MEX Photos for those that stayed home

Round two of todays photos, few more locos, boats and bits and bobs in this album or slideshow.

More signs about today and the weekend parking arrangements that make use of the nearby office carparks seemed better than the park & ride and the sun even put in an appearance.

Thanks to all involved with the organisation and those that showed there models.

J

Edited By JasonB on 18/09/2016 18:01:12

Would it be possible to have a listing of the awards winners please?

Mike

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Thanks again, Jason

... Much appreciated.

MichaelG.

As I said earlier list of awards etc usually comes out in ME about a month after the event. Diane has photos of all the award winners with their certificates, medals and metalwork. I doubt that they will all make it into the mag but maybe she could upload them to an ablum on the forum when she has recovered from her long journey home?

J

Thank you Jason. I couldn't face the journey and the M25 to see for myself ,you have made my day. The nearest MEX to me is the new Spalding show of three years.It is better every year,so to all who moan about the Brooklands venue give it a chance to improve yearly and thank goodness that there are people prepared to put on these exhibitions.

Frank

Jason - Thanks for todays slideshow. I don't know how we missed the loco with the cow catcher and the layout behind it on Friday. Where should we have been looking?

Rik

M25 and M1 on way back home Saturday morning were utterly clogged - what fun

Edited By Rik Shaw on 18/09/2016 20:56:36

Edited By Diane Carney on 19/09/2016 15:02:47

Vickers room, serveral railway layouts and the larger models that were too heavy to lug upstairs.

Having been on Thursday, Friday and Today I did not find the M25 too bad, over the six trips I had a couple of 40mph variable speed limits and a few more 50/60mph ones but never came to a stop. Best run was back home tonight, don't think anything passed me and just one 60mph limit which was very short. Slowest bit of road was the bit between A3 and just south of brooklands but that was during the week, OK today.

Visited MEX today, Sunday, 120 miles 2hours 10 minutes there, 2 hours 27 back. Interesting look round, never been to Brooklands before. MEX exhibition pieces were interesting, I am sure if I had another life time to dedicate to model engineering I might get close to the quality on display. As it is I will limit myself to what I can achieve without taking all of my final years trying to achieve the impossible, and be happy.

Jason

Thanks for posting the photos

H

You were lucky Jason, after all the table stacking it was about 6:00 when I left, then by the time I had found a petrol station the M25 had filled up.

Funnily enough, door to door took three hours in the morning with no congestion on the M25. Going back with congestion and a fuel stop took three hours and twenty minutes. Just as with over 17 years commuting into Birmingham, the delays in congestion always feel longer than they really are.

I hope my experience shows it's worth entering models made by mere mortals; believe me, getting a certificate is a buzz

Neil

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 19/09/2016 11:13:46

Surely not a 'mere mortal' Neil - you have an Avatar!

Cheers,

Dave

It won the 'most practical piece of workshop equipment award'.

I had to smile, two lathes in the SMEE display - a Mini Lathe and another Super Adept.

Neil

Yes Very impractical to carry up a flight of stairs for an exhibition. For this sort of thing the Adept wins hands down.

But not as impractical as an under-drive Boxford

Just goes to show that there isn't such a thing as a "perfect lathe"

'Super Adept' - the lathe you can throw at people

Neil

Edited By Frances IoM on 19/09/2016 14:17:26

A few photos from my visit on Friday ** Here ** if anyone would like to see.

John