Hello modellers
everywhere, I am presenting to you our very own Philippines IPMS Nationals held
last November 27-30 2006. This event was held at one of our major malls (SM Megamall)
located in Pasig City which is part of Metro Manila. Since I am located some 600
nautical miles south of Manila, I had to ride one of our domestic airlines( Cebu
Pacific) going to Manila from our place in Bohol Island in Central Visayas. This
airlines is one of our leading airlines here flying the new airbus A319. Picture
03.jpg shows me in my very first entry into such a prestigious event. The first
section of this report shows all aircraft entries. The 1/48 Huey
Helicopter as shown here won its particular category.
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The second section
is all about armor either out of the box or scratch built respectively. I
entered the Chinese main battle tank made by Trumpeter 1/35 scale Type
85-II tank shown here with the red star insignia. Other pictures show a very
impressive scratch built blow up model of a WWII German Tiger tank
(13.jpg), The last picture on this section shows a 1/24 scale Russian T-34.
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The third section shows the
different categories of ship model entries, I also had one entry in this
category, a Trumpeter 1/350 model of the Chinese destroyer No. 112
Ha-Er-Bin(18.jpg).
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Although I did not win anything, I learned a lot of lessons
on modelling techniques which could help me build better models for future
contests. As I am a newly affiliated member of IPMS-Philippines, I would like to
express my thanks to the organization for giving me an opportunity to join this
event for the first time. By the way the last picture in this series shows my
egress back to my home island and shows the view of the Manila International
Airport and vicinity from onboard a just taken off A319 airbus.
Robert
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