Gaydon

Here's how it worked.

Complete Toyota IQs were built in Takaoka, Japan, then shipped to Aston's Gaydon factory in England.

There they'd be stripped of their Toyota badges and rebuilt with Aston Martin DNA, or at least that was the theory.

The $40,000 makeover.

It's been alright.

Last weekend I was at Gaydon at the Great British Model Railway Show.

which was a lot better than the previous year.

So that was good.

In fact, let me try and count them through the window.

One, two, three, four, five, six... nine boxes from true to scale in there of top-up stock of ballast and universal ground covers and leaf scatter boxes and things like that so that all still needs sorting through and unpacking but at least I have listed all the new product on the site now and same goes with I've had a bunch of new deluxe materials bits in as well including their new 3D world and that's all listed but it's still in its box so all of this needs going through in advance of next weekend so that's now going to be an early next week job and it's not because I'm lazy that these things don't get done although I'm sure some people will disagree with that It's more that I've just had quite a lot going on this week.

and that's good I like being busy I like having lots to do but this time of year it is particularly exciting because of the frequency of big shows obviously we had Getz and then we bounced into Gaydon and then we've got Telford and then NEC along the way and then also at the same time I'm trying to plan out the Railstuff Open Day which is on Saturday the 5th of December in a village near to me so it'll be in Staffordshire ST104JY the postcode all the information is on rail-stuff.com forward slash open day if you're interested in coming um then it'll be it'll be worth it uh and we've got some guests coming along so richard should be there we've got dan everson coming jonathan from js models is coming uh lucy pitch should be there as well uh richard from trains in the attic on uh on youtube as well he's bringing a little 009 layout called brian with him which that'll be lovely to see uh we've got top trains coming along um Who else? What else have we got? Oh, and straight off the presses, I think Michael from Chandwo is going to come along as well.

I'm trying to convince him to bring Bradford Cathedral with him, which that would be fantastic to see that in person.

So, you know, we're not going to have somebody take a clean sweep there.

We want to make sure that... lots of different efforts are recognised across that weekend the other thing that we'll be able to do is also make a donation to Andy's Man Club as well £2 from every box sold during this competition is going to Andy's Man Club we've also been doing a bit of collecting at shows as well and it was nice actually at what was the last show I was at? Gaydon, last weekend, somebody came over, and I'm actually now thinking it might have been at Getz when this happened.

I think it was at Getz.

It was at Getz, so you know what I'm talking about.

You'd

be going to Gaydon.

Is it, Gaiden? No.

We go that way.

I don't know how old when they stopped it.

He's furiously...

No, they were Gaydon.

He took to his phone with so much speed, hoping that he could prove them all wrong.

What are the other two

events? Well, the other two are the regulars that I do, Bewley and Gaydon.

I'd say you're more than welcome to borrow anything I've got.

More than me.

Chester Road in Woodford in Woodford War Memorial Community Centre in Stockport.

The Great British Model Railway Show at the British Motor Museum on Bambi Road in Upper Lightmoor in Gaydon.

Stratford-on-Avon.

That's all weekend.

No, no.

I was in place called Gaydon, which is where Aston Martin's based.

There's got...

There's ac- they share the same site.

Mm

... of what the car will look like, no car ever looks like that.

Best bit is, they released it in Gaydon yesterday.

Looks like that.

[laughs]

Um, we've been really lucky to partner with the British Motor Museum in Gaydon in Warwickshire.

Um, they have a cinema within the museum, and they show films every day, and they were really keen to have this kind of content as well.

Um, so we've been doing weekly screenings there, alternating between different types of accessible versions of the films.

So as we say, the DB11 was launched at the Geneva Motor Show in March.

Production began in Gaydon in September and the customer delivery started in November 2016.

So that's when it had the V12.

Yeah.