WRS on the Road Again

The annual Shearwater Hobby Show was held over the weekend and the WRS had six modules in the UMG setup.



This is a view from the upper level of the whole layout. We added another ten feet to the total length from last year's show, with the addition of Dave T's module and WRS farm scene. This year we had to work around two airplane with the museum adding a T-33 (on the right) to their display. The layout was roughly thirty feet end to end.


This is a view of of three of the WRS modules. Wedge, farm scene and Matt's Corner.


This is a view of the layout from Rock Cut, of the main section of the layout. The staging yard was to the right of this shot.

It has been a long week, with the modules being loaded last Monday. On Tuesday morning, the crew met at the Museum to set up the modules. Wednesday I headed back to the Museum to setup the farm scene module, since I could not get into my car on Monday. Also setup the Chief and tested every thing for Thursday. Thursday morning it was back to the Museum for shooting a spot with a local morning TV program to promote the show. Friday, watched the program to see how the spot turned out. It is strange to see and hear oneself on TV. Saturday and Sunday were the Show itself, were we had many visitors to the layout. Some of the younger visitors maded a few trips back. After the Show closed on Sunday, it was time to stuff the car with all the modules. With the help of the Crew, everything found its way inside the car somehow. Today, it was time to unstuff the car and take everything down to the basement.

Now with the Show behind me, it is time to start working on a few small projects on the WRS.

later

Doug

Update

Just a little update. I have not been working on the main layout lately. The WRS will be on the road again. Most of the time has been spend on completing a module that was built last fall for the November Show. Also Glen and I when to the Moncton Show last Saturday. Picked up a few items required for the WRS to complete a few projects.



The brown section is what the module looked like at last November's Show



This is the view from one end of the module now, the brown is gone and a farm scene has taken it place.




This is a shot from the other end.

As you can be in the background the module is setup for the Shearwater Hobby Show. The layout was setup early for a shooting by the local television show Breakfast TV to promote the Hobby Show.

Next week I hope to have a report from the Show.

later

Doug