Overall an easy venue to find, plenty of free parking and being close to a main road I assume local bus links are good too. The hall was spacious and the refreshments were brilliant - home made, lots of choice, but the room was a tad too small (nothing you can do about that though as it was the only side room).
The standard was excellent, I will obviously focus on narrow gauge, but layouts like this - Haverhill South - were very nicely presented:
There were too big narrow gauge layouts in attendance: Rheilffordd Cefn Gam (7mm) and Fallgate - Ashover Light Railway (4mm - 009). There were some lovely models on the former, this is Moel Tryfan for example:
The layout runs through a model of Beddgelert station to a fictituous location (well a quarry that never in reality had a railway) with a station and engine sheds:
Jerry M (the prototype is coming to the Ffestiniog later this year!):
and then there was Beddgelert station itself. I saw this part at Warley and made reference then to the backscene, scenic colouring and the high sided Goat cutting, which I didn't like. I won't repeat those comments here, but certainly the stock was excellent:
and what better to finish on than a De Winton: Gorseddau here we come...
Fallgate I had never seen before and was superb. The stock was nicely weathered, scenery was believable and there was even sound!
Proper nice eh!A novelty was this mini layout on Seabury Town (O gauge)! The train on this micro layout even went round the loop!
West Harptree in 3mm - my flash is a bit unkind to the yellow fields, they were greener than that!
This shot shows the method for achieving traverser line up and electric continuity (I have forgotten which layout though - sorry)- I will copy this.
Other layouts included Shadbolt's Lock in OO/4mm...
and this French 1/22.5 scale layout called St Jean sur Mer which was superbly detailed:
oh and in case you're wondering what I've been doing...
and I've made up two more FR bugs, soldered duckets to 2 carriages (11 and 12) and built 2 Hudson bogie wagons, 2 Hudson 4 wheel wagons and added the seats to 24 (vale of Rheidol parkside kit bash).
West Harptree in 3mm - my flash is a bit unkind to the yellow fields, they were greener than that!
Ashbourne Midland was very nicely modelled:
This shot shows the method for achieving traverser line up and electric continuity (I have forgotten which layout though - sorry)- I will copy this.
Other layouts included Shadbolt's Lock in OO/4mm...
and this French 1/22.5 scale layout called St Jean sur Mer which was superbly detailed: oh and in case you're wondering what I've been doing...and I've made up two more FR bugs, soldered duckets to 2 carriages (11 and 12) and built 2 Hudson bogie wagons, 2 Hudson 4 wheel wagons and added the seats to 24 (vale of Rheidol parkside kit bash).It's all good...
[and yes all those photos did take ages to upload!]
Colin
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