@@johnwigington2434 I'll be at Bury St Edmunds tomorrow and Stafford Sunday so expect more next week. There's a lot of exhibition specials on the channel in the meantime :)
Hi there, I personally don’t over weather my models, but I must admit that I had the same thought about the layout like the previous comment needing some attention for weathering. But all credit to you a really good video, but I couldn’t help but notice the hole in the sky / background for the running stock to enter and exit the layout. Regards from Ron.
It must be hard and difficult at times to get a good video. With poor operators sudden stop/starts and many layouts where trains just go and reappear through a hole in the sky ! It is not difficult to avoid this situation and I know because I have done it. I would suggest that you avoid this exhibition next year because I will not even watch a video on it. Shame but that’s the way it is. Regards Ron
@@RonCooper-nl4pn so youre suggesting I don't attend this exhibition next year, because you won't watch the video? Well 6 and a half thousand people have watched this one, I've gained at least 30 subs from it and a good amount of advertising revenue, so I'll manage quite fine without your view. Cheers
@@SHGPMediaHi there, I do apologise as I didn’t realise how many views you had, there weren’t that many comments and they weren’t all great. I think your video was very good so I now have subscribed to your channel. I am now going to watch some more of your videos. Regards from Ron 🚂🚂
There were some nice layouts here. Pity some of them were so badly operated. People simply don't look at how real railways work or read up about it. Locos don't couple up at 100mph and then reverse immediately. Sadly this is a trend at exhibitions these days. Thanks for the video though.
There’s always one! Railway modelling is supposed to be fun yet instead of praising people for their hard work and creativity you criticise the way their layouts are operated. You are the reason people are wary of getting into the hobby. It’s not just a “one off” either, I’ve seen you comment on other videos and it’s always a negative or criticism about the way someone has done something. That’s the thing about life, nobody is perfect and they don’t have to be. I’m not sure what type of trauma you’ve had in your life but projecting your own sad inadequacies onto other people is really quite pathetic to witness. Keep your pointless criticisms to yourself and try to spread some positivity instead. Just because there is an option to comment doesn’t mean you HAVE to and as wise men around the world have always said “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. ❤
Now that looks enjoyable. I took our Grandson to a show yesterday which was frankly, pretty damn bad. A few half-reasonable layouts but they were either not working, the 'operators' were gassing or puzzling over screens that show nothing of sense. After an hour of little action, we headed off to the nearest Heritage Railway! I'm afraid that after years of this observation, many shows seem to have the same problem. Chaps! You're in the entertainment business; please entertain! Some years ago a club I belonged to had a chairman who said 'We're un-paid members of Equity; we must entertain!'
Yeah it has become quite common at a few shows I've been to. One which I travelled quite far to get to, based on being told that there were going to be a high number of layouts, thereby justifying the trip, turned out to be lots of small layouts where the operators either felt they did you a favour after being asked to run something, or their layouts ran so poorly it was impossible to get any decent footage. I now tend to only travel far if it's a big show or with layouts which I can look up online before attending. If they're mostly layouts with no information online or running footage, that tends to be a red flag and avoid. The biggest red flag I find is when they don't advertise what layouts are going to be there. I sometimes spend ages with a layout to get something decent which I can put out and show the layout and show in it's best light. What people don't see in the videos are sometimes hours of frustration and pain, that was edited out! :)
@@SHGPMedia Absolutely spot-on. That was exactly the case this time - and the second time this year. Admittedly we did travel to Bristol last year which was utterly fantastic, so everything else is perhaps not going to be as good, but there must be a few really top-quality layouts that aren't able to get to Bristol/wherever that are looking for a local event. We've been able to get to a mere handful this year (several Heritage Railways though) but this one really did make me decide that I'm not travelling too far anymore.
@@Beatlefan67 Spalding, Stamford, Biggleswade, Silverfox and Bassingbourne are local ones which I can highly recommend. Spalding is November I think and I go both days. It's pretty big with plenty of large quality layouts. GETS is next month at Milton Keynes which is very good, but extremely busy. I have to do two days at that to film everything properly.
Steve another amazing video of the exhabition, great content, and talk about keeping me in suspense, the footage is excellent well keep up the great work, Thanks 👍
Thanks for the video. I went but there didn't appear to be any kind of signing to let you know about the 'other' hall so I missed all the finescale stuff, which is a shame as that is what I really would have liked to have seen. At least I can see it on here.
You're not the first I've heard that from. The room was noticeably quieter and you can see in the pan at the start of the video. I knew it was going to be there from their social media post but I probably would have also missed it. I did miss one layout though which was at the front of the hall. I missed it amongst the traders
The Bedfordshire rally was the first English rally I ever attended and it quickly became my favorite. I hope to be able to attend again someday. Glad it is back at Old Warden.
s scale in europe england? who is the producer or should I say manufacture of s scale in europe I know american models and river raisin in s scale never heard of s scale that is interesting thank you where do you get the motive power and the tracks and wheels ect.
It's a purely scratchbuilt scale, hence no one manufactures it. I hear its not as easy to get hold of the materials these days but the S scale society does exist to help those wanting to build in the scale
Unfortunately I can only film what is run. I have a limited amount of time to get around each layout and film them equally. There were 27 layouts at this exhibition and I had 5 hours to film them all. This layout for whatever reason, didn't have many movements during the time I was with it. I returned to it throughout the day where I could, but there gets to a point where I will just move on as I can't spend too long with the layout, or risk not being able to get enough footage of the others.
Dentdale makes me wish I'd gone N gauge! My obsession with heavy freight means the huge mixed goods trains just look awesome to me! Love these videos (think I have attended my last model railway show, unfortunately). Thank you for posting!! 👍
I've gone to N gauge for a small one off project I'm working on, but now I've started it's become very tempting to do something else bigger afterwards. Eventually I'll have something in all 4 of the main scales. Thanks, I'll be attending many exhibitions each year and hopefully more once my own layouts are done, so you will always have plenty on content on here
Great to see the Tube represented at a model railway show!! I’ve only seen it once before, but I know it’s possible for more layouts to use underground trains!!
It’s lovely to see such a broad range of different layouts being exhibited. It makes me think that there’s no problem with the idea of railway modelling although some of the shops have closed down.
Yeah the idea of the hobby dying was complete nonsense generated to get clicks. Yes people, myself included, are struggling with the current prices of new releases but plenty still available in the hobby if you look for it
I've noticed that American layouts have appeared to become more popular since the pandemic. I suspect a lot of people wanted to build something different during lockdown. Those fortunate people who weren't working every day unlike some! 😂
The individual layout for Craigillin is now on the channel. Thanks again for a painless and rapid filming session, if only all layouts were that easy to film!
Thanks very much for this. The running of the layout had nothing to do with me at this show. I was unable to attend due to a medical procedure I had in June. It was exhibited for me by Ben,Richard and Steve. Looking at your comments they did the layout proud . Hopefully see you at future shows. Stop by and say hello. Best regards Jeff
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Thursday, 18 July, 2024) is this 1:76th-scale? T-gauge (strictly contemporary Japanese) is 1:450th-scale; Z-gauge (generally German) is 1:220th scale; N gauge is 1:160th-scale, HO-gauge is 1:87th-scale; S-gauge is 1:64th-scale; O-gauge is 1:43rd scale (some use it with 1:48th scale); 1-gauge is 1:32nd scale; G-gauge is 1:22 or 1:24th scale (some use it with 1:24th/1:25th-scale). I am no expert on any of this-just poor at maths!
