This year saw the major upset! Chin beat my entry into smitterines! Man, was I blown off by the sheer magnitude of his entry. Man, it might have weighed something like 100 kilos! And the cost must be astronomical to pull it off. Diplomatically speaking.....to tell the truth...how dare you CHIN to hammer me......don't talk to you then you know....! Hahaha....
This is one great effort, unfortunately, the tank dates are wrong with the Leopard A4. This Leopard 1 is made in the late seventies and early eighties, but the soldiers were in WWII uniform. Had he made the soldiers with modern day ones, it may pass off as one of those post cold war or cold war skirmishes. Wasted....but great building and the details on the cables etc.... good effort, hope to see him more often at M Workshop when we come up with our really good competitions.... for medals and honour men!...ahem... and ladies, especially the Gundam chaps....
Another great effort by a relative unknown model maker. Take up a course with Bernard on the figure painting and go to Calvin Tan's blogspots and Euromilitaire websites, you get heaps of tips and pictures to oggle at that will help you paint figures better. Would had been the Grand winner had it not been let down by the figure painting and the weathering of the tank, otherwise, it was a great effort. Keep it up brother, see you around M Workshop. Look out for me when you are there.
My brother in arms, win again, I say man, win in Beetle Festival and win again here. Very beautiful model in a difficult scale 48th.... simple and sweet beach partying type of look...deserve it bro....
Last year's Champion with the Afghanistan diorama is back. Ah Wong with the kids fishing is cute diorama with a great story. Could have beat the daylights out of me had he had more time to finish bashing up his Panzer a little bit more.....alamak....next time take more time lah...don't always concentrate make money...must have life for hobby also bro.
My entry, difficult for people to accept this new way of hand painting glazing method invented by me. Spud has asked me to write the article on how to do it for Tamiya Magazine, never got down to doing it as I am now preparing the joint venture company in the US to supply armour for General Dynamics Land Systems....so very busy....but moving to the US also has its advantages, as the owner of Accurate Miniatures is only 5 miles from my place in North Carolina. Maybe can play golf and work on some new masters for our friends in the hobby. The painting gives the chippy look of a white washed tank but also a 3D effect of smudged on paint plus the overtones of dust. Ee and Alex had come to my place a few times for demo, heard that they murdered their models.....oops.... read my article on latest missing lynx, that will help, but all my work in Tanx Heaven are lost since Kees Van Der Pols shut down the website....one of the best on earth...,moans its lost man. Hope he finds enough time to resurrect it! 
My soldier from the German end of the bargain is from the new Gen 2 series from Dragon plus a converted Hornet head. The Hornet head has a lot of details and really easy to paint compared to the hopeless Tamiya ones on the SU122.....vomit blood man, but can't find Russian soldiers, so squeeze balls and have to live with figures with face made like shepherd pie, AKA Tamiya figures, aka SUCKING in fine definition!
Then, there is this, the grand Dame....Chin and his 5 kings cat claws left me with tatters to piece together, made piece meal out of me! By sheer magnitude man.....madness redefined! so much for friendship, must find chance to accidentally drop things in his shop, especially on his models when he is not looking, to get back some dignity whatever that is left in here! Can't beat a good man, much less a mad man!
See How SIAO can a man get?