SCALE MODEL NEWS

Peter Chiang reports: This modelling idea came about after the successful Airfix Spitfire Group Build on 23 April 2022, during one of our Saturday modellers group chat sessions.  40th anniversary story: Mick Stephen suggested that as June 2022 was the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War, we should have an event for which he would sponsor the non-Airfix entry prize, though he eventually sponsored all the prizes.  I agreed to the concept and announced it in our WhatsApp group chat and Facebook. The format was to submit the entries online at www.airfixcup.com for the online competition for 14 June, which was the last day of the Falklands War in 1982. We then heard about the ‘Kits for Kids’ charity event on 18 June 2022 at ITE Central (Institute of Technical Education) in Singapore and adjusted our competition date to match and have the display entries.   Background on Kits for Kids  Kits for Kids is a fundraising activity by the scale modelling community in Singapor...

  IN 2022, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, after 70 years of service.  SMN: The four-day Platinum Jubilee Weekend takes place from 2-5 June, and involves the whole country. The Red Arrows perform their usual dramatic displays, Typhoon fighters cruise the sky in a formation '70' flypast, and celebrities major and minor fly in to the UK to see and be seen. And our celebrations have reached across the world to Singapore's model making community , with a neat line of QEII bunting draped over the model store display windows. There's plenty to look at for keen model makers, as the closeup pic ( below ) reveals.