side and rear. We planned a recess into the rear so that we could present 5 different demonstrations each day, on the 1/2 hour to interact with visitors. A very large digital screen in the side also ran Club slide shows and videos, and was also connected to the camera (in foreground) for filming demonstrations of small items up onto the big screen. The demonstrations were, in order presented each day, ropewalk and ropes; a look inside HMS Chatham; steam engine models; programmable computer chips to control gun turrets and the rowing boat (PICAXE); inside U203 – or how it works!

The basic stand itself was as supplied, Clubs select the table layout from the organisers, ours was 20 x 12 feet. 8 tables side by side at the front, and the recess created by two pairs of two tables longwise each side. A tiered display was then created using folding plastic kitchen steps (about 8 x 8 x 10 inches) and pre cut wood shelving, MDF. The first layer was about 3 foot wide, and the top tier was 10 inches wide. This layout gives a massive layered display area, far greater than flat table tops. Then these are covered with marine themed cloths.

The banners were suspended in a pre-made white plastic pipe rectangle supported upright using 1metre sash clamps on the table top edges. The display recess area had boat boxes supporting demonstration items and under the cloths the stowage areas. A single 2.5 x 6 foot table was the demonstration work top. We also brought over "tensa" barriers with us to finish the job (the red tape). We also brought our own lighting, PAT tested of course.

Over 50 boats, boxed, of which 39 were on display, the others being used for the fun time, swan, ducks, tugs etc. Everything, including table cloths was fitted into two vans. We travelled the Wednesday before the show, and arrived 10am on the Thursday to set up, and did not leave site on the Sunday after the Show till nearly 7pm.

But not to disappoint, and again at the Show here, for Ashley, is the AMBO diorama that Richard Chesney so brilliantly assembled from bits he took and requested from myself and Peter Simmonds, Isle of Wight. I think they say it all.

The barge diorama from the front, and below, from astern……….enjoy………Kimosubby

A long post, but I've tried to anticipate questions, any of which we are happy to answer.

Edited By Kimosubby Shipyards on 11/11/2014 14:53:58

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Two Kims !!! Wow…thats a big coincidence as there are only 4 people on the island as we all know.

Hanky, shame on you for thinking I thought it was a hanky !!

great diorama. Nice hight given to the stand by layering. Nice large banner of (presumably) the chaps boats.

I would take notes, but unlikely to do another show again unles I get a return invite !.

Ashley

[Kimosubby ShipyardsParticipant @kimosubbyshipyards]

Hi Ashley,

yes its a grand diorama, and at 1/24 everything can be seen! No, the other Kim lives your side of the pond.

Yup, the banner is our boats, but look close and you'll see that Shemarah makes a guest appearance, as she won our local show when Gareth brought her over in June.

I'm expecting great things from you, that's why I'm touring all the horse race courses down there to find you. You'll get invited back no problem. Look at me, all I had to qualify for a return was get me hair cut – can't lift a thing now and I get a funny feeing when I see pillars.

Aye, Kim

[David WooleyParticipant @davidwooley82563]

Hi Kim The Manx stand is superb ,I'm really taken with the diorama .

Dave Wooley

[mike farrellParticipant @mikefarrell21522]

Hi Kim What a well written report ,so informative .Reading I felt that I was there

Your pictures filled me in with information not written .Never been to Warwick Show but will put it in for next year .

Given the combined information written on this FORUM will I,m sure attract more boaters

Well done all Michael

[Ian JopsonParticipant @ianjopson21383]

Nobody seems to have mentioned the youth club display yet. (I've forgotten which club it was). There's hope for the next generation coming along. The young lad I spoke to , obviously his turn to man the stall, was very enthusiastic, and proud to show off not just his model, but everybody else's.

[Kimosubby ShipyardsParticipant @kimosubbyshipyards]

Dave W and Mike, thanks for the comments.

Ian, yes, I mentioned them on another site (populated by many here) and forgot to mention them here. Absolutely fantastic of that Club (just to our front right and almost opposite the entrance) to have one end of their display devoted to their juniors – and the juniors were out in force on the Sunday explaining to all and any the workings of their wonderful models. What a marvellous way to attract the youngsters into modelling.

Just done a new window look-up – and the club with the juniors section was/is Eastleigh and District Model Boat Club, GOLD MEDAL sirs, well done indeed.

Without encouraging and involving the young the Club's will soon become memory.

Aye, Kim

[Gareth JonesParticipant @garethjones79649]

I think the club with the strong junior display was Eastleigh. Elizabeth and I were also very impressed with the standard of the junior's models and their enthusiasm to tell us about them. The club are to be congratulated on their committment to involving and encouraging junior members to take up the hobby. Its quite a contrast to the attitude in some clubs I know.

As usual the Manx Model Boat Club display was outstanding. Not only does it take a great deal of effort to put on a display of that quality, it is not cheap to transport all the people and hardware over from the island. Having now attended a few of their events on the Isle of Man I think the effort put in by their members and their organisational skills are second to none. I would heartily recommend a visit to any of their events as not only are they very professionally run and well supported, they also take place in some very picturesque surroundings.

Overall we thought the Warwick show was one of the best we have attended with a large selection of models of a very high standard and some interesting and friendly people to chat to – very few stands where the club members sat in the middle glowering at the visitors who might get too close to their models. 

My only complaint was Elizabeth has now aquired yet another yacht, her biggest yet, and we have to travel half the length of the country again next weekend to collect it.

Gareth

Edited By Gareth Jones on 11/11/2014 20:55:40

[Kimosubby ShipyardsParticipant @kimosubbyshipyards]

Kind words Gareth, our Club thank you and Elizabeth for your attending our events.

Just looking through our photos now supplied by the Show's official photographer, we find we've been "photo bombed" by an expert. Have a look and see if you can identify the 'lurker in the corner'.

Aye, Kim

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Kim

Squinted very hard but I'm afraid I'm unabell to do that.

Dave M

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Ha! Ha!……..You little scallywag, Kimmo!

Good bit of Photoshopping there, but you could have picked a happier face?

Lurker in the corner

[Kimosubby ShipyardsParticipant @kimosubbyshipyards]

Ah Bob,

sorry no photoshopping, here's the image before that one above, it shows the lurker, pretending to take interest in some old boats on a table, getting ready to pounce!!

Kimmo

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