SAPMA EXPO 2015

Ok SA boys it's nearly time for the SAPMA model expo again. It's on the weekend of 10th & 11th October and this year it's at a new venue, Immanuel College, 32 Morphett Rd Novar Gardens. Should be much easier this year for parking, no hassles like in the city I hope.
It's been a slow year for me so I've only got one build to go in this year, I'll have the yellow '68 Roadrunner in ... if I get it done that is, but the long weekend should get me over the line though.
It'd be great to see any of you guys there, have a chat and put faces to names and to put some more cars on the tables. I'll likely be there Saturday morning and then Sunday arvo for the presentation.
Hope to see you there.
Cheers Tim

If I'm not working, I'll be there Tim

Count me in.

Try and make it on the Sunday have to work night shift Saturday night....good luck boys!

It'll be good to see you there guys

Well 2015 came and went for SAPMA expo last weekend, so in between work and watching Bathurst I went along to enter a couple of builds and catch up with some fellow glue sniffers.
I caught up with my bro Antwon and we caught up with Ray, then yesterday after asking each other "who's builds are those?" we caught up with Brad motiv who's been offline a little lately but let me assure you he's still building. To see his work in the flesh is impressive.
It was one of the biggest auto turnouts in years which was cool, and it's good to know that the word is getting out about the EXPO. Anyway lots of pics were taken and I made a couple of new friends, was a pretty good weekend all up.
So I thought some of you guys might like to see some of builds that were on the table.
Cheers TJ.
I'll probably do this over a few posts there's a bit to show ..
The table:






This one is 1/43rd!! He got 1st in small scale.



Quirky little V-dub combo...



More quirky...


Chrome anyone?



Some big stuff ..

Is that called triple black?

Big scale '57, this guy makes his own parts on the lathe and mill, he showed me some pics of some five slotters in 1/12th and 1/8th that he's made out of ally...nice!

I'm still trying to work this one out?

1/4 mile stuff ...







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more coming next post.

Some of this lot were built by a guy who I believe has just joined the forum.. didn't get his name.







I reckon most will recognize Brad's stuff ..



This little beauty got 2nd


And his gorgeous 1st place Charger


Ray had real good turnout ...








Let me know guys if I've stuffed up and posted some thing that's not yours, it's hard to remember who's was who's.



Antwon had this years fleet on show, his oldie stockies are something to be seen, neat work.





and this one I'm proud to say landed a well deserved 3rd place ...


....and his Harley chopper nailed 1st in bikes ... check the Bikes forum.


Dunno which rooster built these ....  




One of them even got a Highly Commended certificate... something new SAPMA did for 2015, good idea I reckon.


I'll put up some trucks and other stuff, even things with wings tomorrow if anyone's interested.
Cheers TJ

nice pics

Yes please on more photos.   Some very cool ones there.

Ditto Tim, great weekend catching up with you guys and chewing the fat over everything and anything to do with model cars

[quote="70cudatj"]Some of this lot were built by a guy who I believe has just joined the forum.. didn't get his name.

I believe his name is Rowan...................
(If your out there Rowan, post up some of your builds buddy. We're keen to see more of your work.)
Antwon.

Here's that last of the cars I missed earlier.


Cool little Aston Martin DBR1

And these were built by a junior entrant.



Truck time...
Not a bad turnout, some beauties entered.


These next two were real nice ...




This nice custom rig was built by a young lady about 10yo !! Nice work

Combos.



Very nice brick hauler




Wings, tracks and other weird things to come.......

Wings! Hope no one minds a few planes?










These two were from a display of "What if's" about what Adolf Galland would have done with a squadron of Spitfires.







This one is 1/144th scale ...tiny!

Wheels and tracks




Antwon's nice little civilianized  GAZ truck





A couple of great dioramas from Paul Bartrum.... his stuff is out there!!
Land Rover hit but a mine ...

Vietnam Centurion tank being hit ..

And his Flak Wagon

Big scale Tiger

1/48th Pershing and Jagdpanther


1/72nd RSO and late Tiger.


1/35th Panther

Dioramas, figures, ships and Si-Fi.

Another of Paul's dioramas.







Cool little racing diorama


Boats and subs!



This little scale Spanish Galleon was scratch built from wood and took out Best in Show


Last but not least, Si-Fi.
Crazy clever elephant type vehicle, piloted by an ..... elephant!!


Zombie apocalypse Bushmaster PMV

Gundam?



Star Wars



Sorry some pics were a bit crap but those were shot towards a big window.
Anyway hope you guys like the pics, it was a good weekend.
Cheers TJ

Some more great ones there,Thanks for sharing them

Spoke to the guy who built the white Kenworth / tipper and the bumper, visor and bug deflector are all lazer cut Aluminium panels, pretty impressive stuff

There are some incredible looking builds there mate, in ALL categories. Thank's for sharing.

70cudatj, you said you trying to work out the blue/white bus, You find its a Anime school bus in 1/32 scale there is about six different ones in the series, I have one. RMR resin did some in resin with different USA truck nose on the front end seen one and the bus body is very thick.