Above is everything you need to know on how to come and see Salmon Pastures in the flesh.
We are exhibiting once again,, for the first time in very nearly 2 years,,, and only the second time in the last 9 years.
Crickey 2 of us had hair back then!!!
If the "significant other" insists on coming,, fear not,, you are in luck,, as you can leave her at Roys of Wroxham where she can very quickly dispose of your hard earned savings,,,, or even better you can hire a day boat and send her off on a cruise round the Norfolk Broads while you enjoy yourself watching us show just how much we have forgotten about running the layout properly in public. We can't wait.
I also attach a couple of pictures as mitigating evidence on why we have forgotten how to run the layout,,, I have been that busy trying to finish off some the "projects" that have been gathering dust on the "To Do Shelf" that we just haven't had time to play trains of late.
The track has got that dirty I can see I may have to attack it with an angle grinder if the inherited 12inch "b*st*rd" file dosen't do the trick,,, talking of cleaning track did I ever tell you about when we did a show at Barrow Hill and we were in the Deltic Society's workshop,,,, I had to clean the track that much over the 2 day show I got blisters,, and we still have some rather caustic smutty marks on the rail which just will not clean up.
The recently airborne Jersey Lily will be in evidence,,, [see above,, and how fitting with this being V.E. 80 week] along with it's brand new scratch built chassis and it might have even been weathered by then,,, along with the D2 and D21,,,, not that they need weathering but it is the easiest way of disguising my pretty average attempts at red lining a black loco,,, Ian Rathbone deserves every penny he gets painting and lining 00 locomotives,,, I think my eyes are the wrong shape for such activities,, a comfort zone it is not,,, and never will be.
In that well known modelling phrase from way back "from 6 feet it looks fine,,, get any closer and it looks as though it's been done by a one armed blind man on a galloping horse"
How Michael Angle-ion managed to paint and line that cathedral ceiling whist lying on his back 35 metres up a ladder is a complete mystery to me,,, I have to wonder if he used Humbrol or acrylics???
Any way we look forward to seeing you again,,, we are usually the elderly mob in the corner,, giggling like Hyena's and almost certainly the furthest away from the tea and biscuit stall.
The recently painted J39,,, one of the original Dad's Army crew from way back when,,, last painted in about 1972 and to say it looked shell shocked was an understatement,,, I was going to go mad with a new chassis and motor/gearbox etc but once again just like the J52 I decided against it as it has served me well for so long I thought it could do without the pain and trauma,,, perhaps I should just call it a "Layout Loco" and believe me I've got a few!!
A personal favourite the N4,,, another from the Millholme series of "Heavy Metal Models",,,, for me this is your archetypal station pilot and when the mood takes me I may well build it's sister engine as I ended up with 2.
I know I'm biased but I think they looked good when Parker built them but they looked even better with a J G Robinson chimney and dome,,, and back in the day there were many of them working in the Sheffield / Barnsley area,,,, needs weathering but it looks quite good straight from the paint shop.
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