flyingsignalman Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 In the spirit of the OP, what happens if someone decides to convert all their Hornby Dublo to P4? It sort of defeats the second half of the brand name... In a Model Railway Constructor published in either 1967/68 (I think) there was a layout featured using, the then new, P4 standards. One of the locos was a Hornby Dublo 8F, otherwise unaltered if I remember correctly. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalie Graham 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. To which you then respond, 'No? It's lucky I thought to bring my Coleman stove then. I'll just pop out and get some petrol for it from the car. I don't suppose you've got a plastic cup I could borrow, have you?' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasslands Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 How about a 1970s railway running with an army of claytons, 15s, baby warships, baby deltics and metrovicks, with a rusting line of deltics, peaks, 47s, 20s and 31s? Tom 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
£1.38 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Open a rucksack stall outside the exhibition 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Running a prototypical train service on your model branch layout (including no Sunday service?) This is already modelled at most shows. Forget live steam and live Diesel. How about live electric? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted February 24, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2012 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?... As long as I've got room to move around wearing a rucksack.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Grafarman Posted February 24, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2012 (edited) Maybe going up to the seller with all the Hornby Dublo stuff and asking if they've got any N gauge... Edited February 24, 2012 by Grafarman 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bigcheeseplant Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 refusing people at the door saying the show is invitation only, but allowing people in if they are able to answer selected questions correctly? (up to others to post what the questions may be!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Taz Posted February 24, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2012 refusing people at the door saying the show is invitation only, but allowing people in if they are able to answer selected questions correctly? (up to others to post what the questions may be!) Something along the line of: Have you had a shower this morning? 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I'll admit to having skimmed through the posts so apologies if anybody's suggested this already, but what about keeping a 'pedant's bingo' card, with all the old chestnuts; 'That didn't run there', 'That's the wrong shade of....', 'But the track is too narrow anyway...' and all your favourites from time immemorial. Go on. You know you want to! Dave. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfwit Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 ...but what about keeping a 'pedant's bingo' card... Not quite the same thing but I've thought about a cliche bingo card - Dapol JCB, Coopercraft AEC, Airfix railway workmen, bus on bridge etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Jackson Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 (edited) order a pint of lager at the bar (only at the larger shows of course), the real ale crowd will have you lynched in seconds Edited February 24, 2012 by Philip Jackson 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 order a pint of lager at the bar (only at the larger shows of course), the real ale crowd will have you lynched in seconds I saw that at Stafford show one year (the agricultural one not the railway one) where a bloke walked into the real ale tent and asked for a pint of lager, certainly a lively 5 minutes. Walking round York with a beer glass in your hand asking traders what odds they are giving on horses in the next race was quite good fun a few years ago. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37255 Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 (edited) Not quite the same thing but I've thought about a cliche bingo card - Dapol JCB, Coopercraft AEC, Airfix railway workmen, bus on bridge etc. Had a game of cliche bingo at the last show we visited, last to spot them got a round in! Off the top of my head it included: GWR branch terminus; O gauge 'layout' on a 6'x2' baseboard; beautifully detailed loco hauling out of the box stock; rakes of coaches with the same numbers; etc. Edited February 24, 2012 by 37255 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 How about a layout in a rucksack ? The Captain's rucksack is usually full of parsnips when he goes to a show, so there would be no room left for a layout. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Building in 00 and calling it "finescale" Cheers, Mick I take issue with that. Finescale modelling is about more than track. Harford Street is code 100 'OO', and that's going to a 'finescale' show next year. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfwit Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 When exhibiting my own layouts, I usually derive much fun from watching innocent bystanders read all the historical guff and rhubarb that I've written on the display boards, assuring everyone that 'there was a railway in this location' and this layout is a 'faithful representation of what existed'...etc. etc. - you get the drift, and then wait for someone to tell me, in all solemnity, that they remember catching the train from there or some such. Nowhere do I write that it's all a big fiction...! I remember Brian Clarke, of Saltford Models fame, showing me a book that he once wrote about a fictional branch line in a fictional part of the country. Apparently some took the book seriously and were rather peeved when they found out the railway never actually existed. Perhaps you have more info on said book CK? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted February 24, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2012 ... a fictional branch line ... Helford Valley Railway 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Breaking wind in a lift at a model railway show is guaranteed to make you unpopular. Easpecially if you squeeze one out 'in your wake' as you step out of the lift, just before the doors close trapping the noxious fumes in the lift. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovex Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I was going to suggest that we British didn't go in for "lynching" and the most you would get would be some very heavy tutting and rolling eyes, then I remembered we were talking about railway modellers. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 24, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2012 refusing people at the door saying the show is invitation only, but allowing people in if they are able to answer selected questions correctly? (up to others to post what the questions may be!) African or European? You have to make sure the questions are complete & not open to sub questions. Kevin Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted February 24, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2012 Q: What is the correct gauge for a railway? A: 7ft. You either have a very select gathering or the entire queue lynches the doormanperson. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 (edited) A couple or geezers on the door with long black overcoats and bow ties asking "where's your tie, son?". "Your name's not on the list, sunshine. Jog on". Edited February 24, 2012 by Baby Deltic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 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 That would do about as much for your hard man credentials as saying: "The English rugby team kick bottom". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trevellan Posted February 24, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2012 A couple or geezers on the door with long black overcoats and bow ties asking "where's your tie, son?". "Your name's not on the list, sushine. Jog on". No problem. I'd just tell them that I'd be reporting the matter to Andy Y and the Mods. Enough to scare the most belligerent of doormen... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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