Any one for Kettering - 2nd March?

[Ian G]

Cross Slides for my Beattie from Lauri Griffin
For my G6 from Laurie's stand
Door dart
Whistle
Tank filler tops
Medium & small gauges
M&M 12t pipe, this is up for an air brake conversion with scratch susspension.
0.5/0.7/0.8 plastic rivits from EDM models
1kg of liquid lead
Tamiya 1/48 British light utility car, saw one in a mag remade for a builder in the 50's

Ian G

 

[rosspeacock]

My last phone was a Nokia 5800 .........much better camera than the iphone

You should have got a Samsung
Ross..

 

[Dog Star]

Anyone taken a photo of the Model Express after the Iploffy free flying lesson?

 

[marsa69]

Anyone taken a photo of the Model Express after the Iploffy free flying lesson?

 

[Dog Star]

Brilliant, b****y brilliant!

Thankfully I do not have to put up with the C-in-C screaming and shouting like you poor blue conscripts.

 

[marsa69]

Thankfully I do not have to put up with the C-in-C screaming and shouting like you poor blue conscripts.

Life in a blue suit my friend But we keep emergency tiffin to hand for occasions like this

 

[Ian G]

did one wagon or more fall off his stand?

Ian G

 

[marsa69]

At first the sound of the impact made people think the whole stand had gone over but it was just a solitary GUV

 

[iploffy]

He didn't seem to bothered it took him an eternity to get to the front, the event organiser was more bothered about the dent in the floor from my chin hitting it. Honestly I didn't know someone(not me) had balanced it on the end. well it made it a little bit more realistic another dent

 

[Emma H]

Glad everyone had a good time. Now what about telling us what you all bought?

Apart from socialising..... Collected my order from Ken Degroome for some 7' 9" wheel base motor bogies for my Met Railway 1913 saloon stock scratchbuilding project. Started building one of said motor bogies today...


Then it was a visit to C&L for rail, crossing nose chairs and slide chairs. They had already run out of wooden sleepers and as I am not a fan of the plastic ones it's a web order during the coming week.

Then a visit to the Guild stand to buy an apron. Hopefully this will cut down on the swarf, plastikard shavings, drops of glue and other modelling leftovers that normally make a mess of my clothes.....

Bit of a record for me as it's the first time I have stuck to my shopping list.

 

[40126]

Best moment of the show? When Iploffy launched a Model Express GUV across the arena.
Funniest Moment? His expression just after the GUV hit the floor.

Prey tell more .........

Steve

 

[40126]

Bedford Road








Hobbs Warren

Hi Jordan,

was nice to put a face to the name


Ive got almost the same pics as these, same angles

Steve

 

[iploffy]

Prey tell more .........

Steve

It could have been worse I could have trod on it

 

[40126]

I tell you Iploffy what was blue and that was the air behind the Model Express stand. I don't think a repaint will fix that poor GUV...

Probably improved it

Steve

 

[iploffy]

I should have sat on it but the GUV would have become a SPLAT

 

[Buckjumper]

Had a good day after what was a very loooong and tiring week, so thankfully I was given a lift. Nice to meet up with old faces and meet new ones. Seemed to spend the whole day talking to people and ended up buying very little - I even missed a couple of stands I'd meant to visit though I did manage to pick up some more work which was a bonus. No need to hire a table, just spend the day gassing

All I bought were some sundries - Dullcote, glass fibre sticks, etc as well as this rather tasty casting for a job later this year:



This new kit from Ragstone for Basilica Fields - only three vans were built and they all ran in the area portrayed, so I might end up doing one of each:



And this kit which strictly speaking was bought by someone else, though it came home with me as it's a future commission. I love the Adams LSWR tank designs (so very GER in aspect!) but none can feature on Basilica so I'm particularly pleased to have netted this one. This will be in either late Southern or early BR livery, and the question at the time will be can I resist buying one for me to decorate in either the Adams or Drummond liveries? All bets are off!



Sorry for the rubbish photos courtesy of my phone.

Next stop, the ALSRM show at Reading in May.

 

[Buckjumper]

Then a visit to the Guild stand to buy an apron. Hopefully this will cut down on the swarf, plastikard shavings, drops of glue and other modelling leftovers that normally make a mess of my clothes.....

I've just bought one of those too, replacing my old cotton Draper apron which was quite literally falling to pieces after 7 years of toil.

My new Guild one is Ultramarine Blue and I wonder if I can convince SWMBO to stitch vermilion lining all around it...?

 

[Dog Star]

My new Guild one is Ultramarine Blue and I wonder if I can convince SWMBO to stitch vermilion lining all around it...?

Or sentence Iploffy to paint an arrow of indecision in penance for bad yokes?

 

[Emma H]

My new Guild one is Ultramarine Blue

After much deliberation I chose Maroon as it seems to co-ordinate with most things...

 

[Dikitriki]

Nobody has commented on this photo (cropped from original), posted by Mickoo



but unless I miss my mark, I think it is the pre-production Heljan 40 painted and weathered by Brian Daniels.

I don't pretend to know 40s well, but it looks great to me.

Richard