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To be fair to the organisers though, there must be enough of a following for an european-only show to justify one outright and despite the crossover with other genres in Continental Modeller, most of the layouts in there and subsequent voting favour those European prototypes. There is also a danger that the same weekend next year could clash with the NMRA convention in nearby Derby.

I think Beijiao will do well, from memory the trains and layouts at previous mixed events looked drab and dour when compared to other more exciting action models, and visually only really on a par with static military models. It was proven a couple of weeks ago at the South Notts Show that something different looking will find favour with the public, members of the hosting club voted for a nicely built N gauge layout (I'd describe it as a tailchaser but it wasn't) as their favourite but the public voted for an American switching layout set at night that had hundreds of individual LEDs because it wasn't like anything seen before.

BKTY are covered in this album, it's a game to work out the original owner: https://www.flickr.com/photos/96383454@N00/albums/72157706717818305/

First of all I'd look on Fallenflags for that number or similar: https://rr-fallenflags.org/up/up-frt.html Unfortunately that doesn't work for patch renumberings if you don't know the new code. I suppose those RPM guys over there will take a photo of something they've actually seen, but another option might be to look to see if that livery has been produced in patched form by a model company and search for others with the same code.

Not my video of VP-BDA landing at Kemble yesterday, delivered new to Basel 9 years ago but never completed as a business jet as intended. The airframe has less than 20 hours flying time and is likely to be parted out for spares.

Thanks for taking and sharing the video. Looking at the video now, I wish I'd done more with the smoke effects, but couldn't get the output from the humidifier to draw up a factory stack and wasn't sure of the long term effects of the vapour. Also, due to the distance to the socket in the room we were in meant I didn't have a spare 13a socket handy, but could use an adaptor lead as I have a spare c14 socket on the variable height stand.

I've bitten the bullet so to speak, and overlaid the new plates towards the front of the tank. Problem solved!

Bit of a disaster when de-naming a Dorothea to fit custom plates, the varnish I had temporarily used must have lifted the green underneath when I started to remove the printed name with IPA. Does anyone know of a good match for the green because ideally I'd like a centrally mounted plate and the theme for the layout is a bit of an estate railway so judicious weathering to cover it won't be possible....

Plenty more if the Carbarn here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.wa0200.photos?st=gallery

You could model a genuine Niles Crane: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/hhh.wa0200.photos.169724p/?co=hh AFAIK the Carbarn in Yakima was never wired, there is a knife switch on the wall and a long piece of cable called a "Stinger" that hooks onto the trolley pole to power cars.

It's one of those where you wouldn't notice it until it was pointed out, then it might be a bit jarring. Furthermore, you'd have to chop up some of those Mountain Spew trucks so one had a back end on the front, so the reflection in the mirror would show another rear of a going away vehicle, and not the front. Am I overthinking this? Possibly...

Something I did notice through the weekend was there weren't any hire vans in the car park, despite the presence of several large club layouts. Obviously this is an ongoing concern for both access to them and cost, but if this is the new future of exhibitions then we'll do just fine. There are also several videos of layouts at the show now appearing on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cotgrave+model+railway&sp=EgIIAw%3D%3D

It seems the great British public do fundamentally like foreign layouts, my US HO scale nighttime switching inglenook "Blue Heron" was voted favourite by the public at the Bingham MRC show at Cotgrave at the weekend. It was up against some credible opposition but seemed to pick up votes either because it was in a darkened room so the individual lights had more of an effect, or because it is mounted on an opticians instrument stand so can be adjusted in height remotely to suit all. I would explain the winning concepts but that would ruin the content of my forthcoming book "How to build a good exhibition layout and pick up lots of accolades without trying to sound like a complete narcissist".

There was a list on here a few years ago...

Day 1 of the South Notts show, TBH I wasn't exactly looking forward to it but the organisers remembered the brief and put the layout to the side of the stage in a darkens room. This seemed to make a massive difference to how the layout was perceived and there were lots of favourable comments and no failures that weren't caused by operator error on my part. Thanks to @doctor quinn for operating (and allowing me to go plane spotting) at lunch time, we'll be there tomorrow from 10 to 4.