The Gauge O Guild Spring Show Kettering

[Pencarrow]

I'll look out for someone with a straw boater and flannel trousers? We have a Bulleid light pacific set to one side if sir would like to succumb

That's because they see you first Look forward to meeting, I've always missed you in the past, bad habit of mine going walkabout on a whim lol.

Bulleids on the side? I already have one! It's a T9 next...

 

[simond]

Won’t be there

Have a good time y’all.

Heather, don’t forget to visit Premier!

Best
Simon

 

[jcm@gwr]

I'll be there, going with a couple of fellow club members.
I've got quite a shopping list to complete! (and get past
SWMBO when I get home)

 

[BrushType4]

Anyone in the Bury St Edmunds area want a lift share with me?

 

[Dog Star]

I intend to attend, arriving about noon. If interested I shall have a bag of replacement axles to enable Slater's S7 wagon wheels to be installed in Dapol RTR models.

Rather than a rose in the lapel... or standing under the (station) clock.... I shall be sporting the traditional Red Hat.

 

[Arun]

It was a well attended show with more people there than I remember from previous Spring shows at that venue.
No shortage of folk dropping by to see and talk about what was new or in the pipeline
From my trader's point of view it was successful with pattern work confirmed as being acceptable for duplication by customers and much useful liaison work with other traders performed. Contrary to what seems like popular belief, many traders/pattern makers and the like don't regularly meet up with each other except at shows. The lead time for casting patterns and etch artwork can be several months sometimes for a complicated model/kit so the 3-4 months interval between o gauge shows is quite a useful one.
Meeting up with Line Society representatives is also useful if there is a nagging doubt as to how something should be done e'g', how the chains are wrapped around cogs on small breakdown cranes or the arrangement of "boxes" under specific types of rolling stock.
All in all a very useful show to have attended.