Below are the award winners from the 2018 Model of the Year competition. Congratulations to the winning and highly commended entries! And our thanks to everyone who took part by entering, or who displayed models in the non-competitive “loans” section; to those who took time to look at the many excellent models on display; and to the MOTY stewarding and judging team.
A fuller set of photographs will appear in “16mm Today”.
| Category | Award | Name | Model |
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| Jack Wheldon Memorial Trophy | Winner | Bernie King | Coal fired scratch built 0-6-2 Fowler |
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| Jack Wheldon Memorial Trophy | Highly Commended | Malcolm Morgan | “Baby” Garratt Mk 2 |
| Roundhouse Trophy | Winner | Jim Elliott | “Joan”, a freelance coal fired 0-4-0 |
| Roundhouse Trophy | Highly Commended | Steven Hind | Sharp Stewart 2-4-2T |
| Roundhouse Trophy | Highly Commended | John Mileson | Lynton & Barnstaple Manning Wardle 2-6-2 locomotive |
| Roundhouse Trophy | Highly Commended | John Mileson | Hudswell Clarke “Ganges” class 0-6-0 locomotive (7/8″ to 1 ft) |
| Butterley Trophy | Winner | Phil Hatton | British Westinghouse 4PE Petrol-Electric Tractor circa 1916 |
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| Butterley Trophy | Highly Commended | Alan Larigo | Simplex 40HP Railmotor |
| Butterley Trophy | Highly Commended | Brian W Dunhill | Wychwood Light Railway No 3: freelance scratch built 0-4-0 diesel outline locomotive |
| Andrew Neale Challenge Trophy | Winner | John Nield | “Cackler”, a Mills class Hunslet |
| Andrew Neale Challenge Trophy | Highly Commended | Richard Edgar Collett | Locos “Blackwater” & “Le Minihic” |
| Lineside Trophy | Winner | Richard Weston | Hulme End Station on the Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway |
| Lineside Trophy | Highly Commended | Lewis Bloomfield | The abandoned Guard’s Van |
| Lineside Trophy | Highly Commended | Ray Butler | Railway View |
| Passenger Stock Shield | Winner | David Thompson | North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway No. 1 |
| Passenger Stock Shield | Highly Commended | Chris Berry | Inisfail Tramway passenger coaches in 7/8ths scale |
| Passenger Stock Shield | Highly Commended | Brian Torrens | Cardboard coach |
| Rolling Stock Trophy | Winner | Phil Hatton | War Department Light Railway – workshop train circa 1917 |
| Rolling Stock Trophy | Highly Commended | Mike Pinder | RASC Shipping Trucks |
| Rolling Stock Trophy | Highly Commended | Patrick Cross | Edwardian railway steam crane |
| Gordon Diplock Trophy | Winner | Peter Cole | 16mm/ft model of conceptual 2ft gauge crane tank locomotive |
| Gordon Diplock Trophy | Highly Commended | Richard Edgar Collett | ERF Railbus & van |
| Junior Cup | Winner | Lewis Bloomfield | The abandoned Guard’s Van |
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| Peter Jones Trophy | Winner | Richard Edgar Collett | Swap bodies |
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| Peter Jones Trophy | Highly Commended | Patrick Cross | Edwardian railway steam crane |
| Peter Jones Trophy | Highly Commended | Peter Cole | 16mm/ft model of conceptual 2ft gauge crane tank locomotive |
| Modular Layout Cup | Winner | Gloria Whitbread | Real living garden allotment |
| Modular Layout Cup | Highly Commended | Malcolm Shaw | “Bleath Gill” |
| Falcon Trophy | Winner | Malcolm Wright | 3rd class coach of the Gwalior Light Railway circa 1904 |
| Layouts award | Winner | Hambleden Valley Railway | |