Catchup Post
Last weekend J and I went to a model engineering fair. It was *awesome*!
3 sports halls full of working models of everything – including trains of all sizes, jet engines, articulated lorries, aircraft, traction engines, buildings, musical instruments, fairground rides, electric trams… too much to mention. Bloody marvelous! So many model engineering companies there as well selling tools and materials it was a bit bewildering. I managed to use that as an excuse to keep my wallet in my pocket (I don’t have space for a milling machine anyway)
That train there is “T-Gauge“ (1:450 scale) which means the track is less than 5mm wide! There’s no way I’ve got the patience (or the eyesight) to model at that scale…
I didn’t take many photos (I’d only taken the compact camera with me, and it doesn’t do all that great with sports hall sodium vapour lighting) and these three are the only ones which worked out ok. I do like the one of the gallopers though. Really not bad for a compact camera with no tripod, propped up on a railing.
That’s that catchup out of the way, there will be a telephone related one along later…