At long last I have finally managed to find time to get outstanding photo reports from 2012 updated and posted on my blogsite at: http://micksrovingreporter.blogspot.com/ Sorry for the long delay in this.
Decks cleared ready for 2013 reporting, which starts tomorrow at the SWOONS day at Ilton! See some of you there!
Mick
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I've been burning the midnight oil a bit (see posting time for this) and have now got the photo reports from two events in January up and running and the camera memory cleared in time for NGSW this coming Saturday! SWOONS and Barton Le Clay events from 12 and 27 January can now be seen via my blogsite at http://micksrovingreporter.blogspot.com/
Mick
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I very much enjoyed your report, Mick - although I wonder who you refer to in the caption of photo 10.... We have several master modellers over here - Jan van Mourik, Henk Wust, Bert van Rhijn etc
So much excellent modelling going on out there that I feel I should get a move on and do some modelling myself for a change. Nothing much has come of that in recent weeks, despite good intentions. Very inspiring material, thanks for your never-ending toil!
Excellent as ever Mick.
The photos are excellent but for me the most useful part is the captions - being fairly new I'm not always sure what I'm looking at and having a knowledgable person write it in the caption makes it even more useful.
Many many thanks for the time you spend on this.
Frank
Thanks Ted,
I saw Bob Vaughan at Shepton Mallet today and asked him if he had anyone in mind when he named his Minitrains/Egger-bash as "Dutchman" and he disappointingly said that it was simply a set of nameplates he was given that happened to fit the tank side, never mind it was worth an assumption!
Thanks Frank,
It's actually the captions that are the main reason why it takes me so long to get a set of photos sorted out as I do try to get anything I put in both accurate and sometimes witty/humorous but never in a personal derogatory sense. Most of the time I seem to get it right but every report I upload usually prompts at least half a dozen messages to tell me of errors, which again I try to correct as soon as possible. Next little challenge is to make something of the 300+ snaps I took at Shepton Mallet today - hopefully there will be at least some that are usable!
Regards
Mick
A treat as ever! And informative as well as entertaining. I've looked back and forth at the train turntable photos and the conversion photos several times. The captions and the behind the scenes photos are a great asset.
Any chance of seeing some interesting control panels?
Edit: spoke too soon - there's one in number 029.
Whew - I'm relieved!
Wonderful report though. Now for NGSW... when you can spare the time.
Some cracking layouts there and lovely pics too. Thanks for keeping going.
Cheers
John W
Nice report, very interesting and informative.
Bob B.
I'm slowly getting back up to the surface and this time I have managed to get my latest roving report online 1
Thanks, Mick, excellent report as usual. Several new 009 layouts I never saw photos of.