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Interscale Stolberg 2017

Last weekend I opened my event season by visiting the Interscale Stolberg event.
The event was held for the third time this year and was once again located in the Zinkhütter Hof museum in the German village of Stolberg.

It's a rather small event. Several exhibitors and one vendor were present.
Because of the small scale of the event there's great opportunity to discuss all things modelling with fellow modellers.
I decided to bring the kids along for the event (for the first time). The small size being a good opportunity to gauge the interest with the kids.

Below is a selection of some images from the event.
More images can be found here.


Visiting an event without buying something is normally quite difficult for me. But this time I wasn't tempted, so I was about to leave empty handed.
My daughter (8 y.o.) thought otherwise. She was actually quite interested in the models and had spotted a small kit at the vendor which she would like to try.
Sensing an opportunity I bought the kit for her. Which was also a first for me. The kit she chose was an egg plane from Hasegawa. Something I had vowed would never enter my house...

Anyway.
Back home she immediately set to work cutting the parts from the sprues, glueing them together and waiting impatiently for the glue to dry so she could start painting the plane.
A successor has been found?


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