Paul821

I was at the 1969 show. I will stress that I was at the afternoon show not the evening one. For those who don't know the story this was a double bill with Chuck Berry and neither wanted to be the support act, so they agreed that they would alternate between the two shows. The first show passed without any problems The second show was different... The Albert Hall's web site says "Following a raucous concert with Chuck Berry in 1969, The Who made headlines when they were later made one of the prominent victims of the Hall’s ban on rock and roll – a ban justified by the venue due to the ‘hysterical behaviour often encouraged by unthinking performers’."

In most cases the gigs I have attended have been by bands I have known through recordings and have met my expectations. So the best gig has to be awarded to a band that I had not heard before. In 1969 I went to the Stones in the Park concert and was completely blown away by a new band called King Crimson. I was one of the few people there who did not see the Stones as I had afternoon tickets to the Who/Chuck Berry show at the Albert Hall. As to the worst, that's easy after their hit the Hari Krishna movement went on tour - the least said about that the best.

In many cases I only able to state that a model has a rolling chassis when it has rolled off the modelling table.

Unfortunately that news has come too late. The Foden and the coach are both very simple kits with few parts so, while waiting for glue to set on the Felthams, I started the aFoden and it now no longer meets the 25% rule.

Unfortunately that news has come too late. The Foden and the coach are both very simple kits with few parts so, while waiting for glue to set on the Felthams, I started the aFoden and it now no longer meets the 25% rule. I

Beware of purchasing the Humbrol paint. It's not now in their range and some batches of the Humbrol paint of that era don't have a long shelf life. I purchased a number of pots of various railway paints, some were good and others totally unusable.? Looking both my pictures of Mallard and others on the web it is noticeable how the colour cast changes according to the ambient light and the film stock.

Although a week ago I put forward an Oil Tank Wagon as another build in this GB, these came up on e-bay today They are both ideal for the street scene with the Trams. So I put in a bid of £6.99 for the pair and there were no other bidders. The Steam wagon is in period for the street scene but out of period for the GB. The coach fits the criteria so when they arrive I will start a thread for the coach.

This link might help https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/104851-the-coronation-the-silhouette-mr-jenkinson-and-me/#comment-2083843 Some people say that Ford Fjord Blue is a good match.

Like the first cuckoo in spring, this lunchtime we had our first outdoors lunch and Spitfire G-CTIX passed overhead twice. As our house is below the route of the Duxford - Kent route for experience flights Spitfires are a regular sighting, If you had told me as a pre-teen spotter in the early 1960's that 60+ years later this would happen I would not have believed it.

I would refer you to @WillDeeks post earlier in this thread. I was interested to see that a main stream model shop I visited earlier this week, in a popular UK holiday area, has as their main stock of Airfix products these starter kits and Airfix Quickbuild. They must sell well for them and I would guess the starter kits are ideal purchases for holiday makers, as you get nearly everything you need to complete a model in a wet afternoon in your holiday caravan.

Prior to next year's 200th Anniversary of Railways GB, the opportunities for constructing railway items within this years GB are limited, However I came across this a proposal in the early 1970's for an self driving and self powered railway wagon. As it got to this prototype stage and the project never proceeded so it seems as if this is a candidate for this GB.

Always good to see a model based on an Essex subject and for WW2 the B-26 is ideal. For anyone who has an interest in the 9th AF in Essex, the Essex Records Office have a half day conference on 27th April. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/welcome-to-essex-remembering-the-usaaf-tickets-820073601217?aff=oddtdtcreator

Not too much to show for a weekends wrk Although it looks a little like a tram, nothing is actually glued it's all held together by the rubber band. As there are no locating pins or marks the lower floor can be located via the cut outs on the floor with match the doors. The only way I could find of getting the upper floor in the correct position is as shown above, so my be move will be to glue the floors but use the ends as formers. As the the track, construction proceeds at a slow pace as I have to be 100% sure the glue holding the rails (UHU) is gully set before trying the next one. This I can only add I rail a day and there are six rails per track. The second track will be fasters as I will have the correct measurements for the inserts and these will act as formers, so rather than nine sections there will be only three,

I missed out on the end of steam on British Railways as the 60's were the decade that I had little interest in railways. I made up for that by being able to witness the end of steam in West Germany and that one visit to East Germany in 1977. During the 1977 visit we were based in Berlin and Dresden and visited a number of steam sheds and barrow gauge lines. Forty years later I went back to Berlin and Dresden so it was interesting to see the changes. Unfortunately a mixture of a poor camera, cheap film, a limited number of shots for a two week visit and an inexpert photographer mean that now many of the images are excellent at bringing back memories but poor as reference works.

One of the benefits of working in card is that most errors can be rectified by reprinting the damaged part. In fact the build here is the second attempt. However the problem with the roof was somewhat different, getting the curve right was practically impossible to achieve with the kit cut as my Cricut machine had managed. Rather than go back to the beginning I reprinted the body at a larger size and overlaid the ends from the reprint on the roof. Liberal applications of PVA glue made the roof flexible enough to get into shape. I just hope that when the paper dries out the ends will look OK and I can trim them.