This was an Exhibition in O Gauge organised by two Middy members and myself. Here are some photographs taken on the Day.
MSLR (Middy) Exhibition.
Layouts
Refurbished Photo Planks
My photo planks were looking a bit tatty, so I decided to freshen them up a bit. A clean and then patch up on both, finished off the new backscene on the O Gauge plank. I have left the hand painted backscene on the OO plank. Added quite a bit of groundcover bushes and grasses on both. All I need to do now is become a better photographer!!!!
It is my ultimate plan to produce two new planks, twice the size and much more detailed with photographic backscenes.
O Gauge
OO Gauge
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Pegasus Cement Works – Progress
I had a meeting with Graham, the owner/maker of this project today. He has asked me to do the hard standing on the layout based on a concrete loading/unloading area.
As usual in O Gauge I am doing this 3mm Cork – after an overall application I add strips to simulate the blocks as laid by the reinforcing method. The gaps give you a chance to add a few weeds etc. later. Next step is to lay cork between the tracks and fill as necessary.
After completing the above it will be coated with Railmatch concrete paint and then weathered and detailed. It will then be handed back to Graham for completion before a final weathering overall. We are already booked for two Exhibitions later in the year.
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Little Sefton at Long Melford
Last weekend was a very busy one – after being at Dereham on Saturday, we were at the Sudbury Club organised Charity Exhibition on Sunday. We took Grahams Little Sefton Layout after purchasing it off me a couple of weeks ago. We were still running my stock as Grahams had not been prepared yet.
The Exhibition was very busy, the ‘star of the show’ was Nigel Locke’s magnificent Long Melford Junction, but all layouts and displays were top class and much appreciated by the public. As the attendance was larger than expected, a special mention to the Catering Team who did superb work and kept us all fed and watered.
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Gare de Brindille at Dereham Ex.
On Saturday 2/3/24 we were at the Mid Norfolk Model Railway Exhibition – we had Grahams 16mm (SM32) WW1 Layout there. A few Photos taken by my wife on this very enjoyable and busy day.
This Layout is at March Model Railway Exhibition on 9/3/24 – come and say hello.
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Stoney End O 16.5 Layout
I have added this layout to our list of Exhibitions Layouts. It is owned by our Friend Peter Rye and is available for Exhibitions. Here are some recent Photos of the layout.
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Farewell ‘Little Sefton’
Today I said farewell to my beloved O Gauge Layout Little Sefton. I have sold it to a member of our small group, Graham Minshull. Graham will take over the two booked Exhibitions for the layout this year at Bury St Eds and Long Melford. He will also be looking for more Exhibitions in 2025 when he has prepared some of his own stock, until then he will use mine.
I do not intend to replace Little Sefton with a like for like, but concentrate on my O Gauge 17′ Station Layout that I started in 2017 !!!! It has a decent size goods yard that will take my Ex Sefton Stock.
Graham and Shaun with Little Sefton a few year ago.
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Bowford – visiting Locos
Just another quick photo session – this time with some of my own OO Locos.
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Bowford with Coaches
Had a little photo session this afternoon using Ian’s Locos with some of my weathered coaches. Basically it shows a local passenger train coming in and taking water before running around and also a parcels train getting ready to depart.
I may have one more session before the layout goes, running some of my weathered locos etc, albeit from a different region.
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Bowford Locos and Stock weathered
As mentioned yesterday – I was going to weather the first of the locos and wagons for Bowford, well I did this today and the results are below. It is great when you put weathered items on a weathered layout – it all comes together for an overall picture.
