RMweb Premium Jason T Posted February 22, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2012 Make people queue in one direction to view layouts or browse / purchase from traders, and limit the length of time they can do so. Or is it just me that gets annoyed with the free-for-all? Or, every time someone asks a daft question, reply through a loud-hailer, in an 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' voice 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Make people queue in one direction to view layouts, ... and limit the length of time they can do so. Which is exactly what happened with Hursley at the MRJ show in <gulp> 1990. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davknigh Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Having just read all the comments I can't believe that nobody has come up with this one; surround all layouts with razor wire . Alternately allow exhibitors to use Tasers on sticky fingered children (or adults). BTW a P4 Thomas has been done IIRC at one of the Scalefora. Cheers, David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 BTW a P4 Thomas has been done IIRC at one of the Scalefora. Wait till I P4 my Triang Battlespace turbo car ... 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalie Graham Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Loudly and without consideration pointing out any errors or anachronisms, no matter how trivial. I reckon that would do the trick! That won't work, otherwise there would be multiple lynchings at every show going Sell someone a ticket, and within site of ticket desk arrange have ticket checked. Ticket check person now refuses entry because the ticket [hasn't been dated correctly/has the wrong discount/is for the wrong show/isn't a priority ticket]. Tell customer if they have a complaint they have to go to the complaints desk, sited just inside the door. Flatly refuse to allow them through the door until the ticket has been correctly changed/dated/etc. by complaints desk. Hey, No! It's bad enough already. You spend up to a tenner on a ticket and as soon as you get it some bloke takes it off you and tears it in half. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy C Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Dead easy this one, just put a show on with absolutely no diesel/electric content whatsoever and watch the b*gg*rs moan. 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armchair Modeller Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 advertise the show for the wrong weekend................ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalie Graham Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Dead easy this one, just put a show on with absolutely no diesel/electric content whatsoever and watch the b*gg*rs moan. Sounds good to me. What's the date and venue? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 advertise the show for the wrong weekend................ Wait till I P4 my Triang Battlespace turbo car ... Or make your own version of a Turbo car (with a metal propeller) and send it along the clubs GW branchline. It didn't have the platform clearances that our GC layout did Quote: advertise the show for the wrong weekend................ We went to one show down south where that pretty much happened, advertised as Bank Holiday Weekend, local radio saying Sunday-Monday, the show was actually Saturday-Sunday Hardly anybody came Saturday, not that many Sunday either. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armchair Modeller Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Model anything that doesn't fit the Great Western fraternity's view of their favourite railway. I once witnessed a layout operator being threatened for "daring" to paint a GW loco in BR black livery. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37255 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Didn't someone do a 'Thomas being scrapped' cameo which caused some upset ? I never saw it but it sounds like an excellent idea. Funny, just the other day I was musing upon doing 'Sodor in the late 60s' - Several Daisies, Thomas's branch facing closure, Duck sold into industry and heavily weathered (dirt, brake dust, a beard ) etc... One day! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Go around the show, wearing really strong deodorant. Better still Go around the show SPRAYING really strong deoderant....... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Better still Go around the show SPRAYING really strong deoderant....... Or air freshener, used to use a can a week when I worked in a model shop Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Having just read all the comments I can't believe that nobody has come up with this one; surround all layouts with razor wire . Alternately allow exhibitors to use Tasers on sticky fingered children (or adults). BTW a P4 Thomas has been done IIRC at one of the Scalefora. Cheers, David Might you be thinking of Philip Hall's P4 converted Percy? steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy C Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Model anything that doesn't fit the Great Western fraternity's view of their favourite railway. I once witnessed a layout operator being threatened for "daring" to paint a GW loco in BR black livery. I was going to mention something along these lines myself but i already have a fatwah imposed on me by an Ayatollah of the GWR Taliban 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I can remember a member of the Lima Collector's Club getting het-up about a friend of mine super-detailing (as it used to be known) a Limited Edition diesel on a demo stand some years ago. When this chap was banging on about how wrong it was and how much money it was worth, Alan said "Well, yours is worth more isn't it as there's one less now." Alan then crossed out the number on his LE certificate and wrote in 001. Collector bloke left at this point... steve 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Breaking wind in a lift at a model railway show is guaranteed to make you unpopular. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Finding a layout that's been featured in detail in a magazine, learning what's been written as well as you can then asking questions about the layout that could have been answered by reading tha mag. Then when you've exhausted the exhibitor telling them that you read all about it in the mag ...... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted February 22, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2012 I can remember a member of the Lima Collector's Club getting het-up about a friend of mine super-detailing (as it used to be known) a Limited Edition diesel on a demo stand some years ago. When this chap was banging on about how wrong it was and how much money it was worth, Alan said "Well, yours is worth more isn't it as there's one less now." Alan then crossed out the number on his LE certificate and wrote in 001. Collector bloke left at this point... steve I had one not that long back, chopping up APT cars to make intermediate articulated vehicles. Chap comes up and says to me "If you knew what that was worth you wouldn't be cutting it up". Well being as I'd paid for it I knew exactly what it was worth, and I was... I now own a 14 car APT formation, and have destroyed 4 APT sets to get it. Andi 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Bob Symes did that about 40 years ago. Have a look for his class 47 on Youtube. Live diesel locos are also available on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LIVE-DIESEL-ELECTRIC-SPECIAL-SALE-G1-1-32-run-w-Accucraft-Aster-Live-Steam-/110829924974?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item19cdfa726e 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 BTW a P4 Thomas has been done IIRC at one of the Scalefora. As has a Scaleseven Ivor the Engine! I've got some pictures to prove it, I'll just have to see if I can download them from my phone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Finding a layout that's been featured in detail in a magazine, learning what's been written as well as you can then asking questions about the layout that could have been answered by reading tha mag. Then when you've exhausted the exhibitor telling them that you read all about it in the mag ...... Someone's already done that to me in the past... steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasslands Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Have an oval a track with tunnels entering and exiting the layout, have a tape playing of a model train running along the track, but don't take any stock with you. See how long people wait for the train. Tom 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catkins Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Have an oval a track with tunnels entering and exiting the layout, have a tape playing of a model train running along the track, but don't take any stock with you. See how long people wait for the train. Tom You could always just take the layout, no stock, and then sit behind it "looking" for a fault on the electrics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Trainshed Terry Posted February 22, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2012 We have live steam in most scales - How about live diesel? I think the Germans did that but it self destructed at the start. James May program a year or so ago. Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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