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Your Sheepness
All things being equal, Cath and myself are hoping to venture down from the badlands of the Midlands to this shenanigans next Sunday. We want to bring Ellie with us (who is 25% border collie and 75% twonk) and Cath is fretting about whether she'll be allowed in the hall......we promise she will behave and not nip Chris H on the ankle when he's not looking..............
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Some very flattering photos there chaps, thank you very much! I've added a couple of my own from the routs and revels at Cotgrave at the weekend. It was good to meet you Dave and partake of a very pleasant chinwag........
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You really must take more care, you'd have been responsible for wrecking a quite magnificent layout...
Don't panic Andy, Victoria came out of it unscathed!
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Thought it was time to re-awaken this load of old jollop as Victoria appeared last week at Nailsea and will be knocking them dead at York over the weekend....... Has anything more been done with it? Not really........the waste ground has had a bit of 'gravettisation' but thats about it at the moment, although there is an EFE Class 70 waiting in the wings...........
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Back in the Leicestershire hinterlands after a thunderingly good weekend at Nailsea with the boss lady. A jolly fine show, good to see some of the chaps and good to meet Captain K and Wiggo, 2 absolute gentlemen unlike some of the other rabble............also chuffed that His Sheepness got 'best layout in show'- one up for the small layout builders (although as you can see from Chris' pics, I have some way to go before I can aspire to such greatness!).....
For those that didn't get there, well there's always next year!
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Passed Hugh Grant on the way out - presume he was going into the exhibition.
Well if he did he didn't have a look at Top Yard, unless he did when Clive was playing on it! Miserable get!
A great weekend, well done to all involved in the organising. Despite the parking tribulations, all went relatively smoothly. Top Yard is starting to grow on me, and seemed to appeal to a few people, especially the fellah who described the scenery as 'Gravettesque'! I will take that as a complement, though Gordon and Maggie may beg to differ! So onwards and upwards then!
Well done everybody, you've all done very well!
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Yes, at least you spend some time behind DT's layouts, which is more than can be said for some!
Well Mike, you only have to ask!............I'm sure we could fit you in.
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Its very quiet on here....Are we to expect a dramatic announcement, a la some of the new producers, shortly?
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Well put Stu, comments usually made by wobbly fingered, myopic OO modellers!!
Me and thee against the world!
Mike.
Count me in that happy band too! All couplings have their plus and minus points, its simple a question of personal perference (apart from the apocryphal 2mm finescale bod who tried 3 links, who basically is just certifiable!)...
QuoteBelieve someone sells predone one's, sure Tim's got one.
They certainly do Stu, I've got a couple. The mark I and the mark II versions. And if you're worrying about having too much wagonry with you at Ally Pally worry no longer....we can find a home for it!!
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Stand 28 Victoria EM? Gauge, Dave Tailby
You've obviously seen my trackbuilding Les!. As Paul Wade once said
'Dave models in all the popular 4mm gauges, OO, P4 and EM, usually all on the same layout!'
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Bit concerned to see on UK model shops listings that there is a OO9 layout called Bleat at Nailsea. Is there something you need to tell us sheepmeister? 🤣
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PS I also see that Lydbroook Dean will be there too according to the blurb........
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Had the very great pleasure of finally seeing this today (no Phots sadly as I didn't really get the time) and the highest complements I can give it is that, a) its up to Stus very high standards and b) its better than the layout that sort of inspired it..
Sound work my friend!
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Shades of Arun Quay...?
isn't that a chinese tool for tightening up IKEA purchases..........................
I'll get me coat
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Shocked and saddened to hear this news, having attended a few Fareham shows with my train sets and with Cath doing the work of Book Law! A very affable sort of chap who was happy to cover for me when I needed a break. He even looked like he was enjoying it on odd occasions! Our (Cath and Myself) deepest sympathies go out to his family and those at Fareham MRC.
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Come to think of it Christmas Dinner was a Greek dish called Kleftiko
I thought Kleftico was one of those Amurcan TV cop dramas from the 70s? What do I know?
Belated HNY Y'all
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Has anyone got any big ladies in young jumpers? Asking for a friend.........
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I wonder how excited/worked up some would get if a punter, having been inspired by a layout, built their own copy of it....
Happens to me all the time!!🤣🤣
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Another small layout that you may find interesting is Trevanna Dries, now in the tender hands of Wayne Crowley but the original was built by yours truly. Not sure of the actual address but if you put Trevanna Dries into the RM Web search engine you should find something.....
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With you all the way Effers and Northroader
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Looked like a great show at Portsmouth...
It was mate. I got a Hornby Coke wagon for a poorly octopus and an assortment of P4 points (including a double slip) all made by Ray Hodson and all for the princely sum of 2 of your earth pounds............
There were some good train sets too!!
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Pity in one way as I have a potential invite to the Portsmouth show in 2024 and I've never been so it was a bit of reconnaissance...
Chris
For a small large fee, I can give you the griff..........
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PS the weather wasn't too bad, bit moist but hey........
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So kids do not always need or want Thomas the Tank and we should not afraid of showing them so-called finescale. That is the future of the hobby - exposure when they are young. As well as showing them that there is more than a train set.
Stu Davies (Lapford 34102) and myself once considered doing Thomas the Tank Engines Terminus (Knapford was it? I can't remember) in EM just to hack some of the rivet counters off a little while back!
As daft as it may sound, using the Rev W Awdrys books as a research source isn't such a bad thing. Anybody who has seen Tom Fosters work will know just how good it can be....Just a thought!
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Sorry I missed it...
Chris
So am I, I was hoping to purvey some quality railway literature to you at a keen price🤣.
Seriously, the Book Law team had a good day amid some excellent trade and quality layouts. I was particularly taken by the Irish O gauge, although it was nice to see the old stagers of Hepton Brook and Lee on the Solent again ( although my suggestion that a Class 73 and a couple of VEA vans would look nice on Lee was met with some stony stares!). I also liked Chairman Dave's inglenook shunting plank, which he evidently cobbled together very quickly (any photos of it chaps?) which looked very effective with a weathered B4 and a handful of wagons. It was also pleasing to see that there was always some young person happily shunting away on there when I walked past. Other clubs may wish to take note- if we're going to attract youngsters into the hobby, belting Thomas round a track is fine and dandy for the under 5s but those slightly older require something more absorbing to attract them in, and this inglenook seemed to be doing just that!
Just my thoughts on a very good day. Well done chaps and chappesses!
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PS Picked up the bargains of the day from the second hand stall. A Hornby coke wagon for a poorly octopus (£6) and a handful of p4 points, including a double slip, for the princely sum of £2!!
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Just a thought but did anybody think to email Radio 2's Jeremy Vine? Having heard his recent-ish interviews with Rod Stewart and Jools Holland, and the dynamic duo of messrs Ando and (s)Hale, he sounds like he has an itch that could be scratched successfully vis a vis railway modelling. I believe he lives in the Barnes area, which would make this about his nearest show being just a bike ride across Richmond Park.
As I say, just a thought.......maybe a celeb to open the show in the future?
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Juniper Hill Tip. A London Transport waste tip set in Hertfordshire during the 1960's/early 1970's.
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Any further developments on this Mark? Like the look of it and the subj matter, but think you may have been a bit lavish with the number of points!🤣
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