International Flat Figure Society - British Flat Figure Society

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There is interest Michel, but over here the venues charge between £5000-£10,000 a day, as this is what they get for weddings etc. On top of that there is the insurance and the health and safety risk assessments!!!  Over night stays now tend to be £100-£130 per night, and this is the holiday inn / premier inn cheap hotels!!  then food, drink, fuel etc.  it soon adds up and it is now very expensive here to attend😡

perhaps no enough interest for figurines and flats in the UK ?
Are there as many clubs, associations, sites, forums as in France, Germany, Italy or Spain? for such hobby?
How many pieces are presented on average
Are contests open like on the continent, or rewarrding only the top three painters, therefore attractin less participants to the benefit of the best only?


Who knows more about such UK activities?

Soon we will have no shows worth going too here in the UK 

The 44th annual show and contest of Sèvres by the AFH (Les Amis de la Figurine et de l'Histoire) took place at the SEL in Sèvres on November 29-30th, 2025.
I could attend most part of the show ecept the end, so I don't have statistics and the awards given yet.
However as far as Flats and Half Round Figures are concerned, I can give you the following statistics:
 

Categories & Levels (*):
- Open and creation:     9 names - 14 pieces -  7 awards
- Master:                    24 names - 42 pieces - 13 awards             
- Confirmed:               20 names - 48 pieces - 17 awards
- Novices:                   12 names - 21 pieces - 12 awards
- Dioramas:                  3 names -   4 pieces
- Creation unpainted:    1 name   -   2 pieces -   1 award
             
                      Total      63 Artists(**) - 131 pieces registered - 50 awards
                     (** total 70 but 8 ones registered in more than one category, or in combination)


+ the Carrousel of Louis XIV in 1661, = 5 quadrilles by one painter, just exposed, but who was in competition at the 50th anniversary MMSI show in Chicago this year, with a silver award (see separate Show Gallery)




I am working on the pictures (about 250) of these categories/levels in that above sequence liste above (*), and selected among some 740 pictures from seven photographers, and which shall be loaded into the Show Gallery in the coming weeks, with the awards received. Thank you for your patience.


Hannibal