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Looks good. I have been building and designing card kits for many years and I still learn stiff as I go.

I am a trader and attend a select few shows a year nowhere near wigan. Sad to hear that any show will not be happening next year. Shows are a great way to attract new people to the hobby and hopefully some new members to a club. Here is a bit about our experience from shows this year in and around us in the mid to south west of the country. Our first show of the year in June we took £36 on the first day where we would normally take hundreds. If my daughter had not persuaded me to stay for the 2nd day we would have gone home. Luckily we pulled out of another show which only had 300 visitors when they were expecting 1000s. As a trader costs of stands has increased and at the end of the day we have to make money, thats the whole idea. Over the year we have possibly just broken even or are not too far out of pocket so its not been a total waste of time. It has made us re-evaluate what we will be doing next year. We have now decided to only take on any new one day shows. It may be an answer to only have one day shows, which will help keep costs down and possibly get higher visitor numbers as its just for the one day. Half the costs to traders, half the expenses for exhibitors but hopefully near the same numbers compared to a whole weekend show. Just a few ideas from a trader.

Thanks to those who organised this show. It was our (Railwayscenics) first time attending with our trade stand, and we were made to feel very welcome. Thanks for the hospitality. It was good to put a face to some customers names.

You can get hammered and linen types of white paper that really good when printed on for a slight relief effect. Scoring lightly along the mortar lines also improved things.

Both https://www.scalemodelscenery.co.uk/ https://www.modelrailwayscenery.com/ are operating correctly.

Why not learn to weather things yourself.

With the covid-19 virus this is not really an essential product so should people be encouraged to go out and buy this. Not so sure if we are to stop the spread of this virus. Remember that we are supposed to be staying inside unless its essential.

What about the vac formed sheets from south eastern finecast. If you are layering them up you could also use different scale brick sheets and cut into strips.

I pick up old card from the supermarket in town. Helps I know the manager. Its the stuff that has adverts on it and hangs about the isles and shelves. Generally big sheets and looks similar to mount board. Its easy to cut and glue. Best of all its free. Mount board is available from lots of suppliers in a4 and a3 sizes.

I was sort of channel hopping and as the game went on I watched more of it. My daughter who has shown almost no interest in cricket even hid behind a cushion during the super over bit as she couldnt watch it. Great way to end a tied game. Better than the penalty shoot-out in football. At last someone can now be in the honours list for actually winning something rather than nearly winning.

When I have had to glue paper and styrene sheet together I have always roughed up the styreme sheet fist with a rather coarse sand paper, then used a contact adhesive to join the two together. Never had any problems.

What a shame I cant go as I have a trade stand at another show the same weekend. I love supporting local shows even if its only a quick visit. The selection of layouts look really good. Hope you have a good one.

I too bought a cheap bag of little people for my railway. The bright pinks and oranges were really not as I would like, so I stood a whole load of them onto double sided tape and started again with a coat of grey primer. Then using some old matt paints I had lying around I mixed a lot of colours more in keeping with the 40s and 50s that I was modelling and painted everyone again. When i next needed some sitting figures I just bought the white unpainted ones and did the same thing again. I even bought some cows that looked like zebras.

I was going to suggest sticking tracing paper or greaseproof paper behind the windows but the above may work and look better.

If you dont want to use wax crayons try using normal colouring pencils. They are a bit harder to get the colour out of, but could work, or even pastel type chalks.