WMD Stores added to!

As a result of my visit to the Market Deeping Model Railway Club Exhibition, not only did Mrs. Woody get her Tiffin but the WMD Stores got a few items!

I picked up this from a company called LCut who produce laser cut building kits. They sponsored YouTuber, Lauries Mechanical Marvels, in his recent model railway build so I thought I would try one of their kits.

Very well packaged and I bought some DeLux glue made for the job to.

There are certainly a lot of parts but looks very interesting.

The gent who does 3D printing with profits going to the Lincolnshire Air Ambulance was there and I really do love what he has in his ever expanding range. This 009 diesel loco body was just £13.

This very nice Cat pipe layer was just £8 - look at the detail!

And these bikes were just £1.

There was also a bus stop shelter and a telephone box again £2.

I just need time to put them together! Talking of which the good weather is seeing me concentrating on gardening rather than model making so maybe some rain is needed! However in the meantime the log splitting is seeing the pile go down.

And with hedges and grass cutting together with weeding there is a nice pile of bags to go to the recycling centre - evidence that Mrs. W cannot refute that I have been busy!

The Market Deeping Model Railway Club Exhibition May 2024 part 2

Yesterday I highlighted two unusual layouts and I will follow that today with a few others.

First off something that you don't see usually at a model railway exhibition, a ScFi layout curtesy of Laurie Calvert who has produced several of these layouts, plus others, over the years. His YouTube channel, Calvertfilm has a plethora of interesting and entertaining videos on all sorts of model matters. A great gut to talk with and really gets into the part with him and his parnter both in Steam Punk costum. People like this really do make a big difference to an exhibition.

It was great to see one of his layouts in the flesh and whilst many railway modellers may dismiss such layouts, I find them fascinating and they usually make a big impression on those non-railway modellers who attend shows such as Mrs. Woody.

A short video clip brings it all alive!

The whole layout is about 6 feet by 2 but packs a lot in.

This, believe it or not, is a GWR railcar, with a few ScFi additions!

Many of the lights and movements are interactive with switches for people to press!

Moving onto something very different and based on history and not ScFi we have this amazing duo of layouts depicting the exact same spot n Switzerland, just that they are 100 years apart! Take a look at the two pictures below. There are the subtle and less subtle changes such as the balloon being replaced with a helicopter, the horse drawn wagon going over the bridge being replaced with the Mercedes Actros but belonging to the same company! Whilst the owner explained the history of the layout my eyes just kept dating between the two layouts. It was fascinating and expertly executed and I have never seen it done before! You can click on the pictures to get the original high resoltution photo open up in a new window if you want a closer look.

Another first for me was to see a monochrome layout. Based on the old black and white film, Brief Encounter, the layout looked brilliant. I am guessing just working in monochrome is not easy but it is possible as this layout proves.

There is obviously a sense of humour wit the funeral parlor offering 'Buy one get one free'!

Another dock type layout in the form of Eastgate Harbour with its two teddy bear guardians!

Some wonderful ship modelling as well as the railway side of things.

This layout also had animated scenes and I was taken by this one of two brawling dockers!

Amazing the lengths to fit something in that modellers will go to. A cinema on one layout had an open roof...

...the audience and the film actually playing on the screen - and it was playing! Apologies for the poor camera focus.

Lastly, my first layout in the new Hornby TT range based on the Dawlish seawall.  Have to see if any others appear in this new gauge during the year or whether this is a lone sighting!

It was a great exhibition and I could post more photos but the ones I have posted are perhaps the type of layouts you may not see very often at an exhibition. To see so many in one is a credit to the club and exhibiton manager.

The Market Deeping Model Railway Club Exhibition May 2024,

A surprise visit today to the Market Deeping Model Railway Club Exhibition held in Stamford, Lincolnshire. I say surprise as up until 10pm last night it had been off my radar for reasons I have yet to work out! Anyway Mrs. Woody was delighted to go out at short notice to, as I carefully explained to her, buy some chocolate tiffin, so off we went. 

I have been to the last 3 events and baring the two events cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid it has now been five years since the club hit international headlines when the 2019 event was badly disrupted by four youths who vandalised some of the exhibits over night before the opening day. To see where the Club are now is a great example of people picking up the pieces and making something even better from them. This year there were some really great layouts with some unusual and never to me seen before layouts.

Starting with Essex Brick the layout exudes a character which took me seconds to recognise as being modelled on the type of interpretation of the Victorian Industrial scene that you see in the recent Sherlock Holmes films.

It is completely 3D printed - that is all the rolling stock, warehouses, vehicles, ships, cranes, people and cargo! As the builder said nothing is available in the shops!

It is a fascinating layout that needs a lot more time than I had to look at and spot all the details and cameos.

Another model full of character was this WW! layout  - A Cold Front. You just have to look at the scene itself to see this is a different layout from the norm. I was particularly taken by some of the rolling stock which had several unusual trains.

Just like this small Red Cross wagon and small loco.

Or this Swapwith Camel aeroplane in bits.

There are other layouts equally interesting and inspiring and perhaps more of those tomorrow and yes, Mrs. W did get her chocolate Tiffin. There is a lady who makes them who attends the exhibition each year and they are delicious!