Andy

Well back after two long days. Have lots of images to share once I sort through them all. Some great rare machines on show including a very fine collection of crawlers. Quick preview of whats to come tomorrow

Well day one complete, battery recharge for tomorrow. Hopefully the weather will improve!

It is the 51st Carrington Steam and Vintage Rally this weekend - 30th and 31st May. The event attracts thousands of people, with over 600 exhibits of steam and tractor equipment. I will be there taking photos with a small stand in tow! http://www.carringtonrally.co.uk/home

I will try and get an update out of them this afternoon. One thing to remember is the company owning britains will prioritise their biggest selling lines and get new product for that shipped quicker than others. I dont think there will be any more changes to this model.

And a few layouts

Seems to have been a good response to the show in general. As Barry said, the weather didnt help, but those that did visit seemed quite satisfied. There was a good selection of displays and traders so plenty for everyone. We had a very good day and as has been said, the Model Farmer mags appeared to go down very well again. A very big thanks has to go to Mike (robbo) for doing a sterling job at helping me on the stand. Even though he managed to wipe his spending money out before 9am! Well done to all of you who entered the competition. There were some very nice entries as I'm sure you know, making it quite hard to judge winners. With the help of PDC we were able to pick the top 3 in each category which I will announce later on today. Thanks to Mike I was able to go round and take LOTS of images, which I am downloading on to the computer at the moment. Hopefully they have come out ok, so will upload in a seperate topic later this morning. Finally good to see so many FTF faces about, both visitors and traders. Some new members should hopefully be joining too after talking to us yesterday!

Jordan, Maybe you can give the full details but Philip Olds contacted us to say he had done some work for you on the buildings on your layout, and is happy to talk to any other FTF member if they are interested.