Like Goldilocks' porridge this is just right. The Southampton club have a reputation for turning out a good show and this was no exception. The exhibition manager has changed since my last visit, though if I didn't know that I wouldn't have noticed. The usual medium to high quality mix of layouts with a lean toward the finescale on one hand, but enough to keep a general family audience entertained. Trade was a good mix with not too many pure box shifters. Good to see a stand of ABS bits back on the scene and the ever expanding H&A Models who took a little money off me.
Strangely my only issue was with food, but because the servings were a little heavy handed, and not because of quality, and the staff in this area were super friendly... unlike a rival show just down the road (maybe it's a scummers and skates thing. If you know, you know).
Show 10
Catering 8
Rucksacks 2
I like the LT/BR (West London?) layout...looks authentically steam-age mucky but without being post-apocalyptic. It very much reminds me of some of the colour photos I've seen of the era.
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Apropos exhibitions, there's another Ashford "Festival of Railway Modelling" this year, celebrating 140 years of the (LC&DR) Maidstone East-Ashford line, April 6th & 7th.
I guess the LC&DR/SER thing is a bit like Scummers and Skates...