Ahh, Maidenhead. This year, I managed the run down there in under 6 hours, and arrived in time to help set up the stand. Useful, as I'm tall enough to assemble the light boxes without a ladder.
This was the year of the giraffe car protests. As you will remember from last week's post, the Rapido mob had started a beef with me over the lack of giraffe transport in their latest announcements. So, I turned up with a petition.
They had other ideas. When we got to the stand on Friday, a cuddly giraffe looked down on us from the top of the light box, and another had appeared in the water tank of my little layout.
Actually, it's a very nice 3D printed model, which was under construction 20 minutes after my video dropped. There was another in the official display cabinet.
Anyway, I worked the room with the petition, getting some dubious sorts to add names to it.
I'm not actually convinced everyone was taking it seriously - the first name was Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Simon "Mr Hornby" Kohler also appeared, even though we didn't see him. However, he's since promised to sign, so all is good.
By the end of the two days, we had nearly 100 names on the pages, and I presented them to Andy Hardy, Rapido UK big boss. He looked impressed.
I think we can take it that soon there will be a new addition to the range...
The show was as ever, great fun. Star of our stand, was Chris Mead's swimming pool model, which appears in the current issue of BRM. So many people were captivated by the vivid blue water, and he kept having to abandon his layout Overlord, to explain the resin process.
Elsewhere, I photographed one layout, and have the details for a couple of others to squeeze into my busy calendar.
Cake? Well, nothing worth speaking of in the hall, but on my way back from lunch, I detoured through the adjacent cinema, and found a cake stand. I couldn't resist the Duffins. Very nice too, and my little giraffe friend didn't seem quite so keen!
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