Kettering - (roadworks warning) now Post-Show Report!!

[iploffy]

I had a nice day out I bought a 52 (ta mate) 2 IAG ferry wagons from model express(ok I felt guilty about 2 years ago when I killed his BG) I am still trying to find a picture of the variant 9 ribs 8 panels each end but there is time. Loads of other goodies including Mk2 seats, fab

 

[Phill Dyson]

Great day for me .......nice to see old & new faces too

I managed to get a few things organised for Withercombe & also managed to pick up some useful stuff too including a very nice fully finished Tower/Bachmann Brass MK1 SO for a very reasonable price from the Bring & Buy

Phill

 

[lancer1027]

Hope everyone enjoyed themselves.... For not making more any effort to attend I shall go and stand in the corner at The Back with the 'D' hat on... ah, umm... .... hang on a minute...

Anyway as consolation I picked up Bargain of the Day Week Month at my Local Model Shop;-


A Weaver O Scale 50ft Tank car body (no wheels, trucks or couplings) for £3.00 In yer face boys!!!

... and gave a short run on Withyn Reach to my Atlas Alco RS3, a recent eBay Bargain at £112 + P&P





...so not an entirely wasted day...

Nice , Result then. £3.00 is a very good bargain and £112 for an O gauge RTR loco.... mmmm very envious. Why British stuff cant be made cheaper

Rob

 

[lancer1027]

Great you had a good day Phill.

Hope to see some pics of newly aquired mk1's soon. I also hope everything went ok with John, i will be speaking to him later today so i can catch up with dodgy dealings.

Rob

 

[Heather Kay]

This is the stash from yesterday. I also picked up some bogie parts from JLTRT, and two large blue boxes for a client commission.

 

[Phill Dyson]

Great you had a good day Phill.

Hope to see some pics of newly aquired mk1's soon.
Rob

Here you go Rob




I also added yet another Bradford & Barton to my collection....



& I also picked up a few tools from Squires, some Peak bogie side frames & this gaurd will be reporting for duty at Withercombe this summer........



I was also extremely tempted by Easybuilds new Swindon Observation saloon, but with a queue of unfinished projects gradually shrinking I managed to resist.......very nice though

Phill

P.S. Thanks for the stuff, much appreciated

 

[Dog Star]

This is the stash from yesterday.

Parallel motion pliers... ooooohh!

Please tell, which stand had those delightful "must haves" (a very useful piece of kit for doing the diagonal L-girders of Slater's Dean's 7mm bogies).

regards, Graham

 

[Heather Kay]

Parallel motion pliers... ooooohh!

Please tell, which stand had those delightful "must haves"

Eileen's. Twenty-five of your English pounds. They had some more expensive ones, but these Mauns are chunkier. The jaws have about 30mm of useful length.

 

[Osgood]

Eileen's. Twenty-five of your English pounds. They had some more expensive ones, but these Mauns are chunkier. The jaws have about 30mm of useful length.

I went for the tapered nose version from Eileen's at Reading last. Another £5 but a super tool. I recall baulking at the price but succumbed in the end. When I got back home I discovered I could have saved a bit of money buying online, but one has to appreciate the convenience of being able to buy at a show and also look at the goods before you buy - if we always went for the cheapest supplier many of these specialists would pack up and we'd ultimately be the losers.

Here's an interesting 'bonus' feature of these Maun pliers:
Also ideal for manipulating wire which can be fed down the throat of the plier and held firmly over the full length of the jaws.

 

[oldravendale]

A great day and super to meet so many of you. Thanks for your kind welcomes and I promise more prototype photos as soon as I can get an afternoon to myself. I will also dust my camera off and start taking some pics of my builds - honest! But don't expect works of art!

I had a good day, the highlight for me was to purchase a Finney 47XX kit (as in 2-8-0, not Brush Type 4) on the Bring and Buy at a saving of about £70. Dunno why I keep doing it - I must be up to nearly two dozen unmade loco kits without the countless wagons and a good few coaches too. The there was the "Book of the Royal Scots" and "The Book of the Lord Nelsons" together with a dozen of the earlest MRJs including issue 0 for £15. I found my 2 x 2 mm brass ready for my Sentinel build, and the plastic rod for insulation (more on that later) at Hobby Holidays - as ever a most helpful visit to this trader.

I saw the 61XX 2-6-2T at Lee Marsh too and was very impressed. And don't forget, I'm not primarily a GW fan. The loco is absolutely immaculate as are all Lee's models, but at under £2K it's something of a bargain.

All in all a most enjoyable few hours.

Best regards to all.

Brian

 

[alcazar]

Went, saw, met some people, tried to purchase stuff....got told no or they didn't have it. Bought nothing...disappointed. Bought coffee, came home.

Roads were awful going, picked my lad up at Loughborough, came via Leicester, never again!

On the plus side, being with my lad, a time served welder/plater presently at university at Loughborough, I found out that the carbon rods used on an RSU are also sold as carbon-arc-air gouging rods and can be had cheap for a box of FIFTY!!!

Already sent for a box.

