Railex 07

Author: jawapro
Date: Mon 19/03/2007 11:00 AM






All Aboard!

Well – I had a great time this weekend – for the most part.

Mike (Oblivion) and I headed down to Evendale for Railex. And we had a ball.








For those who don’t know – Railex is a big exhibition (well maybe you’d say it’s small – but it’s fairly large) of model trains and similar.

There were 20 or so model layouts – a couple of shops, and a couple of other assorted odds and ends.

Some of the detail in these models are incredible.

 

I hadn’t been in years – and it was Mike’s first trip to Railex. We got our complementary ride on the small scale rail-way out the back. The engine we were being towed by was a fake diesel and sounds like it uses a lawn-mower engine. And it broke down half way around!!! But they got it going again.

I used to collect model trains – and I even had half a layout. It was being done from convention (school competitions) and so we ended up doing a rush job on some of it – and then it lived under my bed for ages and fell apart – so we finally tossed the layout out when I moved house.

But I still have all the trains – and I still have grand plans of making another layout.

 

But I have half decided that I’d probably prefer a smaller scale. I think my trains are 00 scale – which means they are about the scale of a matchbox car (so you can use matchbox cars in your layout!) but the smaller ‘N’ scale trains can fit a lot more on a smaller layout – so that would be nicer for someone like me with a lack of room (that’s really why I never finished the old one).

But since I have a heap of trains and things – I think my first layout will be 00 or H0 or whatever my trains are.

 

And Railex isn’t just about trains either. The also have boats and planes and things. And I was particularly impressed with this – a remote control submarine. You can dive it and everything. In the murky pond you couldn’t even see it when it dived.

Very awesome.

So was the remote control Viking ship that actually rowed. Unfortunately I ran out of batteries in my camera (serves me right for not charging them).

Very cool time though.




Comments: 1

 

Comment: 1

Author: turkeybrain
Date: Thu 22/03/2007 02:26 AM




I remember going to Railex once. It was really really good. I wish I could have made it as well! (if I´d have known about it it would have helped though!) I´m sure you will learn to keep batteries charged for us though...