Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts

Friday, 21 February 2020

Film Friday

The past is another country...
The middle clip of a three part video from the 1980s. Two things struck me about this: Firstly that Barry Norman's EM gauge track could easily be OO. Secondly how far we have come. Or perhaps not?
The scary thing is that now you could buy everything on Wyndlesham Cove RTR, even the buildings to an extent. So in theory you could reproduce it purely by waving a bank card. Would this really work? I know that I bang on about this all the time, and the illustration is of what was cutting edge stuff at then, but as a friend of mine is keen on saying 'it's built, not bought'. WC is stocked with kits and what looks suspiciously like the odd Peco Wonderful Wagon, but the charm outweighs everything on this and all the layouts here. Model making skill is paramount, creating something personal is paramount. Not how much did I spend, or 'this just arrived in a new box, isn't it good'. Old days old ways... better ways.