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  1. Hello all - the list of 17 exhibiting layouts is currently confirmed as:

     

    Brownsville - HO
    Clone Line - OO
    In the dock - L
    Ken Kenny Castle - N
    Kings End - Hornby Dublo 3 rail
    Lindsell Town - OO
    Little Colne - OO-FS
    Masbury to Windsor Hill – N
    Middleton - OO
    Oakgrove Central - N
    Porlock - OO
    Sine Nomine Terminus - O
    Tappers of Bromley - O
    The Trench - OO-9
    Whitebelle - OO
    Whitewebbs Park - OO
    Wilstone - O-16.5
     

    -- subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.

  2. This years show takes place at the Whitewebbs Museum of Transport in Enfield, North London - the clubs home. The exhibits are in various locations - the ground floor of the Museum, in the new exhibition hall, Copelands Room, and in the railway carriage clubhouse. To find us use the postcode: EN2 9HP or by train to Crews Hill station.

     

    Full details can can be found on our website - www.ewrm.org.uk

     

    There will be 15+ layouts covering most scales - full list revealed soon; many traders and more.

     

    Doors open at 10:30 am, with free parking on site - and a fully accessible location.

     

    Adults £5; Children (under 11 if accompanied) FREE, Children (11 to 16) £3. Family ticket: (2 adults+children) £13 

     

    We have several layouts focused on inspiring the younger visitors (next generation of modellers) including the chance to drive a gigantic Thomas and Percy and a completely new hands-on visitors are in charge layout - whitebelle.

     

    • We are an everyone is welcome event. 
    • Car parking is free.
    • Plenty of toilets.
    • Refreshments and light lunches available in the museum cafe.
    • Large outdoor picnic area.
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    It's been awhile - 6 weeks since last post here is the latest look ... scenery is mostly done a few trees still to place, the town buildings are placed, the tunnel finished and next it's to install working signals one is in to the left of the station one to go and switches are still loose too.

     

    on the hill top will be a field of horses.

     

     

  4. This shows the current overall view - one board is further on than the other (it splits into two 4x2 boards) however trains are running!

     

    Total time spent: 9 hours.... Roughly:

     

    1 hour baseboard construction.

    1 hour track planning and marking.

    2 hours painting the board and sky back scene.

    2 hours on installing the track and electrics.

    1 hour on landscape mat fitting.

    30 minutes on installing the controllers.

    1 hour on making the tunnel.

    30 minutes fixing down the first set of buildings.

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  5. Another week (and a bit) here is our latest progress...

     

    So, a bit of cheating by using a landscape mat for the large green areas, its very uniform and will be subsequently toned down with scatter. Lots of glue was spread, matt rolled out and cut to fit the areas then power controllers (basic Hornby ones) were installed. Then moved onto making the tunnel using lots of polystyrene!

     

     

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  6. 11 minutes ago, calvin Streeting said:

    any chance you could do a split level aka one loop over another to get bridges ? (just an idea)

     

    and i assume no join between tracks to minimise crashes ?

     

    There are joins between the tracks as baseboard splits into two sections for storage but these are managed, no split level as its a bit tricky for a child to build and not robust enough either for the level of use it will get at our show.

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  7. As its a children's layout - what is better than having it made by children for children. Enter Isabelle (hence the "belle" part of the name, the "white" comes from the name of the club - Enfield Whitewebbs).

     

    Isabelle is 6 and will be lying all the track, creating the scenery, the ballasting, the buildings and all the painting!

    What she won't be doing is the woodwork (saw's are a little dangerous) or electrics (less dangerous as the power can be turned off but a bit fiddly)...

     

    Here is Isabelle having laid out all the track marking around it to show where to paint in black to go under the ballast.

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  8. After a few years of service our club's existing Children's Layout had seen better days and over the winter suffered from poor storage and the boards warped out of shape so a replacement was required. With this years show 6 months away (28th September) a new layout was needed. Yes, a "childrens" layout can be built very quickly, and simply but, that isn't what we want or offer in our club. Our club tries to inspire the next generation of modellers so having a rough and ready layout just isn't going to work it needs to instead look the part. That means proper scenery, working signals and more.

     

    Whitebelle is going to be the new club's children's layout and construction has just begun. And it needs to meet the following requirements:

    - simple track plan to minimise failures and running issues on "show" day.

    - supports two trains running to allow two children to use it at the same time.

    - be robust and able to withstand a certain level of bumps, knocks and bashes.

    - be portable and able to be stored underneath our permanent layout "Whitewebbs Park" in our main club room.

    - be big enough to be interesting to use but small enough to fit into the corner of one of our exhibition halls.

    - feature working signals to add interest.

     

    Based on all of this - the layout will be 1200 x 1200 mm in size (4ft x 4ft) entirely scenic that splits into 2x boards 1200 x 600  (4ft x 2ft) sections that can lock together into a cuboid for storage.

     

    The track plan is shown, with two simple sidings but mainly its just two running loops with a tunnel to add a bit of the surprise factor.

     

    The boards are constructed from 6mm plywood with 42x21mm pine framing spaced at 300mm intervals for strength.

     

     

     

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  9. "a rant about a trader should  not put a dark cloud over a very enjoyable weekend."...

     

    Sorry, @Clive Mortimore I hadn't intended to take over the thread I originally asked simply for contact details as none are provided in the exhibition show guide. As for Pig Lane - that looks like it was a good layout and "modern" image for its day.  [Edit] And I now recall seeing the newer version at Ally Pally with the playing cards shunting moves decider - it was a good layout for movement and interest.

     

    If you check my original post, I did say I enjoyed the show - just needed a bit more modern image things for me but what was there was generally very good. 

     

  10. Thanks Chris and John. Whilst its sad to know I'm not alone its reassuring too.

     

    Yes they are popular, and agree they certainly should have a cut off time and offer refunds if its not made by collection time and not offer a postal service - I wasn't the only one left in this position 3 other people also gave their address details for theirs to be posted to them I imagine they are also in the same situation.

     

    Their stand should carry a "buyer beware" warning on them. The quality is good, the service, reliability and honesty is far from it. Perhaps exhibition managers should also exercise caution with them too. As disappointed visitors due to poor traders can impact the reputation of the show. My over-riding memory of the London Show is  nowone of feeling ripped off and disappointed and not about the layouts I saw...

     

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  11. Thank you all for your help. So far after a week of trying I haven't been able to get in touch with them by phone or email. Have sent a postal letter...

     

    My advice for anyone going to Trainwest (if he is going to be there) would be to not pay up front - only pay when you collect it on the day - seems to make a lot of errors, and do not trust him to post it to you.

    Sadly I cannot go to Trainwest to ask him for it... @Geoff Endacott if you can ask for me that would be great - the order was for a totem with: Thamesby on it - the name of my latest layout.

     

     

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