Nuremburg Toy Fair 2023

[Allen Dewire]

Evening everyone,

As you might have read in my Halberstadt post, I had the chance to go to the toy fair today with Anton (Forum member) and my friend Thorsten, the model building crazy, to see what's new in our hobby. It was the first-time private people were allowed to visit the fair and in only one hall. The hall contained model RR, R/C stuff, die-cast and of course plastic models. There were a few big names there, but a lot of big manufacturers were not present. There were also distributors of model products too. I managed to take about 100 pics to share with you and they are in (sort of) order...

I only ask that you please hold all comments till I have finished the 4 posts of pics. I don't want to miss anyone and can answer questions at the end. Thank you for your understanding and we'll start with Tamiya...

Some new products and some older ones two,







1/48 scale stuff and 4 kits with vehicles included,





Some new stuff,











More to come, please standby...

[adt70hk]

Thanks for sharing Allen.

Looking forward to more pics!!

Andrew

[Allen Dewire]

Part 2. A couple more from Tamiya,


And lastly, one for Karl's current build...Sunrise on a 38T,

This was sitting on one stand. Gotta love a racing Porsche,

On to the Italeri stand. Again, some new and some older things,












On to AK and some new items and some already available,






End of the second round. The third will follow. It takes some time to post the pics, so have a cuppa and some patience please. TIA...

[Allen Dewire]

The third round and we are still with AK,




Now over to Scale75 for the figgie folks here,







Then we hit the Eduard, Special Hobby and CMK stand. Klein, but fine,,











We're still with Eduard for round 4. Please stand by good people...

[Mickc1440]

Great pics Allen

[Allen Dewire]

Ok, only 2 posts to go. please hold the comments till the end and quit drooling on your PC screens!!! Thank you...



Now we will move over to ASK from Czech. Cool people and at a show, they always have some beer on hand, or a schnaps too. None on hand here at the fair though. They do make their own line of wing thingy masks in all scales,



A few pics for my man Jack,


An etch enigma machine,

These were cool,





Went over to Ammo from MIG's stand and it was almost empty with only these few things on display. Kinda strange,




and an advert with no details to be seen,

Vallejo, on the other hand, had a huge display. The red sack on Thorsten's shoulder is a free gift when you came in,


Now some things for the float thingy guys on here and others. The Bismark and the Titanic are 1/200,



We're down to the last group of pics next. I need a cold one and thanks for your patience...

[Allen Dewire]

The last bunch!!! Still in the floaty things,



One for Mark to build next,


Now a few pics from various things that were there too. I have no real details though,




From Hsaegawa in 1/35,




And lastly, one you should all be familiar with, on the Insel...

As you can see, the stand was closed off to everyone other than dealers and the like...

At the toy fair, you cannot buy anything from a stand, as It's not allowed. When we came in, Albion Alloys were near the entrance and the first stand I went to. I asked about their tiny brass tubing to use for my Halberstadt build and they were very helpful. The salesman I met at the WME was also there and showed me what was the best tubing to use for turnbuckles, showed me how to cut it and such. When I asked him how much the tube set was, he said......Stick it in your pocket. I can't take your money here. This is what he gave me,


I couldn't believe it!!!...Who's a happy camper now???...

Enjoy the pics as much as I enjoyed posting them for you all and the toy fair today. Andrew and Mick, you are both very welcome too!!!...

Prost
Allen

[Jim R]

Thanks Allen. Some very interesting stuff.

[antonintony]

Thank you Allen, it was a very nice road trip with you guys! See ya :-)

[Tworrs]

WOW, thanks so much for taking the time to post that lot.
I am of course very jealous.

[Mark1]

Thanks Allan some great stuff there, love the wooden sailing ships.

[JR]

Nice photos Dude 1, seems you three had a good time . Lucky you with those samples from Albion.

[outrunner]

Great pics Allen, thanks a lot for posting.

Andy.

[minitnkr]

Thanks for sharing, good pics.

[Ian M]

Thanks for sharing. Looks like it was very downsized this year.