It is now a week since I came home from the Market Deeping Model Railway Club’s Stamford Model Railway Show and my knees still ache from standing around Innsdorf all day for two days! It was well worth it. Innsdorf rose to the challenge and was quite popular with visitors. The youngsters loved the quizContinue reading “Innsdorf at the Stamford Show”
Author Archives: Mark Warrick
Off to the Show
So, all is ready! The layout is in complete working order and very presentable, all locomotives have been serviced and all track cleaned. The curtains to go around the underside of the baseboards have been made and are ready to hang, and I even have a Swiss flag to hang at the centre to hideContinue reading “Off to the Show”
A Critical Factor
The moment of truth! An important aspect of preparation for exhibiting the portable section of the layout was how I was to transport it. I had carefully measured the layout boards and the loadspace in our new Ford Puma Gen-E and it seemed that it would fit, but I did not want to await theContinue reading “A Critical Factor”
Presentation
There is more to exhibiting a model railway layout these days than simply producing an attractive model railway scene with reliable operation. Since I last showed a layout about forty years ago (yes, really!), standards have risen! My resources have improved, though, and, to some extent, my abilities, so I hope I can rise toContinue reading “Presentation”
Tickets on sale now for Stamford Show
Innsdorf’s exhibition début is to be at the Market Deeping MRC’s Stamford Model Railway Show on 9th and 10th May this year at Stamford Welland Academy. Tickets are already on sale on the Club’s website: book now for a small discount and fast-track entry to the show.
Completing the Fiddle Yard
So, the track was laid last year, the board constructed some months before that, but there was more to be done before we could actually use the portable fiddle yard in order to make the portable section of the layout ready for exhibiting. The items were: These tasks are now complete and the whole layoutContinue reading “Completing the Fiddle Yard”
Preparation Continues!
I have offered to show Innsdorf at the Stamford Model Railway Show this May 9th and 10th, organised by the Market Deeping Model Railway Club, and my offer has been accepted, so although the layout is fully operational at home, I now have a number of relatively minor tasks to complete to make it exhibitable.Continue reading “Preparation Continues!”
Those Platform Lights
As I mentioned earlier in the year, among the detail kits I bought with money I was given for Christmas last year were five kits for building the distinctive gantry-mounted station lights for two of my stations. I built one fairly soon to test out how easy or difficult it would be (difficult!) but itContinue reading “Those Platform Lights”
Almost Ready!
Painting the backscene, with a slight hitch! When I was about forty years old and first needed reading glasses, I imagined that deteriorating eyesight would become an increasing difficulty with building scale models, but that has not turned out to be the case. Thirty years on, with spectacles I can see well enough: sometimes workingContinue reading “Almost Ready!”
Laying Track in the Portable Fiddle Yard
Although I built the legs for the portable section of the layout (Innsdorf station and village) and the board for the fiddle yard, laying of the track had to wait for an opportune moment because I could not do it in the model railway room: it needed a longer space. This meant either outside (inContinue reading “Laying Track in the Portable Fiddle Yard”
Innsdorf Modellbahn 