Postby Steve Carter » Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:34 pm
Scalefour Southeast 2023, part of the Uckfield Model Railway Exhibition.
The first Scalefour Southeast took place over the weekend of Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd October 2023.
This was a new Society regional event, featuring the Society’s Membership Stand and the Scalefour Stores, along with five P4 layouts and Scalefour Society demonstration stands.
The show also featured the Iain Rice Extravaganza, a tribute to Iain who sadly passed away last year. Spread throughout the exhibition were five of Iains 4mm finescale layouts and a display of his North Cornwall stock build for Tregarrick and various plans and drawings from his many publications.
The finescale modelling demonstrations at Scalefour Southeast are presented by members of the Scalefour Society including both the Kent and Marshlink Finescale Area Groups.
There were three different demo sessions in the morning and afternoon on both days and covered various subjects as listed below.
• Converting RTR locos to P4 (Steam & Diesel)
• Building P4 pointwork (including ply & rivet)
• Moving to P4 – Starting your route into 4mm finescale
• Alex Jackson couplings
• Suspensions (Locos & Wagons)
• Converting RTR rolling stock to P4
• Wagon Suspensions and detailing
• CAD and 3D Printing
• Introducing British Finescale P4 turnout kits
The demonstrations were very well received and attracted many visitors.
In addition the Scalefour Society Display featured details and entry forms for the Jubilee Layout Challenge.
The Scalefour Stores did a steady trade over the weekend and I was busy on the Membership Stand as well with five new members joining.
My thanks to all the Scalefour Society members who participated at Scalefour Southeast last weekend, including Mike Ainsworth, Bob Cummings, James Walters, Chris Ellis, Ben Mason, Jeremy Good, Roger Barron, David Lowe, Mark Tatlow, Jeremy Suter and those members who exhibited layouts. Of course a big thank you to Adrian Colenutt and all of the Uckfield club members for making us all feel so welcome and very much "at home".
We had a really good experience and for some of our area group members this was the first time they had done a demo. All them said they enjoyed it and I hope they were able to help others as well as learning things themselves?
I thought Scalefour Southeast as part of the Uckfield exhibition worked very well and seemed to be well received by visitors, so thank you to Adrian Colenutt, the Uckfield MRC Exhibition Manager, for the idea.
I hope our Societies involvement helped contribute towards a very successful exhibition for the Uckfield club and hopefully we can look forward to doing it all again next year?
Steve Carter
