MODELLING CHALLENGE 2021 - THE RESULTS!

Out with the Old Year and in with the New - what better time to record the results of last year's Modelling Challenge? The origins of this fourth modelling challenge were recorded HERE, and the awards, in no particular order (although the winner, ramping up the suspense, is....drumroll.....obviously at the end) were:

The "Fell at the First" Certificate and Umpires Free Pass:

goes to Umpire Roo, who kicked off the Challenge in the first place (see HERE) - and then failed to produce his much vaunted Tea Van on the day! The dreaded "Fell at the First" Certificate was, however, accompanied by an "Umpires Free Pass", as Terrain Tsar Roo had been super-busy making hedges and painting streams etc. etc. up until (really up until) the start of the Autumn Big Game 2021 itself. In the absence of any entry, we shall just have to make do with what might have been:

First Corps splendid "Naafi Van and Crew" - not an entrant
to the 2021 Modelling Challenge

The "Vaguely Competent but Somewhat Conventional" Scroll:

goes to Umpire Clive, for his "Presteigne Soviet Propaganda Van (and Commissar Moody)":

Megaphones at the ready, Commissar Moody's Propaganda Vehicle..

..and the obverse side, with obligatory portrait of
Comrade Colonel Professor Winters (who looks
eerily familiar)

Commissar Moody, notorious Chief of Comrade Colonel Winter's "Bureau Desinformatsiya", has been long overdue "a ride into battle", to match up with Storm Leader P.R. Mann's loudhailer vehicle, previously seen HERE. After denouncing the Modelling Challenge and its results as "nothing but a lickspittle capitalist conspiracy", Commissar Moody has rediscovered the value of being a Propaganda Chief - so far as the people of the Presteigne Soviet is concerned, he was (always was, and always will be) the WINNER!

The "Surprise! Surprise! Omigod I've only got 12 hours" Diploma:

goes to Rob B., who unaccountably only found out about the Modelling Challenge on the night before the Big Day itself (should have read the Blog more carefully, or at least a lot sooner!) and produced the characterful "Spodemobile" to carry his new "General" into action (or provide a much needed oratorical platform for him, at least):

Spode (beautifully converted) speaks to the Nation....

Who knows what could have been achieved with a little more notice? And so to......

The Winner's Cup!

along with the much coveted "Would you forgive us if we say we might have slight qualms about your psychological state?" Diploma (in swords and diamonds), which goes to Alan, for his unprecedented and enthusiastically received "Bordel Militaire de Campagne (Wheeled)" with full crew:

"The unprecedented bus"

Alan explained "the crew" as follows:

"From left to right are :-

Mimi, the Bedroom Maid (who will tuck you in nicely)

Fifi, the French Maid (will polish your equipment)

Belle, aka Miss Whiplash (will soon whip you in to shape)

Rosa, the Blond Bombshell ( will blow you away)

Their vehicle is an old French Citroen bus....................."

which simply demonstrates the level of deep thought required to win a Modelling Challenge.....

Campaign Note: the "Bordel" achieved instant notoriety, being sniffed at by the Communists as "just another example of capitalist degradation", fiercely and continuously denounced from the pulpit by the Bishops of Ludlow and Lichfield, but proving seriously morale raising for Staff Captain Maynard's Royalist troops:

An orderly queue of Royalists forms for their "morale raising experience"

One suspects that this is not the last that the Hereford1938 VBCW campaign has seen of the "Bordel Militaire de Campagne".......................

On to the 2022 Modelling Challenge.....