Striking whilst the iron is hot, here's a post on the Llangollen Garden Railway Show today.
Love a streamliner.
Where was I? Yes, Llangollen. So this is a show we've been attending for the last few years, and it's always worth the effort of attending.
By contrast to the more commercial G gauge items such as that rather tasty streamliner, here's a really rather nice Gauge 1 loco. more to scale, and a wonderful model.
Going high up the list of 'models seen at the show that I'd love to own, had I a bottomless bank account'.
There were plenty of the trade there, who we were wanting to shop with, and several impressively large layouts.
This is the other loco I wanted, "Little Wonder". I gather it's a detailed 'Boot Lane' kit.
This is the sort of modelling I like; the builders (a family group) have been scratchbuilding the characters from the Thomas series that Bachmann haven't produced so far; that BoCo is brilliant, I wanted to do a model of him back when we had a 45mm layout, but never got around to it.
Quirky, colourful, and huge, this beast of a layout really caught my eye. Inspired by the works of Roland Emmett.
Yep, this also struck a chord. I love that there's room in garden railway modelling for the silly...
...and the serious. I really, really like this Fairlie.
Lots of nice live-steam locomotives running, and loads for sale. Seriously tempting, had I the funds.
That leads to thoughts on the Trade there. We came away with lots of goodies, though definitely on the 'laser cut kits' end of the scale. Though we did treat ourselves to a 3D printed loco kit from Boot Lane Works, who seem to be cornering the market in competitively-priced locomotives. A selection of kits from the likes of Timpdon Models (retiring and having an 'everything must go sale', to my disappointment, as I love their kits), and a few more from other suppliers.
Catering was a bit busy (the poor weather meaning the inside seating was a bit crowded) so we strolled down to the Llangollen Railway station.
The 31 was waiting to depart as we got there, which at least meant the tearoom was quiet enough for a sit-down for lunch.
Quick reference shot, for one of the benches we bought at the show.
The show was good as ever, and nice to have a quick catch-up with Phil Parker, my editor at Garden Rail. Lots of goodies bought, and some lovely layouts seen.
Who knows, maybe next year, I'll buy that Double Fairle too...
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