One of the jobs i have as Division Rep for Scotland is raising awareness of the NMRA across the country. One of the ways we do this is by attending train shows. This past weekend i was at the Elgin Model Railway club show who invited us to come all the way to Elgin about 40miles from Inverness so its the most northly train show we have attended in many years. 

What i normally do is set up a table with NMRA leaflets and models, but and also sit work on my own models during the show. This is great because people which come, watch me work and then usually start a conversation where we can talk about the NMRA. So yesterday i managed to make contact with two members we had lost touch with locally as well as handing out a number of membership leaflets. There was even an NMRA member from Austrailia at this little show in Elgin.

Just to show how much i managed to get done here are my models from Saturday:

First i built and weathered this Scale Trains boxcar Kit.

Then i went on to build this N Scale laser sub shop kit

Then i weathered these two micro trains N scale bulkhead flat cars.

Then i finished my modelling for saturday by starting another N scale Laser kit for a warehouse.

Well see how far i can progress with this on Sunday. 

Sunday started with completing the warehousr and painting it, took about 3 hours to get it painted. 

Then i weathered the warehouse with rust deposits on the exposed metal work and then used a grimey wash to tone down the model.

And while i had my stuff to hand, i weathered the sub store i built yesterday.