So the Rogers were able to make it to the Canberra Model Rail Expo again this year. Stalls, exhibits, displays, modellers, families, photographers, the works. And what were the outcomes?
Well my daughter has two more Thomas wagons. What makes the Hornby versions so much cheaper than the Bachmann ones? Is it that the Bachmann ones have metal wheels? (doesn't look like it in those photos...) I sure hope not given the price difference in Australia. Anyway. We now also have an Australian National bi-level auto carrier quite like this and at a great price, really we should have bought two...
We also got some good photos and because some things only work that way, we got some video too. My daughter has her own camera and took what would have been better shots on a better camera. Something I was beginning to feel with my point and click.
So I was a little disappointed on two fronts:
- I would like a better camera but cannot afford one at this time and
- I didn't get a lot out of this expo.
Please understand that it was not so much about the exhibits which were good, the stalls were good too: the 2nd hand stall was well stocked for example and there was a good variety of stalls, models and prototypes (so many countries!) at this expo if you had the bank balance ;-) Possibly it comes to expectation and involvement. I am still not a member of a model club (involvement) and yet that is probably the next step in advancing certain aspects of my modelling (expectation). And yet the main thing that keeps me from becoming a member of a club also contributed to the malaise of this year's Expo: time to model versus all the other priorities of life. And speaking of time, it's nearly midnight and I had better do another part to this later
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