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Posted by John Stevenson on January 20, 2008, 10:38 am
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:29:06 +0000, David Littlewood
>>There was virtually no queue at 10.00 (two or three people in front of me),
>>but by 11.00 the foyer was full with a zig-zag queue and the tail was out
>>the door and down the step (thankfully it was not raining much).
>>
>>As to the show, I thought the much hyped "A variety of scale models and
>>demonstrations" was rather half-hearted, do the organisers really want to
>>become a "show of all the modelling talents", like the old Nexus organised
>>Ally Pally show? If so, they really need to attract some traders and a
>>decent display of static models.
>>
>>I thought there seemed to be a lot of boat models and related traders to my
>>eye.
>>
>>As far as model engineering traders, there seemed to be a lot of standing
>>seling very similar items at similar prices.
>>
>>I did see Bob Symes near the Gauge 1 Society stand, Mr. Symes must qualify
>>as one of the 'grand old men' of the hobby, who people may recall from his
>>appearences on Tomorrows World back in the day!
>>
>>MH
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>Thanks to you and the others for the report. I had thought of going
>today, but on the basis of these comments I decided not to bother. Roll
>on Harrogate, I suppose.
>
>David
Harrogate is THE best show of the year.
If, as a paying punter I was restricted to one show a year it would
have to be Harrogate and it's not the closest to me.
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>but by 11.00 the foyer was full with a zig-zag queue and the tail was out
>the door and down the step (thankfully it was not raining much).
>
>As to the show, I thought the much hyped "A variety of scale models and
>demonstrations" was rather half-hearted, do the organisers really want to
>become a "show of all the modelling talents", like the old Nexus organised
>Ally Pally show? If so, they really need to attract some traders and a
>decent display of static models.
>
>I thought there seemed to be a lot of boat models and related traders to my
>eye.
>
>As far as model engineering traders, there seemed to be a lot of standing
>seling very similar items at similar prices.
>
>I did see Bob Symes near the Gauge 1 Society stand, Mr. Symes must qualify
>as one of the 'grand old men' of the hobby, who people may recall from his
>appearences on Tomorrows World back in the day!
>
>MH