After our visit to Overloon, we then headed for Veldhoven and got to the big conference centre where it’s held, and also where we stayed. It’s an absolutely huge place with 500 rooms, mostly filled with geeky modellers 🙂 for the weekend. We’ve been here a couple of years ago so I’ve already photographed it inside and out, but it’s always fun to shoot the corridors!
Phil had been asked to judge one of the sections of the model competition, along with a couple of other modellers. The competition has over 2000 entries, this whole show is vast. I took a lot of photo’s but didn’t get all 2000! I’m posting a few of my favourites here but I’ll leave a link to the full album, there’s some great artistry to be seen.
We had a great time at the show, met up with old pals in the bar in the evenings to have a good chat on, and on the Monday morning, packed our bags and came home. Phil’s already booked us back in for next year, so there’ll be another road trip next October!
really how stupid, NSFW. These are scale models made & painted by me, but you’re not allowed to look at anything resembling a booby at work, so be warned!
These are a few of the models I made and painted back in my other life, they sit in a triangular cabinet that has mirrored backs and have lighting above them. I got home late tonight and was panicking for a subject, these will have to do.
The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic fighter aircraft of the Cold War era. It was designed, developed, and manufactured by English Electric, which was subsequently absorbed by the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation. It was then marketed as the BAC Lightning. The Lightning was the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft. The Lightning was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF). Although it was the RAF’s primary interceptor for more than two decades it was never required to attack another aircraft.
The Lightning is powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines in a unique staggered stacked installation in the fuselage. The Lightning was developed to intercept increasingly capable bomber aircraft (Tupolev Tu-16, Tupolev Tu-22, Tupolev Tu-95), and thus has exceptional rate of climb, ceiling, and speed; pilots have described flying it as “being saddled to a skyrocket”. This performance made the Lightning a ‘fuel critical’ aircraft meaning that its missions are dictated to a high degree by its limited range. Later developments provided greater range and speed along with aerial reconnaissance and ground-attack capability.(wiki)
My Dad was a chief tech in the RAF and worked on these, they were the soundtrack to my later childhood, and were magnificent at low altitude screaming across the sky with a ball of fire coming out of the arse end.
Today was our Northern Military Model Show, and this was on display, on a mirror, so became my reflection of the day. In more ways than one.
My hubby’s superpower is making big tanks and big people small. When these are finished, they will be historically correct, skilfully detailed, and beautifully painted.
I like this chap the best, so is my shot of the day.
So winding up the Eindhoven trip today, and after my walk in the woods (in part 2) I went and joined Phil in the model show.
Viewers
There were some excellent models in the show..
Mona LisaRussel!!
one of my favourites… saw the movie 🙂
and Phil had his figures in the competition..
and he won a silver medal
which he was dead chuffed with.
I took some more photo’s in the stained glass room
In the evening we went and had dinner in the posh restaurant..
sophisticated dining!
and a drink in the bar
and saw the sun go down on our terrace
and the next day we travelled home.
back door cafe
we got to the ferry and saw police checking the vehicles
and then we got on the ferry
goodbye Calais
The weather changed as we got into the channel
Phil drove some of the way home so I got to take some shots from the window..
Giants
an Arsenal football fan I think..
A GOONERPark removalDuxfordEnd of Daysgoing downnight comes
and that was the end of our journey, a fab adventure and we’ll definitely be returning next year. But by airplane next time, a 13 hr journey home was quite tiring!
It’s just about the end of September, and apart from days out, as always I’ve been taking pictures of daily life. We went up to Edinburgh at the beginning of the month, as a new scale model show has started up there called Scale Scotland, and Phil was asked to do a demonstration of figure detailing and composition. The show was held at The Airport Hilton, which is a nice enough hotel, and it was cool to be staying in the same place as where the show was held, as we didn’t have to get up too early :). I got to try haggis for the first (& last!) time too. Packing to go wasn’t all that straightforward..
can I come too?
But we got there cat free 🙂
Arrival!
One of the organisers works for Lambourgini..so he had one parked outside the hotel
Lambo posing
Our hotel room was nice enough..
mirror image
Phil’s demo went well
demonstration man
and he also won some medals in the competition
silver hoard
I asked the organiser of the show if I could be allowed into the competition room during judging to take photo’s for the Tyneside Model Club web page which I run, and they said yes, so I got loads of pictures of all the models, unencumbered by the hoipoloi 🙂 these are a couple that won gold, great painting skills.
OddballCooler King
Phil’s Volksgrenadier won a silver which he was well chuffed with. We called him the mushroom man due to the ground work Phil did, he made mushrooms from plasticard, they’re really tiny. For scale, the chap is 12cm in height.
Phil’s mushroom man
After the show the organisers and demonstrators all had dinner together and we sat with our good friends Hermann and Kristoff who were over from Belgium,
Fraggle, Phil,Kristoff Brian & Hermann
and the next day we went home.
