“Plakdag” 2024

[Jakko]

Not really a show as such, but I spent most of today at the annual Plakdag¹ organised by local model club MCZ and IPMS, at the Liberation Museum Zeeland — which is well worth a visit if you find yourself in or near the southwestern Netherlands and have an interest in military history and/or equipment. Too bad there weren't too many visitors, but I enjoyed myself, and I think the other participants did, too.



My spot was the empty one with the French camouflage jacket hanging over the back of the chair I had brought my Piranha PWI, which someone else from our club (the man in the glasses in the second picture above) photographed next to his own (much better-constructed) AMX-PRI and YPR 765 PRCO, so I hope he won't object to me putting up that photo here:

---

¹ This is tough to translate, but means something like "sticking-things-together day". Plakken means, approximately, "to stick" or "to stick together" while dag is much the more straightforward "day".

 

[kevin]

Thanks for sharing those pictures. That's the kind of event I would enjoy.

 

[scottie]

cheers Jakko

 

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

No vendors tables? No visitors?

 

[Jakko]

No vendors, because it's not that kind of con — more like a get-together in a museum. The lack of visitors kind of surprised me, there were a lot more last year. Thing is that this is held at the same time (probably on purpose) as a memorial march that remembers the area's liberation in October 1944, which draws a lot of people — the museum's president, who I happen to know, told me there were about a thousand there today — but we were upstairs and they were nearly all downstairs. I guess not many of them felt like going to look at the models