Below are the award winners from the 2024 Model of the Year competition. Congratulations to the winning and highly commended entrants! And our thanks to everyone who took part by entering; to those who took time to look at the many excellent models on display; and to the MOTY stewarding and judging team.
Photographs of the winning models will appear in the August issue of “16mm Today”.
| Category | Award | Name | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allcomers Locomotive Trophy | Winner | Tony Hill | F&B Rly. Nipper. |
| Jack Wheldon Memorial Trophy | Winner | Matt Towell | 16mm live steam quarry hunslet ‘Louisa’ |
| Highly Commended | John Hogg | Freelance Steam Tram | |
| Highly Commended | Julia Stephenson | Ellie the steam tram | |
| Roundhouse Trophy | Winner | Duncan Lorimer | Porto Feliz Garratt No 7 |
| Highly Commended | Mike Dockery | KLW 0-8-0T, RH&LLR No 67, Outside Stephenson’s Valve Gear | |
| Butterley Trophy | Winner | Peter Turville | Manning Wardle 0-6-2T #1877 (1915) 2’6” gauge “CHEVALLIER” |
| Highly Commended | Paul Cawthra-Smith | Sentinel 80 HP convertible steam locomotive | |
| Highly Commended | Tony Hill | F&B Rly. Nipper. | |
| Lineside Trophy | Winner | Adrian Rogers | Milkingpen Lane Signal Box |
| Highly Commended | Ray Butler | Station Footbridge | |
| Highly Commended | Peter Charles | “A Bridge Too Far” | |
| Passenger & Rolling Stock Shield | Winner | Duncan Lorimer | The Works Train |
| Highly Commended | Chris Cooper | Ffestiniog Railway Carriages 18 + 23 | |
| Highly Commended | Trevor A Garnham | Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Carriage No.17 | |
| Gordon Diplock Trophy | Winner | Jenna Kelly | “Flowerbomb” |
| Junior Cup | Winner | Finley Carden | Ffestiniog Railway Bug Box coaches 3 & 4 |
| Highly Commended | Oliver Sausins | IP Engineering Talyllyn slate wagon | |
| Peter Jones Trophy | Winner | Ivor Oatway | Engine shed containing live steam stationary engine |
| Highly Commended | Paul Cawthra-Smith | Sentinel 80 HP convertible steam locomotive | |
| Highly Commended | Ivor Oatway | 3D designed and printed tools for creating steam chest gaskets, and block print stamp for lettering rolling stock | |
| Newcomers Trophy | Winner | Ben Brown | Gaitan “kit bash” |
| Highly Commended | Toby Way | Skarloey Railway No.14 “Vera The Travelling Tea Van” | |
| Highly Commended | Paul Cawthra-Smith | Sentinel 80 HP convertible steam locomotive | |
| Geoff Munday Trophy | Winner | Chris Cooper | Ffestiniog Railway Carriages 18 + 23 |
| Highly Commended | Ben Brown | Gaitan “kit bash” | |
| Highly Commended | Tony Hill | F&B Rly. Nipper. | |
| Modular Layout Cup | Winner | Paul Cawthra-Smith | Loch Doon Distillery |
| Highly Commended | John & Gloria Whitbread | Landscape: Now to the future if we don’t look after the planet | |
| Best Layout vote | Winner | Portmadoc | |
| Best in MOTY vote | Winner | Richard Huss | “Isaac Spooner” – 0-6-0T based on Roundhouse “Basic” series components |