here is a chance for all those who missed the recent Matchbox campaign to see all the completed works in a single feature, well done to all those who participated.



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Thanks!

It was a great campaign! Really cool to see all those nice entries. Quite a high if I may say so.

It was a joy to aprticipate in a very well run campaign.

Jesper, I am very happy that you enjoyed the campaign and hope this feature makes all the participants proud. I might have wrote the text but the members did the hard work.

Thanks and cheers,
Ex-MNC fearless-leader (tread_geek)

Amazing work you all did on that campaign, and at such a small scale! I thoroughly enjoyed browsing all the finished entries, thanks for the group effort putting this together

Great Campaign and great Feature Jan! Thanks!

Cheers!
Stefan

This sets an excellent example for future campaign features (especially the one I'm working on). Well done!!

And a well done to the Features Staff as well!

@Dangeroo - Let's not forget you contribution, Stefan. Both your build and the assistance that you provided.

@GaryKato - I am glad that you brought up the work of the Feature staff. The truly deserve credit for creating a very attractive article. My thanks to them for their efforts.

Cheers,
Jan

Great feature Jan! -- so I guess we'll be expecting to have the same following the Braille campaign, then. Can't say enough thank yous for your leadership on this one -- truly enjoyable one. Cheers and congrats to all who participated.
-- Tat

Tat, don't sell yourself short. I don't forget the assistance you rendered when the campaign was wrapping up. Checking past posts and creating your chart all assisted me to get things together quickly. I cannot stress how much cooperation and interaction helped all of us. As for a feature for this new campaign, we'll see!

Cheers ,
Jan :[]

Jan,

Thanks for a very well run campaign. Excellent feature!!! Thanks to you and the feature staff and thanks to everyone that participated in the campaign - this is what made it so much fun! It was an honor and a pleasure to have been a part of this well organized and run campaign.

-Eddy

Eddy, glad you enjoyed the campaign and liked the feature. I've been in a few campaigns and tried to take the best examples of leadership from each of them. In the "On the Eastern Front Campaign", Andrzej Snigorski [ ENDRJU007 ] broke the ground for campaign features and I merely tried to emulate his work to an extent. He did a great job on his own but I was fortunate enough to have the assistance of my fellow campaigners. Trust me, I both needed and appreciated it. With around 125 build pictures to sort and edit it was quite the undertaking.

Thanks,
Jan

All I can say is, WOW. Jan, what a fantastic job you, your helpers and the feature people did. I think that the article part really gives insight into the essence and mood during the campaign. Two thumbs up!

Regards,
AJ

A nice trip down childhood 'Memory Lane' looking at some of these little gems; most of which I built as a child then a teenager .

Oh for the days of innocence when we all spent more time building kits and less time debating / arguing about fractions of mm's on kit dimensions, indy track links, Panzer 46 colour schemes, chipping or not chipping etc. etc.

Great stuff and thanks for sharing all those pics!
Gary

@AJB - AJ, as one of the successful campaigners, take a bow.

@redcap - Gary, thanks for your interest and comments. The enthusiasm, efforts and results of the individual builds pictured speak for themselves.

Cheers,
Jan

Super article, Jan. Sorry I couldn't reply earlier, I have been in deepest France, away from any computer, for the last two weeks. Glad to see the feature up and published. Not sure why, one of the photos managed to squeak out of place, but never mind. The article does indeed show the spirit of the campaign, which was great fun, and managed to produce so many really quite awesome looking models and photos. Just goes to show how much fun one used to be able to have for 47pence.

Something slightly tragic happened in France however... I took the toolkit and an unmade Italeri SdKfz222, you know, just in case I got the urge. As it goes I didn't need it, but somehow managed to leave the toolkit behind. Knife, cement, cutters, pliers, tweezers, files, drill bits, chuck.

Matthew, I am glad that the article meets with your approval as you were a great help in it's timely completion. You did mention that you were going away on vacation so I couldn't contact you to review the final draft. However, except for the one anomaly I must again say that the feature staff did a very nice job with formatting the article. With all the pictures that were involved it had to be quite the task.

I am sorry to here that your toolkit went AWOL. Perhaps it is just misplaced in your luggage? I know what it is like to have a favourite tool or tools, especially those that you have become very comfortable with. As far as preferred tools goes, if one goes missing or is broken it can be traumatic as more often than not you cannot find a duplicate replacement.

Cheers,
Jan

If you let the features staff know which picture is out of order and where it should be they will correct it for you.

It is of course on page 2 of the feature where the first photo of the Humber PK-75 has slewed in front of the Panzer III PK-74.

Jan, I will leave it to you to request the change as you know who you contacted etc.

Toolkit - no, I know exactly where it is in the house, but I think I can get the next people in the house to bring it back to England for me.

Error sorted.

WOW, what fantastic and phenomenal service from the feature people. I was just about to write to Keith about the Humber being out of position but decided to check my archive and the exact position on page 2. Low and behold I missed both Matthew's post and Darren's. My sincere thanks to both of you for seeing to the anomaly being corrected.

Big Cheers,
Jan