 

[oldravendale]

Went, saw, met some people, tried to purchase stuff....got told no or they didn't have it. Bought nothing...disappointed. Bought coffee, came home.

Roads were awful going, picked my lad up at Loughborough, came via Leicester, never again!
sold as carbon-arc-air gouging rods and can be had cheap for a box of FIFTY!!!

 

[oldravendale]

Went, saw, met some people, tried to purchase stuff....got told no or they didn't have it. Bought nothing...disappointed. Bought coffee, came home.

Roads were awful going, picked my lad up at Loughborough, came via Leicester, never again!

sold as carbon-arc-air gouging rods and can be had cheap for a box of FIFTY!!!

Already sent for a box.

Sorry to learn that you had such a trial getting back and forth. I drove in both directions via the M1 and had no delays at all. Sorry to learn about the problems you experienced in trying to buy stuff as well.

All in all not a stunning success for you.

However, in view of your success in finding more rods for your RSU than you'll use in several lifetimes you should, perhaps, start a business as the prime supplier to the model railway trade!

Brian

 

[Osgood]

.....I found out that the carbon rods used on an RSU are also sold as carbon-arc-air gouging rods and can be had cheap for a box of FIFTY!!!

Already sent for a box.

Care to share details?

 

[adrian]

Care to share details?

Just find your friendly local welding company. For example when I had my RSU I went to Preston Welding Supplies, as I was buying some brazing rod for another project at the time they chucked in a few 6mm carbon rods for free. They had enough scrap pieces on the floor for dozens of RSUs. If worst come to the worst then machine mart will do you 2 rods for £3.59.
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/range/guid/03415B0E-F101-4953-8DD7-B1FAACDCA325

Although I reckon you'll get them cheaper at your local welding firm. IIRC correctly Preston Welding supplies it was about £10 for a dozen rods - but that was a few years ago.

 

[SteveO]

Really disappointed I didn't get to you all in time. By the time I'd finished buttering up potential suppliers it was ten-to-two and there wasn't anyone I recognised at the track so I went for a burger and chips.

I had a different experience to Jeff, in that I had positive feedback from everyone I spoke to – and that was a lot of traders!

I came away with four hopper kits and a DJH Class 03 kit, to see what the competition are up to. While talking to ABS Adrian I completely forgot to get some wagon kits – again! I also wanted some wheels from Peartree and a couple kits from Heywood. I'll have to wait until the next one.

 

[Cliff Williams]

Lee Marsh's 61xx is an amazing model. I fitted the first sample with sound for him and will be repeating the exercise again in due course.
His other locos are superb too, but then I am biased as I set the DCC up for him now.

 

[40126]

..... a DJH Class 03 kit,

Hi Steve

There was a DJH class 03 kit on the bring & buy, Did you get it ?.

Steve

 

[40126]

I came away from Kettering with this little booty......



More details tonight.....

Steve

 

[Buckjumper]

Went with the expectation of an arduous journey as the AA had flagged roadworks for about half the distance, but in the end sailed through with just a few miles of speed limits. Arrived at 11am an got a space straight away ( a lesson there).

Don't think I stopped chinwagging from the moment I arrived until leaving - even on the way back to the car. Seems like the flood story had gone before me and in some cases grown to epic, almost biblical proportions (no, we actually only saved just the one cat and three goldfish)

Lots of recon for Basilica - Andy Beaton's class 209 coffeepot is a peach, and his latest GE wagons and NPCS will all find a home here too. I also handed him a GA for the 0-4-4T configuration of the 140 class which is in the works. Also pleased to see an chassis kit for the Slater's Midland 0-4-4T to convert it to one of the later series - perfect for me!

Long chat with Danny Pinnock @ D&S ("I saw you on the telly!"... "I thought I was safe hiding behind the fire engine!") - his GWR kits are definitely now back in the range for keeps - horseboxes N4, N8 and N11 along with the OCT Scorpion. Drooled over the GER clerestory 50' bogie coach - I can just about justify one or two. Oh yes!

Saw John Riley of Finescale who gave me a new big red box and bag of screws & bits & pieces for a job which had all succumbed to the floodwaters. Top chap wouldn't take a penny for them, and we swapped horror stories.

I've got another couple of paint jobs to do for Jim @ Connoisseur once I'm up and running again, and the word I heard from the Gladiator stand (not Geoff) was that negotiations were underway.

I had plenty of opportunities to really spend hard, but decided against it for now - no point adding to the chaos pro temp. I did however pick up an old Oldbury kit for a Midland Dia.379 Meat Van from the E&T stand. The proprietor of SM Models, in his wisdom, decided to delete these from his range along with the Dia.424 Corpse Van and Dia.399 Horsebox just before he died, despite being one of his best sellers (!) and and his widow doesn't know what's happened to the artwork or the masters. Trevor & Mercian has a copy of the Oldbury artwork as he produces all three in 4mm, and with a bit of encouragement from moi has now agreed to reintroduce them in 7mm - good man! Nevertheless I now have two, so one will be finished with 3' 1" wheels in goods grey and the other with 3'7" wheels in fully lined crimson.

Good to meet up some familiar faces and put forum names to some new ones. All in all a grand day out, Gromit.