Simon
Flying Squad
Harry, Charlie and I visited Mike Walker and Co's very nice show this morning, I'm a bit ashamed to say that it was the first time I'd ever visited it.
A great little show, Keir Hardy had part of Hornsea there, looks just as good in the flesh as on the web and in magazines, a very nice model of the local Leckhampton Station, Mike Kelly's imaginative Cromer, which he very kindly let Charlie and Harry operate for quite a while and several other good layouts, link here for the show.
Mike, Harry and Charlie set up a sequence.
Charlie driving to Norwich
, this shot shows how effective this relatively small model is, the signals and route indicators are exquisite (and working).
A superb but crazy On30 layout called "Stow Creek" by Andrew Easterbrook, real water in the creek (over baseboard joints!!), a fiendishly clever but tricky to operate loading derrick, real pollution and DCC sound. The box cab heads out to pick up some flat cars.
This isn't a very good shot, (and you can see the creator wrestling with Derrick in the background
) but I really liked this loco, the weathering was just right to my eyes and the "1" on the tender was very character-fully hand painted - I could definitely feel myself beginning to come over all "Casey Jones"
A grabbed shot of the very nice Gloucester MRC "Cheltenham South and Leckhampton", a mere mile or so from the hall and sadly long gone - a lovely (OO) model.
Great morning out, thanks to Mike and all his helpers, postscript to follow shortly.
Simon
A great little show, Keir Hardy had part of Hornsea there, looks just as good in the flesh as on the web and in magazines, a very nice model of the local Leckhampton Station, Mike Kelly's imaginative Cromer, which he very kindly let Charlie and Harry operate for quite a while and several other good layouts, link here for the show.
Mike, Harry and Charlie set up a sequence.
Charlie driving to Norwich
, this shot shows how effective this relatively small model is, the signals and route indicators are exquisite (and working).A superb but crazy On30 layout called "Stow Creek" by Andrew Easterbrook, real water in the creek (over baseboard joints!!), a fiendishly clever but tricky to operate loading derrick, real pollution and DCC sound. The box cab heads out to pick up some flat cars.
This isn't a very good shot, (and you can see the creator wrestling with Derrick in the background
) but I really liked this loco, the weathering was just right to my eyes and the "1" on the tender was very character-fully hand painted - I could definitely feel myself beginning to come over all "Casey Jones"A grabbed shot of the very nice Gloucester MRC "Cheltenham South and Leckhampton", a mere mile or so from the hall and sadly long gone - a lovely (OO) model.
Great morning out, thanks to Mike and all his helpers, postscript to follow shortly.
Simon
Oh and did you say you had one of Fred's Warship kits to build ??.
