2018 Millstreet Vintage Club Model Toy and Diorama Show Oct 14th

Millstreet Vintage Club are hosting their fourth annual Model Toy and Diorama Show on Oct 14th 2018.



Always a great show and with a tons of unique and rare models on display. Who knows what people find in their collections when they go looking for models to show.
Also a great time to meet up with other forum members. While its still 10 months away, its a great time to start planning for this show. Im sure Donie can provide a list of local B&Bs for anyone traveling down.

For me, its a great deadline to try get some new models finished on time to show

Thank You Brian planning already................a number of DRM forum members will have their Super Rare ,very collectable some times once off Rally models on display.................looking forward to this Show already...............ALL forum members will be welcome............displaying is free..........During the course of 2017 we donated over E6500 (euro) to a number of charities ..........very proud of this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Looking forward to this one. Missed it last year. but definitely be there in Oct.

Looking forward to seeing you and another selection of Rally Models from your stable Ted............and meeting and greeting all the other DRM Forum members,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,chatting and swopping ideas over Tea, Coffee etc.etc.

Any further news on this?

RORY O CONNOR wrote:Any further news on this?

Anything in particular you want to know Rory ?  Donie is away for a few days. To the best of my knowledge it is "all systems go" for the event and all forum members are more than welcome.  The venue is rural but is only 10 mins drive from Millstreet town, 20 mins from Mallow town and 30 mins from Killarney , all of which have plentiful accommodation at rates to suit all pockets.

It is less than 10 mins drive from both Banteer and Millstreet railway stations and while I don't want to speak out of turn, but if rail is your preferred mode of transport, then I suspect the club won't be found wanting, to facilitate the final leg of your journey to the venue.

RORY O CONNOR wrote:Any further news on this?

Greetings RORY !!!!!How are you ???? AS James was saying it is all systems GO!!!!!!!! Hope it will be bigger and better than previous years !!!!! IF you wish to shoot down to us we would be delighted to meet & greet you and any other members of DRM ......Travelling by Rail is not an issue as we can have you picked up in Banteer or Millstreet if you so wish.................SAME goes for any other members that want to visit...............OUTSIDE of this Model Show it would be great for as many members of DRM to meet up once every year !!!!!!

I may be sailing in Malta but I can always arrange to get stuff to you for display. Need to get building again and have a few things started a while ago that should have been finished. Been working too much. Owe you an M3 too!

Looking forward to this show already. Ive made sure to have holidays booked off work this year so I dont miss it again.
Its a great show for meeting other forum members, definitely recommended if anyone was thinking of travelling down.

Only three weeks to go, folks. There's no show like a Donie show

Folks, Ye missed a cracker of a show. Huge credit and thanks to Donie and pretty much his entire family for a superb show with incredible variety. I was late arriving and late leaving and didn't bring a camera. The thought and preparation put into the displays by Ted,David, Brian,Sean,Donie himself and a host of others was truly superb. My bacon was saved by the quality of the workmanship that others put into the models I had and those people know who they are. The hospitality (i.e. grub) afforded to all the exhibitors was outstanding and is like nothing I have seen elsewhere.
I promise to take a few photos of the models others made for me and "broke cover" at the show. We now have 2 Russell Brookes Mk 1 Escorts, The Owen Murphy Roger Albert Clark Lotus Sunbeam and two absolute stars - the Fisher Bedford CF service van and the Rosemary Smith Jag XJS Irish Landspeed record car. I know the latter isn't a rallycar but it is a work of art.
Well done again Donie and well done to fellow forum members for the work in not only making the models but presenting the collections in a professional manner. I will try to "lift" a few photos from Facebook.

Lifted from Rnc Rally-Pics on Facebook

Only three loading at a time as far as I can see. Over 100 photos there so just sticking to the rally car models.
Mine is the display with the coffee cup and half eaten sandwich !!! Also the Rothmans Board was used to keep the sun out !!!

Lifted from M2merallyphotos on Facebook

Pic 1 is the updated bunch of Eifel Rallye finishers awards
Pic 2 is a better shot of the two Brookes Mk 1's
Pic 3 is the flag that came with the US Ford Centenary collection made by Minichamps
Pic 4 is the Ford Centenary collection - on the left is the European edition and on the right the US edition (twice as large) I don't have the Australasian edition.
Pic 5 is a close up of the Fisher Van.
Pic 6 is a rally stage diorama

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to all involved with a superb display once again.

I do like the Rosemary Smith Jaguar.

Chris

Absolutely brilliant display !!

Wonderful conversion work on the Rosemary Smith Jaguar XJ.

Indeed well done to Donie & the Vintage club for a fairly packed event - I think the only unused space was the toilet!!!  Six rooms with multiple displays in each - plenty of coffee, cakes & sambos and even a hot breakfast.  As usual, good to meet up with the lads from the forum, and others.  Roll on 2019!.
Looking forward to the Gartrac Escort finished product - no pressure, Sean


Brian's 1/18 McHale Toyota

James' 'big' Peugeot!

A massive congratulations to Donie & team for a spectacular event. It was only my 2nd time displaying at a show( the first time was a week previous) where before hand Donie gave me kick up the backside to get out and display. I was very green in some aspects in Millsrteet but got some great ideas from people and couldnt get over how so helpful fellow model enthusiasts were on the day. A big thank you to Brian for loaning me his Fisher pictures, Ted for his display box and to James for his Fisher service van and trailer- what a sight to see infront of Bertie's cars!!, & afew of Andrews cars to bulk up my Nesbitt display. Also thanks to Donie for his display turning tables on the day, im not sure how he thinks of everything while he takes it all in his stride. Looking forward to next year already.

superb lads, well done!

Cracking displays. Well done all.

Another set of pics from the show =68.ARA8riuYlv8JbAhPJEtHqaWSURoYcUZFg-gx42ERaj0oOrZKDVamcE9voFKt48SWHOMgp2g-UGyabQX_JB2lIFaStPP2f7ioPy7LAgS3SvzlbKSbCnvYUSpW0MxneP97FbjTXkMmRvhSdK5zyUC8hrNJy0rqvho0q_xGvZC5mvtv67pe_oLoGg&__tn__=-UC-R]here.

who made the 1/18 wrc01 Nesbitt car? I want!!

Thank you to everybody who Displayed their models ....looked after mine......due to the vast amount of work involved in putting this show together as you can see i failed miserably in getting on this  forum  with updates which i should have done.........i am delighted with the show itself and the crowd who attended ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I must now admit that i have seen more of what was on display here on this Forum than i did on the day of the show.................so special thank you to whoever took these photos and put them up here.....................
         THE mind boggles !!!!!
 WHOEVER photographed these models and put them up here i wonder !!!!! I wonder 1 wonder....can we get a DVD made of the displays so we can put them up on a big screen for 2019 ?????????  
 I await an answer?????????   Who can do this for me ????? i can get permission from who ever took the photos  !!!!!  
         Again thank you all so so so much !!!!! and i hope you all enjoyed the day and those that did not attend will put it on your diarys for 2019...................Donie

Finally getting back to normal after the show. Was Thursday before I got a change to empty the car!

Yet another great show by the Millstreet club. Huge thanks to Donie and family for the warm welcome, the endless offers of tea, the fantastic breakfast the morning of the show (the puddings were unreal) and for all the time end effort they put into getting everything set up. How they did all this with very little sleep on Saturday is incredible.

Was great meeting up with forum members and seeing some fantastic models for the first time as well as getting ideas around displaying them. Will be along later to post some of my photos. Roll on 2019!

Superb effort gents. Who made the Gartrac Escort and is it 1/43?