Ah… home, or now The Menagerie. Phil’s son Carl and his family have had to move out of their house for 6 weeks while the council goes in and does a big renovation job. His temporary house is too small for his pets, so we are looking after Penelope & Rango…
Penelope, (top) & Rango
They are bearded dragons, and have to be fed live crickets. I can’t watch, Phil has to do it, and though he didn’t like it, he’s got quite good at it.
We’ve had Cal & Liddy over last weekend..
GrandadLiddy
Cal loves Storm..
best pals
We had a really odd sunset..
sunset over the housesa pinkbow
I watched Bryan Adams on the TV doing The Hyde Park Festival in London, he was great, I really like him.
TV iphone shots 🙂 Bryan Adams
I had some of family photo’s printed, they hang up on our staircase walls, so we can see them grow up as we go up
Phil had an old magazine shot of one of his favourite ever singers Paul Rogers and it was all scratched and creased and faded, so he asked me to do my faffographic techniques and get it up on a canvas..
this is the original ( wish I could find out the photographer to give him credit, but this was in Phil’s scrapbook from 1970’s so that’s not happening)
and this is it cleaned up and on our wall
hanging..
Found some mushrooms hiding in the front garden when Phil was mowing the lawn..
I collected some acorns in my adventure hat..
and today I strung them together and hung them around our defunct bird feeder in the back garden as a weathervane.. apparently they open their spines in warm weather and close up in cold, though I have no corroborating proof of that and anyway I can just look up at the sky! But it was fun to do.
weather is warm 🙂
Phil is on the go with another tank..
Went into South Shields to go to the bank for work…
smartgull
another sunset..
soft sunset
I discovered that Phil’s socks mysteriously clone themselves, he wears 7 pairs a week, and I do the washing on the same day each week but find between 10 &14 pairs come out of the washing machine..
cloned socks
I did some faffography for the Sunday Challenge group on Ipernity..
Escaping the Apocalypse
and yesterday had a go at an upside down shot, using the inverse glass of water technique!
set up shot….
inverse glasses
The upside down finished article..
Upside down
I hadn’t thought it through properly….removing the glasses afterwards wasn’t pretty.
And then there are the cute cat shots :).
But first have to say Storm’s trip to the vet did not go as planned. We went as she chucks up more than we consider normal, most days, (regular readers know this drives us mad!) and we thought she probably had an ulcer or some malabsorption thing and need medicine. So they sedated her, took blood and did X-rays, and found a renal lymphoma, maybe one on each kidney but definitely one big one. So that’s a death sentence really. Even with chemo and radiotherapy the prognosis is poor, and we won’t put her through that. The vet said not to leave it too long before we take her in for ‘the injection’, but I can’t do it yet. We found this out last weekend, and are quite in shock and devastated, she is only 6yrs old and we’ve only had her 6 months. She isn’t acting ill and is carrying on oblivious to her state, isn’t distressed or in pain, still eating and doing the other end well, so not yet. Not yet Mr.Vet. She is my special friend and this is breaking my little heart.
My special friend.waiting for cuddlesFavourite place to sleep
Skye is fine and just loves Phil to bits, won’t leave him alone when he’s playing his guitar/on the computer/having his brekkie/dinner or tea 🙂
Phil’s special friendin Phil’s modelling bagPeeping sleeping
I love it when they cuddle up, Storm always puts her paw over Skye..
Sisterly love
cuddling
Caught Skye on the speaker in the conservatory with a fetching piece of grass attached to her pink bell 🙂
Fashion Icon Skye
and caught Storm looking regal..
and roaring..
roar!!!
I should think there will be lots of Storm photo’s to come, while I can still have her.
So that’s September just about finished. Next month have got a day out with Sophie coming up but not sure where we are going, and also a trip to Holland for another model show, and we’re going on a ferry to Calais, that should be interesting as Calais is having refugee issues. Back to work tomorrow, it comes round too quick!
Another week of cold temperatures but at last I got to see some snow! Had to go to North Yorkshire to visit a client and the hills were covered, managed to get a shot with a bit of sunshine lighting the landscape, that didn’t last long.
Leyburn North Yorkshire
But the rest of my work days didn’t have much in the way of snow or views.
On Thursday Phil & I decided to go to Piero’s for our dinner and we had tomato & basil soup and then pasta, really yummy but filled us up too much!
P soup
We stayed home mostly this weekend, it was sunny for a couple of hours but cold, so stayed in and played with my camera. Really upset that my new SX70 has stopped working, it got jammed, and won’t eject the photo’s and so will have to send it back for repair 😦 bit fed up as I’ve not even had it 2 months yet and I really like it. My Sunday challenge group this week had us find 3 same/identical items and shoot them so only one item is in focus, so I shot 3 buddha statues, 3 poker dice and 3 of my scale models that I used to paint before I got into photography. We also had to process the shots using past challenge techniques.
3 Buddhas and texture.3 poker dice and selective colourscale models & collage
I saw a tiny little bird hopping around on our back lawn yesterday, I didn’t get a brilliant shot of it, but enough to find out it was a wren, which is new to my garden.
wren
This afternoon mad~Cal and Shelley came for a visit and that was fun he cracks us up. And that’s another week gone by, not much ado,
fraggle ~ rocking a camera across the Universe 
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