37255 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Demo a re-paint of an NRM City of Truro in BR lined Black.....just on one side. Like I did on the real thing... Already painted - if I ever get round to building and exhibiting my 80s pres layout, it will appear! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Wait till I P4 my Triang Battlespace turbo car ... You'll have to repair it first, after it over-exerted itself the other night on the P87 circuit on TT2... No repair needed, it was just the thermal cut-out on the motor! Works fine. How about DCC and a sound chip playing 'Thunderbirds'? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Once upon a time (mid 90's) I thought some muppet collector was going to come over the layout at me. He almost went postal at the sight of half a dozen Wrenn wagons with Kadee couplers. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted February 23, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2012 If there is one of those really irritating layouts that uses loud 12" to the foot scale signal bells to tell the operator two yards away that a train is coming, overnight between day one and day two of the exhibition, nick the clappers out of their bells... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Lambton58 Posted February 23, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2012 Dead easy this one, just put a show on with absolutely no diesel/electric content whatsoever and watch the b*gg*rs moan. Now that's entertainment! Ralph Lambton58 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Lambton58 Posted February 23, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2012 Shout "SPAD" everytime a signal is passed at danger? Give a Murray Walker-esque "and it's Go! Go! Go!" everytime a train moves off with F1 like acceleration? Ralph Lambton58 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted February 23, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2012 Nobody agree with this - knowing Stu he'll build it if he gets so much as a nod and a wink (in fact he'll probably build three) Oi !! Right, just for that..... See you at Taunton !! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 We put a GWR pannier painted up in LNER wartime black on a layout at Goathland a few years back and Fred Rowntree was all for sharpening his pitchfork and having a stringing up there and then! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Stand in front of any well built finescale railway holding a Hornby Railroad Warship and some set track proudly telling any viewers that you built the that railway that they are looking at - the track, the stock, the electrics - you did it all. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Grafarman Posted February 23, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2012 Doing a Copenhagen Fields in N with Poole Farish A3s, A4s and that generic 0-6-0 they had plus generic Farish coaches, plonk on lots of folded cardboard buildings and then take it to a 2mm finescale exhibition. That will really upset people. I still have the Farish catalogue with exactly those locos in exactly that location... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armchair Modeller Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Chatting to a stallholder for fifteen minutes about something totally boring and irrelevant, with a large queue behind you. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Chatting to a stallholder for fifteen minutes about something totally boring and irrelevant, with a large queue behind you. Or perhaps asking the price of everything on the stand and then not buying anything, that used to really annoy me when I used to help out with a trade stand at a show. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted February 23, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2012 Oi !! Right, just for that..... See you at Taunton !! Shall I allow you a 'person-shaped' footprint on the floor plan, then, to stand with your Amazonian rucksack, perhaps having a little twirl from time to time?... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tequila Sunrise Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Top of my list would be the editor of a well known model railway magazine who sat down next to me in the middle of a chat with someone doing a modelling demo at an exhibition and started talking to the demo man as if I was not there. Even the demo man looked very embarrassed by the interruption. Needless to say I shall not be buying that particular magazine again. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 (edited) Shall I allow you a 'person-shaped' footprint on the floor plan, then, ..... To make it even more authentic, you need to add plastic tape marked "Police Line - Do Not Cross", and a couple of forensics in white disposable suits with their little paintbrushes.... Top of my list would be the editor of a well known model railway magazine who sat down next to me in the middle of a chat with someone doing a modelling demo at an exhibition and started talking to the demo man as if I was not there...... There are only two guesses that I can come up with as to the culprit Edited February 23, 2012 by Horsetan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltic56 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Always ask the exhibition manager Can you plug a kettle in along with the layout. That usually ensures a comment ot two. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted February 23, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 23, 2012 (edited) I'm on a day trip to Glasgow Ex in the next couple of days - maybe wearing a tee-shirt exclaiming "The Scots are rubbish at rugby!" wouldn't be a good idea........... Cheers, Mick Edited February 23, 2012 by newbryford 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Well they are much better suited to hauling trains... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddys-blues Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Muddy's "getting Lynched diary" at some finescale expo "Model Train Show" Saturday - go to all the Steam based layouts in a bright yellow Tee-shirt, emblazoned on the front and back in Red lettering "Kettles are for Brewing" Sunday - wear the white Tee-shirt, emblazoned with the phrase "FFS there only toy trains" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 My wife turned to a guy behaving in an inappropriate manner at York a couple of years back and said something along the lines of "If you rub your nuts against me one more time I'll turn you into a girl". Tell you what, one of the guys in the crowd behind us was an off duty policeman and he certainly had a few words to say to the bloke in question, few other folks did as well, I think the guy made a beeline for the exit after that. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 (edited) My wife turned to a guy behaving in an inappropriate manner at York a couple of years back and said something along the lines of "If you rub your nuts against me one more time I'll turn you into a girl". Tell you what, one of the guys in the crowd behind us was an off duty policeman and he certainly had a few words to say to the bloke in question, few other folks did as well, I think the guy made a beeline for the exit after that. Good for your good lady! Also, I commend you, Sir! If someone had been doing that to my wife, I would have been hard pressed not to take him outside!!! Mind you, the ladies often have "certain ways" with errant 'gentlemen' that are considerably more powerful than what another chap might do, he, he! Cheers, John E. Edited February 23, 2012 by Allegheny1600 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted February 23, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2012 (edited) or in front of a 2mm fine scale layout that it's N gauge I do this with great regularity when viewing Mick Simpson's Wansbeck Road... We put a GWR pannier painted up in LNER wartime black on a layout at Goathland a few years back and Fred Rowntree was all for sharpening his pitchfork and having a stringing up there and then! I borrowed a Deltic from the Scarborough club layout at Harrogate many years ago and replaced Fred's Sentinal railcar with it, he wasn't amused when it appeared... Edited February 23, 2012 by Worsdell forever 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozzer models Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 ... and I saw it reported on another Forum that someone went up to that layout at that Show, and in their best "Anorak Nerd" voice, said "Er, I think you'll find that that's the wrong colour Grey for a Rivet Counter Detector Van..." before running off...... The owner of said layout is a member on here I will let ian know next time i see him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 My wife turned to a guy behaving in an inappropriate manner at York a couple of years back and said something along the lines of "If you rub your nuts against me one more time I'll turn you into a girl". Reminds me of the story of a girl on a crowded London Tube train... suddenly held up high the arm of the man standing next to her, and asked loudly "Does this hand belong to anyone? 'Cos I just found it on my Bum..!!" 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dorset Wanderer Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Occasionally wear my 'Who Dies With The Most Trains Wins' badge. Steve 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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