Research and Inspiration Part 3 - The Exeter Show

The Exeter Model Railway Society have an annual show.   I'd been before - in the company of model railway fan chum - generally to look at scenery, although I'd had some interest in seeing the layouts work and what people did, bearing in mind my memories of the limitations of the childhood twin oval circuit.  This year I took along a different model railway chum and his son

http://www.exemrs.co.uk/about.htm
http://www.exemrs.co.uk/exhibition.htm


There's some photos and videos here:
http://www.exemrs.co.uk/2010%20Exhibition.html


I came away with what I went for - an introductory book on DCC, some weathering powders and a magnifier (the old eyesight is failing, like the rest of me) and something I hadn't intended - membership of the G Scale Society.
http://www.g-scale-society.co.uk/

I suspect I took up more than my fair share of Alan's time talking about ideas, different brands, different technologies and handling stuff from different manufacturer's to understand points Alan was making.  A big thanks must go to Alan for his time and patience.   

Whilst I was now a bit wiser on the pro's and con's of rival manufacturers, and ideas on design to bear in mind I was in some ways back to the drawing board because of that information and options I hadn't thought of previously.  I also had my DCC book to read to explain things to me.  (Should do my research better though: discovered afterwards that the Public Library had a copy of the same book in, so I could have borrowed it and spent my money on something else !).