Showing at ExpoNG today
Only 8 and a half hours before the public get to see Loxley Barton Falls. It's 2am and I am not frantically getting everything ready having spent the evening finishing the layout, adding figures and finishing off the rolling stock. This is my first ever showing at an exhibition and ExpoNG is the premier narrow gauge model railway exhibition in Europe - so no pressure there then. Having seen the standard of work at last years ExpoNG competition I resigned myself months ago to the knowledge that there was no way Loxley Barton Falls could win the competition - this is the first layout I have ever made in 009 and there are soooo many mistakes! Hopefully it will be an enjoyable event. Hopefully no kids poke fingers into the layout and destroy everything (oh look a train - poke - snap. My eternal nightmare...) Hopefully I won't get befriended by wierdos who want to tell me about how the particular variant of Walschart valve gear was not invented in the time period of the layout (sod off weirdy...).
I had better get some sleep!
Comments
I would have thought that Expometrique "is the premier narrow gauge model railway exhibition in Europe"
It's certainly larger.
Posted by: Charles Hansen | January 18, 2006 5:48 AM
Yes you are correct Charles and I did Expometrique a disservice. At the time of writing though I was under the impression that it wasn't as large as ExpoNG. I have not been yet but have been told how big Expomerique actually is! ExpoNG must be the second biggest in Europe and certainly the biggest in the UK. (Really I am just trying to big myself up a bit!)
Posted by: Simon Cox | January 19, 2006 8:23 AM
Expometrique is certainly a very large exhibition by UK standards BUT it incorporates a large amount of standard gauge layouts in various scales up to Gauge 1 (plus 7-1/4") and is sub-titled Expomodel. Thus ExpoNG's claim being a solely NG exhibition, both shows are FUN to be at which is what railway modelling is meant to be.
Posted by: Dave Brewer | April 8, 2006 10:54 PM
ÉxpoMétrique covers between 4 - 6 times the floor space as Expo Narrow Gauge ®, plus for the past few years a portable miniature line has run a regular circular service along the "balcony". It is well served by puplic transport links and has a free shuttle between Massy-Palaiseau on the RER to the Grand Dôme.
Posted by: Hazel | April 9, 2006 11:55 PM