barnard castle truck show bank holiday weekend

[v8alan73]

hi all

its that time of year for the local truck show at barnard castle its on sat/sun/mon and there will be a model show and some r/c as well oh and real wagons too. all you need to do is bring your winter woolies and wet gear. 

alan

[modeller]

i will be up with the grandson on Saturday, with the wet gear 

[v8alan73]

i will be up with the grandson on Saturday, with the wet gear 

i dont what time i'll be there steve it all depends how much beer get drank between now and later probablys about 11 ish after i stop at the bait van in the layby just before the showground. if you are there early just say you are there with the models (tyneside and durham model club) and you shouldnt have to pay.

alan

[modeller]

  will do 

[modeller]

didn't get many pics of models to busy talking 




















one for Joe

[mixxy]

Nice Hanson Volvo, looks like that one skipped by our corperate image bods......fortunatley 

[modeller]

ye no big square blobs on that one 

[stuckontrucks]

I bet that `Purple Haze` is quite a spectacle in the dark.

[consettbell]

Somehow I missed you Steve, nevermind I have the FL's and one will be one its way to you soon 

That Hanson FH and its blue FM counterpart were in front of me in the queue to get out, ended up following them all the way back to Consett where I presume they're based, couldn't catch them on the hills though!

I've got loads of reference pictures for various trucks and fleets but photobucket is taking forever and I cant be bothered to wait for it any longer, so I'll sort them another night or when I get better internet

Heres my pictures of the models for now:


Wolfie's:





Tony's











Mine:






Alan's:











Bill's:




Andy's:






Robin's:



Roy's:




Graham's:



Dave's:

[modeller]

thank you for the photos Andy  i didn't get many, not that easy with the grandson in tow but he loved it none the less. couldn't get him away from the RC section Alan 
he got a bit grumpy in the end so we did a quick exit 

I've got loads of reference pictures for various trucks and fleets but photobucket is taking forever

are you using the bulk up-loader ? its much quicker 
some very good looking builds on display, the J R Adams is especially good 

[stuckontrucks]

Great photos Andy.  Thanks a lot. 
Only ONE weathered build amongst them (which looked terrific). Can it be that - like me - people do not want to ruin hours of work by applying a BAD dose of weathering?

[v8alan73]

i'm with you on the weathering jim i'd hate to ruin a model that had taken months to build maybes one day i'll give it a try but i'm quite happy building shiny ones for the minute. there were some wonderful models on display and a great time was had by all

alan