New Competition Time!

[DeWayne]

Hey, Brent... Plastic swells with age. Soaks up the stray carbon-fibers floating around from all these stealth planes zipping through the air.

DeWayne

[Texman]

hee hee haw haahha heheheee HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH!

Ray

[charliec]

The Yak-17 really was a small aircraft. Pulling out some sizes for aircraft of the period.

Yak-17 - wingspan 9.2m, length - 7.26m
Spitfire IX - wingspan 11.2m length - 9.55m
He162 - wingspan 8.7m length - 9.27m

So the Yak was roughly 80% of the size of a Spitfire and roughly the
same size as an He162.

Regards,

Charlie

[wunwinglow]

Ok , clearly some extreme brinkmanship going on here, with hundreds of you lot holding back to make your Yak entries in the closing seconds of the competition! Well, just remember, you have only 'til the 31st August (that is next Tuesday) to make those tiny finishing touches and get your entry posted.

If anyone HAS added an entry and not mentioned it here, could you just post a note, or a link, to the relavent album or URL? Thanks!

Tim P

[Fishcarver]

I put some pix of my 1/72 version of Nobi's Yak (with Cockpit, canopy and wheel wells) up in my album. My second card model: learned much: THANKS, NOBI!!
Regards
Jimmy the Fish

[wunwinglow]

OK you lot, I've put off the evil day hoping for a few more entries, but this REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY is the last deadline!! This saturday, 9th October, 12pm BST. There is a fantastic 'back to basics' school geometry set hanging by a thread here, a prize surely worth more to a paper modeller than a HEAP of rubies! Don't come crying to me after the prize is awarded that I didn't give you enough time!! Just get those NOBI Yak bits I KNOW you have started cutting out, stick them together, snap a pic and WIN THAT PRIZE!!! Do I have to start handing out 'Chinese Burns'??!! Cos I will!!


Tim P

[Fishcarver]

Extend the Deadline!!
Good for you, Tim !!
Fisho

[wunwinglow]

And the winner is.....

ShaunGamer

Well done Shaun, it was a tough decision, made much easier by the number of entries.... Thanks to all of you who did enter, they were all very neat builds and really any one of you would have made worthy winners! Shauns model just pulled ahead on the fact that it was the first model he'd made of that style of construction, and he made a fine job of it!

Tim P

[jrts]

Shaun

Congrats on winning, a very nice model.

You know you dropped yourself in it now, loads of build threads with photos will be required now

Have fun with Tims drawing set.

Well done

Rob

[NOBI]

Hi there,

Congretulation ShaunGamer...u did a great job on that model.

[Fishcarver]

Shaun: Nice work! Congrats!
El Fisho

[ShaunGamer]

Thanks for everyone's kind words.

Yes I knew I would be dropping myself into it. I still have a little way to go before I will be confident about displaying my build attempts, but they will come. Maybe I could do a topic called "Where did I go wrong?".

I especially thank Tim for organising the competition and NOBI for creating such a great model.

Hopefully more people will participate in these competitions in future.

Regards Shaun

[Gil]

Shaun,

Are you in the wet? I hear there's a lot of wet this year and the drought might be over...,

Best regards, Gil

[ShaunGamer]

Gil
No rain locally, worse luck!
I seem to be in a dry belt. Both below and above us have recieved a good hunk of rain - the drought is over - but we are still waiting on some to fall here. The clouds go over us fairly regularly though.

Tim
Recieved the drawing set yesterday.
Thank you very much, it arrived safely and in good condition.

Regards Shaun