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You won't be seeing much, if anything, of me tomorrow on here as I shall be at the NEC in Birmingham for the Warley Model Railway Show. The largest model railway show in the UK.
I have to drop off my Roundhouse Katie and a sound decoder whilst there, and I have drawn up a very short shopping list!
Being skint does help with purchases 
I shan't be taking any pics, as the hall has sodium lighting and I wouldn't dare try to take pictures with my camera in there  |
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THE COLOUR CAST CAN BE REMOVED! Use a bit of flash 
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Just got back, and I must say I was rather dissapointed.
After all the hype about how such a good show it is, it really isn't. It is like every other show, but with more traders and layouts.
One layout that I spent half an hour observing was Rowlands Castle, based on the location of the same name, during the Southern period of 1944. It had great detail from road signs being removed and stockpiled to the air raid shelter in the domestic garden.
I believe it has been featured in one of the last two issues of Railway Modeller. |
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| MTA wrote: | Just got back, and I must say I was rather dissapointed.
After all the hype about how such a good show it is, it really isn't. It is like every other show, but with more traders and layouts.
One layout that I spent half an hour observing was Rowlands Castle, based on the location of the same name, during the Southern period of 1944. It had great detail from road signs being removed and stockpiled to the air raid shelter in the domestic garden.
I believe it has been featured in one of the last two issues of Railway Modeller. |
Sorry to hear you were disappointed by the show but the big question is what did you spend your money on?
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MTA
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I spent £1 on a Peco booklet on how to wire points
There was a certain T9 and a Schools Class on display on the Hornby stand though 
I returned my Roundhouse loco to be fixed, and a Howes Models sound decoder. Saves me a lot in Special Delivery costs! |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Was great to meet you Simon, I think it's brilliant personally, but would rather if they seperated the traders from the layouts.
I bought some nuts, bolts, rotary wire brush, my first proper square (how long before I loose it?) and Peter Jones' new building small scale steam book I had a flick through on the way home and having inspected an Accucraft Ruby at the show and now reading his notes on re-gauging, it feels to me as though a new loco could be on the horizon, outside wheels spells:
P-A-L-M-E-R-S-T-O-N
to me  8) .
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Any pics chaps?
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SillyBilly
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Yes....
...mainly of the two Roundhouse 'Taliesin's
I'm obsessed...
Bachmann Brassworks Fairlie
Wernigerode (I hate exhibition halls)
Crap photo, but I loved the little underpass
Class 40 on a parcels train (trust me), it was going very slow but I had the flash off
Liverpool Lime Street I think, what a layout it will be....
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