Normanton and Pontefract Model Railway Society hosted its 53rd show this weekend.
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00:00 I'm Richard Kirk, it's Normton's and Pontefract model exhibition 2024. There's about over
00:18 20 layouts and the equivalent styles. It is an annual event, every final four weekends
00:29 of January every year we're here. We do get some regular exhibitors, what we see most
00:38 years but you get layouts from areas that don't normally come this way. My name is Barry
00:45 Oliver and today I am demonstrating how to weather wagons and locomotives. That means
00:52 turning nice clean wagons into more realistic ones so they look just like the real thing.
01:01 45 years would you believe, I know I'm only young but since I was at university. Some
01:08 of my stuff is in Australia now that I did all those years ago because my mate moved
01:13 to Australia and he's just been back and I've done some more for him. Hey, that's what life's
01:18 all about isn't it? These are for my colleagues in our club in Leeds, he's building a model
01:24 of Osboldwick on the Derwent and Valley Lake Railway which had a tower works. So these
01:32 clean ones are all good, they've got to be dirty so that's what I'm doing today. I like
01:36 things that look real, I don't like them straight out of the box. I've got a very nice shame
01:41 that I've got to clean them all or two, put a warm layer off and run. Hi, I'm Mike Carter,
01:48 this is a layout called Red Hook Bay based on New England. All the buildings here are
01:53 cast in kits. This particular kit here is all nine buildings and they're all made out
02:01 of different media. So you've got wood, metal, plastic and this is plaster. This particular
02:10 model took about three months to make and once I'd made it I asked my wife what should
02:16 I do with it and she said well you might as well build a layout around it and that was
02:20 basically when Red Hook Bay was born. This layout only took six months to make. I had
02:29 a deadline, someone in Dutton asked me to come to an exhibition and I rather foolishly
02:34 said I will come with it and I was working on it until midnight the night before. The
02:40 station here is actually the third one I built because the first two didn't actually fit
02:45 in the gap that I'd left the station. All the models are cast in kits. This particular
02:52 little kit here is over 60 years old and it's actually a copy of the stations that you find
03:02 in Disneyland.
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