MODELLING CHALLENGE 2022 NEWS

Devotees of the Hereford VBCW will know only too well of our annual "Modelling Challenge" routine, the Umpires distributing some cheap plastic war toy to players at the Spring Big Game with a challenge to convert the same into an imaginative VBCW item for use in the Autumn Big Game.

This year's Modelling Challenge 2022 has the theme of "Armoured Legends" and players at this year's Spring Big Game ("Last Train from Leominster") duly received a fantastically juvenile but entirely FREE 1960's plastic tank toy:

The deadly "Desert Tank". More detailed pictures are available - click on the
Modelling Challenge 2022 label to the right of this post.

So here's the news. This year, subject to any individual appeals, the Umpires are extending "the deadline" for completion of the Modelling Challenge from the Autumn Big Game 2022 to the Spring Big Game 2023. In other words, and again subject to appeal, anybody who creates an "Armoured Legend" in accordance the Modelling Challenge 2022 rules can play their creation in Spring 2023, NOT in the forthcoming Autumn Big Game 2022 ("Newquay Reloaded").

The reason for this is that the "Newquay Reloaded" Big Game is a Covid induced hangover from Spring 2020, when we originally intended to run the same game - but then had to cancel because of the national lockdown. Hence, significant "Modelling Challenge" creations were readied for the Spring 2020 Game which have never been used, and it's only fair to their creators that they should see the "light of the tabletop" before we move on to the 2022 "Armoured Legends" creations.

See the relevant "war toys" HERE (of particular interest to admirers of the "Shoddy Tank" concept).

Note : as to the mention of "subject to any individual appeals", the Umpires have in mind making allowance for any player who emails in arguing something along the lines of "I've spent the last 6 months sculpting two unique figures for this blasted 2022 Modelling Challenge, plus super detailing that rubbish plastic tank, and I WANT TO USE IT NOW...." Contrary to persistent rumours, the Umpires are, if not generous, at least human. Particular weight will be given to anyone wishing to place their 2022 Modelling Challenge creation at the disposal of the Newquay defending forces, as it looks as if HMG already have more than enough armour in the "Newquay Reloaded" scenario....