Wow 🤩, what a fantastic show! A most sincere thanks and appreciation to the club organisers and top bloke Petrus Dayvis for the kind invitation and generous acceptance for us to add our first official Aussie Ma.K Showcase to the high level competition. Incredibly high standard of scale model artistry shown across so many genre and one of the best and biggest Maschinen Krieger collections I’ve seen at a single event to date.

It’s the first event I’ve managed to get to in far too long and such a treasure to see and talk with so many people in person. Old friends, new friends, social media connections come to life and a sheer joy to talk and laugh together about the thing we love. Scale models.

In fact, we talked and laughed so much that I neglected to focus on taking photos - sorry!

Here are some I did get along with some snagged from Gav Cross who really helped me out with just everything. Thanks mate.

Big shout outs to so many of my amazing friends for helping out with the table, appreciate you so much - Daniel Yardy, Jodie Smith, Stephen Neal, Dimitris Ioannidis and Mr. Christopher Tsang. Congratulations to you last 2 for all the awards too.

It was really cool to meet up with the On the Bench team of David Goldfinch, Ian Keizers and Julian Hosmer who also were collecting medals. So good. They recorded an episode at the show, it was a blast but also quite informative. Listen to it here;

OTB 176: Scale ACT model show 2023

Lastly, there are shots of my “Celebrity” Friends, yes our mutual tongue in cheek joke and it was awesome to spot and heckle them “out in the wild”. Yes Chris Leeman, Sam Dwyer, and Clayton Ockerby this is you.

Will also share some much better galleries of the whole show so you can better understand the scope and high quality.

Thanks for looking and hope to see you at the next one.

Next, we’ve scheduled a Disord Hangout to catch up and discuss the show.

ScaleACT 23 After Action Report (Upcoming Discord Live Hangout Event with Linc)

By popular demand, let's reboot our Discord Hangouts. It's an interactive live stream "chat" in our PoP Discord Server.

You'll need to be a Paint on Plastic Patreon Supporter for whom this Discord Membership is one of your perks. Think of it as buying Linc a beer or a couple of cups of much-needed coffee!

Once inside, you can go to the top where it says "Events".

Here's the topic;

We held the first official Ma.K Show outside of Japan in "Neue" Canberra. Let's talk about it!!

Scheduled for Nov 19 at 8 am AEST.

Please note, that it will be the night before for many of you.

In the past, this had been voice-only only but depending on interest, we can include video if that works for you.

Look forward to speaking with you!

Now for a photo report, I recently updated my iOS and didn’t realize that my phone now saves photos in the HEIC format I’ve been seeing. Fine, but they are not compatible with this blog software… yes they can be converted but so much to do this weekend. You can change the settings too and I have, to a compatibility mode which will save as jpehs. That one felt like one step forward and 2 backward!

Let’s see if this can work and the Ol’ Linc Dawg Can learn a new trick.

Success! Sometimes a Fail can lead us to something new and useful. Just like with our scale model shenanigans.

Hope you' enjoy the photos and looking forward to visiting more shows soon. A wonderfully positive experience and would be great to speak with you there. Come up and say “Hey Linc!”

Linc

ScaleACT23 After Action Report with Lincoln Wright