Back to matters in hand.
Tuesday night saw us congregating at Pat's (can four congregate...?)
Login layout was discussed and looked at - it is stored at Pats at the moment, as we are still having work done in Ty-Nant, and unfortunately there is no room in Pats to set up the Login board to work on it. No matter. We will get it over here next week and set to.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Colin had received brass nameplates from 'Narrow Planet' for one of the 009 locos - couple of macro close ups:
The camera lense in this next pic was literally 3/4" away from the loco. The brass plaque is no more than 5mm wide...
Once again Colin is the only one who has been productive on the modelling front, continuing with his fairground traction engine and Galloper, which is now a dragon themed gondola ride.
The second traction engine has had a paint job:
For the benefit of our multi-national followers, that coin in the top picture, a twenty pence piece, is 20mm in diameter, which makes that little engine less than 2" in length. The wheels go round, but no steam...
The fairground ride is slowly taking shape, but the rude lady seems to have disappeared.
The gondolas are just plonked roughly in place for the picture, before being given drive poles, passengers (possibly a naked lady, but who knows?) and dragons head figureheads. Here is a prototype:
The evening was rounded off with breaded chicken and a home-made pizza, which had mushrooms, chorizo, anchovies, olives, garlic, peppers, cheese, and somewhere underneath, a thin crisp crust...
Thank you Pat.
As a footnote, we now join our ChufferDuffer blog followers from USA, Canada, Russia, India, Brazil, Botswana and China, in being independent. We voted today to get rid of Europe after forty years of them dragging on our coat-tails.
Could be a foolish move - time will tell.
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