Sandown 2013 Photos

For those that won't be able to make it this year I have stuck about 50 photos in an album for your viewing delight, I have even included a few token locos

Album

Slideshow of above

From the published list of exhibitors I thought things may be a bit sparse but there seemed to be as much to see as last year and trade on most of the stands looked brisk.

The Maker area looked to be getting quite a bit of attension,the wheel pattern and casting that was in ME recently was on show and the results looked good in the flesh.

Would have liked the light levels in teh competition room to have been a bit higher and that was not helped by it being a rather grey damp day.

If you were thinking of going then its not too late to visit over the weekend

J

Thank you, unable to get there this year, the photos are much appreciated. Tony Camp

many thanks Jason

very enjoyable it is a bit to far for me to get there and back in a day

regards

peter

Usual grumble about shortage of seating, but the exhibition was very good. Seemed to be a very high quality of club exhibits, and the first floor exhibits were excellent. While possibly slightly invidious to single out certain exhibits, the galleon on the Guild of Model Wheelwrights definitely caught my eye. I was disappointed that the superb Shay on the Staines club stand wouldn't fit in my shopping bag, but "you can't win'em all". All in all, the standard of exhibits I thought was exceptionally high, and the exhibitors are to be congratulated on the standard achieved.

D

In addition to Jasons pics at Sandown today James Lauders triple expansion steam engine is something that surely surpassed "model engineering". As a chap next to me viewing this work remarked " Faberge would have loved this"! For my part, James' creation is perfection. Please note I refer to this as a work, in my opinion James's creation is not just a model - it is a work of art.

I saw a smashing beam engine here:

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and the Tiger tank from Oz is here:

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Edited By JasonB on 13/12/2013 20:49:58

If you get a chance have a chat with the builder fo the caterpillar tracked excavator builder on the SMEE stand. It is fully hydraulic despite it's small size, with some incredibly clever micro engineering of the pump and controls.

Um, it's a beautiful engine but I have a feeling it's a double expansion based on the Leak design. The 3rd "cylinder" I decided was a piston valve on the basis that underneath it was an eccentric rather than crank. The original Leak design has slide valves on both cylinders IIRC (there is one part built under my bench).

I stand corrected John. If I had described it as a compound condensing marine engine - which is what it is - I would not now be standing in this corner with a pointed hat marked "D" on my confused head.

Rik

Thank you for the photos Jason. Although I was there on Saturday they are still good to look at, and you have photographed things that I cannot remember seeing!

The Australian chap with the V12 engined Tiger Tank was a star. He kept putting on demonstrations and taking it apart to show people; even running it when there were big engine knocks and an apparently loose flywheel. Did he fix it for Sunday?

The lighting and viewing were sometimes an issue. In my view, the best engine there was Alan Crossfield's 5" Patriot that is now painted and finished. Beautiful to see, but regrettably in a dark corner, even though near the windows.

Gentlemen, an update on the Tiger engine - it was terminal, however I won't exactly know what blew until it gets back down under in February.

From my perspective, the show was fantastic and the visitors even more so. Perhaps this is because shows down here and elsewhere in the world, even the USA, are much smaller and dare I say, less professional.

I guess the reason you blokes are spoilt for choice with model engineering shows is that you were the people who bought us the industrial revolution, international commerce, cricket and the steam locomotive.

Gerard Dean

Great slide-show, Jason

Thanks for posting it.

MichaelG.

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P.S. The Poly-V belt on the first photo looks much more "scale" than the various alternatives.

The link to the 1/5 scale tiger tank

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