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Report: National Convention 2007 E-mail
Written by Anton Dyason - IPMS SA Media Group   
Saturday, 13 October 2007
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 Awards Lunch:

  
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Awards Lunch
 
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John v Heerden with certificates
 
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Prize giving

On the Sunday afternoon the Awards lunch was hosted in the main restaurant of the Convention Centre. No fault of IPMS Vaal but the bar opened a bit late but all worked out well in the end. Master of Ceremony was Tappie Scholtz with Marc Cilliers as the outgoing Chairman handing out the prizes. In his speech Tappie Scholtz thanked Faan Venter for all the arrangements, the personnel of the Convention Centre, the Judges, members of IPMS Vaal and each and every member who attended. Without them there would not be a Nationals. He also stated there would be “Happy Modellers” and “not so Happy Modellers…” but everyone took the prize giving in a very positive light. It is hoped the “Happy” fraternity would continue their artwork and the “not so Happy” modellers to further their techniques and return to the next Nats for their turn as hopefully “Happy Modellers”. Everyone who attended at least received a participation certificate. Jaun Beetge received “Best Novice” for his “Ambush” Diorama while finishing second on the day in his category. Remarkably he only started the art of scale modelling six months ago! “Best Junior” went to Christiaan Ho-Tong for “Last Resort”. “Overall Best of Show” went to Donald Currie for his impeccable 24 scale Marlboro Yamaha Moto GP motorbike.

  
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Overall Best of Show - D. Currie
If there is one aspect the Nationals at Vaal will be remembered for years to come it is the extremely positive nature of everyone who attended. Coupled with the enthusiasm expressed this hobby is on a success path in South Africa. Pretoria 2009 is likely to see the largest attendance figure in recent years - all due to extremely successful conventions staged over the last couple of years especially Bloemfontein and Vaal. The vibrant Cape Town branch will be there and as the branch with the longest journey, if they can make it every one else can. Do what you have to with plastic, include financial planning - but do offer us the pleasure of your presence at the next Convention. Remember it is “For modellers, by modellers….” See you in 2009! 

Prizes for the IPMS SA National Convention 2007 were sponsored by:

    Cape Gate, Vanderbijlpark

    Hydro Oil Cooling & Engineering, Vanderbijlpark

    Horizon Compressors, Alberton

    Toy Train Hobbies, Meyerton

    Aviation Shop

    Martin Blundell

All photos: A. Dyason Photo manipulation: A. Dyason

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If you do not want to download the more than 400 photos in the Nationals 2007 Gallery - a CD is available @ R60 excluding p&p. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .


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