[WWI] Telford List Extravaganza

[C.Patsaros]

Hi everybody


I visit Telford the last 6-7 years,this year was by far the best, i hope 
for the next year


Costas



Crawford Neil wrote:
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> Hi all,
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>> Still euphoric from a truly fantastic weekend, better even than the
>>     
> previous
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>> Telford meet. 
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> Same here! What a good time we had, having our own table was a grand
> idea,
> it's nice to have a base, and every time I went there, I always found
> one old
> friend or another. I was rather ashamed that I didn't even find the
> Racer-SIG
> till Sunday (where I was supposed to be too), but they seemed to be
> doing 
> alright without me.
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>> Most of us met up on Friday night at the hotel and had a pleasant
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> dinner
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>> with lots of interesting model related (and also not model related)
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> chat.
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>> Neil even demonstrated his foiling technique, 
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> I did it again on Saturday rather better, which illustrates the old
> saying
> "don't drink and model"
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>> Listees did well in 1/72 - Pedro took gold with a beautifully
>> done HB W12, Neil a bronze with a rainbow SPAD and Shane a commended
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> with a
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>> very nice DrI. 
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> Sadly I didn't get a bronze, it was a commended, it would have been nice
> to
> beat Shane! 
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>> The lunch gathering was the highlight of the day - I think about 19
>> altogether. It was a great pleasure to meet with Peter Plattner and
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> discuss
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>> some of his amazing projects in detail. He has some great stuff under
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> way,
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>> including a 1/72 Austro-Hungarian torpedo boat.  
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> I had a good talk to Peter on Sunday, what a nice guy he is. His Lloyd
> CV
> was a work of art, I looked at it and thought that looks like real wood!
> Of course the reason it looked so good was because it was real wood. I
> am
> really convinced that wood is the way to go, the colour and lustre is
> perfect
> and although the grain is totally wrong, what in fact happens is that
> carefully
> chosen grain simulates the pattern of the real wood. I feel inspired to
> do an
> Albatross DIII fuselage. 
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> Thanks again Nigel, you did a magnificent job.
> /Neil
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