Chas Levin

I was sitting down; I still fell over 😬.

That's very interesting Rob; likewise I've been troubled by lead fixing methods and thought solder better than glue where possible, but mechanical fixing is better still. My first builds were araldited, then moving to solder and now, a combination of solder and/or mechanical.

Morning John, what a coincidence: this is the second kit in a row on this thread that I too have, and I only have a very few K's kits! Nice job you've done there - I will make a note for when I come to build mine. The kit I have is a set, with the loco and two 4-wheel carriages, all in the same box: is yours like that too?

Morning Rodney, yes, my kit has the same deformity: So I too will be adding someone else's underframe. Not a problem, as I'm currently building my first sprung wagon and I'm keen to try more...

Very pleased to see this: I have one in the pile, positioned towards the front (i.e. I actusally do intend building it quite soon!). With old kits, it's always encouraging to see someone make a really good job of it to modern standards - shows what can be done!

Excellent: always good to get something moving under its own steam!

Happy anniversary; unhappy wagon 🥲.

Nice work Nick, following with interest. Always good to go from undernourished to 'fat boy'! 😄

That is just superb, Rob: my favourite bit of modelling so far this year!

That sounds like another welcome opportunity Graeme to celebrate the wonderful diversity of human behaviour... with perhaps some diverse language too!

Thanks Mike and Rowan, nice to be able to narrow it down to a year or two with accuracy: so many photos are so difficult to date.

One of the great questions of the Modern Modelling Age: to what extent should we worry about ever so slightly less than perfect things which won't be visible once the model's completed, but which we shall know are there?

Similarly Tony, my wife is always telling me I'm too backward in coming forward: noted for next time and thank you! Yes, it was definitely more of a modellers' show, more kits and demos, fewer box-shifters - no disrespect intended, the only item I actually bought was RTR...

John Redrup is always exceedingly helpful and happy to supply parts where he can so I'd suggest asking if he can do so in this case...

Good morning Tony, I was at York too, for the first time, and stopped by your table a few times to say hello in person, but you were deep in a very long conversation with two gents and we had to leave before you'd finished, though to be fair, we didn't find your spot until we'd already been round the upper floors, having started at the top! It was a very busy show (this was the Saturday morning) and with a greater sense of bustle and excitement than the recent Ally Pally one, we thought. It also seemed to have stands - trade, demo, trader, Society and whatever else) crammed into every available spot in the building, again in some contrast to Ally Pally, where we thought there were fewer stands than last year. It was quite heartening, especially in view of recent conversations about the state of the hobby. Was it unusually busy for this venue? Is it by any chance a bit of a North/South thing? I've no view or agenda in asking that (I live in London), just that it occurred to me and I wondered what others thought... Nice Restaurant Car there - is that your ex-GCR resin one?