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

Cliff Williams

Cliff Williams

Western Thunderer
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.
 
Buckjumper

Buckjumper

Flying Squad
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! :thumbs:

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.
 
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SteveO

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40126 said:
Hi Steve :thumbs:

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

Steve :cool:
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Probably – it was the kit on the E&T section right at the back of the room. It's a nice kit but it still has flaws. A major problem of the Right Price kits are the bonnet vents being half-etched so are inset instead of proud of the bonnet. On the DJH they are not proper angled louvres at all but simply flat louvre 'shapes'. I'm going to have a look at this for the revised kits as both are incorrect. It also comes with 3'6" wheels – also incorrect.

I was talking to Adrian at ABS and he said his 03 & 04 kits were exactly the same but he is unlikely to find the time to revise and rerelease them.
 
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SteveO

Guest
Unfortunately not, Mick. Malcolm and I discussed this and it was one of the things he was going to look at if he ever reintroduced it, but he would only have had come up with the same idea as DJH. I've thought of a few ideas around the problem – one is the same as yours, but in resin. Another is to make a proper louvred master and produce the whole bonnet in resin or pewter and the final idea is to make a thin etched slot at the base of each louvre opening, anneal the brass then, with a correctly sized tool, push the bottom of the louvre out. Hopefully this would form an accurate shape, but it would be hard to control.

Apparently the MMP 03 was exactly the same style as the DJH. I've never seen one of those so can't confirm.
 
rosspeacock

rosspeacock

Modelling on a £1200 table.
Had a great and spent very little just a few lost wax castings from Westdale for my Mk1's. 2 pairs of easybuild bogies 1 commonwealth and 1 BR1 for the Mk1's too. Also a rather nice Michael Welch book "early diesels in London"
Nice to see everyone and put faces to newer members...

Ross....
 
40126

40126

Western Thunderer
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Steve :cool:
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Ok then. I had a list (not a wish li.....) for parts for the undergubbins for my 2 x Mk1's (RTC & Scottish B&G), Got them from Model Express, as Peter cowling didnt have anything with him !!. Also had a good chat with the owner of Model Express. He's going to bring some new & improved CCT roofs with him to either Cleckheaton or Telford :thumbs:. I also had a look at his Class 20 & Class 17's. Might be tempted in a class 17 :oops:

A couple of Plastikard part packs & a full pack of T section.

4 x Parkside box van bodies (To go on my lima chassis i won a couple of weeks ago on ebay).

Yet another lima mineral & a slaters PMV body for £5 !. Out of the 'make a sensible offer' box behind the E&T stand. Mineral was marked up £10 & the PMV £5 :thumbs:. Thanks to Phill :thumbs:

& last but not least, A sheet of metal nameplates, 30 in all. 47's, 50's,33's.


Slaters didnt have the bits i wanted either.

Steve :cool:
 
marsa69

marsa69

Western Thunderer
Nice to meet up with peeps again but for myself my wallet stayed firmly shut :oops: ! Unless it was for coffee :)
 
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