The South Australian Plastic Modellers Association (SAPMA) held the 41st South Australian Model Expo over the weekend of September 28th & 29th 2024. It was an early start on the Friday, leaving home at 4:30am to travel west to Adelaide as we once again hit the road and travelled over to be a part of the show. Rolling in to the City of Churches just after 11am, first stop was to see our friends at Hobby Habit in Melrose Park, to drop off a restock order for them and to catch up to see how everything is going. Hobby Habit...

Our friends at Diecast Distributors Australia (DDA) have been kicking many goals of late, first with their plastic kits of the HQ Holdens, then following up with the HJ Panel Vans, the XW/XY Falcons and, recently, the LC/LJ Toranas, so I was very excited to get my hands on their brand new Torana A9X kits. The A9X was a special option available on the LX Torana that was produced in the late 1970’s. It featured different options such as the bonnet scoop, rear spoiler, rear disc brakes and a heavy duty differential amongst others. It was famously raced at Bathurst,...

Over the weekend of May 25 and 26, 2024, the Illawarra Plastic Modellers Association (IPMA) held their annual scale model competition at the Illawarra Sports Centre in Berkely, a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales. 

We have been attending this show for a number of years now, and once again, we made the 10 hour drive to attend the show both as a trader and an entrant into the competition.