... anyone going & interested in putting faces to names over a beer?

- Steve

Well - judging from the complete lack of any response in almost 4 weeks, I can only conclude that either nobody loves me, or nobody's going .

- Steve

Hi Steve,

If I had the money man I'd be there in a flash this year
But I don't and I'm not happy camper

next year is the scheduled time for Euro Fest , I mean Euro militaire.

I'd have a beer and a few more beers with you .

If the the funds are there I want to do normandy ,belgium ,germany as well and make it one big European vacation.yeah ....

If you do go Take heaps of photo's and lets see the talented work .

Cheers

Hi Steve,
its not you, i posted the same question about 2 weeks ago, and got the same response
I`ll be there, wearing my red armourama tee shirt, if you see me, come up and say hello, and both have a beer or three.

malc

Steve I missed your post somehow. I'm going, I'll be there both days. Lets rendezvous at Malcolm's Armorama T shirt

Pat - me too.

I'll be in my usual "kid-in-a-sweetshop" mode while the Mrs goes off and does her own thing around Folkestone and on the sea front.

And Malc - your red Armorama T-shirt sounds to me as good a rendezvous point as any.

If you see a dark-haired, 6'4" chisel-jawed Adonis with the ruggedly sculpted, finely-tuned physique of a foreign legionnaire and the smouldering good looks of Richard Gere in his prime ..... that's not me (apart from the dark-haired, 6'4" bit).

I will however be wearing the grey, sleeveless "David Attenborough" safari thingy that you can probably make out in my avatar (lots of pockets for camera, wallet, mobile, notepad and other Euromil essentials).

Shall we say in the downstairs bar adjoining the competition room at or around 1 o'clock on the Saturday?

- Steve

PS Michael - that sounds like a great tour you have lined up for next year. If you have to choose between either Normandy or the Ardennes (difficult choice for sure), I'd have to recommend the Ardennes because aside from being steeped in history with lots of WWII relics, sites and monuments to see, it's also a stunningly beautiful part of the world.

Sounds good guys, my armourama t shirt it is, followed by the bar, if we havent spent all our money on plastic,

im there on saturday only, got to work sunday

see you there,

malc.

We'll be there!
Just pop along to the Name It! stand and meet a lot of the UK modellers!

I would have adopted you in our country Steve, but you preferred the other side of the Our river. Ok, it's not bad over there also.

No Euromilitaire for me, probably never again. I'm not the man going on expo trips only to watch, and with my dio i can only visit Euromilitaire again if they change the location.

Cheers
Claude
and have a good time in Folkestone all of you!

Thought you might be interested that I've loaded up some pictures from Euromilitaire 2008 on the Nameit web site -
http://www.nameitplates.co.uk
Did you hear that we got "Best Presented Trade Stand"?
Did you also hear that Military Modelling did not allow any other publications' photographers to take any photos!!!
They have to get a DVD from Mil Mod that they cannot publish until after Mil Mod have produced their Show Special.

Who win the Best Of Show ? For what ?

Regards

Best of Show was the model of a Crimean War scottish infantryman (By Elite)being "constructed" with scaffolding all around it with miniature models of himself making the model in fine detail, first shown at the AMSS show in April.
The modeller in question was Marijn van Gils.

I don't know how it got Best of Show as it didn't have a nameplate..........

That's not nice. Surely this coverage would be news, and you can't sell news? It smacks of these sport sponsorship deals where MegaDrink sews up the entire show and employs people to take your SuperGlug off you in case it shows up on TV. And you never get it back, and they don't pay you for it ... how is that not theft?

Sorry, rant over. It's not like I even go to any sports events ...

All confirmed. To match this unequalled success in PR (due no doubt to years of training in Pyongyang) i've posted a series of links and some of the more interesting quotes from the magazine Editors. It can be seen:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/125667&page=1

Oh, but it did have a nameplate (Van Gils Constructions), only this time it wasn't placed at the front of the wooden sokkels but on the back of the figure/statue. This only shows how big Marijn's imagination and eye for detail is.

Greetz,

Gino

indeed Gino,

It seems alot of people missed that one. I stood in awe at this figure for at least 20 minutes when i finally came across it. Here's a picture I took of the backside with the nameplate;



I took about 300 pictures at the show, you can find them here:

link

ps, I'm glad I had a chat with you about the use of ink when painting figures Gino!